Past Members

Dr. Hiram Ring

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Comparative Linguistics, Department of Comparative Linguistics

Hiram Ring describes and analyzes languages in the Austroasiatic family, primarily those in the Khasian branch. He also develops methods and techniques for computer-assisted linguistic analysis (github.com/lingdoc) and dabbles in NLP and machine learning. Current projects include research on the grammaticalization of Khasian gender systems, reconstructing word order in the Khasian languages, building a database of Austroasiatic languages with tools to assist syntactic reconstruction, co-editing a dictionary for the War language, and automating a psychological coding system.

Dr. Bruno Olsson

Post-Doc at The Australian National University, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

Bruno is pursuing his interest in typology, language change, and small languages in his postdoc project on the history and typology of Papuan languages, based at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Dr. Muhammad Zakaria

Post-Doc at The School of Oriental and African Studies

Zakaria has been working on a project titled Documentation and description of the Laitu language, with a focus on endangered cultural practices, which is funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP). The materials of this project are archived at ELAR. Nominated by the British Academy, Zakaria has recently received the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will be working on the reconstruction of functional morphology of the verb complex in Kuki-Chin languages as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Osaka University from July 2020.

Ms. Hannah Choi

Hannah completed her Masters in linguistics in NTU, studying the verb classes and alternations in Bahasa Indonesia using corpus methods. Prior to that she studied Riantana, a language of Southwest Papua.