Person

I hold a PhD in general linguistics. In my doctoral thesis, I investigated the classifier system in Baniwa [bwi], an Arawakan language spoken in Northwestern Brazil. My current postdoc project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, explores the role of classifiers in landscape categorization, both in Baniwa and cross-linguistically.

My research interests include language description and documentation, linguistic diversity, historical linguistics, language contact, typology, and language cognition. I am especially interested in nominal classification systems in Amazonian languages.