Dr Edward Garrett

Software Developer

Edward Garrett is developing software enabling linguists, community members, and others to populate, administer, query, and re-purpose the Endangered Languages Archive. Before arriving at SOAS in May 2008, Edward spent several years working on technical and linguistic aspects of the Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library's Tibetan language initiatives based at the University of Virginia.

Edward has contributed to various open source software projects in linguistics, including:

Tools for Field Linguistics: A site devoted to the collaborative creation of tools, protocols and procedures for field linguistics and language analysis, focusing in particular on tools for annotating or manipulating text, audio and video-based language archives.

THDL Tools: (Mostly) Tibetan language tools.

Edward co-maintains the following websites:

altiplano: The Eastern Michigan University Linguistics Lab Server

Edward has long been interested in Tibetan language. In 2001, he completed a PhD thesis entitled Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan.