• Language contact
• Language change
• Creole and pidgin languages
• Languages of Australia

Thomas studied at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) with First Class Honours in 2017. His final honours thesis was on variation in transitivity marking in Australian Kriol. 

From 2018 he is working towards a PhD at the University of Cologne under Prof. D. Adone, looking at language change and contact in the Kriol spoken in and around Kununurra, Western Australia. Currently he is also working as a Research Assistant in the Language Lab of the university. Previously he has also worked at the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University's MARCS Institute.

Written Publications

Adone, Marie Carla D., Thomas Batchelor, Rozanne Bilminga, Melanie A. Brück, Bryan Gallagher and Jimmy Paddy. 2019. ““Caring for dat land…, as mob bin teik keya of dat Kantri longtaim”” in Fire, Water and Land in Indigenous Australia, edited by Marie Carla D. Adone and Melanie Brück. Cologne: Cologne University Press, 81-97.

Conference Talks and Presentations

2019

"Organising discourse with na in Australian Kriol", with D. Adone and M. Brück. SPCL Winter Conference @ LSA, New York.

2018

"Migrating Affixes in Australian Languages", with D. Adone and M. Brück. Australian Perspectives on Migration, 16th Biennial Conference of GASt, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

WS1920

Language Contact (Proseminar Schriftliche Prüfung)

SoSe19
Morphology (Proseminar Mündliche Prüfung)

WS 1819
Introduction to Linguistics 2 (EFS)
Introduction to Linguistics 4 (EFS)

SoSe18
Introduction to Linguistics 3 (EFS)