Associate Lecturer (Teaching Specialist (Acad))
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
I'm a theoretical linguist interested in the interaction between semantics and syntax (syntax-semantics interface). I focus on the grammars of the languages situating on the further analytic end of the analytic-synthetic spectrum, especially Mainland South East Asian (MSEA) languages. In particular, I am intrigued by the very creation of different grammatical categories that seems to be from the perspective of accommodating overt grammatical morphemes thus overlooking the prevalent covert pattern of grammatical marking in highly analytic languages. My PhD thesis is a functional account of the categorisation of time-marking particles in Vietnamese, in which I argue that these words are discourse particles of sequentiality but have been fallaciously analysed as morphosyntactic markers of Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM).
AKA/Common Misspellings: Quang Anh Le, Ahn Le, Ahn Lee, Quang Lee, Allan Le, Allan Lee, Alain Lee
Research Interests include:
BA (Linguistics and German Studies)
Teaching Specialist (Linguistics and Phonetics)
Functional Grammars (including SFL, RRG, RCG)
Phonotactics
Translation studies
Semiotics
Member of the Australian Linguistic Society
Member of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre