Dr Rachel Nordlinger
Contact details
T: +61 3 8344 4227
E: racheln@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Babel Building 612
Qualifications
BA (Hons) and MA (Linguistics) University of Melbourne
PhD (Linguistics) Stanford University, California
Research Fields and Areas of Supervision
- Australian Aboriginal languages
- Syntactic and morphological typology
- Syntactic and morphological theory
- Descriptive linguistics
- Lexical-Functional grammar
- Case marking
Coordination in Australian Aboriginal Languages.
Selected publications
Pre-Publications and drafts
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2008. Reciprocals in Murrinh-Patha (330kb pdf). Under review.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2008. Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates (330b pdf). Under revision to appear in Morphology.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2008. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure (680kb pdf). To appear in M. Amberber, B. Baker and M. Harvey (eds) Complex Predicates: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Cambridge: CUP.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2007. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it: the role of formal theory in language description (300kb pdf). Handout of invited plenary presentation given at the Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Adelaide September 2007.
- Hurst, Peter and Rachel Nordlinger. 2007. English reciprocals: each other and beyond. To appear in Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen Levinson and Asifa Majid Reciprocals Across Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Evans, Nicholas and Rachel Nordlinger. 2004. Extreme Morphological Shift: Verbal case in Kayardild. Paper presented at LFG04 Conference, Christchurch N.Z., July 2004.
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Joan Bresnan. To appear. Lexical-Functional Grammar: interactions between morphology and syntax (1.04Mb pdf) (current draft - 2000). In R. Borsley and K. Börjars (eds) Non-transformational syntax: a guide to
Books
- Williams-van Klinken, Catharina, John Hajek and Rachel Nordlinger. 2002. Tetun Dili: a grammar of an East Timorese language Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Williams-van Klinken, Catharina, John Hajek and Rachel Nordlinger. 2002. Tetun Dili. Languages of the World/Materials 388. Munich: Lincom Europa.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 1998. A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 1998. Constructive Case: Evidence from Australian languages. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Selected Papers
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Louisa Sadler. 2008. When is a temporal marker not a tense?: Reply toTonhauser (2007). Language 84(2): 325-331.
- Thieberger, Nicholas and Rachel Nordlinger. 2008. Australia-Pacific languages. One Thousand Languages. Berkeley: University of California Press. 174-189.
- Baker, Brett and Rachel Nordlinger 2008. Noun-Adjective compounds in Gunwinyguan languages (465kb pdf). In M. Butt and T. H. King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 109-128.
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Louisa Sadler. 2008. From juxtaposition to incorporation: an approach to generic-specific constructions (120kb pdf). In M. Butt and T. H. King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 394-412.
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Louisa Sadler. 2007. Verbless clauses: revealing the structure within. In J. Grimshaw, J. Maling, C. Manning, J. Simpson and A. Zaenen. Architectures, Rules and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 139-160. Pre-published version available here.
- Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby and Rachel Nordlinger. 2007. Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages. Linguistic Typology 11(3): 541-597.
- Sadler, Louisa and Rachel Nordlinger. 2006. Apposition as Coordination: evidence from Australian languages. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds) Proceedings of the LFG06 Conference. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 437-454.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2006. Spearing the Emu drinking: subordination and the adjoined relative clause in Wambaya. Australian Journal of Linguistics 26 (1): 5-29. Prepublished version available Spearing the Emu drinking (445kb pdf).
- Harvey, Mark, Ian Green and Rachel Nordlinger. 2006. From Prefixes Diachronica23 (2): 289-311. Prepublished version available From Prefixes to Suffixes (270kb pdf).
- Sadler, Louisa and Rachel Nordlinger. 2006. Case stacking in Realizational Linguistics44 (3): 459-487. Prepublished version available Case Stacking (315kb pdf).
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2005. Wambaya. In Keith Brown (ed) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Vol 13 P. 511. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Louisa Sadler. 2004 Relating Morphology to Syntax. In Louisa Sadler and Andrew Spencer (eds) Projecting Morphology, 159-185. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Prepublished version availbale Relating Morphology (140kb pdf).
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Louisa Sadler, 2004. Nominal Tense in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, Language 80:776-806.
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Louisa Sadler. 2004. Tense Beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/Aspect/Mood on Nominal Dependents. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22: 597-641.
- Green, Ian and Rachel Nordlinger. 2004. Revisiting Proto-Mirndi. In Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (eds) Australian languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 291-311.
- Nordlinger, Rachel. 2002. Non-finite subordinate verbs in Australian Aboriginal languages: are nominalised verbs really nominalised? (30kb pdf) In Allen, Cynthia (ed.) 2002 Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
- Nordlinger, Rachel and Adam Saulwick. 2002. Infinitives in polysynthesis: the case of Rembarrnga (40kb pdf). In Evans, Nick and Hans-Jürgen Sasse (eds) Problems of Polysynthesis. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 185-201.