Publications:

Books

(in press) Linguistic Fieldwork: a practical guide.Palgrave Macmillan

(in progress) A Reference Grammar of Bardi. Mouton de Gruyter.

(in progress) (compiler, with the Yan-nhangu language team) Yan-nhangu Learner's Guide.

(in progress) (editor with Linda Lanz and Dave Katten) Learner's Guide to Bardi. Department of Linguistics, Rice University

2004 (editor with Harold Koch) Australian languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory vol 249.

2002a (editor with Victoria Lotridge) Ndebele. Vol. 416 of Languages of the World/Materials. München: Lincom Europa.

2002b Jiiba nganman jawal: Stories in Bardi and English from the elders of One Arm Point and Sunday Island. Transcriptions and translations of narratives collected under AIATSIS Grant G2001/6505, awarded to C. Bowern and B. Ejai. 255pp. Circulated within One Arm Point Community.

Refereed articles and book chapters

(in press) History of research on Bardi and Jawi. To be published by Pacific Linguistics in a volume of studies on the history of Australian languages, edited by William McGregor. For publication in 2008.

(forthcoming) Naming Bardi places. To be published in the sequel volume to The Land is a Map, edited by Luise Hercus and Harold Koch. For publication in 2008.

(forthcoming) Referentiality and agreement in Bardi discourse. [For a refereed book edited by Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin on the relationship between argument structure and discourse in Australian languages.] For publication in 2008.

(forthcoming) Calquing and Diachronic Syntax. In a volume edited by Gisella Ferarresi and Maria Goldbach, tentative title Handbook of historical reconstruction. For publication in 2008.

2006 Another look at Australia as a linguistic area. in Linguistic areas, edited by Yaron Matras, April McMahon and Nigel Vincent.

2006 Punctuated equilibrium and language change. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Historical linguistics section. Elsevier. For publication in 2005.

2006 Comment on Mark Clendon: Reassessing Australia’s linguistic prehistory. Current Anthropology 47/1 (February 2006).

2004a Diagnostic similarities and differences in Nyulnyulan and surrounding languages. In Bowern and Koch (eds).

2004b (with Harold Koch) Introduction. In Bowern and Koch (eds).

2004c The origins of tense-based case marking in Pitta-Pitta and Wangkajutjuru. Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol 24, no 2.

2001 Karnic Classification Revisited. In Jane Simpson et al., Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

2007 Joan A. Argenter & R. McKenna Brown, Endangered languages and linguistic rights: on the margins of nations (Proceedings of the 8th FEL Conference). Language and Society.

2005 Evans, Nicholas. Bininj Gun-wok: A pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune (2 vols): Pacific Linguistics and The Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia (Pacific Linguistics). to Linguistic Typology 9/2

2004a Crowley, T. Serial Verbs in Oceanic. Linguistlist review.

2004b Amery, R., Warrabarna Kaurna: Reclaiming an Australian language. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 23/2.

2003 McGregor, W. B., Verb Classification in Australian Languages. Linguist List review.

In addition to the above I have published 15 book notices (of 500 words) in Language.

Research Grants:

2004-2006 ELDP Field trip grant FTG0010, Yan-nhaŋu language documentation. (for two years, to work with the last speakers of the Yan-nhaŋu variety of Yolŋu Matha to produce a grammar and textual materials) Endangered Languages Foundation Grant (US$3655 for a field trip to analyze old texts with Bardi speakers and to print those materials in a format useful to the Bardi community).

2003-2004 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Grant G2003/6761 (AU$9,500 to check materials for a reference grammar of Bardi).

2001-2002 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Grant G2001/6505 (AU$9,517 for Documenting Recent Bardi Social History, with Bardi Community Member Mrs Bessie Ejai).

1999 SANTOS discretionary funds for field work in South Western Queensland (joint grant with Dr. Luise A. Hercus).

Awards and Fellowships:

2005 Faculty summer writing stipend, Humanities Division, Rice University

2004 LING award (given by Harvard Linguistics Undergraduates for contribution to

undergraduate teaching)

2003-2004 Harvard University Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

2001 Merit Fellowship, Lehman Fund, Harvard University.

2001 Summer Research Grant, Harvard University Graduate Student Council.

2000 Harvard Graduate Student Council Summer Conference funding grant.

1999-2004 PhD Scholarship, Harvard University (Curley Scholarship).

1999-2000 American Association of University Women’s International Fellowship

1998 University Medal in Linguistics, Australian National University.

Fieldwork Experience:

Work in Arnhem Land (Northern Australia) on Yan-Nhangu, a previously undescribed variety of Yolngu Matha, working with the last speakers on language materials and texts. Two field trips, one of six weeks in 2004 and 8 weeks in 2005. Work with speakers is ongoing.

Work in the Kimberley region of North-Western Western Australia on Bardi. Three trips concentrated at One Arm Point Aboriginal Community, working with the few remaining elderly speakers on oral history, syntax and learners’ materials (1999, 2001, 2003). The trips also included some literacy and linguistic training of Bardi teachers at One Arm Point School.

Work in Western Queensland on Garlali and Wangkumara. One trip of one month to interview the last speakers and part-speakers of the languages (now all deceased). Work included checking traditional locations of languages, obtaining information about song texts, and elicitation.

I have also conducted elicitation on the Oceanic language Titan (through writing a survey administered by a colleague) and syntactic elicitation on the Turkic languages Uzbek and Turkish over a period of 4 months.

Teaching Experience:

LING 408: Linguistic Field Methods (continuation of LING 407)

LING 553: Seminar on Syntax (topic: complex verb constructions)

LING 407: Linguistic Field Methods

LING 304: Introduction to Syntax

LING 200: Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language

LING 425: Australian Languages

LING 305/505: Introduction to Historical Linguistics

LING 413: Approaches to Syntax (Lexical Functional Grammar)

Intensive English Summer program, Harvard University Extension School Institute of English Language. (20 hours per week)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University. Classes taught included Social Analysis 34: Study of Language, Ling 86: African American Vernacular English, and 4 half-semester seminars for majors on syntax and historical linguistics.

Academic Advising:

2004-Dissertation Director of Linda Lanz and Michelle Mosher

Dissertation committee member for Caleb Everett

Academic Service:

2005-2006 Organizer of Rice University/Department of Linguistics Symposium: Intertheoretical approaches to complex verb constructions, to be held March 9th-11th, 2006. (www.ruf.rice.edu/~lingsymp)

2005- Manuscript reviewer for Pacific Linguistics (from 2005).

2004-Coordinator of Rice University’s ESL Teacher Certification Program Member of the EMELD Advisory Panel

I maintain http://ozpapersonline.blogspot.com/, an online archive of papers and conference announcements relating to Australian languages.

Reviewer of conference abstracts for WCFL 23.

2003 Examiner for Honours (=Senior) Thesis, Kate Laffan (Australian National University), Reconstruction of the Wakka-Kabic languages of South-Eastern Queensland. (November, 2003)

2003- Reviewer for Australian Journal of Linguistics.

2002-2004 Publications Officer, Harvard University Department of Linguistics.

2001 Joint organizer (with Harold Koch) of Workshop on Subgrouping in Australia at the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL XV), Melbourne, August 16, 2001.

1999- Volunteer linguist with the Kimberley Language Resource Centre. Provided help as needed with projects ranging from a learner's guide to Nyikina and database management for dictionaries of Gooniyandi and Ngarinyin to assisting with a grant proposal to produce an interactive CD of Bardi texts

Working Papers, Conference Proceedings, Conference Papers and Other Publications:

2005a Syntactic change in Bardi. CLS 41, Chicago, April 7-9

2005b (with Bentley James) Yan-nhangu documentation: aims and accomplishments. CLS 41 special

session documentation and revitalisation of endangered languages. Chicago, April 7-9.

2004a Some problems with the pronominal argument hypothesis Rice University-UT Austin Workshop, October 23^rd-24^th.

2004b Ten ways to mess up a regular paradigm. 10th Spring Workshop on Reconstruction in Linguistic Theory, Ann Arbor, Michigan. March 26-28.

2004c Complex predicates in Turkic. proceedings of the Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics I, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

2004d The interaction of agreement and referentiality in Bardi discourse. Berkeley Linguistic Society 30, February 13-16.

2004e Another look at Australia as a linguistic area. To be published in the proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society’s annual meeting (BLS 29), 2003.

2004f A short history of Bardi light verbs. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8-11.

2004g (editor) Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics vol X. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.

2003a Laves’ Bardi texts. Presented at the Seventh International Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL VII), Broome, Western Australia, September 22-24, published in Blythe, Joe and M. Brown Maintaining the links: Language, identity and the land. Proceedings of FEL VII, Broome:FEL.

2003b How 'light' are North Australian light verbs? In Aygen, Gülşat, Claire Bowern and Conor Quinn. Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics IX. 123-148

2003c Supplement to Aklif (1999): Ardiyooloon Bardi Ngaanka: One Arm Point Bardi Dictionary. Compilation of additional lexical items and examples collected on fieldwork. Distributed within the One Arm Point Community. (approximately 1800 items, 100pp)

2003d (editor with Cedric Boeckx and Jay Jasanoff) Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics VIII. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.

2003e (editor with Gülşat Aygen and Conor Quinn) Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics IX: Papers from the Harvard University/Dudley House Graduate Light Verb Workshop. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.

2003f ji, -ji or ji-? A problem in Nyulnyulan reconstruction. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-7.

2002a Grammatical reanalysis and verb serialization: The unusual case of Sivisa Titan. In Rackowski, Andrea and Norvin Richards. AFLA VIII: Proceedings of AFLA VIII, the Eighth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 44. 47-60

2002b Karnic as a genetic area. Circulated at ARCLING II: the Second Conference on the Archaeology and Linguistics of Australia, Canberra, October.

2002c Unfamiliar solutions to familiar problems: How and why Bardi turns i-n-l-bala-ij-ngay into ilalijarrngay. In the Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society's annual meeting (CLS 37), vol. 2, pp. 353-366.

2002d History of research on Bardi and Jawi. Presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Australian languages, Århus University, Denmark, June 24-25.

2002e Linguistic areas, convergence and genetic relationship: the Australian scene. Presented at the Fourth Conference of the North-West Centre for Linguistics (NWCL IV), Manchester, U.K., November 22-23.

2002f Constraint interplay in Bardi: or, why I haven’t learned to stop worrying and love paradigm uniformity. In Phonological Answers (and their Corresponding Questions) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 42, pp. 23-53.

2001a Subordination in Nyulnyulan languages. Presented at the main session of the Fifteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL XV), Melbourne, August 15-18.

2001b Vowel deletion and root constraints in Bardi. Presented at LSA 2001 meeting, Washington, DC, January 4-7.

2001c Pitta-Pitta, Case Marking and Transitivity. In HUMIT 2000: Proceedings of the first Harvard University and MIT Student Conference in Language Research. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 40, pp. 25-38.

Invited Seminars:

2005a Yolngu and Pama-Nyungan. Top End Linguistic Society, Charles Darwin University, July 14th.

2005b Yolngu subgrouping. Australian National University historical linguistics seminar series, July

2005c Yan-nhangu language documentation. Rice University colloquium series. August 25th.

2005d How to use Shoebox/Toolbox. Rice University colloquium series, September 1st.

2004a Language change in Aboriginal Australia. Colloquium series, Rice University, January 22nd.

2004b The history of Australian historical linguistics. University of Michigan colloquium series,

2004c Bardi verb morphology in historical perspective. Harvard University, April 21^st, 2004.

2004d Yan-nhangu field report. Australian National University seminar series, August 7^th, 2004.

2004e Yan-nhangu and Yolngu Matha. Rice University colloquium, September 2004.

2003 Bardi Song Poetry. Presented at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Workshop on Historical Linguistics and Comparative Poetics, Harvard University, April.

2002a The devolution of noun incorporation. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University. GSAS Comparative Syntax Workshop Series, October.

2002b Case marking in Bardi. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University. GSAS Comparative Syntax Workshop Series, March.

2001a Head and Dependent marking in Bardi: why we can’t always tell which it is. Research

Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, December.

2001b Pitta-Pitta, transitivity and case marking. University of Sydney, December.

2001c Nyulnyulan pronouns and paradigms. Australian National University Centre for Language

2001d Constraint interaction in Bardi. GSAS Phonology/Syntax Workshop, March.

2001e A Foray into Proto Nyulnyulan Morphosyntax. GSAS workshop on Indo-European Poetics

and linguistics. March.

2000 Serial verbs and tense marking in Titan. Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, June.

1999 And the Paradigm was made Karnic - Fleshing out the origins of nominal case morphemes in some Australian languages. Ford Foundation Talk, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, December.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Association of Linguistic Typology

Australian Linguistic Society

Centre for Research on Language Change, Australian National University

Linguistic Society of America

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Reading knowledge of Latin, French, German, Russian.

Translation and speaking competence in Bardi (Nyulnyulan, Australia). Basic competence in Yan-nhaŋu. Fieldwork also conducted on Wangkumara/Punthamara and Garlali.

Structural knowledge of Turkish, Uzbek, Titan, Yawuru, Nyulnyul, Nyikina, Djambarrpuyŋu, Gupapuyŋu, and Armenian, through fieldwork, elicitation, or private study.

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