Hello! I'm Anthony
People know me by many names, some of which you can see above. It's confusing, I know, but I can explain (if you're curious). I study linguistics. So, people come to me for grammar help. Yes, I do like grammar. No, I can't speak 1,000 languages. Yes, people keep asking me which language I study. My answer is always 'none' and they never seem to get it.
Research Areas
Syntax
Structural patterns and constraints in Thai and other languages, with a focus on verb and predicate structures, SVCs, ellipsis phenomena, and formal modelling within the LFG framework.
Semantics and Pragmatics
How meaning emerges from syntactic structure and contextual factors, particularly in the discourse relations.
Computational Linguistics
Applied computational methods and NLP tools to model linguistic structures, process corpora, and test theoretical hypotheses.
Cognitive Neuropsychology
The interface between linguistic/syntactic competence and cognitive-neural mechanisms with psycholinguistic evidence to language processing and representation.
Language Documentation
Documentation of endangered languages, including grammar, syntax, and semantics, with a focus on lesser-studied languages, most of which are under Kra-Dai and Austronesian families.
Other
I also work on various interdisciplinary projects that bridge linguistics with other fields, including literary studies, anthropology, and philosophy of language.
Recent Publications
Grammatical Sketch of Moklen Verb Phrase
Language Documentation and Description • Under Review
Ontological Irrationality and (Im)politeness “Strategies” in Thai Culture
Journal of Pragmatics • Draft Manuscript to be submitted
Towards Syntactic Economy: A Diachronic Case Study of Postverbal Preposition Ellipsis in Thai
Journal of Historical Syntax • Manuscript Preparing
Can LLMs Help Create Grammar?: Automating Grammar Creation for Endangered Languages with In-Context Learning
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics • 2025
How to citicise politely: A socio-pragma-stylistic analysis of Samuel Johnson’s (im)polite criticism
Thinking Together, Creating Together: The Second Graduate Knowledge Construction Forum • 2025