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Biography
I am a research fellow School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University.
I am currently working on developing computational resources for Pacific Creole Languages (Tok Pisin, Solomon's Pijin and Bislama).
Prior to this, I have worked on language documentation and description in West Papua, specifically on the Yei language. This was funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. I have also been a British Academy Newton International Fellow hosted at the Surrey Morphology Group where I am an ongoing visiting scholar.
I completed my PhD in 2017 at the Australian National University. My research was a description of Ngkolmpu, a Yam language spoken in West Papua, along with a discussion of issues in morphological theory and typology.
Research interests
I am fascinated by the exuberant and finely detailed structures found in languages which linguists call 'morphological complexity.' I explore this using traditional qualitative linguistics (description, typology and historical linguistics) enhanced with computational and mathematical approaches.
I am interested in role that variation, function and adaptation might play in explaining linguistic structures.
The core of my work is fieldwork on undescribed and (often) endangered languages of New Guinea. I practice community-led partnerships in language documentation to produce collections of endangered languages serving both scientific and community needs.
Qualifications
- PhD (Australian National University)
- BA (Hons I) (University of Sydney)
Current student projects
- Kira Davey. PhD thesis: TBD
- Zurab Baratashvili. PhD thesis: A Grammar of Ipiko.
- Aarin Tirza Sirima. PhD thesis: Middles in Austronesian languages.
Past student projects
- Tina Gregor. PhD thesis: A Documentation and Description of Yelmek (a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea)
Researcher's projects
- 2019-2021. Pan-dialectal documentation of the Yei Language. Funder: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. Host: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University.
- 2017-2019. A typology of distributed exponence. Newton International Fellowship. Funder: British Academy. Host: Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, UK.
- Yamfinder: Southern New Guinea Lexical Database. I run and manage the comparative lexical database of southern New Guinea.
- New Fields for Morphology Workshop. International conference bringing together fieldworkers and morphologists. In collaboration w/ Prof Rachel Nordlinger
Education/Academic qualification
Linguistics, PhD, The Ngkolmpu Language with special reference to distributed exponence , The Australian National University
Award Date: 13 Jul 2017
External positions
Visiting Scholar - Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, UK
31 Mar 2019 → …
Expertise Areas
- Morphology
- Descriptive linguistics
- Linguistic typology
- Papuan languages
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Projects
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Pan-Dialectal Documentation of the Yei Language
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
1/06/19 → 31/05/21
Project: Research
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Verbose exponence: Integrating the typologies of multiple and distributed exponence
Carroll, M., 2022, In: Morphology. 32, p. 1-24Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Phonetics and Phonology of Ngkolmpu
Carroll, M., 2021, Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication 24: Phonetic fieldwork in southern New Guinea. Kate L. Lindsey & Dineke Schokkin (ed.). 1st ed. Manoa: University of Hawaii Press, p. 33-52Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Discontinuous Noun Phrases in Ngkolmpu
Carroll, M., 2020, In: Studies in Language. 44, 3, p. 700-721Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The morphology of Yam languages
Carroll, M., 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Mark Aronoff (ed.). 1st ed. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, p. 74ppResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Prenasalised voiceless stops in Ngkolmpu
Carroll, M., 2019, p. 1-5.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper