Keith Allan, FAHA (born 27 March 1943)[1] is an Australian linguist and Emeritus Professor at Monash University.
From Leeds, he went to Ghana and then to the University of Edinburgh as a research associate where he completed an MLitt in 1970 and a Ph.D. presenting the thesis "Singularity and plurality in English noun phrases: a study in grammar and pragmatics".
Then after three more years at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, he signed up for a doctorate at Edinburgh on NP countability, receiving his PhD in 1978.
In 2003, Allan received the Centenary Medal "For service to Australian society and the humanities in linguistics and philology".
[6] In the early years of Open Learning Australia, Allan helped develop some distance education modules at both undergraduate and MA level.