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Keith Allan (linguist)

Australian linguist (born 1943)

Summary

Australian linguist (born 1943)

Field	Value
name	Keith Allan
birth_date
birth_place	London, England, UK
nationality	Australian
employer	Monash University
occupation	Emeritus Professor of Linguistics

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Allan sees language as a form of social interactive behaviour and believes this to be an important consideration in any thorough account of meaning in natural language. While he is interested in all aspects of meaning in language, his main interests are semantics, pragmatics, linguistic meta-theory and the history and philosophy of linguistics.

Biography

Early life

After schooling in London, Allan went to do drama at University of Leeds, but once there, took up linguistics instead, receiving a BA (Hons) in 1964. From Leeds, he went to Ghana and then to the University of Edinburgh as a research associate where he completed an MLitt in 1970 and a Ph.D. presenting the thesis "Singularity and plurality in English noun phrases: a study in grammar and pragmatics". After three years as a lecturer in the English language at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, he returned to the UK as a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Essex. Then after three more years at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, he signed up for a doctorate at Edinburgh on NP countability, receiving his PhD in 1978. He arrived at Monash University in 1978, where – but for a year in Tucson at the University of Arizona and a few odd months elsewhere – he has stayed until his retirement in 2011.

Career

Currently the co-editor of Australian Journal of Linguistics with Jean Mulder, Allan has published articles in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings. He was semantics editor for both editions of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics,{{cite book | editor-last = Frawley | editor-first = William | orig-year = 1992| year = 2003 | editor-last = Brown | editor-first = Keith | editor-link = Keith Brown (linguist)

In 2003, Allan received the Centenary Medal "For service to Australian society and the humanities in linguistics and philology".{{cite web

In the early years of Open Learning Australia, Allan helped develop some distance education modules at both undergraduate and MA level. At this time too, he made significant contributions to the distance education modules for the MA in Applied Linguistics at Monash University, revising several modules in later years for online delivery.

Selected publications

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References

Allan, K.. (1978). "Singularity and plurality in English noun phrases: a study in grammar and pragmatics".
K., Allan. (1978). "Singularity and plurality in English noun phrases: a study in grammar and pragmatics".

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