Andrew Pawley | |
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| Born | Andrew Kenneth Pawley 1941 (age 84–85) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Institutions | Australian National University |
| Main interests | Papuan languages andOceanic languages |
Andrew Kenneth PawleyFRSNZ,FAHA (born 1941 inSydney)[1] is an Australian–New Zealand linguist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language of theCollege of Asia and the Pacific at theAustralian National University.
Pawley was born inSydney but moved toNew 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 toKalam, aPapuan (Trans–New Guinea) language ofPapua New Guinea.
He taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology,University of Auckland from 1965 to 1989, with periods at theUniversity of Papua New Guinea (1969) and theUniversity of Hawaii (1973 to 1978). He moved to theAustralian National University in 1990. He has taught at theLinguistic Society of America's Summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Pawley took sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) andMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,Leipzig (2001). Currently, he is Professor Emeritus atAustralian National University'sCollege of Asia and the Pacific.
Pawley's research interests include Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies andethnobiology,lexicography,phraseology, andidiomaticity.
Andrew Pawley has completed dictionaries ofWayan (anOceanic language of WesternFiji); and ofKalam (aPapuan language ofPapua New Guinea), in collaboration withIan Saem Majnep.
Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating withMalcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond on theOceanic Lexicon Project, an encyclopedic series usinglexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment ofProto-Oceanic speakers.[3] Five volumes have been published, in 1998, 2003, 2008, 2016.
Between 1960 and 2010, Andrew Pawley published 196 academic publications:[4]
Among these, the most important ones include:
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