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DR RACHEL NORDLINGER



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN LINGUISTICS
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Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/nordlinger/
Work: 8344-4227
Fax: 8344-8990
Room: 510
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Australian Aboriginal languages descriptive linguistics Australia
Morphological and Syntactic theory theoretical frameworks, lexical-functional grammar United Kingdom
Language Typology Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Stanford University Research
United Kingdom University of Essex Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy Stanford University 31-Jul-1997
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Mar-1991
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Master of Arts Stanford University 31-Jul-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Linguistic Society President 30-Sep-2005
Member Association for Linguistic Typology member 31-Dec-1998
Member International LFG Association member 31-Dec-1997
Member Linguistic Society of America member 31-Dec-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Reciprocals across languages Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Doing great things with small languages: Safeguarding Indigenous language material of Australia's region by clever use of new technology Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
TAMEAL - THE INTERRELATION OF TENSE ASPECT & MODALITY WITH EVIDENTIALITY IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES - NON-LEAD Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY PARIS DIDEROT Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) (EUROPEAN COMMISSION)

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • When is a temporal marker not a tense? Reply to Tonhauser 2007


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Language
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 325-331
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Major Reference Works

  • Living, endangered, and lost: One thousand languages:

    Australia-Pacific languages in One Thousand Languages


    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Living, endangered, and lost: One thousand languages
    Publisher: University of California Press(Berkeley)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • From juxtaposition to incorporation:an approach to generic specific constructions
    Year: 2008
    Event name: LFG 08 Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference
    Page numbers: 394-412
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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  • Noun-Adjective Compounds in Gunwinyguan languages
    Year: 2008
    Event name: LFG 08 Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the LFG 08 Conference
    Page numbers: 109-128
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Verbless Clauses: Revealing the Structure within
    Year: 2007
    Book: Architecture, Rules and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan Bresnan
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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Journal Articles

  • A Grammar of Jingulu: An Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Linguistic Typology
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 614-618
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  • Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Linguistic Typology
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 541-597
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Case stacking in realizational morphology
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Linguistics
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 459-487
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  • From prefixes to suffixes: Typological change in Northern Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Diachronica
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 289-311
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  • Spearing the Emu Drinking: Subordination and the Adjoined Relative Clause in Wambaya
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Linguistics
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 5-29
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Apposition as coordination: evidence from Australian languages
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 11th International LFG Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the LFG06 Conference
    Page numbers: 437-454
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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Publications in 2005

Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Relating Morphology to Syntax
    Year: 2004
    Book: Projecting Morphology
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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  • Revisiting Proto-Mirndi
    Year: 2004
    Book: Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Language
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 776 - 806
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  • Tense Beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/Aspect/Mood on Nominal Dependents
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 597 - 641
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The syntax and semantics of tensed nominals
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The 8th international lexical functional grammar conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the LFG '03 Conference
    Page numbers: 328-346
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • A short grammar of Tetun Dili.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Lincom Europa(Munich)
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  • Tetun Dili: A grammar of an East Timorese language.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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Book Chapters

  • Infinitives in polysynthesis: the case of Rembarrnga
    Year: 2002
    Book: Problems in Polysynthesis
    Publisher: Akademie Verlag(Berlin)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Non-finite subordinate verbs in Australian Aboriginal languages
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Wambaya in motion.
    Year: 2001
    Book: Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages.
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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Journal Articles

  • Serial Verbs in Tetun-Dili: A Preliminary Account
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2001
    Page numbers: 48-60
    Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Linguistica(Dili)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Nominal tense with nominal scope: A preliminary sketch


    Year: 2001
    Event name: 6th International LFG Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the LFG01 Conference
    Page numbers: 433-448
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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