Luba Nikolova VesselinovaProfessor

About me

My main interests lie in linguistic typology, the shaping of grammar and lexicon via processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization, numerical concepts and their linguistic expressions, and cyclical processes in language change. I have done extensive work on exceptions to morphological patterns, e.g. suppletion and also on negation, specifically, its lexical encoding and independence as a functional domain. Another prominent direction in my research is language as a geographical phenomenon and the use of Geographical Information Systems for language studies and linguistic cartography. I am also interested in language documentation and description and the use of technology in these domains. As an MA student I was the first student editor of the LINGUIST List.