DeAndre Espree-Conaway
DeAndré A. Espree-Conaway is a field linguist and doctoral candidate whose work spans various subfields of linguistics. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Bloomfield Language Institute, an organization committed to the preservation and advancement of the linguistic capacity and literacy of small, indigenous, and minority speech communities through education, with the aim of fostering social and economic development. His research interests include language documentation and conservation, morphosyntax and semantics, historical linguistics, language typology, evolutionary linguistics, and linguistic anthropology. His regional focus encompasses Pacific languages—particularly those of Borneo (Austronesian) and New Guinea (Trans-New Guinea)—as well as Mesoamerican languages (Mixtecan). For his dissertation, he is currently developing a reference grammar of Wehea, a Dayak Austronesian language spoken in the interior of Borneo.