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professor, BA (ANU), PhD (Sydney) Mail address
Bygning 1410 |
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Language, Thought and Society (psycho/sociolinguistics)
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Language history (comparative linguistics, etymology)
► comparative Bunuban • comparative Nyulnyulan • comparative Worrorran • grammaticalisation
Language, Thought and Society (psycho/sociolinguistics)
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Psycholinguistics
► classification • language and theory of mind • symbolic cognition
Language, Thought and Society (psycho/sociolinguistics)
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Sociolects (child language, language of adolescents, immigrants, specialised language etc)
► special registers (mother-in-law) • language endangerment
Linguistics (grammar etc)
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Functional linguistics
► Semiotic grammar • Linguistic Typology
Linguistics (grammar etc)
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Morphology
► ergative case-marking • optional case-marking
Linguistics (grammar etc)
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Semantics (cognitive semantics, formal semantics etc)
► semantics of grammar • mood and modality
Linguistics (grammar etc)
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Syntax
► complementation constructions • compound verb constructions • mood and subordination
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 1999)
Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (from December 1986)