Education

B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Melbourne University, 1978
A.M. Comparative Semitics, Linguistics University of Chicago, 1982
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 1984

Representative Publications

"The Internet: an Introduction." Using Computers in Linguistics: a Practical Guide. ed. John Lawler & Helen Dry. Routledge. 26-61, 1998.

"Marking and Hierarchy: Types and the Grammaticalization of Case-Markers." Studies in Language, 289-340, 1997.

"The Relationship between Dative and Locative: Kurylowiczís Argument from a Typological Perspective." Diachronica, 13: 207-224, 1996.

"Binder-Anaphors and the Diachrony of Case-Displacement." Double Case: Agreement by Suffxaufnahme, ed. Franz Plank. Oxford University Press. 431-451, 1995.

"On Diachronic Sources and Synchronic Pattern: an investigation into the Origin of Linguistics Universals." Language, 67: 1-33, 1991.