Dr Jean Mulder
Contact details
T: +61 3 8344 7160
E: jmulder@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Babel Building 604
Biography
After studying Mathematics and Linguistics as an undergraduate, Jean Mulder completed her Ph.D at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 with an analysis of ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax), a language spoken on the northwest coast of Canada. She has taught at the University of Victoria and the University of Alberta in Canada as well as the University of Swaziland in Africa, before coming to Melbourne in 1993. Jean's research interests include language typology, sociolinguistics, field methods, English linguistics, syntactic theory, morphology, Amerindian linguistics, language planning, language and culture, and language and gender. Current research projects include various grammatical and ethnopoetic aspects of Coast Tsimshian, conjunctive 'but' un Australian English, and language planning and grammatical issues in Hmong. Jean has been actively involved with the role of knowledge about language across the learning areas of the school curriculum. She was the author of the study guide for the subject VCE English Language and has edited and co-authored two textbooks for this new subject.
Selected Publications
- Mulder, Jean, Kate Burridge and Caroline Thomas. 2001. Macmillan English Language: VCE Units 1 and 2 (with CD Rom). Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia.
- Mulder, Jean. 1999. Exploring the Language of Newspapers. Literacy Learning: Secondary Thoughts 7.1.
- Mulder, Jean. 1998. Exploring Language in the School Curriculum. Literacy Learning: Secondary Thoughts 6.2, 24-30.
- Mulder, Jean, and Kate Burridge. 1998. English in Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction to Its History, Structure and Use. Sydney: Oxford University Press.
- Mulder, Jean, and Julie Banks. 1996. What did I Say? Using Non-Discriminatory Language. University of Melbourne: Equal Opportunity Unit.
- Mulder, Jean. 1995. Dixon, R.M.W. Ergativity. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 15.1:114-18.
- Mulder, Jean. 1995. Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 15.2:278-81.
- Mulder, Jean. 1994a. Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). Berkeley: University of California Press: xiv + 259pp.
- Mulder, Jean. 1994b. Structural Organisation in Coast Tsimshian Music, Ethnomusicology 38, 1:81-125.
- Mulder, Jean, Emily Hunter, and Betty Karpinski. 1992. An Introduction to Cree. University of Alberta: School of Native Studies. 232 pp. + 13 20-min language lab cassette tapes
- Mulder, Jean and E.C.L. Kunene. 1992. Linguistic Considerations of Some Cultural Attitudes in siSwati. Language and Society in Africa: The Theory and Practice of Sociolinguistics, ed. R.K. Herbert. Johannesburg, South Africa: University of the Witwatersrand Press: 335-344.
- Mulder, Jean. 1989a. Syntactic Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). Studies in Language 13.405-35.
- Mulder, Jean. 1989b. The Viability of the Notion of Subject in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). Canadian Journal of Linguistics 34.129-44.
- Mulder, Jean. 1988. The Viability of the Notion of Subject in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). Working Papers of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. 90-102.
- Mulder, Jean. 1987. Morphological Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). Native American Languages and Grammatical Typology. ed. P.D. Kroeber and R.E. Moore, 165-185. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
- Mulder, Jean. 1982. The Tsimshian English Dialect: The Result of Language Interference, Essays in Native American English, ed. H.G. Bartelt, S.P. Jasper, and B.L. Hoffer, 95-111. Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
- Mulder, Jean and Arthur Schwartz. 1981. On the Subject of Advancements in the Philippine Languages, Studies in Language 5, 227-68
- Mulder, Jean. 1978. Universal Grammar and Diachronic Syntax: The Case of the Finnish Negative. MA Thesis, UCLA. 103 pp.
- Mulder, Jean. 1976. Raising in Turkish. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 2.298-307.