Welcome to my home page. As a member of the Interactional Foundations of Language Project, I do fieldwork-based research on Chintang, a Kiranti language spoken in Nepal.

My current interests revolve around the relationship between linguistic structure, language use, and cognition in a very broad sense – or, in more concrete terms, have to do with linguistic typology, the study of social interaction, and what might be called anthropological psycholinguistics.

Among many other issues, I also take an interest in language documentation and description in particular and the digital humanities more generally.

In 2011, I serve as PhD representative for the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society through the Steering Group of PhDnet.