About Me

I am a phonologist and phonetician who works primarily on tone and its representation. My other research interests include morphology, language documentation, historical linguistics, preservation of endangered languages, loan word phonology, and World Englishes. My geographical area of linguistic interest is the North-east of India, where I am originally from. I do research both on theoretical formal and non-formal approaches of linguistics.

From 2022, I am a Newton International Fellow (The British Academy) postdoctoral researcher, currently based at The University of York, working on my own project titled Documentation of Complex Tone Systems in Endangered Tribal Languages Of Nagaland, Northeast India.

In December 2020, I finished my second PhD in linguistics at the University of Leipzig having written my dissertation on the tonal representation of complex tone languages, specifically on my native language Tenyidie [Angami], where I also discuss the newly discovered sub-tonal polarity.

I also have a degree in English and was an assistant professor of English (language and literature) at Don Bosco College Kohima in 2016-2017 where I taught the history of English language, phonetics, and English literature (drama and poetry).

I was a teacher of phonetics to undergraduate students of English at The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad between 2012 and 2015; and a teacher of grammar to undergraduate students of foreign languages at the same university in 2014.