Henrik Liljegren Professor
Contact
Name and title: Henrik LiljegrenProfessor
Phone: +468161245
ORCID0000-0003-3907-0930 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Linguistics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room C262Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 2-3
Postal address Institutionen för lingvistik106 91 Stockholm
Links
- Hindu Kush Areal Typology Länk till annan webbplats.
- Palula dictionary Länk till annan webbplats.
- Publication list in DiVA Länk till annan webbplats.
- Indo-European Cognate Relationships database Länk till annan webbplats.
- New insights into the origin of Indo-European Länk till annan webbplats.
- RJ-program 2026-2031 Länk till annan webbplats.
About me
As a linguist, I have a particular interest in the languages of the Hindu Kush-Karakoram region, i.e., the mountainous areas of northern Pakistan, northeastern Afghanistan and the disputed territory of Kashmir. Many of those languages are lesser-described, endangered and under-resourced. I resided for a period of 10 years in northern Pakistan and have carried out fieldwork in individual languages of the region as well as conducted areal-typological research by means of collaborative methods.
Apart from research per se, I advise individuals and communities on their revitalization efforts (orthography and local resource development, mother-tongue-based education, etc.), mentor language activists and scholars from various communities to collect and organize data, and help building networks between local communities and organizations.
At Stockholm University, I am involved in supervising thesis work and in teaching general linguistics and language documentation.
My research focus is currently on building a language corpus, a lexical database and describing Gawarbati, one of many sparsely documented and under-resourced languages spoken in the Hindu Kush region. During the period 2021-2024, the Swedish Research Council funded an extensive collection of video and audio data from Gawarbati as well as further processing of the material in the form of transcription, translation and glossing. All data collection was carried out in close collaboration with the local language community and with the language resource center Forum for Language Initiatives (based in Islamabad).
In a previous areal-typological project (2015-2020), I produced a linguistic profile of the Hindu Kush-Karakoram region, based on first-hand data collected from 59 language varieties within the project. One tangible outcome is the online database Hindu Kush Areal Typology: https://hindukush.clld.org/
