My research explores a constructivist approach to morphology whereby individual morphemes are considered to be the syntactic primitives driving structure building and whose phonological reflexes are later assembled into words.
As a consequence, such an approach involves modeling morphological phenomena at the interfaces: how morphemes are interpreted (morphosemantics) and how they are pronounced (morphophonology).
The empirical base for my research comes from the genetically diverse languages of the South Caucasus: Indo-European (Armenian, Talysh), NE Caucasian (Dargwa, Tsaxur, Udi), S Caucasian (Georgian) and Turkic (Azeri, Turkish).