Rachel Nordlinger FAHA is an Australian linguist and a professor at The University of Melbourne.
[1] Her research focuses on Indigenous Australian languages, and is based on fieldwork undertaken with Bilinarra, Wambaya, Gudanji, Murrinhpatha and Marri Ngarr communities.
Her theoretical interests include syntactic and morphological theory, particularly Lexical Functional Grammar and its application to the complex grammatical structures of Australian Indigenous Languages.
She has published widely on these topics in international journals, in addition to authoring four books.
[2] In other writing and interviews, she has discussed the importance of supporting the use and transmission of Indigenous Languages in Australia.