Dr Michael Franjieh

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group on the ESRC funded project Optimal Categorisation the origin and nature of gender from a psycholinguistic perspective. I am part of an inter-disciplinary team investigating the emergence of grammatical gender from classifiers in Oceanic languages from a pscyhologinguistic perspective.

Previously, I was an ELDP funded Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle, Australia where I worked on documenting and describing the endangered language Fanbak, spoken in Vanuatu. I have also lectured courses in linguistics at both the University of Surrey and at SOAS, Unviersity of London, and worked as a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cardiff.