Niels Torben Kühlert

I am a Historical Linguist and Indo-Europeanist, having received my Ph.D in Linguistics from Harvard University and BA in Linguistics and Classics from Cornell University. My main areas of interest are diachronic change (both morphological and phonological), formal models of synchronic morphophonology and critical framework comparison thereof, and the study and reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. 

My doctoral dissertation focused on the synchronic status of paradigms, morphomes, and affixal alternations from the perspective of their relationship to analogical change. In addition to this, I have also worked on the phonetic motivations behind specific sound changes, locality conditions on root-conditioned allomorphy, and the development of voice and case morphology in a range of languages. 

I am currently a part-time lecturer in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, where I teach courses on etymology, language evolution, morphology, phonology, and phonetics. Prior to this, I worked as an Assistant Editor for the journal Languages and a Pedagogy Fellow at the Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

In my spare time, I enjoy video games, electric guitar, hanging out with my cat, and football (soccer).