Dr Yankee Modi

Co-Director

Dr Yankee Modi is one of the world’s foremost community linguists, representing the Milang community of Holon Village in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Previously Assistant Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Modi completed her PhD thesis A Grammar of Milang in 2017 at the University of Berne under supervision of Em. Prof. Dr. George van Driem, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Pāṇini Award.

The CCLD has grown around Modi’s collaborations with Mark W. Post, which began with a fieldtrip to Peki-Modi village in 2008. Co-Director of the CCLD, Modi is also a Research Associate at the University of Sydney Department of Linguistics.