Expertise

Research interests:

  • African languages
  • Bantu
  • tense/aspect/modality systems
  • morphology
  • comparative linguistics
  • lexical semantics of verbs

Research + Teaching Interests

  • Bantu languages; tense/aspect/modality systems; morphology; comparative linguistics; lexical semantics of verbs


Regional Expertise

  • Malawi
Past Affiliations

Professor, African Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Department Chair, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Chair, African Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, African Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Islamic Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
African Studies, Linguistics, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, Northwestern University, 1981
BA