Department of Linguistics

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Research Profile

From 2013 until 2024, I was full professor of General Linguistics in the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Bern. My current work focuses on morphological typology and grammatical voice, and my recent work has centered around morphosyntactic clause alignment, as well as benefaction and malefaction. I have specialized in the indigenous languages of the Americas (especially the Algonquian languages of North America and Mapudungun in the Southern Cone), but I am also very much interested in Basque, Insular Celtic, West Germanic, and Iberian Romance.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9015-6601

Publications

TO APPEAR

Negation in Mapudungun
(Paper for a volume on negation edited by Ljuba Veselinova & Matti Miestamo.)

IN PREPARATION

Non-verbal predication in Algonquian languages
(An article for the De Gruyter volume Non-Verbal Predication: A Typological Survey, edited by Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci and Denis Creissels)

Equipollent Evidentiality: A Perspective from the Roof of the World
(A volume co-edited with Benjamin Brosig and Marius Zemp, to be published by Language Science Press in the Research on Comparative Grammar series; I am also writing a chapter on equipollent evidential contrasts in Amazonian languages for this edited volume on evidentiality, co-authored with Marius Zemp.)