I'm a graduate student in the Linguistics Department at UC Berkeley with interests in syntax, historical linguistics, language documentation, and language revitalization. I specialize in Polynesian languages and I've conducted fieldwork on Nukuoro, a Polynesian-Outlier language of Micronesia, since 2015. I'm also a co-organizer of UC Berkeley's Fieldwork Forum. My CV can be accessed here.

I'm currently working on:
  • Syntactic ergativity and its relationship with abstract and morphological case
  • The diachrony of case and voice systems
  • Morphological analyses of ditransitive person restrictions (like the PCC) 
  • How language revitalization can feed language documentation

The header image was taken on Nukuoro Atoll in June 2019, when a friend and I had an (unexpected) overnight stay on the outer islets.

CONTACT

emily_drummond@berkeley.edu