Prof. Dr. Alexander R. Coupe

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
KeywordsLanguage description and documentation, structural convergence, multilingualism, Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan

Current contact address

CountrySingapore
CitySingapur
InstitutionNanyang Technological University
InstituteSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences
Homepagehttps://nanyang.academia.edu/AlexanderCoupe

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Birgit HellwigAbteilung Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2016

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2023Coupe, Alexander R.: The role of cognitive schemas in linguistic convergence: From nominative-accusative to ergative-absolutive in Nagamese. In: Asian languages and Linguistics, 4, 2023, 251–272
2020Coupe, Alexander R. & Kratochvíl, František: Asia before English. In: Bolton, Kingsley, Werner Botha & Andy Kirkpatrick, Handbook of Asian Englishes. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 15-48
2020Coupe, Alexander R.: Language contact and linguistic diversity in Nagaland. In: Yanthan Yanbeni & Hewasa Lorin Critical conversations in Naga society. Heritage publications (Dimapur), 2020. 9-32
2020Coupe, Alexander R.: Northern Sangtam phonetics, phonology and word list. In: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 43, 2020, 148–189
2018Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in South Asian languages. In: Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine, Grammaticalization from a typological perspective. Oxford University Press, 2018. 189-218
2018Coupe, Alexander R.: South Asian perspectives on the relative-correlative construction. In: 51st International Kanji Language Society Executive Committee Proceedings of the 51st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Kyoto University Hakubi Center 2018. Paper No. 14
2017Alexander R. Coupe: Mongsen Ao. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla, The Sino-Tibetan languages, 2nd edn.. Routledge, 2017. 277-301
2017Alexander R. Coupe, S.A.M. Lestrade: Non-structural case marking in Tibeto-Burman and artificial languages. In: Linguistic Discovery, 2017, 1-34
2017Alexander R. Coupe: On the diachronic origins of converbs in Tibeto-Burman and beyond. In: Picus Ding, Jamin Pelkey, Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley. Brill, 2017. 211-237