Notes on the contributors
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research
Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descrip-
tive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a
grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on languages of the
Arawakfamily, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995,
based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998),
plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University
Press 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South
American languages. Her monographs, Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categoriza-
tion Devices (2000, paperback reissue 2003) and Language Contact in Amazonia,
were both published by Oxford University Press.
Address: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Victoria
3086, Australia; e-mail: [email protected]
Anthony E. Backhouse is a Professor at Hokkaido University, where he teaches
Japanese language and linguistics. His main research interests centre on the Jap-
anese lexicon. He has published articles in various areas of Japanese linguistics
and in lexical semantics, and he is the author of The Japanese Language: An Intro-
duction (Oxford University Press 1993) and The Lexical Field of Taste: A Semantic
Study of Japanese Taste Terms (Cambridge University Press 1994).
Address: International Student Centre, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0808,
Japan; e-mail: [email protected]
GreviHe G. Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and of Russian Lan-
guage at the University of Surrey, where he leads the Surrey Morphology Group.
He works in typology, particularly the typology of grammatical categories, as in
Gender (1991) and Number (2000), both published by Cambridge University Press.
He is one of the originators of Network Morphology and currently holds an ESRC
Fellowship for research on the morphological definition of the word. He is also
working on a book on Agreement (for Cambridge University Press).
Address: Linguistic, Cultural and International Studies, University of Surrey, Guild-
ford, Surrey, GU2 JXH, UK; e-mail: [email protected]
R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic
Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of
Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidin), in addition to A Grammar
ofBoumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press 1988), A New Approach to English