Welcome to my self-promotional website, where I present my work as a linguist. My areas of research are language documentation and description, comparative linguistics, linguistic complexity, ‘‘Papuan’’ languages (especially in the south of the island of New Guinea), multilingualism, face-to-face interaction. I am also interested in anthropology and ethnobiology.

Among the research results I wish to boast about are this grammar of Komnzo and this article on vagina-words, bilingual placenames and esoterogeny.

I am currently employed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin, where I am a member of the infrastructure project Open Text Collections.

If I don’t respond to e-mails (especially in the summer), it’s probably because I’m out at sea in this little Kosterbåt from 1942.