Timothy Jowan Curnow

Curnow, Timothy Jowan and Michelle Kohler 2017 Applied linguistics research in Australia as represented through ARAL: Changing diet or smorgasbord? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:3, pp. 311–338 | Article

From its inception in 1977 until its last year of publication by an Australian publisher in 2015, the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics featured over 700 articles related to applied linguistics. This publication history provides a unique resource for tracing the scope and change of the… read more

Liddicoat, Anthony J., Timothy Jowan Curnow and Angela Scarino 2016 The trajectory of a language policy: The First Language Maintenance and Development program in South Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 39:1, pp. 31–46 | Article

This paper examines the development of the First Language Maintenance and Development (FLMD) program in South Australia. This program is the main language policy activity that specifically focuses on language maintenance in government primary schools and has existed since 1986. During this time,… read more

Liddicoat, Anthony J. and Timothy Jowan Curnow 2008 21. The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 299–312 | Article

Liddicoat, Anthony J. and Timothy Jowan Curnow 2007 31. Language-in-education policy in the context of language death: Conflicts in policy and practice in Colombia Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 419–430 | Article

Curnow, Timothy Jowan 2003 Nonvolitionality expressed through evidentials Studies in Language 27:1, pp. 39–59 | Article

Some languages code that an action was performed unintentionally using evidentials, which in other contexts indicate a speaker’s source of information. Evidentials are only used for indicating nonvolitionality when an action was carried out by the speaker in the past. The evidential marker may… read more

Curnow, Timothy Jowan 2002 Review of Darnell, Moravcsik, Newmeyer, Noonan & Wheatley (1999): Functionalism and formalism in linguistics Studies in Language 26:2, pp. 505–512 | Review

Curnow, Timothy Jowan 1997 Review of William (1997): Contemporary linguistics: An introduction Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:2, pp. 153–162 | Review

Curnow, Timothy Jowan 1995 The functions of voice in scientific writing in Spanish Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18:2, pp. 33–64 | Article

This paper on Spanish for Science and Technology (SST) analyzes the rhetorical functions carried out by the selection of voice — active, passive or se-passive — in five biological research articles in Spanish. It compares these rhetorical functions with those found in French and English scientific… read more

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