My research interests and work have focused on Turkic linguistics, language contact and linguistic change in Central Asia, comparative Turkic and Iranian morphosyntax, Uzbek lexicography and dialectology, historical linguistics, and anthropological linguistics.
More recently, I have embarked on a series of research projects involving the language Uzbek that have been funded by two Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education.
My research interests encompass the fields of historical linguistics; anthropological linguistics; language contact and linguistic change, particularly in Central Asia; Turkic and Iranian linguistics; Uzbek lexicography and dialectology; and Central Asian arts and crafts.
