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