Notes on contributors
Abstract
Peter Collins is Associate Professor in Linguistics, and Head of the Linguistics Program, at the University of New South Wales. He teaches linguistics at all levels and taught previously at Sydney University and Macquarie University. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics . Currently his main areas of research, in which he has published widely, are descriptive grammar and corpus linguistics. He was one of the compilers of the first corpus of Australian English and was one of the contributors to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language . Mark Donohue has worked and published on the languages of eastern Indonesia and New Guinea, including a full grammar of Tukang Besi and sketches of Warembori and I'saka, and is currently preparing a grammar of Skou. He is interested in both synchronic (particularly phonology, morphology and syntax) and diachronic aspects of language and the languages of the regions mentioned above, and is investigating the role that linguistic evidence can inform judgements about the macrohistory of Indo-Malaysia and the Pacific. If he ever gets the time, he intends to finish his monograph on the use of lexical transitivity patterns as a comparative tool. He is affiliated