Michael Dunn
Michael Dunn is a Professor of General Linguistics at Uppsala University since 2014. His academic background is in language description, linguistic typology, and phylogenetics, and his current research focus is on the evolutionary dynamics of language change.
Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Understand How Language Works
As a linguist I dread the question, “what do you do?”, because when I answer “I’m a linguist” the inevitable follow-up question is: “How many languages do you speak?” That, of course, is not the point. While learning languages is a wonderful thing to do, academic linguistics is the scientific study of language.