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| Dr Alec Coupe |
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Position: Lecturer
Postgraduate & Honours Coordinator
Room: DMB E324
Tel: +61 3 9479 3297
Fax: +61 3 9479 1520
Email: a.coupe@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: B Asian Studies (Thai) (Hons), MA (ANU) PhD (LTU) |
Major Research Areas:
Dr Coupe’s primary research focus is the documentation and typologically-informed description of the Tibeto-Burman languages of north-east India. He is currently researching the typology of case marking systems in the languages of South Asia, the functions of nominalisation, and contact-induced convergence between Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages.
Major Teaching Areas
LIN1NLB The nature of language and communication – B
LIN2/3SYN Syntax: the relationship between meaning and structure
LIN2/3SEM Semantics and Pragmatics: the relationship between meaning and use
Linguistic and areal interests
- Languages of South Asia and mainland South-East Asia
- Linguistic typology
- Articulatory and acoustic phonetics, phonology
- Morphosyntax
- Language documentation and description
- Areal diffusion and contact-induced language change
Professional Associations
Australian Linguistics Society
Association for Linguistic Typology
Service to the linguistic community
Member, editorial board of Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
Member, editorial board of Himalayan Linguistics
Reviewer of submissions to Lingua, Diachronica, Oxford University Press
Journal editorship
Coupe, A.R. (ed.) 2008. Special issue on nominalization in Tibeto-Burman, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area Vol. 31.2
External research funding
2004-2007 Principal Investigator, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (DP0450943: A typology of adverbial subordination and clause linkage in Tibeto-Burman languages)
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