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Dr Alan Libert

Lecturer - Linguistics

Faculty:       Education and Arts
School:        School of Humanities and Social Science
Room:         MC106 McMullin Building
Telephone: +61 2 4921 5117
Facsimile:  +61 2 4921 7170
Email:        Alan.Libert@newcastle.edu.au

Postal Address:
            School of Humanities and Social Science
            The University of Newcastle
            University Drive
            Callaghan 2308
            NSW Australia

Qualifications:

Ph.D. (Linguistics, McGill)
M.A. (New York University)
B. A. (Classics, New York University)

Academic Appointments:

Lecturer in Linguistics

Teaching interests:

Phonetics
Syntax

Research Interests:

Turkic languages, artificial languages, case theory, Latin and Greek linguistics, onomastics

Publications/Productions/Exhibitions:

Books and Monographs

Libert, A. R. (forthcoming) Ambipositions. Lincom Europa, Munich.
Libert, A. R. (2004) Artificial Descendants of Latin. Lincom Europa, Munich.
Libert, A. R. (2003) Mixed Artificial Languages. Lincom Europa, Munich.
Libert, Alan (2000) A Priori Artificial Languages. Lincom Europa, Munich

Book Chapters

Libert, A. R. (2002) "On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions". In M. Amberber and P. Collins, eds. Language Universals and Variation. Praeger, Westport, CT, 131-154.

Refereed Journal Articles

Libert, A. R. and C. Moskovsky (2003) "A Survey of Relative Pronouns and Their Uses in Natural and Artificial Languages". Journal of Universal Language 4.2, 61-116.
Libert, A. R. and C. Moskovsky (2002) "On the Form and Function of Reflexives in Artificial Languages". Journal of Universal Language 3, 97-132.
Libert, A. R. (1997) "Beyond French Onion Soup and Scotch Broth: Soups Named After Countries, Nationalities,and Ethnic Groups". Onomastica Canadiana 79.1, 1-34.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Libert, A. R. (2000-2001) "Ethnonymic and Toponymic Words in the Names of Omelettes". Onomata 16, 255-272.
Libert, A. R. (1997) "Some Observations on the Syntax of diekpleo:". Dhumbadji! 3.2.

Non-Refereed Publications

Libert, A. R. (1998) "Syntactic Tests for Case in Hungarian". Proceedings of the Ninth and Tenth Meetings of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, FUSAC, Toronto, 57-74.
· Libert, A. R. (1998) "Cross-Linguistic Patterns in Secondary Case Marking". Proceedings of the Ninth and Tenth Meetings of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, FUSAC, Toronto, 75-84.

Book Reviews

Libert, A. R. (2002) Review of Feature Distribution in Swedish Noun Phrases by Kersti Börjars. Australian Journal of Linguistics 22.2, 277-280.
Libert, A. R. (2001) Review of Introducing English Semantics by Charles W. Kreidler. Australian Journal of Linguistics 21.2, 276-281.
Libert, A.R. (2000) Review of Restrictiveness in Case Theory by Henry Smith Canadian Journal of Linguistics - Revue Canadienne de Linguistique 44.1, 88-90, 2000.
Libert, A. R. (1999) Review of A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (4th edition) by David Crystal. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 19.1, 118-120.
Libert, A. R. (1997) Review of Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case by Izchak M. Schlesinger. Canadian Journal of Linguistics - Revue Canadienne de Linguistique 42.3, 354-8.
Libert, A. R. (1996) Review of Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses edited by Eija Ventola. Word 47.2, 243-250
Libert, A. R. (1996) Review of Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program edited by Gert Webelhuth. Australian Journal of Linguistics 16.2 238-241

Professional Activities:

Conference Presentations

Libert, A. R. (2004) "'Onlarin Ile' and Similar Phrases in Older and Modern Turkish". Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Sydney.
Libert, A. R. and C. Moskovsky (2001) "Is Intrasentential Code-Switching Rule-Governed?" Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Canberra.
Libert, A. R. (2000) "A Minimalist Account of Prepositional Nominatives in Medieval Latin". Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Melbourne.
Libert, A. R. (1998) "Finno-Ugric Peoples and Places in Culinary Terminology". Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Toronto.
Libert, A. R. (1997) "On the Uses of Cases and Prepositions with Verbs of Sailing in Byzantine Greek". Tenth Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Canberra.
Libert, A. R. (1997) "On a Framework for Classifying Case Marking Errors in Disordered Language". Speech Pathology Association of Australia National Conference, Canberra.
Libert, A. R. (1996) "On Changes in the Syntax and Semantics of the Preposition en in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek. Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Canberra.
Libert, A. R. (1996) "The Use of Speech Pathology Data in the Determination of Lexical and Functional Elements of Language". Inaugural Conference of the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists' Association and the Australian Association of Speech and Hearing, Auckland.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Libert, A. R. (1998) "A Survey of Nominative Case Assignment by Adpositions". Proceedings of the Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Brisbane, 3-5 July 1998.
Available at URLhttp://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/als98/.

Memberships of Editorial Boards:

2002-present: Reviews editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.
1995-2001: Australian editor of the Germanic Generative Syntax Newsletter.

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