Research
Research Interests
- Semantics of grammatical systems
 - Grammaticalization
 - Linguistic typology
 - Language description
 - Chadic and Afroasiatic languages
 
Current Projects
- Sponsored:
- Genetic and linguistic relations in Northern Cameroon (with John Hewitt, of the IBS). Sponsored by the Jane and Charles Butcher Foundation.
 - Chadic Syntactic Typology. Initiated under the Humboldt Research Award.
 - Chadic Migrations, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Seed Grant
 
 - Not Sponsored:
- Typology of reference systems