John Peterson (Kiel University)

submitted: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 14:48:41 +0100

John Michael Peterson
Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter)
Department of Indology
Kiel University
Kiel, Germany

Mailing Address:
Institut fuer Orientalistik
Abt. Indologie
Olshausenstr. 40
D-24118 Kiel
Germany

phone: 0049-431-880-4571
FAX:   0049-431-880-1598
email: gor05@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de

Description of work:

I am currently working on linguistic subjects in South Asian languages -
the development of ergativity, grammaticalization, transitivity, the
concept of 'subject', especially in Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi and Nepali.
Teaching experience to date in beginning and advanced Sanskrit and Pali.