Andrew Pawley
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Andrew Pawley | |
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| Born | Andrew Kenneth Pawley 1941 Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Institutions | Australian National University |
| Main interests | Papuan languages and Oceanic languages |
Andrew Kenneth Pawley (born 1941 in Sydney), FRSNZ, FAHA,[1] is Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History & Language of the College of Asia & the Pacific at the Australian National University.
Career
Pawley was born in Sydney but moved to New Zealand at the age of 12. He was educated at the University of Auckland, gaining a PhD in anthropology in 1966.
His doctoral thesis, The structure of Karam: a grammar of a New Guinea Highlands language,[2] was dedicated to Kalam, a Papuan (Trans–New Guinea) language of Papua New Guinea.
He taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology,
Research
Pawley's research interests include Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.
Andrew Pawley has completed dictionaries of
Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating with
Key publications
Between 1960 and 2010, Andrew Pawley published 196 academic publications:[4]
- 21 publications on Polynesian languages and culture history,
- 14 on Fijian and Rotuman languages,
- 53 on Austronesian, especially Oceanic, languages and their culture history,
- 29 on Papuan languages, including 19 on Kalam.
- 44 on varieties of English, discourse and pragmatics,
- 35 on miscellaneous topics.
Among these, the most important ones include:
- Pawley, Andrew. 1966. Samoan Phrase Structure: the Morphology-Syntax of a Western Polynesian Language. Bloomington: Indiana University Archives of Languages of the World, 1966.
- Pawley, Andrew (with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond, eds.) The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society (5 volumes). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Pawley, Andrew (with Ralph Bulmer, with the assistance of John Kias, Simon Peter Gi and Ian Saem Majnep). 2011. A dictionary of Kalam with ethnographic notes. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ Andrew Pawley's profile on the AHA website.
- hdl:2292/835.
- ^ Homepage of the Oceanic Lexicon Project. Link to the published volumes, in open access.
- ^ See chapter “Andrew Pawley's writings”, in Bowden et al. (2010), pp.21–35.
References
- ISBN 978-0-85883-620-4.
External links
- Andrew Pawley's academic profile (homepage of the Australian National University).
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