Dr. Margaret Florey
Publications
Monographs
- Florey, Margaret. forthcoming. Language Endangerment and Language Activism.(under contract with Blackwell Publishers Language and Social Change series).
- Florey, Margaret, Ewing, Michael C. and Musgrave, Simon with Betty Litamahuputty. forthcoming 2008. Methodes om talen van de Molukken te revitaliseren [Methods for revitalising the languages of Maluku]. Utrecht: Landelijk Steunpunt Educatie Molukkers.
Edited volumes
- Austin, Peter, Barry J. Blake and Margaret Florey (eds.) 2001 Explorations in valency in Austronesian languages. La Trobe Papers In Linguistics 11, Melbourne.
- Florey, Margaret (ed.) forthcoming. Endangered Languages of Austronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Florey, Margaret and McConvell, Patrick (eds.) 2005 Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1).
- Rau, D. Victoria and Florey, Margaret (eds.) forthcoming 2007. Documenting and revitalising Austronesian languages. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Journal articles
- Florey, Margaret. 2005a "Overview: the languages of Central Maluku" in Simon Musgrave (ed.) Language Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties: Emergent Possessive Constructions (Special volume of) Monash University Linguistic Papers Vol. 4(1).
- Florey, Margaret. 2005b "A cross-linguistic perspective on emergent possessive constructions in Central Moluccan languages " In Florey, Margaret and McConvell, Patrick (eds.) Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 59-84.
- Florey, Margaret. 1998 "Alune incantations: continuity or discontinuity in verbal art?" Journal of Sociolinguistics 2(2): 205-231.
- Florey, Margaret. 1993 "The reinterpretation of knowledge and its role in the process of language obsolescence". Oceanic Linguistics 32(2): 295-309.
- Florey, Margaret and Bolton, Rosemary A. 1997 "Personal names, lexical replacement, and language shift in eastern Indonesia". Cakalele: Maluku Research Journal Vol. 8: 27-58.
- Florey, Margaret and Engelenhoven, Aone van 2001 "Language documentation and maintenance programs for Moluccan languages in the Netherlands". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 151: 195-219.
- Florey, Margaret and Healey, Christopher J. 2002 "'Work well and guard your honour': Temporary labour migration and the role of adolescent women in Eastern Indonesia". Asian Studies Review 26 (3): 355-381.
- Florey, Margaret and Wolff, Xenia Y. 1998 "Incantations and herbal medicines: Alune ethnomedical knowledge in a context of change". Journal of Ethnobiology 18: 39-67.
- Healey, Christopher J. and Florey, Margaret. 2003 "Alune arachnophagy and approaches to spiders among an Eastern Indonesian people". Journal of Ethnobiology: 23(1): 1-22.
- McConvell, Patrick and Florey, Margaret. 2005 "Introduction: language shift, code-mixing and variation" In Florey, Margaret and McConvell, Patrick (eds.) Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 1-7.
Chapters in books
- Austin, Peter, Barry J. Blake and Margaret Florey 2001 "Introduction" In Austin, Peter, Barry J. Blake and Margaret Florey (eds.) Explorations in valency in Austronesian languages. La Trobe Papers In Linguistics Volume 11: 1-10, Melbourne.
- Florey, Margaret. forthcoming 2008a. "Introduction" To appear in Florey, Margaret (ed.) Endangered Languages of Austronesia. (Oxford University Press).
- Florey, Margaret. forthcoming 2008b. "Capacity building and community language activism in Central Maluku" To appear in Florey, Margaret (ed.) Endangered Languages of Austronesia. (Oxford University Press).
- Florey, Margaret. forthcoming 2008c. "Negation in Central Moluccan languages" To appear in Michael Ewing and Marian Klamer (eds.) Typological and Areal Analyses: Contributions from East Nusantara Leiden: KITLV Press.
- Florey, Margaret. forthcoming 2008d. "Supporting Indigenous languages and Indigenous knowledge: developing community training approaches for the 21st century" to appear in Abe, Kenichi, Moe Chiba and Douglas Nakashima (eds) Safeguarding the Transmission of Local & Indigenous Knowledge of Nature. Paris: UNESCO.
- Florey, Margaret. forthcoming 2008e. Language activism and the "new linguistics": Expanding opportunities for documenting endangered languages in Indonesia. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 5. London: SOAS.
- Florey, Margaret. in press 2007. "Introduction: documenting and revitalizing Austronesian languages". To appear in Rau, D. Victoria and Florey, Margaret (eds.). Documenting and revitalising Austronesian languages. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
- Florey, Margaret. 2006 "Malukan languages" in Brown, K (editor-in-Chief) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition). Elsevier London.
- Florey, Margaret. 2005c "Language shift and endangerment" in Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus P Himmelmann (eds.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: 43-64. Routledge London.
- Florey, Margaret. 2004 "Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a training programme for community language workers". In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2, 9-27. London: SOAS.
- Florey, Margaret. 2002 "Community aspirations towards language renewal among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands". In D. Bradley and M. Bradley, eds. Language endangerment and language maintenance: 257-271. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
- Florey, Margaret. 2001a "Verb and valence in Alune". In Peter Austin, Barry Blake and Margaret Florey, eds. Explorations in valency in Austronesian languages. La Trobe Papers In Linguistics Volume 11: 73-120, Melbourne.
- Florey, Margaret. 2001b "Threats to indigenous knowledge: a case study from eastern Indonesia". In Luisa Maffi, ed. On Biocultural Diversity: linking language, knowledge and the environment: 325-342. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
- Florey, Margaret. 2001c "Language shift and the demise of indigenous knowledge". In T. Ammerlaan, M. Hulsen, H. Strating, K. Yagmur eds. Sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on maintenance and loss of minority languages: 109-125. Münster: Waxmann.
- Florey, Margaret. 1991 "Shifting patterns of language allegiance: a generational perspective from eastern Indonesia". In Hein Steinhauer, ed. Papers in Austronesian Linguistics, No.1:39-47. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Florey, Margaret and Ewing, Michael forthcoming. "Political acts and language revitalisation: community and state in Maluku" To appear in Gunter Senft (ed.) Endangered languages and endangered cultures in Oceania. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Florey, Margaret and Himmelmann, Nikolaus. forthcoming 2008. "New directions in field linguistics: Training strategies for language documentation in Indonesia" To appear in Florey, Margaret (ed.) Endangered Languages of Austronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Florey, Margaret and Kelly, Barbara F. 2002 "Spatial reference in Alune". In Giovanni Bennardo, ed. Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind: 11-46. Pacific Linguistics: Australian National University, Canberra.
- Florey, Margaret and Zuyderhoudt, Lea. forthcoming. "Oral traditions checklist" in Heather Maring (ed.) Manual for Oral Traditions and Expressions UNESCO, Paris.
- Wolff, Xenia Y. and Florey, Margaret. 1998 "Foraging, agricultural, and culinary practices among the Alune of west Seram, with implications for the changing significance of cultivated plants as foodstuffs". In Sandra Pannell and Franz von Benda-Beckmann, eds. Old world places, new world problems: exploring resource management issues in Eastern Indonesia: 267-321. Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.
Recent conferences and workshops
- Florey, Margaret. 2008. Invited speaker and Chair for Panel on Endangered Languages and Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Symposium on Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy. American Museum of Natural History, New York City, April 2 - 5, 2008.
- Florey, Margaret. 2007a. Language activism and the "new linguistics": Expanding opportunities for documenting endangered languages in Indonesia. Presented at Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory: 75 years of Linguistics at SOAS, 5 years of the Endangered Languages Project (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 7-8th December 2007).
- Florey, Margaret and Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2007b. Invited speaker at International Conference on Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation (Providence University, Taiwan, June 5-7, 2007), Presented New directions in field linguistics: Training strategies for language documentation in Indonesia
- Florey, Margaret. 2006a. Invited speaker at 2006 Austronesian Studies International Conference (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 8-9 2006). Presented Capacity building and community language activism in Central Maluku.
- Florey, Margaret. 2006b. Invited international expert to UNESCO and Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO Experts' Meeting on Community Involvement in Intangible Cultural Heritage towards the implementation of UNESCO's 2003 Convention (Tokyo, Japan 13-15 March 2006).
- Florey, Margaret. 2006c. Invited international expert to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section Experts' Meeting for the preparation of a Manual on Oral Traditions and Expressions (Paris, France 27-28 January).
- Florey, Margaret. 2006d. The endangered languages of Maluku. Panel session organised and held at the 10th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10ICAL), 17-20 January 2006, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, the Philippines.
- Florey, Margaret. 2006e. "Assessing linguistic vitality in Central Maluku" Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10ICAL), 17-20 January 2006, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, the Philippines.
- Florey, Margaret. 2005a. Invited speaker at Annual Board Meeting of the NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resources Centre, (Tranby College, Sydney, NSW, 3 August). Co-presented (with Michael Ewing) Language revitalization in Maluku.
- Florey, Margaret. 2005b. Invited international expert to UNESCO interdisciplinary Experts' Meeting on the theme Sustaining linkages between Cultural and Biological Diversity: ensuring the transmission of traditional knowledge and practices (Nagoya, Japan, 14-16 April).
- Florey, Margaret. 2005c. Endangered languages Panel session organised and held at the Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference, 27-30 September 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
- Florey, Margaret. 2005d. Negation in Central Moluccan languages Paper presented at the East Nusantara Linguistics Conference, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 31 June - 1 July 2005.
- Florey, Margaret. 2005e. Lohiasapalewa - language and culture in an Alune village in the 21st century Paper presented at the Moluks Historisch Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 24 June 2005.
- Florey, Margaret. 2005f. Sustaining Indigenous languages and Indigenous knowledge — developing community training approaches in the reconciliation era in Maluku. Paper presented at the UK Austronesian Research Group, SOAS, London, Friday 10 June 2005.
- Florey, Margaret and Michael Ewing 2005g. Language revitalization in Maluku in the post-kerusuhan era Paper presented at the Sixth conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Marseilles, France, 6-8 July 2005.
- Florey, Margaret. 2004. Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a training program for community language workers. Paper presented at the Symposium on Training and capacity building for endangered languages communities. Endangered Languages Academic Program, Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 7 February 2004
- Florey, Margaret. 2003 Invited keynote speaker at Symposium on Language Shift (University of Western Australia, Language Science group and Institute for Advanced Studies, 18th November 2003). Presented Emergent varieties in language shift: revisiting variation, purism, and the role of the specialist.
- Florey, Margaret. 2002a Invited delegate for Terralingua: partnerships for biological and linguistic d.iversity to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 August - 4 September 2002). Funded by the Ford Foundation.
- Florey, Margaret. 2002b Invited delegate for Terralingua: partnerships for biological and linguistic diversity to the Fourth Preparatory Committee Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Bali, Indonesia, 27 May - 7 June 2002). Funded by the Ford Foundation.