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Biography
Current projects: Collaborating with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond on a seven volume series using lexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment of Proto Oceanic speakers; completing dictionaries of Kalam (Papua New Guinea), Wayan (Western Fiji) and Gela (Solomon Is.); collaborating with Ian Saem Majnep on a book on Kalam ethnobotany.
Career highlights
Taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland from 1965-1989, with periods at UPNG (1969) and U. Hawaii (1973-78). Moved to ANU in 1990. Taught at the Linguistic Society of America's summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), U. Frankfurt (1994), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001).
Research interests
Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.
Qualifications
BA (NZ), MA, PhD (University of Auckland), FRSNZ, FAHA
Expertise Areas
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Pacific Languages
- LINGUISTICS
- Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
- Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
- Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
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Projects
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Consolidation and expansion of PARADISEC, Pacific and Regional Archive of Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
Pawley, A., Bowden, F., Ross, M. & Rumsey, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/05 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
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John Dominic Lynch (1946-2021)
Geraghty, P. & Pawley, A., 2021, In: Oceanic Linguistics. 60, 2, p. 489-502Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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On Rank and Leadership in Proto Oceanic Society
Pawley, A., 2020, In: Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes. 151, 2, p. 223-238Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands
Bedford, S., Blust, R., Burley, D., Cox, M. P., Kirch, P., Matisoo-Smith, E., Naess, A., Pawley, A., Sand, C. & Sheppard, P. J., 2018, In: Archaeology in Oceania. 53, 3, p. 205-219Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The Trans New Guinea Family
Pawley, A. & Hammarstrom, H., 2018, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. Bill Palmer (ed.). 1 ed. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 21-195Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Were the first Lapita colonisers of Remote Oceania farmers as well as foragers?
Pawley, A., 2018, New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory. Phillip Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck (ed.). 1 ed. Acton, Australia: ANU Press, p. 293-310Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter