Jean Mulder is a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. Mulder's research interests include

Australian English Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language and ''de facto'' national language. While Australia has no of ...

and

Tsimshian The Tsimshian (; ) are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace, British Columbia, Terrace and ...

, a North American Indian language. Mulder is currently an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

, having been a Professor there until 2017. She is currently the editor of the

Australian Journal of Linguistics The ''Australian Journal of Linguistics'' (AJL) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of linguistics established in 1981. It is the official journal of the Australian Linguistic Society and is published by Routledge. The jour ...

Early life and education

Mulder was born in

Niskayuna, New York Niskayuna is a town in Schenectady County, New York, United States. The population was 23,278 at the 2020 census. The town is located in the southeast part of the county, east of the city of Schenectady, and is the easternmost town in the county. ...

. She earned a BA in mathematics and linguistics from the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

, and received her MA in 1978 and

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in 1988, both in linguistics, from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

. She is a publicly regarded expert on Australian English, working specifically on features of morphology and syntax. Of particular note is her work on 'final but' in

. Mulder has also been extensively involved in developing and promoting the

Victorian Certificate of Education The Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) is the credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 10, 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria as well as in some international schools i ...

subject

English Language English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...

. As part of this she is also a strong public advocate of teaching linguistics and grammar in schools.

Selected publications

* Mulder, J., & Sellers, H. (2010). Classifying clitics in Sm'algyax: Approaching theory from the field. In Berez, A., Mulder, J., & Rosenblum, D. (eds.), ''Fieldwork and linguistic analysis in Indigenous languages of the Americas,'' ''Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2,'' 33–56. *Mulder, J., & Thompson, S. A. (2008). The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation. ''Crosslinguistic studies of clause combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions'', ''80'', 179–204. * Mulder, J. (2007). Establishing linguistics in secondary education in Victoria, Australia. ''Language and Linguistics Compass'', ''1''(3), 133–154. * Burridge, K., & Mulder, J. G. (1998). ''English in Australia and New Zealand: An introduction to its history, structure, and use''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Mulder, J. G. (1994). ''Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax)'' (Vol. 124). Univ of California Press.

References

External links

University of Melbourne
website {{DEFAULTSORT:Mulder, Jean Living people Academic staff of the University of Melbourne Linguists from Australia 1954 births University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of California, Santa Barbara alumni