Notes on Contributors
Mark Alves is a professor in the Department of Reading, ESL, and Linguistics at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland (USA). His research has focused on historical, comparative, and typological linguistics in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnamese and the Austroasiatic language family. Mark is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (University of Hawaii Press).
Gregory D.S. Anderson Founder and Director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, is a specialist in the Munda language family. He is currently surveying Munda to develop studies on the typology and reconstruction of the family, and grammatical, lexical and text materials of individual Munda languages.
Mayuri Dilip is research scholar in linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. She is working on some select aspects in Syntax of Santali for her doctoral dissertation. Mayuri works on syntactic typology, where she compares the structure of Santali with some South Asian languages.
Martin Everaert is professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University. He works primarily on the syntax-semantics and the lexicon-syntax interface. His other areas of interest are language evolution and the history of linguistics. He is, a.o., co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Linguistics.
Mathias Jenny is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main fields of interest are language contact and language change in Southeast Asia, with a special focus on the languages of Myanmar/Burma, on which he has conducted fieldwork and widely published over the past twenty years. Mathias was an editor of the 2015 Brill The Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages.
Bikram Jora is a project-coordinator of South Asia at the Living Tongues Institute of Endangered Languages. His research mainly focused on Munda languages and especially on Kherwarian languages. He is an expert field linguist, documented many Munda and Kho-Bwa languages spoken in India.
Rajesh Kumar teaches linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. The broad goal of his research is to uncover regularities underlying both the form (what language is) and sociolinguistic functions (what language does) of natural languages. He obtained his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
G. Uma Maheshwar Rao is a Professor at the University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests cut across the fields of Language technology for Indian languages, Linguistic Genetics, Human Migrations, Linguistic Archaeology, Long Range Comparison of Central Asiatic language families, and empirical concerns of the economics of Indian languages.
Felix Rau researcher at the University of Cologne, has conducted extensive fieldwork on Gorum and has been working in the Koraput Area of Odisha (India) since 2002. His research interest includes the Munda languages and the historical relationship of this branch to the rest of the Austroasiatic family.
Hiram Ring is a researcher at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research has focused particularly on Khasian languages, but also extends more broadly across phonology, morphology, and syntax, and encompasses diachronic, synchronic and areal perspectives.
Paul Sidwell is an honorary associate at Sydney University, and a founding partner of the firm Language Intelligence (Canberra). His research career has focused on the reconstruction of Austroasiatic language history at the branch and family level, and wider implications for the history of Mainland Southeast Asia. Paul was an editor of the 2015 Brill The Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages.
Kārumūri V. Subbārāo is formerly professor of Linguistics at Delhi University and chair professor at Hyderabad University. His research is focused on the syntactic typology of South Asian languages in general, and Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman languages in particular. At present, he is working on Mizo and Rabha grammars.
Atsushi Yamada is a professor of linguistics in Japan Health Care College. His research concerns documentary linguistic and linguistic anthropology, and he has conducted field research on minority groups in China and northern mainland South-East Asia. He is currently working on the project “New perspectives of Text Studies in Yunnan, China”.