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We came to linguistics through a shared curiosity about how language works—not just as an abstract system of rules, but as a living cognitive capacity that shapes and is shaped by human thought. From early on, we were drawn to questions that resisted easy answers: how sounds, words, and structures interact; how children acquire language so effortlessly; and how insights from one language can unsettle what we assume to be universal. Our work has been guided by the conviction that linguistic theory must be both formally precise and empirically responsible, grounded in careful analysis of real languages rather than in inherited assumptions.
Much of our research has taken Indian languages, particularly Malayalam, as a serious testing ground for linguistic ideas. We have tried to show that these languages are not exceptions to be explained away, but sources of insight that can reshape theory itself. At the same time, we have remained deeply concerned with how linguistics is taught and learned—how arguments are built, how evidence is evaluated, and how students come to see the discipline as a form of scientific inquiry rather than a collection of technical tools. In this sense, our work reflects a continuing attempt to think with language: to use it not only as an object of study, but as a means of understanding the human mind.