Gabriel / kapeliela
Bio
I am a linguistics Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. As both community member and linguist, my research focuses on theoretical and practical questions related to ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language. I am interested in (a) how to bridge the variationist sociolinguistic 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
