Prof Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
BA, MA, PhD Moscow, DLitt, FAHA

CURRICULUM VITAE [This is a pdf file, 272KB, last updated:06/05/2008]

Telephone: +61 3 9479 6402 Email: a.aikhenvald@latrobe.edu.au Our Fax number is: +61 3 9467 3053   ACADEMIC CO-ORDINATOR Professor Aikhenvald worked in the Middle East section of the Department of Languages in the Institute of Oriental Studies (of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR) in Moscow, and was then Professor of Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil before coming to Australia in 1994. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, grammars of Modern Hebrew (1990) and Biblical Hebrew (forthcoming). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died), Warekena (1998) and Tariana (2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages, a collection of texts in Tariana (1999) and a lengthy Tariana-Portuguese dictionary (2002). She has written a monograph Language contact in Amazonia (Oxford University Press, 2002). Her monograph, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices, was published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and reissued in paperback in 2003. Her monograph Evidentiality was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and will be reissued in paperback in 2006. She is currently working on a monograph 'Imperatives and Commands'. She is finalising a reference grammar of Manambu, a Ndu language from the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea (with the assistance of Yuamali Jacklyn Benji Ala and Pauline Agnes Luma Laki). Click the links below to download the following for the forthcoming special issue of 'Language Typology and Universals' (Sprachtypologie und universalienforschung, or STUF): - Table of contents - Introduction

Complete list of publications is available in my Curriculum Vitae. Some downloadable papers are:

• 2003. 'Multilingualism and ethnic stereotypes: the Tariana of northwest Amazonia',  Language in Society 32: 1-21.

• 2003. 'Teaching Tariana, an endangered language of northwest Amazonia'. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 161: 125-39.

• 2003. 'Mechanisms of change in areal diffusion: new morphology and language contact', Journal of Linguistics 39: 1-29.

• 2004. 'Language endangerment in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea', pp. 97-142 of Lectures on endangered languages: 5 — From Tokyo and Kyoto Conferences 2002, edited by O. Sakiyama and F. Endo. The project 'Endangered languages of the Pacific Rim'. Suita, Osaka, pp. 97-142.

• 2005. 'Arawak languages', Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. by P. Strazny. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: Chicago (pp. 81-4).

• 2006. 'Serial verb constructions in a typological perspective', pp. 1-87 of Aikhenvald and Dixon eds. Serial verb constructions: a cross-linguistic typology. OUP.

• 2006. 'Serial verb constructions in Tariana', pp. 178-201 of Aikhenvald and Dixon eds. Serial verb constructions: a cross-linguistic typology. OUP.

• 2006. 'Reflections on language contact, areal diffusion, and mechanisms of linguistic change', to appear in Sprachbund in the West African Sahel, edited by Bernard Caron and Petr Zima. Louvain-Paris: Peeters.

• 2006. 'Classifiers and noun classes, semantics', pp. 463-70 of Volume 1 (article 1111) of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, edited by Keith Brown. Elsevier: Oxford.

• 2006.  'Evidentiality in grammar', pp. 320-5, Volume 4 (article 0252), of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, edited by Keith Brown. Elsevier: Oxford.

• 2006. 'Arawak languages', pp. 446-8 of Volume 1 (article 2292) of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, edited by Keith Brown. Elsevier: Oxford.

• 2006. 'Tariana', pp. 506-7 of Volume 12 (article 4489) of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, edited by Keith Brown. Elsevier: Oxford.

• 2006. 'Manambu' (with P. Laki), pp. 475-6 of Volume 7 (article 4491), of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, edited by Keith Brown. Elsevier: Oxford.

• 2006. 'Complement clauses and complementation strategies in Tariana', pp. 178-203 of Dixon and Aikhenvald eds. Complement clauses and complementation strategies: a cross-linguistic typology. OUP.

• 2007. 'Grammars in contact: a cross-linguistic perspective', 1-66 of Aikhenvald and Dixon eds. Grammars in contact: a cross-linguistic typology.

• 2007. 'Semantics and pragmatics of grammatical relations in the Vaupés linguistic area', 237-66 of Aikhenvald and Dixon eds. Grammars in contact: a cross-linguistic typology.

• 2007. 'Reciprocals and reflexives in North-Arawak languages of the Upper Rio Negro', to appear in V.P. Nedialkov, E. Genius&iene(  and Z. Guentchéva (eds). Typology of Reciprocals (TSL 71). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 845-55. (Proofs checked in December 2006).

• 2007. 'Reciprocal and associative in Tariana: their genetic and areal properties',to appear in V.P. Nedialkov, E. Genius&iene(  and Z. Guentchéva (eds). Typology of Reciprocals (TSL 71). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-16. (Proofs checked in December 2006).

• 2007. 'Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America', pp. 183-205 of Vanishing Languages of the Pacific, edited by O. Miyaoka, O. Sakiyama and M. Krauss. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• 2007. A. Y. Aikhenvald and T. Stebbins. 'Languages of Papua New Guinea', pp. 239-66 of Vanishing Languages of the Pacific, edited by O. Miyaoka, O. Sakiyama and M. Krauss. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• forthcoming. 'Gender and noun class in Paumarí in a typological perspective'. Forthcoming in a Festschrift.

• forthcoming. 'Multilingual fieldwork, and emergent grammars', to appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: UCB.

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