Dr. Marina Infimate

Biography

Marina Infimate is a Principal Project Scientist whose research encompasses Tibeto-Burman linguistics, morphosyntax, and language documentation, with a particular focus on the South-Central languages spoken in Northeast India. She is currently leading a documentation project on Ṭhiek, an endangered South-Central language of the Trans-Himalayan language family, which is spoken by approximately 3,000 people in Dima-Hasao, Assam. Infimate's PhD thesis, which she completed at North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, highlighted the intricate clause structure of Hmar, contributing significantly to the understanding of morphosyntactic properties within the region. As an active researcher, she collaborates with institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and the University of Bern on her project, which aims to create a comprehensive audiovisual corpus and a multilingual lexical database, while also assessing the sociolinguistic endangerment profile of the speaker communities. This work is part of a larger initiative funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

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