Dr Rachel Nordlinger
Contact details
Phone +61 3 8344 4227
Email: racheln@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Arts Centre 531
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
Collaborative work with Louise Sadler from the University of Essex on Coordination in Australian Aboriginal Languages.
Selected publications
Pre-Publications and drafts
Nordlinger, Rachel. 2008. Reciprocals in Murrinh-Patha (PDF). Under review.
Nordlinger, Rachel. 2008. Verbal morphology in Murrinh-Patha: evidence for templates (PDF). Under revision to appear in Morphology.
Nordlinger, Rachel. 2008. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure (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 (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 (PDF) (current draft - 2000). In R. Borsley and K. Börjars (eds) Non-transformational syntax: a guide to current models. Oxford: Blackwells.
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 (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 (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 here (PDF).
Harvey, Mark, Ian Green and Rachel Nordlinger. 2006. From Prefixes to Suffixes: Typological Change in Northern Australia. Diachronica 23 (2): 289-311. Prepublished version available here (PDF).
Sadler, Louisa and Rachel Nordlinger. 2006. Case stacking in Realizational Morphology. Linguistics 44 (3): 459-487. Prepublished version available here (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 here (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? (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 (PDF) . In Evans, Nick and Hans-Jürgen Sasse (eds) Problems of Polysynthesis. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 185-201.