Members

Where possible, links to staff information have been included to provide contact and additional information about PLRG members.

Group Convenor

Dr Bill Palmer
Phone: +61 2 4348 4050
Fax: +61 2 4348 4075
Bill.Palmer@newcastle.edu.au 
Humanities Office
Room H01.64
Ourimbah Campus

Research Interests: Austronesian & non-Austronesian languages, particularly Oceanic languages of the Solomon Islands & Bougainville; linguistic typology; morphosyntax; pidgins & creoles; spatial language & cognition; phonology

Current Members

Associate Professor Hilary Carey
Phone: +61 2 4921 5209
Fax: +61 2 4921 6940
Hilary.Carey@newcasatle.edu.au
McMullin Building
Room MCLG20
Callaghan Campus

Research Interests: History of Aboriginal missionary linguistics

Bethwyn Evans (Research Assistant)
Phone: +61 2 4348 4050
Fax: +61 2 4348 4075
bethwyn.evans@googlemail.com
Humanities Office
Room H01.64
Ourimbah Campus

Dr Jean Harkins 
Phone: +61 2 4921 5179
Fax: +61 2 4921 6933
Jean.Harkins@newcastle.edu.au  
McMullin Building
Room MC122
Callaghan Campus

Research Interests: Language contact; intercultural semantics; Australian Aboriginal languages; Malay languages

Dr Mark Harvey
Phone: +61 2 4921 5157
Fax: +61 2 4921 7170
Mark.Harvey@newcastle.edu.au    
McMullin Building
Room MC124
Callghan Campus

Research Interests: Australian Aboriginal languages; phonology; morphology; Australian Aboriginal anthropology

Dr Michael Goddard
Phone: +61 2 4348 4053
Fax: +61 2 4348 4075
Michael.Goddard@newcastle.edu.au
Humanities Office
Room H01.05
Ourimbah Campus

Research Interests: Melanesian anthropology; language change, identity & cultural history of the Motu-Koita PNG; conflict & dispute, particularly the PNG village court system; discourses of madness in Melanesian society

Catriona Malau
(Commencing February 2009)
catriona.malau@gmail.com

Associates

Dr Dunstan Brown   
Senior Associate
Surrey Morphology Group
University of Surrey

Research Interests: Typology, typological databases, morphology, morphology-syntax interaction, Austronesian languages

Deborah Van Heekeren
Research Associate
Phone: +61 2 4348 4053
Fax: +61 2 4348 4075
Deborah.Vanheekeren@newcastle.edu.au
Humanities Office
Room H01.05
Ourimbah Campus

Research Interests: Descriptive studies of Melanesian languages, comparative Oceanic linguistics, Pacific culture-history

Emeritus Prof. John Lynch
Senior Associate
Pacific Languages Unit
University of the South Pacific

Research Interests: Descriptive studies of Melanesian languages, comparative Oceanic linguistics, Pacific culture-history

Emeritus Prof. Malcolm Ross  
Senior Associate
Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies
Australian National University

Research Interests: Austronesian and Papuan languages, theory of language change, contact-induced language change, historical change in grammatical constructions