Contact: 
Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Postal addr.: PB 310, AH-6500, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Delivery/street addr.: Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD, The Netherlands
Email: Nick.Enfield@mpi.nl
Fax: 31-24-3521-213
Ph.: 31-24-3521-275

Academic qualifications:
PhD (Linguistics), University of Melbourne. (2000) Thesis: On the polyfunctionality of ‘acquire’ in mainland Southeast Asia: a case study in linguistic epidemiology. Supervisor: Nicholas D. Evans.

BA (Asian Studies) (1st Class Honours with University Medal), Australian National University (1994), specialising in SE Asian languages (Lao/Thai major, linguistics major, Chinese, Sanskrit, Hindi/Urdu sub-majors). Sub-thesis supervisors: R.M.W. Dixon, Anthony V. N. Diller.

National Visiting Scholarship, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (Department of Linguistics), July-October 1997, under supervision of Professor Andy Pawley. 

Areas of experience/expertise:
Semantics and pragmatics, gesture, language and social intelligence, language contact, Southeast Asian languages, descriptive linguistics (fieldwork-based), syntax, linguistic anthropology.

Current employment: 
Staff member, Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. (Since 2000)

Professional:
Editorial Board, Annual Review of Anthropology
Editorial Board, Language and Cognition
Editorial board, Language Sciences
Editorial Board, Journal of Lao Studies
Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Linguistics 

Member, Linguistic Society of America
Member, American Anthropological Association (Society for Linguistic Anthropology)
Member, Australian Linguistic Society
Member, Association for Linguistic Typology

Ad hoc reviewer, Language, Current Anthropology, Cognition, American Anthropologist, Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Sciences, Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, inter alia

Other qualifications: 
Accreditation as Interpreter Level II  (English and Lao), since 1992
(National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Australia)

Certificate in Lao Linguistics and Literature 
(modified 2 year course conducted in Lao language) Vientiane Teachers’ Training Institute, Vientiane, Lao PDR. Sept. 1990-June 1991