Research Centre for Linguistic Typology

The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) was a research institute founded in 1998 at the Australian National University in Canberra by R. M. W. Dixon. It moved to LaTrobe University in Bundoora, a suburb of Melbourne (Australia), in 2000.[1] It was an internationally well-recognized centre that was specialized in fieldwork linguistics, language documentation and linguistic typology, and was especially focussed on "the Tibeto-Burman family and the languages of the Amazon and Papua New Guinea".[2]

Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald headed this institute up to 2008, when they accepted a position at James Cook University in Cairns, after which Professor Randy LaPolla became the director. It was reorganized and rebranded as the Centre for Research on Language Diversity.[3]

References
  1. Research Center for Linguistic Typology (February 2000). Newsletter — February 2000 (MS Word file) (Report). La Trobe University. Research Centre for Linguistic Typology. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  2. "Research Centre for Linguistic Typology". La Trobe University. Wayback Machine. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. "Centre for Research on Language Diversity". La Trobe University. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

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