Gabriel / kapeliela
Bio
I am a Kanaka/Waray linguistics Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the linguistics of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, more commonly known as the Hawaiian language. I am interested in (a) how to bridge the sociolinguistic variationist paradigm with the areas of language contact and shift; and (b) theoretical questions, both synchronic and diachronic, in the area of Austronesian morphosyntax and semantics.
Research Interests
Broad: Hawaiian; comparative Polynesian; language revitalization; language contact; variation and change; NLP.
Narrow: Tense and aspect; the Hawaiian vP; Polynesian directionals; new speakers; grammaticalization; postcolonial linguistic variation.
email: ghgilbert [at] uchicago [dot] edu
