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James C. Wamsley is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, morphology, and language documentation, with a particular emphasis on Kuki-Chin languages such as Hakha Lai and Falam Chin. He investigates linguistic concepts like deixis, reference, information structure, and their morphosyntactic representations, often using primary data from collaborations with native speakers.
He is a founding member of the Chin Languages Research Project at Indiana University, contributing to documentation efforts for endangered languages. At Rochester, he teaches courses on language and culture, fieldwork methods, and morphology. His current research examines pronoun systems in Falam Chin and explores syntactic-definiteness interactions in Hakha Lai.
Recent publications (2024-2018) analyze definiteness, demonstratives, vowel contrasts, and syntactic structures in Kuki-Chin languages, alongside community-based documentation projects. His work bridges formal linguistic theory with fieldwork methodologies.
