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Alexandra Aikhenvald

Anthropological and Documentary Linguistics

Alexandra Yurievna Aikhenvald is a Soviet-born Australian-Brazilian linguist specializing in linguistic typology and the Arawakan language family of the Brazilian Amazon basin. She is a professorial research fellow at Central Queensland University.

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1957 1
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Linguist 1
Birth Date
1957-09-01 1
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Aikhenvald defining fieldwork, including her 2003 grammar of Tariana, documents the Arawakan language family of the Brazilian Amazon basin.

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1. Wikipedia: Alexandra Aikhenvald
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Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald (born 1 September 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian-Brazilian linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawakan language family of the Brazilian Amazon basin.
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