Diana Forker

Diana Forker is a full professor of Caucasus Studies at the University of Jena. She completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and subsequently worked at the University of Bamberg and as a Feodor Lynen Fellow at the James Cook University in Cairns. Her main interests are languages of the Caucasus, typology, and morphosyntax and sociolinguistics. She currently works language contact and a lexical database of the languages spoken in the Caucasus. Among her recent publications are Word Hunters: Field Linguists on Fieldwork (edited together with Hannah Sarvasy, 2018), a special volume of Linguistics dedicated to agreement (edited together with Geoffrey Haig, 2018) and several articles on different aspects of East Caucasian languages.