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LYDIA NEWKIRK

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LYDIA NEWKIRK

Lecturer: Yale University
Unifying theory and fieldwork in semantics

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THEORY AND FIELDWORK

African languages

I work to use theoretically-motivated fieldwork techniques to better explore
understudied languages, especially in the Bantu ffamily and elsewhere in Africa.

Through close and deep study in un(der)studied languages, my work improves our
understanding of languages like Kinande and Lubukusu, as well as using the
insights gained in that study to help us understand Language generally,
including more well-studied languages.

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RESEARCH IN THE SEMANTICS OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES

Modality, logophoricity, and prolepsis

My research interests focus on bringing data from understudied languages to bear
on formal theory. This means doing careful and in-depth field research on
understudied languages with aims towards both understanding these languages
better, but also taking the lessons from broadening those horizons to better our
understanding of languages like English.

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