Education

• Postdoctoral fellowship, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of German Studies and Linguistics
• Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Oslo, Department of Linguistics
• Post-doctoral fellowship, University of British Columbia, Department of Linguistics
• PhD, Department of Linguistics, McGill University. Dissertation: Tense, aspect, and modal markers in Paciran Javanese 

Biography

I’m a linguist and a fieldworker. My research investigates the cross-linguistic articulation of syntax and semantics, especially on the extended verb phrase, which include phenomena like TAM (tense-aspect-modal) markers and applicative constructions.

I primarily draw on empirical insights from Javanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family spoken by about 70 million people in Indonesia. I have been conducting fieldwork in Indonesia since 2010, focusing on the varieties spoken in Yogyakarta and Semarang, Central Java, and Paciran, East Java. 

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