The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics
The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages
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