Professor Malcolm Ross

Email: malcolm.ross@anu.edu.au
Phone:

Research interests: Austronesian and Papuan languages, theory of language change, contact-induced language change, historical change in grammatical constructions.

Dr Gabriele Schmidt

Email: gabriele.schmidt@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 2785

Research interests: Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Curriculum Development; Languages for Specific Purposes.

Professor Jane Simpson

Email: Jane.Simpson@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 7427

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Dr Ruth Spriggs

Email: ruth.spriggs@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 1665

Research interests: Pacific pidgins, creoles and linguistics

Dr McComas Taylor

Email: mccomas.taylor@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3179

Research interests: The construction of truth in the Sanskritic episteme, the ideas of social division in Sanskrit narrative literature.

Professor Catherine Travis

Email: Catherine.Travis@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 0634

Research interests: Catherine Travis took up the position of Chair of Modern European Languages in the School of Language Studies in 2012. She came from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, where she worked for 10 years, for five as head of the Hispanic Linguistics program in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Asian Studies with First Class Honors in Linguistics and Japanese from the ANU, and a PhD in Linguistics and Catherine’s primary research area is the way in which grammar emerges through discourse, which she investigates through the study of grammatical variation in spontaneous speech. She is a specialist in Spanish, and has also worked on Portuguese, Japanese and English. She has major research projects on the variation in ways speakers use language, both at home and in the diaspora, and what this tells us about the social and cultural meanings of language use. With the rapid growth of Spanish immigration to Australia, research in this area has significant policy and educational implications which extend to other immigrant groups.

Ms Yan-yan Wang

Email: yan-yan.wang@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 0580

Research interests: Teaching Chinese as a second language.

Professor Anna Wierzbicka

Email: anna.wierzbicka@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 3353

Research interests: Semantics, syntax, typology, pragmatics and the interrelation between language and culture.

Mr Yogendra Yadav

Email: yogendra.yadav@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 8594

Research interests: Hindi and Urdu language and literature.