Isabel Compes

Dr. Isabel Compes serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne since 2010, specializing in discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and endangered language documentation. Her research focuses on African and Austronesian languages with fieldwork expertise in Samoan, Zaghawa, and Beria dialects.

Her primary research interests include:

• Discourse and communication analysis with emphasis on narrative structures
• Grammaticalization processes across language families
• Typological documentation of endangered languages
• Fieldwork methodologies for language preservation

Her publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to African and Polynesian linguistics, particularly through detailed morphosyntactic analyses of understudied languages.

Dr. Compes secured an ELDP grant (2015-2016) for documenting the Sudanese Zaghawa-Wagi dialect. Her advising activities remain unspecified in available records.