Roland Denis Sussex OAM, "Blind adventurer honoured for Australia Day" by Royce Wilson, Westside News via The Courier-Mail, (Australia Day 2012) Sussex, Roland Denis – Medal of the Order of Australia, Australian Honours Search Facility also known as Roly Sussex, is an Australian linguist. He is the Emeritus Professor of Applied Language Studies at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland. Sussex hosts a Talk radio program on language and linguistics on ABC radio in Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory and writes a weekly column, "Wordlimit", for The Courier-Mail newspaper. "A word in your ear", ABC Brisbane
Sussex is a specialist in comparative linguistics, particularly of European languages, and takes an interest in the Slavic languages within this group. He is also keenly interested in the changes experienced by different languages, such as the influence of American English on Australian English. He holds a PhD from the University of London in Russian Language and Comparative Linguistics. "Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex", University of Queensland
He is an honorary life member of the Alliance française and patron of the Institute of Professional Editors. "Roland Sussex", National Conference on Incontinence
Sussex was Professor of Russian at the University of Melbourne between 1974 and 1989. "Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex", University of Queensland
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