Here you can know more details about my reseach interests and research languages respectively.
Broad interests: morphosyntax, semantics, linguistic typology, theories of grammar, phonology, linguistic fieldwork, language documentation.
Specific interests: syntax-semantics interface, morphosyntactic alignment, grammatical voices (especially symmetrical voices & applicatives), information structure, complex sentences, clausal linkage, tense-aspect-modality, etc.
I am mainly interested in various grammatical topics & how syntax and semantics interact with each other. Also, I like to explore a wide range of languages around the world. It's just amazing to see human languages seem to vary without limits, yet many of them display striking similarities with one another, and that's why language and linguistics fascinates me and the reason I study linguistic (mostly syntactic) typology.
In addition, I have a profound interest in different theories of grammar as well. By doing so, I get to know the ways eveyone view how grammar works in our minds, and learn different approaches to analyze aspects of human languages. In particular, I am especially interested in functionalist approaches to languages, namely how human communication, cognition and culture shape the use of natural languages. The functional syntactic theories I have been extensively studying and following include Role and Reference Grammar (RRG, Van Valin & LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2005, Pavey 2010, and Bentley et al. 2023) and Radical Construction Grammar (RCG, Croft 2001, 2022).
Current main research languages: Formosan languages, Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Myanmar
Languages I've studied/investigated:
Salishan - Halkomelem (Musqueam, Salish)
Formosan (Austronesian) - Seediq (Tgdaya, Toda, and Truku dialects), Budai Rukai, Hla'arua/Saaroa
Tibeto-Burman - Jinghpaw/Jingpho (Bhamo dialect, Kachinic), Pa'O (Taunggyi dialect; Karenic), Lisu (Lolo-Burmish)
Language families I'd like to study in the future: Pacific Northwest languages, Oceanic languages, Australian languages, other Tibeto-Burman languages, Ryukyuan languages, Mainland Southeast Asian languages, etc.