About the Author

Anna Margetts is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Monash University. She studied at the University of Cologne, SUNY at Buffalo and in the Language & Cognition Group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Her research interests include languages of the Pacific, language documentation, linguistic typology and change, the discourse-grammar interface, and the syntax-semantics mapping in event representation. She has published extensively on Saliba-Logea, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea, as well as on the crosslinguistic encoding of three-participant events, including caused motion events, and on the discourse functions of person deictics.