Mary Dalrymple
Emerita Professor of Syntax, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, University of Oxford
Fellow of the British Academy
Member of Academia Europaea
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Email addresses in the Centre are of the form firstname.lastname@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
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Research Interests
Projects and grants
2019-2023: Enggano in the Austronesian family: Historical and typological perspectives (co-investigators: I Wayan Arka, Australian National University; Bernd Nothofer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
2017-2018: SynSem: From Form to Meaning - Integrating Linguistics and Computing (fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo; project leaders: Dag Trygve Truslew Haug and Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo)
2012-2013: Plurals: Morphology and semantics. Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
2011-2014: The syntax and information structure of unbounded dependencies (researcher; principal investigator: Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España.
2010-2011: "Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua" (co-investigator: Suriel Mofu). Leverhulme Trust, UK.
2009-2010: "On-line language documentation for Biak (Austronesian)" (co-investigator: Suriel Mofu). Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
2008-2010: "Understanding Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus" (partner investigator; principal investigators I Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews, Australian National University; Jane Simpson, University of Sydney). Australian Research Council.
2008-2009: "Machine-readable grammatical resources for Indonesian" (co-investigator: Suriel Mofu). Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
2004-2007: "Verb-initial grammars: a multilingual/parallel perspective" (with Louisa Sadler, University of Essex). Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
2004-2006: Noun phrase agreement and coordination" (with Louisa Sadler, University of Essex). Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK.
Publications
Festschrift
Linguistics on the web
The Stanford Linguistics Meta-Index (http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/links/linguistics.html) contains links to many linguistic websites.
The Glottopedia (http://www.glottopedia.org) is an on-line encyclopedia of linguistics, continuously being updated.
The Linguistics Assocation of Great Britain has compiled a glossary of grammatical terminology.
The Lexical Functional Grammar webpage, and how to subscribe to the LFG List.
Advice
Conventions for interlinear glosses: the Leipzig Glossing Rules
Standards for citing linguistic data: the Austin Principles of Data Citation in Linguistics
On-line help with linguistic tools: The University of Melbourne's video series on ELAN; Vimeo's instructional videos on SIL's Language Explorer (FLEx)
How to write conference abstracts: model abstracts from the Linguistic Society of America; Maggie Tallerman's Writing Linguistic Abstracts
Publishing your work in a journal: The Linguist List Journals Index; why you should not submit the same article to more than one journal at a time; submitting your work and dealing with feedback
Your CV: Advice from Oxford's Careers Service, a list of irritating mistakes
Getting a job: Academic Job Interview Guidelines from the LAGB
The importance of networking
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