Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination
Elected 2017
Historical linguistics; languages of the Caucasus; morphology
An anthropologist linguist. In addition to primary work recording the endangered indigenous languages of Australia & New Guinea, he has written widely on their implications for linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, prehistory & other fields
Generative grammar, field and descriptive linguistics, language policy in South Asia; Urdu/Hindi--English literary translation, Partition studies; inclusion and justice in higher education
