Nicholas Evans (linguist)

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Nicholas Evans was born in Los Angeles, USA in 1956; he is a dual citizen of Australia and the United States.

Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Australian National University, he is Reader and an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

In terms of language area, his main specialisation is in the study of Australian Aboriginal languages: he has published detailed grammars of two (Kayardild, and Bininj Gun-wok) and dictionaries of Kayardild and Dalabon, as well as over sixty other publications on aspects of Australia's indigenous languages.

His teaching and research interests include grammatical and semantic typology, intonation, historical linguistics, contact and areal linguistics, the effects of culture on the emergence of language structure, the pragmatics/semantics interface, and the use of linguistic evidence in native title claims.

Current projects include a cross-linguistic study of reciprocals, and an interdisciplinary project documenting Iwaidja and other languages of the Cobourg Peninsula in their full cultural context.

  • Evans, Nicholas. 2005. Australian Languages Reconsidered: A Review of Dixon (2005). Oceanic Linguistics vol.44.issue 1. pages:242-286
  • Evans, Nicholas (ed.). (2003). The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pp. x + 513.
  • Evans, Nicholas. (2003). Bininj Gun-wok: a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. (2 volumes). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Evans, Nicholas and Hans-Jürgen Sasse (ed.). (2002). Problems of Polysynthesis. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Studia Typologica, Neue Reihe.
  • McConvell, Patrick; and Nicholas Evans (eds.) (1997). Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. ISBN 0-19-553728-9. 
  • Evans, Nicholas. (1995). A Grammar of Kayardild. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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NAME Evans, Nicholas
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles, California, United States
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