!!Alexandra Aikhenvald - Curriculum Vitae
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__Educated__
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*Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow: PhD in Linguistics, 1984 (thesis topic 'Structural and Typological Classification of Berber Languages')\\
*La Trobe University, 2006: Doctor of Letters by examination of four books and 14 papers
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__Positions held (last five years)__
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*Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics), Cairns Institute, James Cook University, 2009-present.\\
*First Professorship, University of Colorado, 2009\\
*Australian Laureate Fellow, 2012 - 2017\\
*Director of Language and Culture Research Centre, JCU, 2011 - present\\
*Distinguished Professor, CASE, JCU, 2011 - present
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__Prizes, Awards and Competitive Research Grants (as chief investigator) (a selection)__
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*Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, 2010 (University of Cologne)\\
*ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship 'How gender shapes the world: a linguistic perspective', 2012 - 2017.\\
*ARC Discovery grant 'How languages differ and why' (with R.M.W. Dixon, W.F.H. Adelaar and Lourens de Vries).\\
*ARC Discovery grant 'The integration of language and society' (with R.M.W. Dixon, Nerida Jarkey, Anne Storch and Maarten Mous), 2017 - 2021\\
*ARC Linkage grant ‘Speaking Hmong in diaspora’ (with R.M.W. Dixon and Nerida Jarkey) (2020 - 2024)
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__Panel memberships and editorships (a selection)__
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*European Science Foundation, Panel Member\\
*First-named editor of book series BSLC, 'Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture' (Brill, Leiden)\\
*Associate editor, Journal of language contact\\
*Co-editor of monograph series Explorations in Linguistic Typology (Oxford University Press)\\
*Member of the editorial boards for journals Journal of Sociolinguistics, Studia Linguistica, Journal of Linguistic Diversity, Glossa, Language Compass, Italian Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, and for book series Structural and Functional Linguistics (John Benjamins), The Oxford Guide to the World's languages, International Journal of Language and Culture
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EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR COMPETITIVE GRANT APPLICATIONS for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the ARC, the National Science Foundation, USA; the Netherlands Scientific Council, The Netherlands; the ERC; Swiss Science Foundation; Estonian Science Foundation; Hong Kong Scientific Council\\
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Consultant on South American etymologies, Oxford English Dictionary.\\
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__SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (a selection)__\\
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__Monographs__
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*2010 Imperatives and commands. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Paperback 2012\\
*2012 The languages of the Amazon. Oxford: Oxford University Press\\
*2015 The art of grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press\\
*2016 How gender shapes the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press \\
*2018 Serial verbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press\\
*2021 I saw the dog: how language works London: Profile books (originally 2020)\\
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__Edited Books__
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*2012 A. Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon eds. Possession and ownership, Oxford: Oxford University Press\\
*2013 A. Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch. Perception and cognition in language and culture. Leiden: Brill\\
*2014 A. Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon eds. The grammar of knowledge. Oxford: OUP\\
*2017 The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology, edited by A. Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon. Cambridge: CUP\\
*2017.A. Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon eds. Commands: a cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: OUP\\
*2018 The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality, edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Oxford: OUP\\
*2020 The Cambridge Handbook of linguistic typology (pb), edited by A. Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon. Cambridge: CUP\\ \\