Dr. Simon Musgrave
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| Simon Musgrave with Mr Daan Saija, a speaker of the Haruku language, at a language workshop in the Netherlands in 2003. |
- Qualifications and position
- Background
- Research areas
- Recent publications
- Full CV including publication list [PDF format only, 22 KB]
- Contact
Qualifications and Position
- BA(Hons), University of Sydney
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- Dip.Arts (Music), Victorian College of the Arts
- Lecturer (Fixed Term)
Background
My PhD thesis (available in PDF format only, 2 MB) looked at aspects of the syntax of Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), from the viewpoint of Lexical-Functional Grammar.
Between 2001 and 2003, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leiden in the Spinoza Project: Lexicon and Syntax developing the typological database which is a part of the project. In that project, I also researched some issues in comparative syntax of languages from Eastern Indonesia.
From mid 2003, I have been an ARC post-doctoral fellow in the Linguistics Program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash. I am working on the project "Cross-linguistic study of endangered Maluku languages: Eastern Indonesia and the Dutch diaspora" with Dr Margaret Florey and Dr Michael Ewing. Within the project, I am working on documentation of the language spoken in the villages of Tulehu , Tial, Tengah-tengah, Liang and Waai.
Current research projects include an investigation of knowledge of endangered langauges amongst the Sudanese community in Melbourne (with Assoc. Prof. John Hajek, University of Melbourne) and projects looking at issues in medical communication in intercultural settings.
Research Areas
- languages of Central Maluku
- syntax of languages of the Austronesian family, particularly Indonesian and Sasak
- non-derivational formal models of syntax
- syntactic typology
- computational tools for handling linguistic data, especially data managment for linguistic field work and archiving of linguistic data
- medical communication, particularly in intercultural contexts
Recent Publications
- 2005 (editor) Language Contact,
Hybrids and New Varieties: Emergent Possessive Constructions. (Special
volume of) Monash University Linguistic Papers
4(1/2).
- 2005 Introduction.
In Simon Musgrave (ed.) Language Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties:
Emergent Possessive Constructions (Special volume of) Monash
University Linguistic Papers Vol 4(1).
- 2005 Possession in Souw Amana Teru: internally
and externally motivated change. In Simon Musgrave (ed.) Language
Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties: Emergent Possessive Constructions
(Special volume of) Monash University Linguistic Papers Vol 4(1).
- 2005 Multimedia
presentation of grammatical description: design issues. In Timothy
Baldwin, James Curran and Meno van Zaanen (eds.) Proceedings
of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop pp113-119.
- 2006 Language and religion: a case
study of two Ambonese communities. To appear in International
Journal of the Sociology of Language 179:179-194. (with
Michael C. Ewing)
- 2006 Complex emotion predicates in eastern Indonesia: evidence for language contact? In Matras, Y., McMahon, A., & Vincent, N. (eds.) Linguistic Areas, 227-243. Houndmills & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2006 Dialects and varieties in a situation of language endangerment. In K. Allan (ed) Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Papers in Proceedings 2005.
- 2006 Ethical challenges in documentary linguistics. In K. Allan (ed) Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Papers in Proceedings 2005.(with Nick Thieberger)
- 2007 Typology and the linguistic macro-history of Island Melanesia. Oceanic Linguistics 46:325-364. (with Mark Donohue)
- 2007 Documentary linguistics and ethical issues. In Peter K.Austin (ed.) Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics, Vol. 4, 26-37. London: School of Oriental and Asian Studies. [with Nick Thieberger]
- 2008 (editor with Peter K. Austin) Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian CSLI Publications
- 2008 Introduction. In Musgrave& Austin (eds), Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian CSLI Publications
- 2008 The status of the grammatical function OBJ in Indoensian. In Musgrave& Austin (eds), Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian CSLI Publications
- to appear: Reduced pronouns and argument coding in Sou Amana Teru, Ambon Island. In Michael C. Ewing & Marian Klamer (eds.) Typological and Areal Analyses: Contributions from East Nusantara. Leiden: KITLV Press
- to appear: Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments. To appear in Proceedings of COLING 2008 (The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics) [Mistica, Meladel, Timothy Baldwin, Marisa Cordella & Simon Musgrave]
Contact
Dr Simon Musgrave
Linguistics
Program
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Rm 412
Building 11
Monash University
Australia 3800
Ph: +61 (3) 9905 8234
Fax: +61 (3) 9905 5437
Email: Simon.Musgrave@arts.monash.edu.au
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