Oliver's Biography
Dr. 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 in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme is funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP). As well as conducting ongoing research on Eleme, his current project entitled NegTyp concerns the typology of negation.
Before taking up his current post, Oliver held a one year position at SOAS funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. His ESRC funded project, entitled 'Negative strategies in the Ogonoid languages' involved devising 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. The questionnaire 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. The questionnaire is currently undergoing testing in the field.
Oliver's PhD is 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.In addition to negation and the Eleme language, Oliver's principal research interests include typology, historical linguistics and language documentation.
Take a look at Oliver's HRELP staff page.