Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/aikhenvald.htm

Arrière-petite-fille du critique littéraire juif russe Yuly Aikhenvald (1872-1928).

Alexandra Yurievna Aikhenvald (born 1957 in Russia) is the academic coordinator of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Aikhenvald is a specialist in Arawak language family (including Tariana), which is spoken in the Brazilian Amazon basin, and has published work on Berber languages, Modern and Classical Hebrew, Ndu languages (Eastern Sepik, Papua-New Guinea), alongside a number of articles and monographs on various aspects of linguistic typology.

She has extensively worked on language contact, with particular attention to the multilingual area of the Vaupés River Basin [1]. She has established a comprehensive typology of classifiers [2] and worked out major parameters for the typology of evidentials as grammatical markers of information source [3]. In addition, she authored a comprehensive grammar of Warekena and of Tariana, both Arawak, in addition to a lengthy Tariana-Portuguese dictionary (available on-line). (Wikipedia)

[1] Language Contact in Amazonia By Alexandra Aikhenvald, Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 019925785X
[2] Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices, Oxford University Press, 2000, pb. 2003, ISBN 019926466X
[3] Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Evidentiality Oxford University Press]] 2004, pd. 2006, ISBN 0199263884

 

aikhenvald_areal_diffusion.pdf — A. Aikhenvald, Mechanisms of change in areal diffusion: new morphology and language contact, Journal of Linguistics, 39, 2003, pp. 1-29.

aikhenvald_evidentiality.pdf — A. Aikhenvald, Evidentiality in grammar, pp. 320-5, Volume 4 (article 0252), of Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Edited by Keith Brown, Oxford, Elsevier, 2006.

aikhenvald—grammarsincontact.pdf — A. Aikhenvald, Grammars in contact: a cross-linguistic perspective, in Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, Eds., Grammars in contact: A cross-linguistic typology, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 1–66.

aikhenvald_vaupes_grammarsincontact.pdf — A. Aikhenvald, Semantics and pragmatics of grammatical relations in the Vaupés linguistic area, in Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, Eds., Grammars in contact: A cross-linguistic typology, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 237-66.

epps_on_aikhenvald.pdf — Patience Epps, Evidentiality as an Areal Feature: Evidence from Hup, Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America–I (23-25 October 2003, University of Texas at Austin). Publication ultérieure: Patience Epps [Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig], Areal diffusion and the development of evidentiality: Evidence from Hup, Studies in language, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 617-650.