Person
Researcher
- General Linguistics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail nicole.kruspeling.luse
Phone +46 46 222 83 41
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Nicole Kruspe is a field linguist who specialises in the Aslian (Austroasiatic) languages of the Malay Peninsula. She received her PhD at The University of Melbourne in 2000 for A Grammar of Semelai, and has since undertaken documentation of the previously undescribed Mah Meri, Ceq Wong, Semaq Beri and Batek languages. Among her interests are fieldwork methodology, language documentation, grammar writing, structural and semantic typology, language contact and the prehistory of the Austroasiatic languages.
She is the Coordinator and Curator of The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) at Lund University, an initiative funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Infrastructure Grant, The Digital Multimedia Archive of Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage.
She is also the research leader of the project Perceptual modalities across languages and cultures in the Malay Peninsula, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Digital Integration Across Disciplines: Advancing Cultural Heritage Documentation DIAD
- Singing spiders, sobbing stones: a linguistic exploration in the representation of sound in the Aslian languages of the Malay Peninsula (research leader)
- Perceptual modalities across languages and cultures in the Malay Peninsula (research leader)
- DATA: Enabling us to better store, observe and understand what we measure
Books (2)
- Kruspe, N. (2010). A dictionary of Mah Meri, as spoken at Bukit Bangkong. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, 36. University of Hawai'i Press.
- Kruspe, N. (2004). A Grammar of Semelai. Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions. Cambridge University Press.
Articles (7)
- Arshamian, A., Gerkin, R. C., Kruspe, N., Wnuk, E., Floyd, S., O'Meara, C., Rodriguez, G. G., Lundström, J. N., Mainland, J. D. & Majid, A. (2022). The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures. Current Biology, 32, 3-2066. Elsevier.
- Kruspe, N. & Majid, A. (2022). The linguistics of odour in Semaq Beri and Semelai, two Austroasiatic languages of the Malay Peninsula. Studies in Language. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Larsson, J., Burenhult, N., Kruspe, N., Purves, R., Rothstein, M. & Sercombe, P. (2021). Integrating behavioral and geospatial data on the timeline : Towards new dimensions of analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24, 1-13. Taylor & Francis.
- Majid, A. & Kruspe, N. (2018). Hunter-gatherer olfaction is special. Current Biology, 28, 2-413. Elsevier.
- Dunn, M., Kruspe, N. & Burenhult, N. (2013). Time and place in the prehistory of the Aslian languages. Human Biology, 85, 383-399. Wayne State University Press.
- Dunn, M., Burenhult, N., Kruspe, N., Tufvesson, S. & Becker, N. (2011). Aslian linguistic prehistory: a case study in computational phylogenetics. Diachronica, 28, 291-323. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Kruspe, N. & Hajek, J. (2009). Mah Meri. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39, 241-248. Cambridge University Press.
Book chapters (8)
- Kruspe, N. & Burenhult, N. (2019). Pronouns in affinal avoidance registers : Evidence from the Aslian languages (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula). In Bouissac, P. (Ed.) Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, The social dynamics of pronominal systems : A comparative approach (pp. 289-317), 304. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Burenhult, N. & Kruspe, N. (2016). The language of eating and drinking: a window on Orang Asli meaning-making. In Endicott, K. (Ed.) Malaysia’s original people : Past, present and future of the Orang Asli (pp. 175-199). National University of Singapore Press.
- Kruspe, N. (2014). Semaq Beri. In Jenny, M. & Sidwell, P. (Eds.) The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages (pp. 475-516). Brill.
- Kruspe, N., Burenhult, N. & Wnuk, E. (2014). Northern Aslian. In Sidwell, P. & Jenny, M. (Eds.) Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages (pp. 419-474). Brill.
- Burenhult, N., Kruspe, N. & Dunn, M. (2011). Language history and culture groups among Austroasiatic-speaking foragers of the Malay Peninsula. In Enfield, N. (Ed.) Dynamics of human diversity: the case of Mainland Southeast Asia (pp. 257-275). Pacific Linguistics.
- Kruspe, N. (2011). Reciprocal constructions in Mah Meri. In Evans, N., Gaby, A., Levinson, S. C. & Majid, A. (Eds.) Reciprocals and Semantic Typology (pp. 149-162). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Kruspe, N. (2009). Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia. In Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (Eds.) Loanwords in the world's languages: a comparative handbook of lexical borrowing (pp. 659-685). Mouton de Gruyter.
- Kruspe, N. (2004). Adjectives in Semelai. In Dixon, R. M. W. & Aikhenvald, A. Y. (Eds.) Adjective classes: a cross-linguistic typology (pp. 283-305). Oxford University Press.
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Researcher
- General Linguistics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail nicole.kruspeling.luse
Phone +46 46 222 83 41
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20