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Tihomir Rangelov

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 341 3550 876
e-mail: tihomir_rangelov@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

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About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution and a member of the Comparative Oceanic Linguistics (CoOL) group

My main research interests are language documentation, description and maintenance, Oceanic languages and the languages of Vanuatu in particular, historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, and linguistic typology. I have been working on the Ahamb language, spoken on Malekula Island, since 2017. Currently I work with data from Ahamb and other related languages with a focus on using comparative methods in identifying patterns in the structures of the languages of Vanuatu based on available published data and newly collected field data. The goal is to document new linguistic data, contribute to existing linguistic and evolutionary theories, and assist the communities of speakers of these endangered languages to maintain and revitalise their traditional knowledge and linguistic competence.

Previously I worked on North Germanic languages (Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Old Norse), phonetics and phonology and machine translation. I am passionate about cycle touring, high mountains and volcanoes, adventure travel and all things outdoors.

Curriculum Vitae

2017-2020PhD in Linguistics.
University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Thesis title: “A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)”
2009-2013MA in Computational Linguistics.
University of Iceland/University of Reykjavík.
hesis: “Apertium-is-sv: Rule-based machine translation between Icelandic and Swedish.”
2005-2008BA in Icelandic Studies.
University of Iceland. Major: Icelandic; Icelandic Phonetics and Phonology.
BA thesis (in Icelandic): “Fortis and lenis stops: On voice onset time in Icelandic, Swedish and Bulgarian.” 
2000-2007MA in Scandinavian Studies.
Five-year course at Sofia University.
Major: Swedish, Phonetics and Phonology;
Minor: Danish, Scandinavian literature.
MA thesis (in Swedish): “The plosives in Swedish and Icelandic: A comparative analysis from a synchronic viewpoint.”

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