Michael R. Marlo

My main research activity is the grammatical description of understudied languages. I have broad interests in African linguistics and Bantu languages. Much of my work to date has focused on the tonal systems of varieties of the Luyia macrolanguage of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. I have also conducted significant research on other languages, including Bakweri and Igala, and I have carried out a series of large-scale micro-typological studies of object marking in Bantu. My research on Luyia languages involves on-going collaborations with Vicki Carstens, Michael Diercks, Kristopher Ebarb, Christopher Green, David Odden, Mary Paster, Peter Otiato Ojiambo, and others. Our team was awarded an NSF grant in 2014.