HAROLD
KOCH


Research Interests:

Dr. Harold Koch is interested in language change and linguistic reconstruction, morphology, Australian Aboriginal linguistics, and Indo-European linguistics. He is currently working on the description of the Kaytetye language and on the comparison and reconstruction of Central Australian languages.


Selected Publications:

1979. Indo-European denominative verbs in -nu. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International.

1990. Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S. No. 5. 1-47.

1990. 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.

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, Chapter 9, 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. ch. 3, 27-43.

1997b. Pama-Nyungan reflexes in the Arandic languages. In D. Tryon & M. Walsh (eds), Boundary rider: Essaya in Honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-136. 271-302.


Class Materials:

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Contact Information:

E-mail: Harold.Koch@anu.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6125 3203
Fax: (02) 6125 8214

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Maintained by: Avery Andrews
Last modified: 19 November 2001