Notes on the contributors xiiiGrammar, on Semantic Principles (Oxford University Press 1991, revised edition in
preparation), and Thejarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (Oxford Univer-
sity Press 2004). His works on typological theory include Where have all the Adjec-
tives Gone? and other Essays in Semantics and Syntax (1982) and Ergativity (1994).
The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model
for language development; this is the basis for his detailed case study, Australian
Languages: Their Nature and Development (2002).
Address: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Victoria
3086, Australia; no e-mail.N. J. Enfield is a scientific member in the Language and Cognition Group at the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has
conducted fieldwork in Laos and surrounding countries of South-east Asia since- His current interests include grammatical description, areal and contact lin-
guistics, semantics and semiotics, linguistic anthropology, and language in multi-
modal interaction. He is the editor oi Ethno syntax: Explorations in Grammar and
Culture (Oxford University Press 2002) and the author of Linguistic Epidemiol-
ogy: Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia
(Routledge 2003).
Address: Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguis-
tics, PB 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected]
Nora C. England is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin,
director of the Centre for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (University of
Texas at Austin), and Advisor to Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', a Guatemalan Maya
linguistics institution. Her principal research has been on Mayan languages and
her publications include A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language (1983), Introduc-
tion a la linguistica: idiomas mayas (1988), Autonomia de los idiomas mayas: histo-
ria e identidad (1992), and Introduction a lagramdtica de los idiomas mayas (2001).
She is currently working on a grammar of Teko.
Address: Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1196,
USA; e-mail: [email protected]
Carol Genetti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. She began studying the Tibeto-Burman
languages of Nepal in 1984 and is especially known for her extensive work on
the Dolakha dialect of Newar. Professor Genetti has also conducted fieldwork on
Kathmandu Newar, Nepali, Sunwar, and the Drogpas dialect of Tibetan. She also
served as mentor in the development of sketch grammars of Manange and Sher-
pa. Her primary theoretical interests include morphosyntax, the syntax of complex
sentences, the interaction of syntax and intonation, and phonological systems.
Address: Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA 93016-3100, USA; e-mail: [email protected]