Nicholas Evans (Linguist)

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Nicholas Evans (* 1956 in Los Angeles , California ) is an Australian linguist , author and university lecturer .

Life

Evans holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University (ANU) . He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne before returning to his alma mater , where he became Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language of the College of Asia and Pacific .

Evans' research interests are languages ​​of the Australian continent and Papuan languages , in particular the history and contacts of languages ​​with one another and their mutual influence in the field of languages ​​as well as culture. His institute is currently conducting field research in northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory . He himself helps with the creation and evaluation of depictions of the Aborigines in economic disputes with corporations and government agencies. He also writes about the new kind of art on Bentinck Island in western British Columbia , Canada .

In 2012 Evans received the Anneliese Maier Research Award .

Evans is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croatians , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Publications

  • A Grammar of Karyadild, with Historical Comparative Notes on Tangkic . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-012795-4 .
  • as Associate Editor with Patrick McConvell: Archeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective . Oxford University Press Australia, Melbourne 1997, ISBN 0-19-553728-9 .
  • as co-editor with Hans-Jürgen Sasse : Problems sof Polysynthesis . (= Typologica, New Series). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003732-6 .
  • The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages ​​of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent's Most Linguistically Complex Region. Pacific Linguistics, Canberra 2003.
  • Bininj-Gun-wok: A Pan-Dialectical Grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. 2 volumes. Pacific Linguistics, Canberra 2003.
  • as co-editor with Felix Ameka and Alan Dench: Catching Language: The Standing Challenge of Grammar-Writing . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018603-9 .
  • Dying Words: Endangered Languages ​​and What They Have to Tell Us . Blackwell, Oxford, England 2010.
    • German by Robert Mailhammer: When languages ​​die. And what we lose with them . Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65327-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The alphabet that survived in the monastery cellar. In: FAZ . June 21, 2014, p. 12.