Dr Michael Franjieh
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Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Institute for Sustainability.About
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the on the ESRC funded project . I am part of an inter-disciplinary team investigating the emergence of grammatical gender from classifiers in Oceanic languages from a pscyhologinguistic perspective.
Previously, I was an funded Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the where I worked on documenting and describing the endangered language Fanbak, spoken in Vanuatu. I have also lectured courses in linguistics at both the ۿ۴ý and at SOAS, Unviersity of London, and worked as a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cardiff.
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ResearchResearch interests
I am a linguist specialising in the documentation and description of Oceanic languages with a specific focus on the languages of Vanuatu. I have a wide variety of interests in different areas of linguistics:
- psycholinguisitcs
- nominal classification
- morphology
- typology
- language diachrony
- historical linguistics
- Oceanic languages (especially Vanuatu)
- language documentation and description
- Vernacular literacy development
Research projects
This ESRC IAA-funded project aims to sustain language use within six local communities in the South Pacific, by identifying education needs in schools, training and upskilling teachers, creating literacy materials, and supporting local language consultants to create language documentation techniques.
Alongside Prof. Greville G. Corbett and Dr. Alexandra Grandison, I am researching the development of nominal classification systems from a diachronic and cognitive perspective.
Research interests
I am a linguist specialising in the documentation and description of Oceanic languages with a specific focus on the languages of Vanuatu. I have a wide variety of interests in different areas of linguistics:
- psycholinguisitcs
- nominal classification
- morphology
- typology
- language diachrony
- historical linguistics
- Oceanic languages (especially Vanuatu)
- language documentation and description
- Vernacular literacy development
Research projects
This ESRC IAA-funded project aims to sustain language use within six local communities in the South Pacific, by identifying education needs in schools, training and upskilling teachers, creating literacy materials, and supporting local language consultants to create language documentation techniques.
Alongside Prof. Greville G. Corbett and Dr. Alexandra Grandison, I am researching the development of nominal classification systems from a diachronic and cognitive perspective.