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I am a linguist specializing in the documentation and preservation of endangered languages, with research interests in how languages structure meaning and develop grammatical systems. I hold a PhD in Linguistics and, since 2012, have led the documentation of Northern Alta, an Austronesian language spoken by Negrito communities in the Philippines. This work has resulted in a comprehensive documentation corpus, a reference grammar, and a lexical database archived as the Northern Alta Language Documentation Corpus (NALDoC) at the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).

Earlier in my academic training, I conducted fieldwork in Senegal and worked on Diola, a Niger-Congo language, as part of my master’s research. Alongside my primary work on endangered languages, I have broader interests in linguistic diversity and typology, as well as knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and a scholarly interest in Sinitic languages.