Curriculum Vitae

 

Dr Paul James Sidwell

 

Citizenship: Australian

Postal Address: LPO Box 8139, Australian National University, ACT, 0200 Australia

Business/Mobile Phone: (+61) 0438 626621

Home Phone: (+61) 02 62411715

E-mail: paul.sidwell@anu.edu.au, paulsidwell@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.anu.edu.au/~u9907217/, http://www.Mon-Khmer.com

Current Positions:

Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University.

Director of Mon-Khmer Projects: Centre for Research in Computational Linguistics (Bangkok).

Current Projects:

Nyaheun Language Documentation Project (sponsor: MPI Leipzig)

Mon-Khmer Languages Project (sponsor: CRCL Bangkok)

EDUCATION

1998       PhD, Department of Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Thesis: A Reconstruction of Proto-Bahnaric.

1993       Bachelor of Arts, Russian language and linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.

AWARDS & GRANTS

2005-6    "Non-personal cost subsidy" (Sachkostenzuschuss) provided by the Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antropology (Leipzig, Germany), to support research on the Mon-Khmer languages of Indo-China.

2003       Direct Aid Fund, Australian Embassy Vientiane, Paksong Ethnic Literacy Promotion Project (US$5000)

2003       Snowy Mountains Engineering Corp. Foundation, Paksong Cultural Centre Project (A$5000)

2002       (with Bowden, S. O’Connor and M. Spriggs), An Integrated Fieldwork Laboratory for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ANU Major Equipment Committee ($177,600)

2001       Australian Research Council Discovery Project Linguistic Prehistory in Mainland Southeast Asia ($210,000)–not taken up

2001-4    Australian Research Council Post Doctoral Fellowship, Linguistic Prehistory in Mainland Southeast Asia ($177,000)

2000       Australian Research Council Small Research Grant (Faculties Research Scheme) History of Bahnaric Languages ($4,900).

1998       University of Melbourne Postgraduate write-up award.

1997-8    University of Melbourne Postgraduate Scholarship.

1995-6    La Trobe University Postgraduate Scholarship.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2005-6    Visiting Research Fellow, ANU (with grant support from MPI, Leipzig).

2004       Sessional Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, teaching: Language planning and language politics.

2001-4    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

2001       Collaborating Scientist, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

2001-01 Administrative Officer, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (International Section), Canberra.

1999-01 Tutor & Sessional Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, teaching: Language change & reconstruction, tutoring: Phonetics & phonology, and Introduction to Linguistics.

1999-01 Research Assistant, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

1994-5    Tutor, Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University, tutoring: Introduction to Linguistics.

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

July-Nov. 2003 Course presenter at Australian National University. Study of the Language Family, Austroasiatic (Mon-Khmer)

July 2002 Course presenter at Australian Linguistics Institute, Maquarie University. Comparative reconstruction and language change, a practical introduction.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Sept. 2007: 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta. Paper presented: Austroasiatic Creaky voice: towards an historical explanation.

April. 2005 Organiser: 15th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Australian National University, Canberra. Paper presented: Proto Katuic Phonology and implications for sub-grouping.

May. 2004 2nd Asia Lexicography Conference, Payap University, Chiang Mai. Paper read: A project to establish an on-line Mon-Khmer comparative database and language documentation repository as a basis for international research cooperation.

May. 2004 14th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Thammasat University, Bangkok. Paper presented: The Origins of the Chamic Lexicon: evidence for ancient lexification, and subsequent back-borrowing into MK languages.

Nov. 2002 35th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Arizona State University. Paper read: Nasal Epenthesis and Consequences for Reconstruction in MK.

July 2002 6th Australian Linguistic Institute, Maquarie University. Course presenter: Comparative reconstruction and language change, a practical introduction

May 2002 12th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb. Paper presented: Reconciling the Mon-Khmer substrate in Chamic with the history of neighboring languages.

Oct. 1996 29th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Uni. of Leiden. Paper presented: A lexicostatistical classification of the Bahnaric language

June 1996 50 Years of Russian, Dept. of Germanic Studies & Russian, University of Melbourne.

Aug. 1995 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Manchester (UK). Paper presented: Vowel colouring laryngeals in Mon-Khmer languages.

July 1995 3rd Australian Linguistic Institute, La Trobe University.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS

Member, Editorial Board, Mon-Khmer Studies

Member, Editorial Board, Pacific Linguistics

Member, Editorial Board, Languages in Time

Member, Foundation for Endangered Languages

Member, Centre for Research on Language Change

Member, Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory

BOOKS AUTHORED

2005       The Katuic Languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

2003       (with Pascale Jacq). A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: volume 1 — West Bahnaric, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics 551.

2000       Proto South Bahnaric: a reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics 501.

2000       (with Pascale Jacq) A Comparative West Bahnaric Dictionary. Munich, Lincom Europa.

1999       (with Pascale Jacq) Sapuan (Sepuar). Munich, Lincom Europa.

1999       (with Pascale Jacq) Loven (Jruq) Consolidated Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION

A Grammar of Nyaheun (grammatical sketch, lexicon)  
A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: volume 2 — North Bahnaric
A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: volume 3 — Central Bahnaric

BOOKS EDITED

2006       (with Doug Cooper & Christian Bauer) A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary by Harry Shorto. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 579.

2005       (with Anthony Grant) Chamic and beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 569.

2005       (with Irén Hegedűs) Nostratic Centennial Conference: the Pécs Papers. Pécs, Lingua Franca Group.

2002       (with Vitaly Shevoroshkin) Anatolian Languages. Melbourne, Association for the History of Language.

2002       (with Vitaly Shevoroshkin) Languages and their Speakers in Ancient Eurasia: Dedicated to Professor Aharon Dolgopolsky on his 70th birthday. Melbourne, Association for the History of Language.

2000       (with Neile Kirk) The Naked Linguist (a collection of reviews and squibs by Wilfred Schuhmacher). Melbourne, Association for the History of Language.

1999       (with Vitaly Shevoroshkin) Historical Linguistics & Lexicostatistics. Melbourne, Association for the History of Language.

1999       (with Neile Kirk) From Neanderthal to Easter Island: A tribute to, and a celebration of, the work of W. Wilfried Schuhmacher. Presented on the occasion of his 60th Birthday. Melbourne, Association for the History of Language.

1998       (with Pascale Jacq) (authored by Michel Ferlus) Nhaheun-French-English Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

1998       (with Neile Kirk) Professing Koernerian Linguistics: A Selection of Papers and Reviews presented in honour of Professor E. F. K. Koerner. Melbourne, Association for the History of Language.

PAPERS

2006       Preface to A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary by Harry Shorto. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 579.

2005       Acehnese and the Aceh-Chamic Language Family. In Chamic and beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages, edited by Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 569. pp211-246.

2005       (with Anthony Grant) Editor's Preface to Chamic and beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages, edited by Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 569. ppix-xvii.

2005       Proto Katuic Phonology and implications for sub-grouping. In SEALS XV: papers from the 15th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, edited by Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL E1. pp193-204.

2004       (with Greg Aumann) Subgrouping of Mienic Languages: some observations. Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society: SEALS XI.

2004       A note on the reconstruction of Proto West Bahnaric and investigation of early West Bahnaric-Katuic contact. Mon-Khmer Studies, 33:159-166.

2002       Classification of the Bahnaric Languages: a comprehensive review. Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 32. Mahidol University, Thailand.

2002       (with Pascale Jacq) Austroasiatic Languages. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing.

2002       (with Pascale Jacq) Mon-Khmer Languages. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing.

2002       Reconstruction & Classification: progress with the Bahnaric (Mon-Khmer) languages. In The Linguist's Linguist: a collection of papers in honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer. Edited by Fabrice Cavoto. Munich, Lincom Europa.

2000-1    Comments on La Vaughn H. Hayes 'On the Origins of Affricates in Austric'. Mother Tongue 6:119-121.

1999       A report on the status and distribution of Bahnaric languages and speakers on the Boloven Plateau, Lao PDR. History of Language 5.1:10-18.

1999       (with Stefan Georg, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Peter Michalove) Telling general linguists about Altaic. Journal of Linguistics 35:65-98.

1999       The Austroasiatic numerals 1 to 10 from a historical and typological perspective. In Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide. Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanovic. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 253-271.

1999       The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the results of Comparative Linguistic Work: a case study. In The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics, in honor of E.F.K. Koerner. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 597-608.

1998       (with Alexis Manaster-Ramer & Alexander Vovin) On body part terms as evidence for the Altaic hypothesis. Ural-Altaische Jahrbuecher 15.

1997       (with Alexis Manaster-Ramer) The Altaic Debate and the Question of Cognate Numerals. Wiener Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde des Morgenlandes 87:153-75.

1997       (with Alexis Manaster-Ramer) The Truth about Strahlenberg's classification of the languages of Northeastern Eurasia. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 87:139-160.

1995       Bolyu is a Mon-Khmer language even if Banadict says so!. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 8:121-133.

1994       The Proto-Bahnaric Vowel System: a revised model. University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics 14:71-75.

1995       Proto-Jeh-Halang and Proto-North-Bahnaric Revisited. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 7:133-142.

1993       The Proto-Bahnaric Vowel System: a new theory. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 6:137-142

PAPERS FORTHCOMING / IN PREPARATION

Fc.          Dating the separation of Acehnese and Chamic by etymological analysis of the Aceh-Chamic lexicon. Mon-Khmer Studies.

InPrep. The "Khom" script of the Kommadam Rebellion. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

InPrep. The Mon-Khmer substrata in Acehnese. (for a festchrift in preparation)

InPrep. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer. (for a festchrift in preparation)

BOOK REVIEWS

2001       review of Roger Blench & Matthew Spriggs (eds.) Archaeology and language, vols III & IV. Routledge 1999 (vol. III), 1999 (vol. IV). Published in Journal of Linguistics 37:409-418.

2000       review of Roger Blench & Matthew Spriggs (eds.) Archaeology and language, vols I & II. Routledge 1997 (vol. I), 1998 (vol. II). Published in Journal of Linguistics 36:411-18.

1999       review of Yoshiho Yasugi Native Middle American Languages: An areal-typological perspective, Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology, 1995. Published in Word 50.3:447-449.

1998       review of Raffaele Simone (ed.) Iconicity in Language, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1994. Published in Word 49.2:314-317.

1998       review of Alan Bomhard Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis, Charleston, S. C., Signum Desktop Publishing, 1996. Published in Diachronica XV:2.337-348.

1997       review of Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith Ideology and linguistic theory: Noam Chomsky and he deep structure debates, New York, Routledge, 1995. Published in Word 48.2:312-316.

1997       review of James Clackson The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994. Published in Canadian Journal of Linguistics 42.3:364-484.

1997       (with Zhou Xiaokang) review of William S-Y Wang (ed.) The Ancestry of the Chinese Language, Berkeley, Journal of Chinese Linguistics monographs, 1995. Published in Diachronica XIV:2.387-395.

1996       review of Allan Bomhard The Nostratic macro-family: a study in distant relationships, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. Published in Word 47.3:456-464.

1996       review of R. H. Robbins The Byzantine Grammarians: their place in history, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. Published in Word 47.1:127-128.

1996       review of Tom Dutton & Daryl Tryon (eds.) Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. Published in Diachronica XIII:2.365-69.

1996       review of Alexander Vovin A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu, Leiden, E. J. Brill,1993. Published in Diachronica XIII:1.179-186.

1996       review of Nicholas Tarling (ed.) The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Published in Anthropos 91-307-308.

1995       review of Kate Burridge Syntactic change in Germanic, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1993. Published in Word 46.3-451-453.