Rachel Nordlinger

Positional dependency in Murrinhpatha: expanding the typology of non-canonical morphotactics

Rachel Nordlinger, John Mansfield

Journal article  |  2021  |  Linguistics Vanguard

Principles of morphotactics are a major source of morphological diversity amongst the world’s languages, and it is well-known that..

Bridging Australian Indigenous language learner’s guides with SLA materials development frameworks

YT Chiang, H Zhao, R Nordlinger

Journal article  |  2021  |  Language and Education

The learner’s guide (LG) is a genre of pedagogical materials for Australian Indigenous languages, but LGs developed by field lingu..

Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha.

John Mansfield, Rachel Nordlinger

Book Chapter  |  2020

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and d..

Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji

Oliver Bond, Felicity Meakins, Rachel Nordlinger

Book Chapter  |  2019

In Gurindji (Ngumpin-Yapa; Australia) bound forms that index the morphosyntactic features of predicate arguments can also index po..

Morphology in Lexical-functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

R Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler

Book Chapter  |  2019

Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) are both lexicalist, non-transformational, constr..

From body part to applicative: Encoding ‘source’ in Murrinhpatha

Rachel Nordlinger

Journal article  |  2019  |  Linguistic Typology

Murrinhpatha (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) is typologically unusual in having a single applicative construction with the semantics..

50 Words project (https://50words.online)

Rachel Nordlinger, Nicholas Thieberger

Dataset  |  2019

Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction

Kersti Börjars, Rachel Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler

Book  |  2019

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a formal approach to the study of lan..

Working at the interface: the Daly Languages project

Rachel Nordlinger, Ian Green, Peter Hurst

Book Chapter  |  2019

In this paper we present the Daly Languages Project (www.dalylanguages.org), funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynami..

The impact of national standardized literacy and numeracy testing on children and teaching staff in remote Australian Indigenous communities

S Macqueen, U Knoch, G Wigglesworth, R Nordlinger, R Singer, T McNamara, R Brickle

Journal article  |  2019  |  Language Testing

All educational testing is intended to have consequences, which are assumed to be beneficial, but tests may also have unintended, ..