Committee Members

Bill Palmer

Bill Palmer President

 

Bill Palmer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Newcastle. His research interests include spatial language and spatial cognition, linguistic typology, syntax, and the Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages of the Pacific and New Guinea.

James Bednall

James BednallSecretary

 

James Bednall is a lecturer in linguistics at Charles Darwin University. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Australian Indigenous languages, particularly Badimia/Badimaya and Anindilyakwa. His work explores areas of morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics and their interfaces, structural and semantic typology, as well as language revitalisation and maintenance practices.

Robert Mailhammer Treasurer

 

Robert Mailhammer is Professor at Western Sydney University with an interest in historical linguistics, language documentation, phonetics, phonology, and morphology. His focus are the Germanic and Australian languages.

Rob Mailhammer

Jean Mulder Journal Editor

 

Jean Mulder is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne. Her research interests centre on minority language documentation, grammatical and discourse analysis and educational lingustics, with work on a range of languages, including Australian Englishes and Englishes of the region.

Jean Mulder
Zhengdao Ye

Zhengdao Ye Associate Secretary

 

Zhengdao Ye is a Chinese-born, Australian-trained linguist. She teaches in the Linguistics Program at The Australian National University. Her research areas encompass semantics, pragmatics, and the diversity of Sinitic languages.

Jakelin Troy

Jakelin Troy Vice President (Indigenous)

 

Professor Jakelin Troy leads the Sydney Indigenous Research Hub. She is Ngarigu of the Snowy Mountains in South Eastern Australia. She is Director, Indigenous Research within the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Portfolio and an academic in the Department of Linguistics at Sydney. 

Brett BakerVice President (Research Support)

 

Brett Baker is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He is a specialist in phonological theory and the Indigenous languages of Australia. He is the author and editor of several books and articles. For the last 10 years, he has also pioneered the application of perceptual and processing methods to the investigation of these languages.

Brett Baker

Joe Blythe Vice President (Conferences)

 

Joe Blythe is a lecturer in linguistics at Macquarie University with a research focus on Murrinhpatha, Gija, and Jaru. He explores the linguistic structure and social action, and what these relationships reveal about social cognition and culture.

Joe Blythe
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway

Chloé Diskin-Holdaway Vice President
(Outreach & Engagement)

 

Chloé Diskin-Holdaway is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Her research expertise is in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, particularly in contexts of migration. She has published works in discourse-pragmatic variation, sociophonetics, language processing, and language attitudes, identities and ideologies. 

Sasha Wilmoth

Sasha Wilmoth Vice President
(Professional Development)

 

Sasha Wilmoth is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Her research focusses on the description and documentation of Australian Aboriginal languages, particularly Pitjantjatjara. Her interests include the morphology and syntax of these languages, as well as processes of language variation and change within the context of colonisation and language contact.

Kate Charlwood Postgraduate Representative

 

Kate Charlwood is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, working on a linguistic documentation of contemporary Tiwi. Having worked as a community linguist at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre (Kununurra), she is particularly interested in language revitalisation and Indigenous languages education.

Kate Charlwood

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