Prof

Rachel Nordlinger

Professor In Linguistics

Languages And Linguistics

Prof

Rachel Nordlinger

Division

Arts

Primary Interest

Structure of language

Prof

Rachel Nordlinger

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.

For more information please see the Rachel Nordlinger Academia web page.

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FEATURED Book Chapter

Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji

Rachel Nordlinger's selected work

Western Desert Verbal Arts Project

Research Contracts

Preserving precious Indigenous languages

NEWS ARTICLE

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

Book Chapter

Strengthening Language, Strengthening Community: Showcasing Mildura'S Aboriginal Languages

Research Grant

We wouldn't be mourning lost languages if we embraced multilingualism

NEWS ARTICLE

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

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Projects

Displaying the 18 most recent projects by Rachel Nordlinger.

Western Desert Verbal Arts Project

Strengthening Language, Strengthening Community: Showcasing Mildura'S Aboriginal Languages

Re-Integrating Central Australian Community Cultural Collections

This project aims to apply current research on archiving and community access to find practical solutions to managing the large amounts of r..

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language - Matching Contribution

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language - Matching Contribution

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language (Archiving Thread - Child Project For Anu Services)

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language - Matching Contribution

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language - Matching Contribution

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language - Matching Contribution

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC Centre Of Excellence For Dynamics Of Language

From Little Things, Big Things Grow: How Children Learn A Morphologically Complex Australian Indigenous Language

This project investigates the acquisition of Murrinh-Patha, one of a small number of Australian indigenous languages still being learned by ..

Doing Great Things With Small Languages: Safeguarding Indigenous Language Material Of Australia'S Region By Clever Use Of New Technology

This project will provide a responsible record of Indigenous and endangered languages from both Australia and from Vanuatu. It will build un..

Tameal - The Interrelation Of Tense Aspect & Modality With Evidentiality In Australian Aboriginal Languages - Non-Lead

Reciprocals Across Languages

Reciprocity lies at the heart of social organization and human evolution. This project will examine how reciprocity is expressed, and what t..

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 67 most recent scholarly works by Rachel Nordlinger.

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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..

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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..

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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..

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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..

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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..

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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, ..

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The languages of the Daly region (Northern Australia)

R Nordlinger

Book Chapter | 2017

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-m..

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The acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia)

W Forshaw, L Davidson, B Kelly, R Nordlinger, G Wigglesworth, J Blythe

Book Chapter | 2017

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-m..

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Possessor dissension: Agreement mismatch in Ngumpin-Yapa possessive constructions

R NORDLINGER, F Meakins

Journal article | 2017 | Linguistic Typology

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The Daly languages project

R NORDLINGER, I Green, P Hurst

Dataset | 2016

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When Magnets Collide: Digital Preservation and Access of At-Risk Audiovisual Archives in a Remote Aboriginal Community

L Ormond-Parker, M Langton, S Huebner, J Coleman, C Pearson, R Sloggett, R Nordlinger, K Smith, K Clarke

Report | 2016

Audiovisual materials have been produced and stored by remote Indigenous media and cultural organisations in Australia for over th..

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The alignment of prosody and clausal structure in Dalabon

B Ross, J Fletcher, R Nordlinger

Journal article | 2016 | Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Inflection in Murrinh-Patha

R NORDLINGER

Book Chapter | 2015

Murrinh-Patha is a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Southern Daly family ( along with Ngan'gityemerri (Green 2003)), and is one of..

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Getting in Touch: Language and digital inclusion in Australian Indigenous communities

M Carew, J Green, I Kral, R Nordlinger, R Singer

Journal article | 2015 | LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION

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Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: moving beyond the challenges

R NORDLINGER, B Kelly, W Forshaw, G Wigglesworth

Journal article | 2015 | First Language

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Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)

D Estival, C Bow, J Henderson, B Kelly, M Laughren, E Mayer, D Mollá, C Mrowa-Hopkins, R Nordlinger, V Rieschild, AC Schalley, AW Stanley, J Vaughan

Journal article | 2014 | Language and Linguistics Compass

The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) started in 2008 in only two locations and has since grown to a natio..

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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia A Comprehensive Guide

H Koch, R Nordlinger

Book | 2014

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and ..

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The acquisition of polysynthetic languages

B Kelly, G Wigglesworth, R Nordlinger, J Blythe

Journal article | 2014 | Linguistics and Language Compass

One of the major challenges in acquiring a language is being able to use morphology as an adult would, and thus, a considerable am..

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Serial verbs in Wambaya

R Nordlinger

Book Chapter | 2014

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The languages of Australia in linguistic research: context and issues

H Koch, R Nordlinger

Book Chapter | 2014

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A Grammar of Bilinarra: An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory

F Meakins, R Nordlinger

Book | 2014

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Constituency and grammatical relations in Australian languages

R Nordlinger

Book Chapter | 2014

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Fieldwork and first language acquisition

B Kelly, R Nordlinger

Conference Proceedings | 2014 | Selected papers from the 44th conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013

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Learning from OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad

D Estival, J Henderson, M Laughren, D Molla, C Bow, R Nordlinger, V Rieschild, A Schalley, A Stanley, C Mrowa-Hopkins

Conference Proceedings | 2013 | 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing

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'Keeping Intouchable': A Community Report on the use of Mobile Phones and Social Networking by Young Aboriginal People in Victoria

FE Edmonds, C Rachinger, JL Waycott, PJ Morrissey, OM Kelada, R Nordlinger

Report | 2012

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The Tense, Aspect and Modality System in Murrinh-Patha

R Nordlinger, P Caudal

Journal article | 2012 | Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Number marking in the Daly languages (Australia).

R Nordlinger

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference

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Deep Lexical Acquisition of Type Properties in Low-resource Languages: A Case Study in Wambaya

J NICHOLSON, R Nordlinger, TJ Baldwin

Conference Proceedings | 2012 | Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language

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Lexical-functional grammar: Interactions between morphology and syntax

R Nordlinger, undefined Bresnan

Book Chapter | 2011

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Reciprocal constructions in English: Each other and beyond

P HURST, R Nordlinger

Book Chapter | 2011 | Typological Studies in Language

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Transitivity in Murrinh-Patha

R Nordlinger

Journal article | 2011 | Studies in Language

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Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies

Rachel Nordlinger

Journal article | 2011 | Studies in Language

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Applicativizing Complex Predicates: A case study from Murrinh-Patha

M Seiss, RN Nordlinger

Conference Proceedings | 2010 | Proceedings of the LFG10 Conference

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Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure

R NORDLINGER

Book Chapter | 2010

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Nominal juxtaposition in Australian languages: An LFG analysis

L Sadler, R NORDLINGER

Journal article | 2010 | JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

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Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates

RN Nordlinger

Journal article | 2010 | Morphology

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Indigenous Perspectives on the Vitality of Murrinh-Patha

B KELLY, R NORDLINGER, G WIGGLESWORTH

Conference Proceedings | 2010 | Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

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Agreement in Murrinh-Patha Serial Verbs

R NORDLINGER

Conference Proceedings | 2010 | Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

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Putting it all together: Agreement, Incorporation, Coordination and External Possession in Wubuy (Australia)

B Baker, K Horrack, RN Nordlinger, L Sadler

Conference Proceedings | 2010 | Proceedings of the LFG10 Conference

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Australia-Pacific languages

N THIEBERGER, R NORDLINGER

Scholarly edition | 2008

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Noun-Adjective Compounds in Gunwinyguan languages

B Baker, M Butt, R NORDLINGER, T Holloway King

Conference Proceedings | 2008 | Proceedings of the LFG 08 Conference

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

R NORDLINGER, L SADLER

Journal article | 2008 | LANGUAGE

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Noun-Adjective Compounds in Gunwinyguan languages

B Baker, R NORDLINGER

Conference Proceedings | 2008 | Proceedings of the LFG 08 Conference

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From juxtaposition to incorporation:an approach to generic specific constructions

R NORDLINGER, L Sadler

Conference Proceedings | 2008 | Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference

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Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages

N EVANS, undefined Gaby, R NORDLINGER

Journal article | 2007 | Linguistic Typology

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A Grammar of Jingulu: An Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory

R NORDLINGER

Journal article | 2007 | Linguistic Typology

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Verbless Clauses: Revealing the Structure within

R NORDLINGER, undefined Sadler

Book Chapter | 2007

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From prefixes to suffixes: Typological change in Northern Australia

M Harvey, I Green, R Nordlinger

Journal article | 2006 | Diachronica

This article provides a counterexample to the commonly held, if unexamined, proposition that morphemes reconstructed as affixes do..

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Introduction

R Nordlinger

Book Chapter | 2006 | Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Spearing the Emu Drinking: Subordination and the Adjoined Relative Clause in Wambaya

R NORDLINGER

Journal article | 2006 | Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Apposition as coordination: evidence from Australian languages

L SADLER, R NORDLINGER

Conference Proceedings | 2006 | Proceedings of the LFG06 Conference

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Case stacking in realizational morphology

L Sadler, R NORDLINGER

Journal article | 2006 | Linguistics

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From prefixes to suffixes: Typological change in Northern Australia

Mark Harvey, Ian Green, Rachel Nordlinger

Journal article | 2006 | Diachronica International Journal for Historical Linguistics. Founded by E.F.K. Koerner, General Editor, 1984–2001

This article provides a counterexample to the commonly held, if unexamined, proposition that morphemes reconstructed as affixes do..

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Revisiting Proto-Mirndi

I GREEN, R NORDLINGER

Book Chapter | 2004

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Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective

R NORDLINGER, LS SADLER

Journal article | 2004 | Language

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Relating Morphology to Syntax

LS SADLER, R NORDLINGER

Book Chapter | 2004

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Tense Beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/Aspect/Mood on Nominal Dependents

R NORDLINGER, LS SADLER

Journal article | 2004 | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

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The syntax and semantics of tensed nominals

R NORDLINGER, LS SADLER

Conference Proceedings | 2003 | Proceedings of the LFG '03 Conference

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Tetun Dili: A grammar of an East Timorese language.

CWK WILLIAMS-VAN KLINKEN, JT HAJEK, R NORDLINGER

Book | 2002

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A short grammar of Tetun Dili.

CWK WILLIAMS-VAN KLINKEN, JT HAJEK, R NORDLINGER

Book | 2002

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Non-finite subordinate verbs in Australian Aboriginal languages

R NORDLINGER

Conference Proceedings | 2002 | Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society

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Infinitives in polysynthesis: the case of Rembarrnga

R NORDLINGER, A SAULWICK

Book Chapter | 2002

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Serial Verbs in Tetun-Dili: A Preliminary Account

CVK WILLIAMS-VAN KLINKEN, JT HAJEK, R NORDLINGER

Journal article | 2001 | Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor

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Wambaya in motion.

R NORDLINGER

Book Chapter | 2001

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Nominal tense with nominal scope: A preliminary sketch

R NORDLINGER, L SADLER

Conference Proceedings | 2001 | Proceedings of the LFG01 Conference

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A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern Australia

Rachel Nordlinger

Book | 1998

PREFACE Wambaya is a non-Pama-Nyungan language originally spoken in the Barkly Tablelands region of the Northern Territory, Austr..

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Scope and the development of epistemic modality: Evidence from ought to

R Nordlinger, EC Traugott

Journal article | 1997 | English Language and Linguistics

Discussions of modality (e.g. Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca, 1994; Coates, 1983; Lyons, 1977; Palmer, 1986; Traugott, 1989) typically ..

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge

Language Studies

Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Cognitive Sciences

Computer Software and Services

News

Displaying the 3 most recent news articles by Rachel Nordlinger.

Preserving precious Indigenous languages

Rachel Nordlinger

October 17, 2016

We wouldn't be mourning lost languages if we embraced multilingualism

Rachel Nordlinger

Muting Indigenous language support only widens the gap

Ruth Singer, Rachel Nordlinger

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2017

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Credentials

Positions

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

Member

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

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ORCID

0000-0003-4126-8022