Jean Mulder

Jean Mulder is a linguist. Mulder's research interests include Australian English and Tsimshian, a North American Indian language. Mulder is currently an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, having been a Professor there until 2017.^[1] She is currently the editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.^[2]

Mulder was born in Niskayuna, New York. She earned a BA in mathematics and linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received her MA in 1978 and PhD in 1988, both in linguistics, from the University of California, Los Angeles.^[3]

She is a publicly regarded expert on Australian English,^[4] working specifically on features of morphology and syntax. Of particular note is her work on 'final but' in Australian English.^[5]

Mulder has also been extensively involved in developing and promoting the Victorian Certificate of Education subject English Language.^[6] As part of this she is also a strong public advocate of teaching linguistics and grammar in schools.^[7]

• Mulder, J., & Sellers, H. (2010). Classifying clitics in Sm'algyax: Approaching theory from the field. In Berez, A., Mulder, J., & Rosenblum, D. (eds.), Fieldwork and linguistic analysis in Indigenous languages of the Americas, Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2, 33–56.
• Mulder, J., & Thompson, S. A. (2008). The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation. Crosslinguistic studies of clause combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, 80, 179–204.
• Mulder, J. (2007). Establishing linguistics in secondary education in Victoria, Australia. Language and Linguistics Compass, 1(3), 133–154.
• Burridge, K., & Mulder, J. G. (1998). English in Australia and New Zealand: An introduction to its history, structure, and use. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mulder, J. G. (1994). Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax) (Vol. 124). Univ of California Press.

• University of Melbourne website