Clyne, Michael George

Positions summary

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in German, 1972-1988; Professor of Linguistics 1988-2001. Foundation Chairman (1974-1976) Centre for Migrant and Intercultural Studies. Emeritus Professor 2005. Member of Victorian Ministerial Advisory Committee on Multicultural and Migrant Education; VVCC Subject Approval Committee; and Australian Linguistics Society.

Biography

Michael Clyne studied Germanic Languages (German, Dutch, plus Icelandic and some Norwegian) and French at the University of Melbourne (BA Hons 1960, MA 1962). He was a graduate student in General and Germanic Linguistics in Utrecht and Bonn before joining the German staff of Monash (Sept. 1962). His PhD thesis (Monash, 1965) was on immigrant bilingualism/ language contact. Clyne was a lecturer and Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor (1972-88) in German at Monash before being appointed Professor of Linguistics at Monash in 1988. In 2001 Prof Clyne became a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Michael Clyne was on the editorial board of 13 international journals. He was visiting professor of Linguistics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Awards include Member of the Order of Australia, Austrian Cross of Honour of Science and the Arts, the German Cross of Honour, a Centenary of Federation medal, an honorary doctorate of the University of Munich, the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Award for Postgraduate Supervision (Monash), the 1999 Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Prize (international German Studies prize) and a Humboldt Research Prize. He was a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 

Papers

Files related to migrant education 1964-1984
Correspondence, reports and newspaper cuttings related to work within Centre for Migrant and Intercultural Studies and as a member of outside committees and societies.