Nala H. Lee

Nala H. Lee is a Singaporean linguist and an Associate Professor at the English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies department of the National University of Singapore. Currently Assistant Dean at the Research Division at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, she also assists in the managing of the Singapore Research Nexus. Her research focuses on the outcomes of extreme language change due to multilingualism and her specific areas of interest are language endangerment, language death, language documentation, creoles, typology, and sociolinguistics. She is known for co-developing the Language Endangerment Index, a method of assessing language endangerment that is utilised on the Endangered Languages Project (www.endangeredlanguages.com). Locally, she works with speakers of Baba Malay, and is author of A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay (De Gruyter Mouton 2022). She has published in journals such as the Annual Review of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Documentation & Conservation, Language in Society, and Scientific Reports, among others.