Research

Armenian dialectology

My main research now involves expanding my doctoral thesis project, which only looked at comparative verbal morphology in Western Armenian dialects. My upcoming steps are:
 

    1) Increasing data coverage (include all Eastern dialects as well);
    2) Including all manner of morphology (nominal, adjectival, adverbial, etc.);
    3) Including phonological changes and innovations;

    4) Including lexical items and semantic drift;

    5) Proposing relative and absolute chronologies for key shared innovations; and,

    6) Performing cladistics as to have the optimal tree.

The goal is to have a comprehensive handbook that can be of service to linguists, historians, Armenologists, and laypersons.