I’m a UCLA-trained prehistorical linguist, which simply means I compare attested languages in an effort to reconstruct their unattested ancestors. I do most of my work in the large Austronesian, Indo-European, and Uto-Aztecan language families, but I’m also interested in language isolates.
The focus of much of my work is on the relationship between religion and lexicon. For my most recent published paper, visit: