Jane Simpson (linguist)

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Jane Simpson FASSA FAHA is an Australian linguist and professor emerita at Australian National University. [1]

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Simpson completed both a B.A. (Hons) and M.A. (1977) at The Australian National University. Her B.A. included majors in Chinese and English literature, with Honours in Middle English. Jane's PhD. was received from MIT in 1983, and her dissertation was a detailed study of Warlpiri in the Lexical-Functional Grammar framework. [2]

Simpson's research focuses on the Indigenous languages of Australia. She has worked extensively with the Warumungu language, and in this work assisted in setting up a language centre in Tennant Creek. [3] She also helped to create the a digital archive of Aboriginal language material, which became ASEDA. [4] This was during her time as a visiting fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. She has published on a wide range of topics related to the languages of Australia, including language change, discourse and grammatical structure, morphosyntax, semantics, and lexicon. She was Chief Investigator, with Gillian Wigglesworth and Patrick McConvell, in the Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Projects, funded by ARC Discovery Grants (2004–2007, 2011–2015). [5] [6]

In 2005, Simpson shared the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Inaugural Ken Hale Chair with Mary Laughren and David Nash. [7] She is now Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language at ANU. [8] From 1989–2010 Simpson taught at The University of Sydney in their linguistics department. From 2011–2014 she was the inaugural chair of Indigenous linguistics and head of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at ANU.

In 2020 Simpson was elected a Fellow both of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Director (Research Services Division). "Emerita Professor Jane Simpson". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  3. ↑ Simpson, Jane (2002). A learner's guide to Warumungu : Mirlamirlajinjjiki Warumunguku apparrka. Alice Springs: IAD Press. ISBN   1864650346.
  4. ↑ "History of ASEDA at AIATSIS". 2005. Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Liu, Lucy (4 October 2016). "Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project (ACLA1) — School of Languages and Linguistics". Faculty of Arts.
  6. ↑ Liu, Lucy (4 October 2016). "Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project (ACLA2) — School of Languages and Linguistics". Faculty of Arts.
  7. ↑ "Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Dynamics of Human Language".
  9. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Professor Jane Simpson FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Jane Simpson". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 5 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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