Carmen Dawuda
Carmen Dawuda (right) with Logea speaker Milar Klewau
Background
Carmen Dawuda completed her PhD thesis on discourse functions of demonstratives and place adverbs with exophoric reference in Logea, an Oceanic Language of Papua New Guinea within the Saliba-Logea Documentation Project. In her own DoBeS project, granted in 2011, she is continuing her work on demonstratives as a post-doctoral fellow at Monash.
She is interested in deixis, corpus linguistics and the analysis of oral discourse.
Research Areas
- Deixis & Gesture
- Discourse Analysis
- Oceanic Languages
Publications
| 2009 | Discourse functions of demonstratives and place adverbs with exophoric reference in Logea, an Oceanic language. PhD thesis Monash University. |
| 1999 | Broschard, Jürgen and Carmen Dawuda, Beyond nouns and verbs. Typological studies in lexical categorization. Working paper of the research project “Theory of the lexicon”. Düsseldorf: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft. (86 pages) |
| 1993 | Compes, Isabel, Silvia Kutscher, Carmen Rudorf [=Dawuda]. Pfade der Grammatikalisierung: Ein systematisierter Überblick [Paths of Grammaticalization: A Systemized Survey]. Arbeitspapier Nr. 17 (Neue Folge), Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft. (43 pages) |
Contact
Carmen Dawuda
Linguistics Program
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building 11, Room W408
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
Ph: +61 (3) 9905 2290
Fax: +61 (3) 9905 5437
Email: Carmen.Dawuda_AT_monash.edu