Research Centre for Linguistic Typology

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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 .^[3]

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• "Official home page (archived last updated copy)". La Trobe University. Wayback Machine. 20 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
• "Annual Newsletters of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (2000-2008)". The Cairns Institute Language and Culture Research Centre. Retrieved 12 January 2021.