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Name:	Alan  A. Jones
Institution:	Macquarie University
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State and/or Country:	Australia
Linguistic Field(s):	Applied Linguistics Discourse Analysis General Linguistics Language Documentation Linguistic Theories Pragmatics Semantics Sociolinguistics Syntax Typology Translation Lexicography Anthropological Linguistics Discipline of Linguistics
Specialty:	Communicative expertise; Discourse of Generic Skills and Competencies; Pidgins and creole Languages; Lexicology; Grammaticalization; Typology
Subject Language(s):	Kuni Mekeo Motu Waima
Selected Publications:	1998. Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo: An Austronesian Language of Western Central Papua. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 1996. Privately owned Mekeo based trade languages. In S. A. Wurm, P. Muhlhausler, and D. T. Tryon, eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1995. Mekeo. In D. T. Tryon, ed., Comparative Austronesian Dictionary. Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 10. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 1992. Nouns and Verbs of 'Visceral' Reaction: Encoding Anti-Social Emotions in Mekeo. In The Language Game. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo (An Austronesian Language of West Central Papua)
Courses Taught:	Acquiring Professional Communicative Expertise (LING956) Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LING216) Bilingualism (LING312)
Dissertation Abstract:	Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo, an Austronesian Language of West Central Papua
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