Linguistic Consultancy & Language Documentation
Linguistic Consultancy & Language Documentation
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Descriptive grammar • Field documentation • Lexicography • Academic advisory
With over a decade of hands-on fieldwork and university-level instruction in Papua New Guinea and Melanesian linguistics, I provide specialized academic consultancy in field language documentation, descriptive grammatical analysis, and lexicon compilation.
From raw audio-visual recordings to fully parsed text corpora and published grammars, I assist researchers, cultural institutions, and educational bodies in structuring, preserving, and analyzing under-described languages.
Language Documentation
Language Documentation
Practical methodologies for primary data collection in challenging field conditions.
Establishing ethical, long-term archival pipelines: high-fidelity audio/video recording, phonetic transcription, and metadata management aligned with international digital archive standards
Academic Advisory & Research Mentorship
Academic Advisory & Research Mentorship
Methodological guidance for postgraduate students (Honours, Masters, Ph.D.) and early-career field linguists.
Curriculum design and specialized university lecturing across phonetics, language change, comparative linguistics, and field methods.
Lexicography & Dictionary compilation
Lexicography & Dictionary compilation
Designing bilingual dictionaries (e.g., indigenous vernaculars to English or German). Structuring headwords, valency frames, sense definitions, and example corpora for academic publication and community literacy programs.
Fieldwork Spotlight: The Siar Language Project (New Ireland, PNG)
Fieldwork Spotlight: The Siar Language Project (New Ireland, PNG)
The Project: Comprehensive descriptive documentation of Siar, an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken in southern New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
Key Deliverables & Publications:
Doctoral grammar: A Grammar of Siar — comprehensive reference grammar covering the phonology, morphology, and complex syntax of the language.
Bilingual lexicons: Authored Buk kam warwar Siar-Inglis (Siar-English Dictionary) and Buk kam warwar Siar-Siaman (Siar-German Dictionary).
Theoretical contributions: Semantic analysis on absolute directional systems (Walk around the clock: The shaping of a (counter)clockwise distinction in Siar directionals).
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