Keith Plaster

I am interested in examining how language change informs our understanding of phonology and morphology. My research interests include: the phonology of stress systems (and especially morphologically governed stress systems); nominal categorization, including noun classifier, noun class and gender systems, and the computational modeling of these systems; the phonology of poetic meter and rhyme; and the linguistics of ancient and modern law. I am also interested in the historical grammar of the various Indo-European branches, the Mayan languages, and the languages of the Caucasus. Much of my work has focused on the older Indo-European languages, the Native American languages of the Pacific Northwest, and the languages of the Caucasus.