xiv Notes on the contributorsJohn Hajekis an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Stud-
ies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include language typ-
ology, Romance linguistics, and the languages of the Indonesia-New Guinea area.
He is currently working on the description of Austronesian and non-Austronesian
languages spoken in East Timor, and has recently co-authored Tetun Dili, A Gram-
mar of an East Timorese Language. His monograph Universals of Nasalization in
Sound Change was published by Blackwell in 1997.
Address: French & Italian Studies, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Aus-
tralia; e-mail: [email protected]
Kristine Hildebrandt received her Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research experience includes field-
work on the Manange language, on which she has written a sketch grammar. Her
dissertation topic was an in-depth examination of the phonetics and phonology of
Manange tone as it intersects with contact-induced change. Other areas of interest
include literacy issues, grammar and discourse, and Tibeto-Burman tonology. She
currently holds a Research Fellowship at the University of Leipzig.
Address: Institut fur linguistik, Universitat Leipzig, Beethovenstrasse 15, 04107
Leipzig, Germany; e-mail: [email protected]
Chenglong Huang is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Nationalities Stud-
ies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and also a Ph.D. student at the Department
of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong (under the
guidance of Randy J. LaPolla; dissertation title: A Reference Grammar of the Puxi
Variety of Qiang'). His publications have centred on his native language, Qiang, but
his interests include linguistic typology, functional approaches to grammar, and
Sino-Tibetan linguistics. He has also been participating with Professor LaPolla on
the Qiang Dialect Map Project and the creation of the Qiang Language and Cul-
ture Web Site.
Address: Dept. of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong
Kong, Tai Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong; e-mail: [email protected].
edu.hk
CatrionaHyslop is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology,
La Trobe University. She specializes in the languages of Vanuatu and spent several
years running the Oral Traditions Project at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, working
on orthography design and community dictionary projects, and producing liter-
acy materials. She has recently published a descriptive grammar of the North-East
Ambae language (The Lolovoli dialect of the North-East Ambae Language, Vanuatu,
Pacific Linguistics 2001) and is currently working on a grammatical description of
the Vures language.
Address: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Victoria
3086, Australia; e-mail: [email protected]