Rachel Nordlinger is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language, in the School of Languages and Linguistics. She completed her PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University, USA.
Rachel's research centres around the description and documentation of Australia's indigenous languages, and she has worked with the Bilinarra, Wambaya, Gudanji, Murrinhpatha and Marri Ngarr communities to record and preserve their traditional languages. She has also published on syntactic and morphological theory, and in particular the challenges posed by the complex grammatical structures of Australian Aboriginal languages. She is the author of numerous academic articles in international journals, and five books, including A Grammar of Wambaya (Pacific Linguistics, 1998), Constructive Case: Evidence from Australian languages (CSLI Publications, 1998) and A Grammar of Bilinarra (Mouton de Gruyter, 2014 - coauthored with Dr. Felicity Meakins). She is co-editor (with Harold Koch) of The Languages and Linguistics of Australia (Mouton de Gruyter, 2014). Rachel Nordlinger was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in November 2017.
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FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Professor In Linguistics
Languages And Linguistics
Member Of The Committee Of Governance
Research Network for Linguistic Diversity
Past President (2005-2007)
Australian Linguistic Society
Member, Nominating Committee
Association for Linguistic Typology
Chair, Executive Committee
International LFG Association
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Linguistic Society of America
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Stanford University
Master of Arts
Stanford University
Master of Arts
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
University of Melbourne