Oliver Bond is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. His current research post, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council is associated with the Endangered Languages Academic Programme run by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP).
His ESRC funded project, entitled 'Negative strategies in the Ogonoid languages' aims to contribute to a broader understanding of the properties of negation in language. The principle objective of the project is to devise a questionnaire to capture information relevant to negative constructions in terms of their morphosyntactic/prosodic realisation and the grammatical distinctions encoded in pairs of affirmative and negative constructions. More specifically however, it is conceived of as a device for the eventual collection of cross-linguistic data for the comparison of diachronic paths of negative elements in the languages of the world. In addition to negation, Oliver's principal research interests include typology, historical linguistics and language documentation.
Oliver has recently been awarded a PhD from the University of Manchester, where he also studied for both a BA and MA in Linguistics. His PhD thesis, entitled 'Aspects of Eleme Verbal Morphosyntax' chiefly concerns the domains of participant reference (including logophoric reference and applicative morphology) and tense/aspect morphology in Eleme. Oliver's PhD research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Download Oliver's academic CV in PDF format or view the web version here.
Take a look at Oliver's HRELP staff page.
