Linguistics and Multilingual Studies

 NameResearch Interests
Asst Prof Alexander Robertson CoupeAlexander Coupe's major contributions to linguistic research have focused upon aspects of the grammar of Ao; more recently he has turned his attention to other Tibeto-Burman languages of north-east India, including Chang, Khiamniungan, Lotha, and Yimchungru, and he has investigated evidence of their contact and convergence with Indic languages. This fieldwork-based research is driven by a desire to record and analyse the grammars of these poorly understood Tibeto-Burman languages, to determine their genetic relationships, and to document them for posterity. The output of this work feeds another research goal: to seek functional and diachronic explanations for the structural diversity and commonalities found in Tibeto-Burman languages and in human language more generally, and to advance knowledge in the field of linguistic typology. Specific areas of research interest include the analysis of tone systems, phonetics and phonology, the role of pragmatics in grammar, case marking systems, morphosyntax, clause linkage, nominalization, grammaticalization and language contact.
Asst Prof Anil Laxman PathakMy research expertise in the following areas. Most of my publications relate to these areas. - Training and education related to Communication Skills development - Online learning platforms More specifically, my current publications deal with - Use and analysis of discourse in communication - Use of Learner narratives in Syllabus design - Instructional design for open learning
Asst Prof Francesco Paolo CavallaroFrancesco Cavallaro is primarily a sociolinguist, but also conduct research in applied linguistics, specifically, those that explore issues related to language teaching. His training in analysing linguistics issues in multilingual communities has been put to use in the fertile context of Singapore where bilingualism is a norm and multilingualism influences every aspect of the society. Hence, his current research direction involves exploring language attitudes, identity and language shift in this multilingual context.
Assoc Prof Francis Charles BondFrancis Bond's areas of interest are: Machine Translation, Deep Parsing, Word Sense Disambiguation, Computational Lexicography and the linguistic phenomena of Definiteness, Number, Countability and Numeral classifiers. His current research work focuses on parsing English, Japanese and Korean with head-driven phrase structure grammars; word sense disambiguation with WordNet; constructing a Japanese WordNet and other lexicons.
Assoc Prof Geoffrey BenjaminProf Benjamin's areas of expertise are: (1) RESEARCH ON ASIA: (a) The anthropology and sociology of Southeast Asia, especially the Malay World; (b) The state in Southeast Asia; (c) Social theory with special reference to Asian materials; (d) Musical systems of the Malay World. (2) SOCIOLOGY: (a) The sociology and ethnography of Malay, Temiar, other Orang Asli, Singaporean and Indonesian societies; (b) The state in Southeast Asia; (c) The explanation of socio-cultural change in ecological, prehistoric and political terms; (d) Comparative social organisation; (e) Religion; (f) Language, culture and politicsl; (g) Sociolinguistics; (h) Social theory with special reference to Asian materials; (i) The cline of person in society and culture; (j) The nation-state and modernity. (3) LINGUISTICS: (a) The explanation of grammar in socio-cultural and semantic terms; (b) Mon-Khmer (especially Aslian) linguistics; (c) Austronesian (especially Malayic) linguistics; (d) The linguistic and sociolinguistic history of the Malay Peninsula.
Prof (Adj) Goh Nguen WahDr. Goh's areas of interests include: government and politics of Singapore, government's media, education and language policies, language planning; the rise of China and the global Chinese language fever, the prospects of Chinese language in a globalized world, cross-cultural studies, journalism of the West and the East.
Asst Prof Helena Gao HongProf. Gao's research interests include Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Learning and Language Teaching.
Assoc Prof Ho Mian LianHer research interests are Business Communication, Business English, Varieties of English, Singaporean English, and Discourse Analysis.
Asst Prof Josh Wheatly KellerAsst Professor Keller's primary research interest in studying the way culture influences strategic management and organizational processes. He studies how culture influences the way people think about cooperation and competition (and their relationship and its impact on individual and firm-level outcomes. He also looks at how national-level logics influence people's thoughts about change and its impact on entrepreneurship and organizational change.
Asst Prof Kang Yoonheelanguage and culture; sociology of emotions; gender, sexuality and the body; migration; education; East Asia (Korea) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia).
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