Personal Resarch Interests:
- General historical and comparative linguistics (all areas)
- Comparative and diachronic syntax of Indo-European languages (especially Sanskrit/Indo-Aryan, Germanic, Latin)
- Sanskrit linguistics (synchronic and diachronic, syntax, phonology, language contact, sociolinguistics; Vedic, modern spoken Sanskrit)
- Convergence phenomena with special focus on South Asia
- Clitics, prosody, and the phonology/syntax interface
- ?Identity? movements in modern South Asia and linguistic, textual, and archeological evidence