Award Prose Award

Orden del Pop (2023)

Alfred Barr, Jr. Award (2023)

Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award (2013)

Gran Cruz, Order of the Quetzal (2011)

MacArthur Fellow (2008)

Académico Correspondiente, Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala (2004)

Elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2017)

Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018)

Appointed Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University (2019)

Book Prize of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (2017)

Australian Linguistic Society's Talkley Award (2012)