Areas of interest

• Australian Aboriginal languages
• Language description, especially syntax and semantics
• Language documentation
• Linguistic typology
• Nominal classification
• Intonation and information structure
• The sociolinguistics of multilingualism
• Endangered languages

• Current projects

  Structure and meaning of intonation in three Australian languages, Chief investigators: Professor Janet Fletcher (University of Melbourne) and Dr Marija Tabain (La Trobe University), funding: ARC, 2011-2013

  Perspectives on multilingualism at Warruwi Community, Northern Territory (Australia), sole investigator, funding: internal University of Melbourne

Location

Melbourne

Disciplines

• Languages
• Linguistics
• Anthropology

Affiliation

University of Melbourne

Website

http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/academic-staff/ruth-singer