I recorded a podcast episode about Bislama and Nafsan, hosted by Elle Charisse! Together with Nick Thieberger, my former PhD supervisor, we talk about theRead More
My first interview on comics and linguistics + new postdoc announcement
You can now watch my interview with Make Storyboard where I talk about my comics, my research in linguistics, and my creative process and approachRead More
“Modeling the evolution of internet memes” on YouTube
You can now watch my talk from the Cultural Evolution Society conference 2022 on YouTube. I presented an updated version of this talk with newRead More
Slides for “From Iconic to Abstract”
In May I presented my ongoing work on how the change of Internet Memes resembles language change at the conference ‘Iconicity in Language and Literature’Read More
Our paper in Language!
My amazing co-authors and I published our article in Language! We argue for the crosslinguistic validity of irrealis, check it out on https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857153 or here!Read More
Urban Fieldwork in Düsseldorf
I have recently started an outreach project Making invisible languages visible: Urban fieldwork in Düsseldorf, with my colleagues from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. With aRead More
My two new talks on Youtube: Semantics and Nafsan
Some months ago I presented my work on Nafsan at the 13th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh.Read More
My post on linguistic fieldwork
A few days ago I published a new post in my Medium blog Language explained. This time, instead of explaining theoretical aspects of linguistics, IRead More
Introducing “Language Explained”
I started a new Medium publication called “Language Explained”, where I and other linguists will write about everything you ever wanted to know about howRead More