Nicholas Evans

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Nicholas Evans is affiliated with the following schools: University of Melbourne, Australian National University

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas "Nick" Evans is an Australian linguist and a leading expert on endangered languages. He was born in Los Angeles, USA. Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Australian National University , he is Head of the Department of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. Formerly, he held a personal chair in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

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The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009) (1442)
In the Mind's Ear: The Semantic Extensions of Perception Verbs in Australian Languages. (2000) (367)
A grammar of Kayardild : with historical-comparative notes on Tangkic (1995) (270)
Bininj Gun-wok : a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune (2003) (176)
A Grammar Of Kayardild (1995) (171)
Catching Language: The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing (2006) (143)
Multiple case‐marking in Australian languages (1988) (132)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005) (127)
Context, culture and structuration in the languages of Australia (2003) (127)
Language Diversity as a Resource for Understanding Cultural Evolution (2013) (101)
Time for a sea–change in linguistics: Response to comments on ‘The myth of language universals’ (2010) (98)
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us (2009) (91)
Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
Macassan loanwords in top end languages (1992) (70)
The grammar of engagement I: framework and initial exemplification (2017) (68)
Linguistic Fieldwork: The last speaker is dead – long live the last speaker! (2001) (65)
Language documentation twenty-five years on (2018) (53)
Australian Languages Reconsidered: A Review of Dixon (2002) (2005) (48)
Reciprocals and semantic typology (2011) (48)
Some problems in the typology of quotation: a canonical approach (2013) (47)
The semantics of gender in Mayali: Partially parallel systems and formal implementation (2002) (44)
The grammar of engagement II: typology and diachrony (2017) (43)
Typologies of agreement: some problems from Kayardild (2003) (42)
Reciprocal constructions: Towards a structural typology (2008) (42)
Introduction: Catching language (2006) (38)
Multiple semiotic systems, hyperpolysemy, and the reconstruction of semantic change in Australian languages (1992) (36)
Dalabon pronominal prefixes and the typology of syncretism: a Network Morphology analysis. In: G. Booij and J. van Marle (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2000 (2001) (33)
The true status of grammatical object affixes: evidence from Bininj Gun-wok (2002) (30)
Review of Essentials of Language Documentation (2008) (30)
Reciprocal constructions and situation type (2004) (28)
The syntax and semantics of body part incorporation in Mayali (1996) (27)
Grammaticography: The art and craft of writing grammars (2006) (27)
Two pus one makes thirteen: Senary numerals in the Morehead-Maro region (2009) (27)
With diversity in mind: Freeing the language sciences from Universal Grammar (2009) (26)
Even more diverse than we had thought: The multiplicity of Trans-Fly languages (2012) (24)
Did language evolve in multilingual settings? (2017) (23)
Why argument affixes in polysynthetic languages are not pronouns: evidence from Bininj Gun-wok (1999) (23)
Cultural evolution of language (2013) (22)
An acoustic phonetic analysis of intonational prominence in two Australian languages (2002) (22)
Introduction: Comparative non-Pama-Nyungan and Australian historical linguistics (2003) (22)
Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon (2008) (21)
Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity (2019) (20)
‘Wanjh! bonj! nja!’: Sequential organization and social deixis in Mayali interjections (1992) (19)
On describing word order (2006) (19)
Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages (2007) (19)
Proto-Gunwinyguan verb suffixes (2003) (18)
Converbs in an African perspective (2006) (18)
Who Said Polysynthetic Languages Avoid Subordination? Multiple Subordination Strategies in Dalabon (2006) (18)
Head Classes and Agreement Classes in the Mayali Dialect Chain (1997) (17)
The semantics of reciprocal constructions across languages (2011) (16)
The organization of reference grammars: A typologist user’s point of view (2006) (16)
Inflection in Nen (2015) (16)
Experiencer objects in Iwaidjan languages (Australia) (2004) (15)
Speak No Evil: Scientists, Responsibility, and the Public Understanding of Science (2010) (15)
From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The case of disposal constructions in Sinitic languages (2006) (15)
Dalabon verb conjugations (2003) (15)
Intonational Downtrends in Mayali (2000) (14)
Mundari and argumentation in word-class analysis (2005) (13)
The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Verb Forms in Chintang (2017) (13)
Writing culture in grammar in the Americanist tradition (2006) (12)
Realizing Humboldt’s dream: Cross-linguistic grammatography as data-base creation (2006) (11)
Positional Verbs in Nen (2014) (11)
An interesting couple : the semantic development of dyad morphemes (2003) (10)
How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma- in Tagalog (2006) (10)
Doubled up all over again: borrowing, sound change and reduplication in Iwaidja (2009) (9)
Code, inference, placedness and ellipsis (1993) (9)
Anything Can Happen: The Verb Lexicon and Interdisciplinary Fieldwork (2011) (9)
The Grammar of Exchange: A Comparative Study of Reciprocal Constructions Across Languages (2010) (8)
Left-edge tonal events in Kayardild (Australian) — A typological perspective (2002) (8)
Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms (2012) (7)
Typology and coevolutionary linguistics (2016) (7)
Dampen the Stop-and-Go Traffic with Connected and Automated Vehicles – A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach* (2020) (6)
Quantification in Nen (2017) (6)
Emu Divorce: A Unified Account of Gender and Noun Class Assignment in Mayali (1998) (6)
Pausing strategies and prosodic boundaries in Dalabon (2004) (6)
Thematic Organization of Discourse and Referential Choices in Australian Languages (2001) (5)
Polysynthesis in Northern Australia (2017) (5)
Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies (2021) (5)
1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages (2016) (5)
Nen (2016) (4)
The interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery in Siouan grammar-writing (2006) (4)
Extreme Morphological Shift: Verbal case in Kayardild (2004) (4)
The semantics of reciprocal constructions across languages: An extensional approach (2011) (4)
The problem of body parts and noun class membership in Australian languages (1994) (4)
Introduction: Why the comparability problem is central in typology (2020) (3)
Pseudo-argument affixes in Iwaidja and Ilgar: a case of deponent subject and object agreement (2012) (3)
Materials on Golin: grammar, texts and dictionary (2005) (3)
The web of words and the web of life: Reconnecting language documentation with ethnobiology (2013) (3)
Taking a closer look at function verbs: Lexicon, grammar, or both? (2006) (3)
Morphology, typology, computation. In: S. Bendjaballah, W.U. Dressler, O.E. Pfeiffer and M. Voeikova (eds) Morphology 2000, Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24-25 February 2000 (2002) (3)
To compress or not to compress? A Finite-State approach to Nen verbal morphology (2020) (3)
Heterosemy and the grammar-lexicon trade-off (2006) (2)
Modelling Verbal Morphology in Nen (2020) (2)
RECIPROCALS, GRAMMAR-WRITING AND TYPOLOGY (2007) (2)
The Yield Anomaly in CoTi (2000) (2)
Compromising transitivity : the problem of reciprocals (2004) (2)
On projecting grammatical persons into social neurocognition: A view from linguistics (2013) (2)
Polylectal grammar and Royal Thai (2006) (2)
Born, signed and named (2016) (2)
Reinforcement Learning based cooperative longitudinal control for reducing traffic oscillations and improving platoon stability (2022) (2)
Pushing the boundaries: Marginal phonemes and dialogic interaction (2022) (1)
The historical and cultural dimensions in grammar formation: The case of Modern Greek (2006) (1)
Complex Events, Propositional Overlay, and the Special Status of Reciprocal Clauses (2010) (1)
Kijutsusarete inai gengo no bunpoo wo kakuniwa (How to write a grammar of an undescribed language) (2009) (1)
The intra-word pause and disfluency in Dalabon (2005) (1)
Polysynthesis in Dalabon (2017) (1)
Songs that will keep ancestral languages alive: a Marrku songset from western Arnhem land (2017) (0)
Kayardild-English Dictionary (1995) (0)
Chapter 7 Verbals (1995) (0)
Coevolutionary Approaches to the Science of Language (2019) (0)
Compromising Transitivity : the Problem of Reciprocals 3 literature (2004) (0)
Dirk Geeraerts, Stefan Grondelaers and Peter Bakema. The Structure of Lexical Variation: Meaning, Naming and Context (1997) (0)
7. Morphology, typology, computation (2002) (0)
Travels in the Logosphere: Hooking Ancient Words onto Ancient Worlds (2009) (0)
1 1 Proto Gunwinyguan verb suffixes (2015) (0)
Linguistic Society of America The Semantics of Gender in Mayali : Partially Parallel Systems and Formal Implementation Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Field semantics and grammar-writing: Stimulibased techniques and the study of locative verbs (2006) (0)
Kayardild and the Tangkic languages (2005) (0)
Listening to the Pacific: In remembrance of Terry Crowley (2005) (0)
Chapter 8 Structure of the verbal group (1995) (0)
Chapter 1 The language and its speakers (1995) (0)
Emotional valuation in Dalabon diminutives (2015) (0)
Chapter 6 The noun phrase (1995) (0)
Did language evolve in multilingual settings? (2017) (0)
Chapter 1 Introduction : reciprocals and semantic typology (2010) (0)
Chapter 10 The modal case system (1995) (0)
Part II: Texts (1995) (0)
Time for a seachange in linguistics : Response to comments on ‘ TheMyth of Language Universals ’ (2010) (0)
Chapter 12 Finite subordinate clauses (1995) (0)
Dual-use governance in an age of innovation (2013) (0)
To appear in Catching Language : Issues in (2005) (0)
Chapter 3 Descriptive preliminaries (1995) (0)
Chapter 2 Phonology (1995) (0)
9 Dalabon verb conjugations (2015) (0)
Appendix Β The Yukulta Case System (1995) (0)
Chapter 11 Non-finite subordinate clauses (1995) (0)
Appendix C The syntactic development of complementized clauses in Lardil (1995) (0)
C4 grammaticography colloquium: In, out and all about: Theorising hypertext in reference grammars (2011) (0)
The Kayardild dictionary project (1987) (0)
Review: Ngalakan grammar, texts and vocabulary by Francesca Merlan (1988) (0)
Index of Languages and Language Families (2009) (0)
Chapter 4 Nominals, Part I (1995) (0)
Appendix A The vocabulary of Kayardild kinship (1995) (0)
The dimension of engagement: towards a typology (2011) (0)
A simulation study of cooperative and autonomous vehicles (CAV) considering courtesy, ethics, and fairness (2023) (0)
Chapter 5 Nominals, Part II (1995) (0)
The Misconception of Language Particularism (2013) (0)
Keys to Decipherment: How Living Languages can Unlock Forgotten Scripts (2009) (0)
Chapter 9 Syntax of the simple clause (1995) (0)

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