Dr Harold Koch
Research Interests:
Dr. Harold Koch is interested in language change, linguistic reconstruction
methodology, language contact, morphology, Australian Aboriginal languages
(description and historical-comparative study), Australian Aboriginal
English, and Indo-European linguistics. His current projects include:
comparative reconstruction of the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian
languages, descriptive study of Aboriginal languages of Central Australia
(based on fieldwork) and southeastern New South Wales (based on historical
sources), Aboriginal placenames of the ACT and southeastern NSW.
Selected Publications:
1979. Indo-European denominative verbs in -nu. Ann Arbor: University
Microfilms International.
1982. Kinship categories in Kaytej pronouns. In Heath, J. et al. (eds),
The languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia. (Oceania Linguistic
Monographs, 24) Sydney: University of Sydney. 64-71.
1984. The category of 'associated motion' in Kaytej. Language in Central
Australia 1. 23-34.
1990a. Do Australian languages really have morphemes? Issues in Kaytej
morphology. In P. Austin et al. (eds.) Language and History: Essays
in honour of Luise A. Hercus. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics (C-116).
193-208.
1990b. Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings.
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S. No. 5. 1-47.
1993. (with Grace Koch) Kaytetye country: an Aboriginal history of the
Barrow Creek area.. Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development.
1995. The creation of morphological zeroes. In G. Booij & J. van
Marle (eds), Yearbook of Morphology 1994. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers. 31-71.
1996. Reconstruction in morphology. In M. Durie & M. Ross (eds),
The comparative method reviewed: regularity and irregularity in language
change. New York: Oxford University Press, 218-263.
1997a. Comparative linguistics and Australian prehistory. In P. McConvell
& N. Evans (eds), Archaeology and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia
in global perspective. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 27-43.
1997b. Pama-Nyungan reflexes in the Arandic languages. In D. Tryon &
M. Walsh (eds), Boundary rider: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey O'Grady.
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics (C-136). 271-302.
2000a. Central Australian Aboriginal English: In comparison with the
morphosyntactic categories of Kaytetye. Asian Englishes: An International
Journal of the Sociolinguistics of English in Asia/Pacific 3:2. 32-58.
2000b. Order and disorder in the reconstruction of the ablaut pattern
of athematic verbs in Proto-Indo-European. In Jones-Bley, Karlene, Martin
E. Huld and Angela Della Volpe (eds). Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual
UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles June 4-6, 1999. (Journal
of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No.35) Washington DC: Institute
for the Study of Man. 251-266.
2000c. The role of Australian Aboriginal languages in the formation
of Australian Pidgin grammar: transitive verbs and adjectives. In Jeff
Siegel (ed.), Processes of Language Contact: Case Studies from Australia
and the South Pacific. (Champs linguistiques) Saint Laurent, Quebec,
Canada: Fides. 13-46.
2003a. Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method. In Blake,
Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds), Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected
papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,
13-17 August 2001. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 271-291.
2003b. The case for Pama-Nyungan: evidence from inflectional morphology.
In: Hajicová, E., Kotešovcová, A., Mírovský,
J. (eds), Proceedings of XVII International Congress of Linguists, Prague,
Czech Republic, July 24-29, 2003: CD-ROM. Prague: Matfyzpress, Matematicko-Fyzikální
Fakulty, Univerzity Karlovi.
2004a. Co-edited with Claire Bowern. Australian languages: classification
and the comparative method. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 249)
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. xii, 377 pp.
2004b. A methodological history of Australian linguistic classification.
In Bowern and Koch (eds). 17-60.
2004c. The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages. In Bowern and Koch
(eds). 127-150, 575-580.
