Dr Rob Pensalfini
Dr Rob Pensalfini

BA UWA PhD MIT  

Senior Lecturer
Discipline Coordinator of Linguistics (2012)
Room:  Gordon Greenwood (#32), 513
phone: +61 (7) 3365 2245
Email: r.pensalfini@uq.edu.au
 
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Research interests:
  • theoretical phonology, morphology and syntax
  • Australian languages; lexicography
  • language endangerment and maintenance
  • architecture of the language faculty, language in education
  • sociolinguistics; and actor training, the use of the human voice in (theatrical) performance.
Selected Publlications:
  • A Grammar of Jingulu: an aboriginal language of the Northern Territory. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2003.
  • Articles on syntax, morphophonology and phonology of Australian languages, ethnography, and language maintenance. 
Editor of:  two volumes of MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
 
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