I am a field linguist who has worked successively on Australian languages (1972-76), Maghrebi and Hassaniya Arabic (1977-90), and since 1989 on languages of Mali: Tamashek (Berber), several Songhay languages, and since 2005 I have directed a team project on Dogon languages. We are hoping to extend the project to SW Burkina Faso languages.. Teaching interests include tonosyntax, morphology, cognitive semantics, and cross-linguistic grammatical analysis.
With a Tuareg speaker (left) in Timbuktu