Welcome! I am a linguist with a wide range of interests, including language documentation and description, comparative linguistics, linguistic complexity, multilingualism, intersubjectivity and face-to-face interaction. I am also interested in anthropology and ethnobiology. My work mainly focusses on languages spoken in the Pacific region, so-called ‘‘Papuan’’ languages. I conduct fieldwork in the southern part of New Guinea.

Here, you will find a list of publications (some downloadable), manuscripts, theses and presentations. Please come back and revisit this page as it will continually grow. Among the research results I wish to boast about are two monographs: this grammar and this text collection of Komnzo, the language to which I have dedicated most of my time over the years. There is also this article on vagina/bird-words and bilingual placenames, and this chapter on ‘‘watchamacallit’’ in Komnzo.

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.