 Ian Green
Head, Riawunna
University of Tasmania
Research Interests:
Australian Aboriginal languages, specialising in the history of
the prefixing languages of Australia's north, and with a particular
focus on the role of cultural contact in promoting linguistic
change. He has undertaken original linguistic field-work in central
and northern Australia.
Recent Publications
include:
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'The death of prefixing:
contact-induced language change in Northern Australia', in
Proceedings of the Berkley Linguistic Society, Vol
21, 1995
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'Review of Eve Mumewa
D. Fesl Conned!' in Australian Aboriginal Studies 1995
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'Nominal Classification
in Marrithiyel' in M. Harvey and N. Reid (eds) Nominal
Classification in Australian Languages. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, 1997
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'The Indigenous Languages
of Australia' in S. Kleiner (ed) The Oxford Companion to
Aboriginal Art and Culture, Melbourne: Melbourne OUP 2000
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'The genetic status
of Murrinh-patha in N. Evans (ed) Studies in comparative
non-Pama-Nyungan, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, in press
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The Oxford Companion
to Languages in Australia, co-edited with Bruce Moore
and Joe Lo Bianco Melbourne: OUP forthcoming
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