Andrew Pawley
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Andrew Kenneth Pawley MA, PhD (Auckland), FRSNZ, FAHA, is Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History & Language of the College of Asia & the Pacific at the Australian National University
. Pawley was born in Sydney
but moved to New Zealand
at the age of 12.
from 1965-1989, with periods at the University of Papua New Guinea
(1969) and the University of Hawaii
(1973-78). He moved to the Australian National University
in 1990. Taught at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001).
and Meredith Osmond on a six volume series using lexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment of Proto Oceanic speakers; completing dictionaries of Kalam (Papua New Guinea) and Wayan (Western Fiji); collaborating with Ian Saem Majnep on a book on Kalam ethnobotany.
• 'On the internal relationships of Eastern Oceanic languages', in R.C. Green & M. Kelly (eds), Studies in Oceanic Culture History, vol. 3, pp. 1-142. Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1972.
• 'Some problems in Proto-Oceanic grammar', Oceanic Linguistics 12, pp. 103-188, 1973.
• (with Frances Syder) 'Two puzzles for linguistic theory: Nativelike selection and nativelike competence', in J.C. Richards and R.W. Schmidt (eds), Language and Communication, pp. 191-227. London: Longman, 1983.
• 'Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience', in R. Tomlin (ed.), Coherence and Grounding in Discourse, pp. 329-360. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987.
• 'A language which defies description by ordinary means', in W. Foley (ed.), The Role of Theory in Language Description, pp. 87-129, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
• (with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond, eds) The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic. The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society, vol. 1 (1998) Material Culture; vol. 2 The Physical Environnment. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• (with Frances Syder) 'The one clause at a time hypothesis', in Heidi Riggenbach (ed.), Perspectives on Fluency, pp. 163-191. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
. Pawley was born in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
but moved to New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
at the age of 12.
Career highlights
Pawley taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, University of AucklandUniversity of Auckland
The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...
from 1965-1989, with periods at the University of Papua New Guinea
University of Papua New Guinea
The University of Papua New Guinea was established by ordinance of the Australian administration in 1965. This followed the Currie Commission which had enquired into higher education in Papua New Guinea...
(1969) and the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
(1973-78). He moved to the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
in 1990. Taught at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001).
Current projects
Collaborating with Malcolm RossMalcolm Ross
Malcolm David Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. He has published work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact.-External links:**...
and Meredith Osmond on a six volume series using lexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment of Proto Oceanic speakers; completing dictionaries of Kalam (Papua New Guinea) and Wayan (Western Fiji); collaborating with Ian Saem Majnep on a book on Kalam ethnobotany.
Research interests
Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.Key publications
• Samoan Phrase Structure: the Morphology-Syntax of a Western Polynesian Language. Bloomington: Indiana University Archives of Languages of the World, 1966.• 'On the internal relationships of Eastern Oceanic languages', in R.C. Green & M. Kelly (eds), Studies in Oceanic Culture History, vol. 3, pp. 1-142. Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1972.
• 'Some problems in Proto-Oceanic grammar', Oceanic Linguistics 12, pp. 103-188, 1973.
• (with Frances Syder) 'Two puzzles for linguistic theory: Nativelike selection and nativelike competence', in J.C. Richards and R.W. Schmidt (eds), Language and Communication, pp. 191-227. London: Longman, 1983.
• 'Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience', in R. Tomlin (ed.), Coherence and Grounding in Discourse, pp. 329-360. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987.
• 'A language which defies description by ordinary means', in W. Foley (ed.), The Role of Theory in Language Description, pp. 87-129, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
• (with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond, eds) The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic. The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society, vol. 1 (1998) Material Culture; vol. 2 The Physical Environnment. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• (with Frances Syder) 'The one clause at a time hypothesis', in Heidi Riggenbach (ed.), Perspectives on Fluency, pp. 163-191. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
External links
- http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/people/personal/pawla_ling.php