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Linguistics, Languages & Cultures staff

Dr Mark Donohue

Email: mark.donohue@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3147

Research interests: Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, morphosyntax, phonology, historical and areal linguistics, linguistic typology. Current projects: the social history of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia, as revealed through areal linguistic research; ongoing fieldwork on Austronesian and Papuan languages of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (focussing on Tukang Besi, Palu'e, Ambai [Austronesian], Skou, Damal, One [Papuan])

Dr Chris (J.C.) Eade

Email: chriseade@actewagl.net.au
Phone: 6248 8686

Research interests: Early Javanese Inscriptions.

Professor Nicholas Evans

Email: nicholas.evans@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 0028

Research interests: Linguistic diversity and its implications for general linguistic theory, the grammar of psychosocial cognition, grammatical and semantic typology, historical linguistics, contact and areal linguistics, the effects of culture on the emergence of language structure, the pragmatics/semantics interface, and the use of linguistic evidence in native title claims. Specific language interests include Kayardild, Bininj Gun-wok (Mayali), Dalabon, Iwaidja, Ilgar, Marrku, Golin, Nen, and Mundari.

Dr Bethwyn Evans

Email: bethwyn.evans@anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 6125 0300

Research interests: Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics), Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology, Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics), Pacific Languages

Dr Shengyu Fan

Email: Shengyu.Fan@anu.edu.au
Phone:

Research interests: Chinese Translation

Dr Martha Florez

Email: martha.florez@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 4360

Research interests: Spanish

Dr Alex Francois

Email: alexandre.francois@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 1664

Research interests: phonological systems and sound change; typology of polysemy and lexical semantics; pragmatics of face-to-face conversation; historical linguistics; language geography and areal phenomena; verbal art, folkloristics, ethnomusicology

Dr Mark Gibeau

Email: mark.gibeau@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 8232

Research interests: Japanese literature, literary translation, translation theory

Dr Simon Greenhill

Email: simon.greenhill@anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 6125 2161

Research interests: Language Evolution, Cultural Evolution, Human Prehistory

Dr Timothy Hassall

Email: timothy.hassall@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3184

Research interests: The acquisition of second language pragmatics.

Dr Carol Hays

Email: Carol.Hayes@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3983

Research interests: Japanese literature, film and poetry

Mr Rachel Hendery

Email: rachel.hendery@anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 6125 2243

Research interests: Syntax, historical linguistics, language contact, typology, English dialectology, creolization and mixed languages, Polynesian languages, languages of East Timor (Tokodede).

Dr Peter Hendriks

Email: peter.hendriks@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3206

Research interests: The history of Japanese language, the history of Japanese dialects, historical syntax and morphology, and acquisition of Japanese as a second language.

Dr Jennifer Hendriks

Email: jennifer.hendriks@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3695

Research interests: Dutch, language contact, language change, philology

Professor Ariel Heryanto

Email: ariel.heryanto@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3377

Research interests: Indonesian language and pop culture

Dr Peter Hill

Email: hill@netspeed.com.au
Phone:

Research interests: Language planning, the politics of language, the history of nationalism and standard languages in Europe as well as South-Slavonic linguistics, especially sociolinguistics and dialectology. Macedonian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Azerbaijanian.

Dr Roger Hillman

Email: roger.hillman@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 2731

Research interests: European literature (especially German and French), European Cinema (especially German and Italian), music, narrative, film music

Dr Gewndolyn Hyslop

Email: gwendolyn.hyslop@anu.edu.au
Phone:

Research interests: Tibeto-Burman languages, languages and linguistic prehistory of the Himalayas and South Asia, historical and areal linguistics, tone and tonogenesis, linguistic typology, the relationship between language, culture, and the mind

Mr Shun Ikeda

Email: shun.ikeda@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 4030

Research interests: Japanese language, education, culture and society, comparative education in Asia, and socio-linguistics (language policy and planning).

Dr Shunichi Ishihara

Email: shunichi.ishihara@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 4656

Research interests: Experimental phonetics, speech and language processing.

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