Alexandra Aikhenvald
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Alexandra Yurievna Aikhenvald (naturalized Australian, born 1957) is a professor at and associate director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a specialist in Arawak language family (including Tariana), which is spoken in the Brazilian Amazon basin, and has published work on Berber languages, Modern and Classical Hebrew, Ndu languages (Eastern Sepik, Papua-New Guinea), alongside a number of articles and monographs on various aspects of linguistic typology.
She has extensively worked on language contact, with particular attention to the multilingual area of the Vaupés River Basin [1]. She has established a comprehensive typology of classifiers [2] and worked out major parameters for the typology of evidentials as grammatical markers of information source [3]. In addition, she authored a comprehensive grammar of Warekena and of Tariana, both Arawak, in addition to a lengthy Tariana-Portuguese dictionary (available on-line).
[edit] References
- ^ Language Contact in Amazonia By Alexandra Aikhenvald, Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 019925785X
- ^ Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices, Oxford University Press, 2000, pb. 2003, ISBN 019926466X
- ^ Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Evidentiality Oxford University Press]] 2004, pd. 2006, ISBN 0199263884
[edit] External links
- La Trobe home page
- A.Y. Aikhenvald's official home page
- A.Y. Aikhenvald's CV
- For want of a word - New Scientist magazine interview
- Telling the Truth in Tariana - ABC radio documentary transcript
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