Rachel Nordlinger

The Typology of Reciprocal Constructions

R Nordlinger

Journal article  |  2023  |  Annual Review of Linguistics

Reciprocal constructions involve a complex mapping of semantics onto morphosyntax, requiring multiple propositions to be overlaid ..

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

Yu-Ting Chiang, Yun Zhao, Rachel Nordlinger

Journal article  |  2022  |  Language and Education

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

Sentence planning and production in Murrinhpatha, an Australian 'free word order' language

Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Evan Kidd

Journal article  |  2022  |  Language (Washington)

Psycholinguistic theories are based on a very small set of unrepresentative languages, so it is as yet unclear how typological var..

Category Clustering and Morphological Learning

John Mansfield, Carmen Saldana, Peter Hurst, Rachel Nordlinger, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, Andrew Perfors

Journal article  |  2022  |  COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (e.g., subject agreement) tend to appear in the same morphological p..

Prosodic phrasing, pitch range and word order variation in Murrinhpatha

Janet Fletcher, Evan Kidd, Hywel Stoakes, Rachel Nordlinger

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Like many Indigenous Australian languages, Murrinhpatha has flexible word order with no apparent configurational syntax. We analyz..

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..

An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions

Peter Hurst, Rachel Nordlinger

Book Chapter  |  2021

Wambaya, Gudanji, Binbinka and Ngarnka Plants and Animals: Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from Gulf of Carpentaria and the Barkly Tablelands, north Australia.

Molly Nurlanyma Grueman, Minnie Niyamarrama Nimara, Mavis Bangarinya Hogan, Powder Bangarinji O'Keefe, Peggy Yarrburrngalina Mawson, Katie Banduluka Baker, Pompey Jack Warnbiyaji, Lynette Nurlanyma Hubbard, Gilbert Jackson Maanula, Jeffrey Heath, Rachel Nordlinger, Glenn Wightman

Reference Work  |  2021

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..

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..