Joe Blythe

I am an interactional linguist in the Language and Cognition department, participating in the project 'Human Sociality and Systems of Language Use', which is part of the larger Interactional Foundations of Language project.

My research experience is with northern Australian Aboriginal languages, particularly with Murriny Patha (Southern Daly family), Kija (Jarragan) and Jaru (Pama-Nyungan). My current work is on naturally occuring face-to-face conversations conducted in Murriny Patha.

Areas of interest include referential processes, kinship and kin-based morphosyntax, prosody, preference organization and language evolution. Recent research is in the emergence of linguistic structure as an unintended outcome of culturally specific practices that can be observed in conversational interaction.