Alexandra Aikhenvald

Alexandra Aikhenvald
FAHA
Alexandra Aikhenvald FAHA
Born	Alexandra Yurievna Aikhenvald; 1 September 1957; Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Australian, Brazilian
Spouse	R.M.W. Dixon
Awards	Australian Laureate Fellowship (2012);
Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow State University (BA, MA); Institute of Oriental Languages (PhD);
Thesis	Structural and Typological Classification of Berber Languages (1984)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Linguistic typology; Arawakan languages;
Institutions	La Trobe University; Australian National University; James Cook University; Central Queensland University;

Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald FAHA (born 1 September 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian-Brazilian linguist specialising in linguistic typology of the Arawak language family spoken in Papua New Guinea (Ndu Manambu Language) and South America, Brazil (Tariana Language) of the Amazon basin. She is a professorial research fellow at Central Queensland University.