Dr Alan Libert

Work Phone	(02) 4921 5117
Fax	(02) 4921 7170
Email	Alan.Libert@newcastle.edu.au
Position	Senior Lecturer School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office	MC 106, McMullin Building

Biography

Born in Los Angeles, grew up mainly in New York, where I attended the Bronx High School of Science. Completed B.A. at New York University, majoring in Greek and Latin, with minors in Linguistics and Classical Civilization. Attended New York University for M.A. degree, specializing in Turkish and Byzantine Greek. Completed Ph.D. in linguistics at McGill University in Montreal.

Qualifications

PhD, McGill University - Canada
Master of Arts, New York University
Bachelor of Arts, New York University

Research

Research keywords

Artificial languages
Case theory
Latin and Greek linguistics
Onomastics
Turkic languages

Research expertise

Linguistics

Languages

French

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
200400	Linguistics	100

Centres and Groups

Centre

Humanities Research Institute

Memberships

Editorial Board.

Editor - Journal of Universal Language
Editor - Australian Journal of Linguistics

Invitations

Finno-Ugric Peoples and Places in Culinary Terminology Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Canada (Conference Presentation - non published.)	1998
"Possibilities of Adpositional Case Assignment" Syracuse University, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Australia (Invited talk)	2003
"The case-marking properties of 'icin' and its cognates in other Turkic languages Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Informatics Institute, Turkey (Invited talk)	2004