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Academic Staff Research Interests

 

Linguistics

Mr Ghassan Al Shatter
Second language acquisition; applied linguistics; language curriculum and teaching method; Arabic literature and Middle Eastern history.

Dr Cindy Allen
Syntactic theory; the history of English syntax; the history of adnominal possessive constructions in English and other Germanic languages.

Dr Avery Andrews
Syntactic theory, especially lexically-based and formally explicit approaches such as lexical-functional grammar and its relations to linguistic typology and the interfaces to semantics and morphology.

Dr Monica Aznarez
Spanish phraseology; phraseology and culture; Spanish linguistics/pragmatics; teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.

Ms Chantal Crozet
Intercultural language education; second culture and language acquisition; language, culture and identity politics; ethics and spirituality in language education; the history of language teaching; language teachers' education.

Dr Tamsin Donaldson


Dr Jennifer Hendriks
Historical sociolinguistics with specific reference to the history of the Dutch and German languages; language/dialect contact and language change particularly in German and Dutch in the Early Modern Period; deflexion in Dutch.

Dr Luise Hercus

Professor Peter Hill
Sociolinguistics, especially the politics of language, and the development of standard languages in Europe. Languages: Macedonian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Azerbaijanian.


Dr Lousie Jansen
Data-based reseach on second language acquisition; acquisition of German word order in instructed learners; roles of implicit and explicit modes of second language knowledge and learning; relationship between syntax and morphology in second language acquistion.

Dr Harold Koch
Language change; linguistic reconstruction methodology; language contact; morphology; Australian Aboriginal languages, especially description and historical-comparative study; Australian Aboriginal English; Indo-European linguistics.

Dr Ian Langford

Dr Patrick McConvell

Dr Bruce Moore
Australian English, Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance literature.

Ms Frances Morphy
Anthropology and linguistics of north-east Arnhem Land; native title;
Indigenous art and craft industry, particularly in relation to remote area art and craft centres.

Dr David Nash


Dr Johanna Rendle-Short
Analysis of discourse; conversation analysis; applied conversation analysis; sociolinguistics; interactional sociolinguistics; issues of gender and sexuality; politicians' talk.

Dr Philip Rose
Phonetics and phonology; tone languages; Chinese and Chinese dialecs; forensic speaker identification.

Dr Karl Rensch

Professor Anna Wierzbicka
Semantics; syntax; typology; pragmatics; the interrelation between language and culture.

Dr Kevin Windle

Modern Russian and Polish literature; Slavonic lexicography; translation studies; Russian revolutionaries in Australia 1911-25

Dr Jock Wong


Dr Kyung-Joo Yoon