Dr Patrick McConvell
B.A. Hons, Ph.D, University of London(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Research Fellow, Linguistics; Discovery Outstanding Research Award from July 2012;R.Marika Guest Professor, University of Cologne, April-July 2012
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies 200201
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Languages 200319
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Comparative Language Studies 200322
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
Publications
- McConvell, P 2018, 'Introduction: Revisiting Aborginal Social Organisation', in Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sebastien Lacrampe (ed.), Skin, Kin and Clan: The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 1-20.
- McConvell, P 2018, 'The Birds and the Bees: The Origins of Sections in Queensland', in Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sebastien Lacrampe (ed.), Skin, Kin and Clan: The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 219-270.
- McConvell, P, Kelly, P & Lacrampe Cuyaubere Flieutete, S, eds, 2018, Skin, Kin and Clan: The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia, ANU Press, Australia.
- Kelly, P & McConvell, P 2018, 'Evolving Perspectives on Aboriginal Social Organisation: From Mutual Misrecognition to the Kinship Renaissance', in Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sebastien Lacrampe (ed.), Skin, Kin and Clan: The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 21-39.
- McConvell, P & Ponsonnet, M 2018, 'Generic Terms for Subsections ('Skins') in Australia: Sources and Semantic Networks', in Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sebastien Lacrampe (ed.), Skin, Kin and Clan: The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 271-315.
- McConvell, P 2018, 'Enhancing the Kinship Anthropology of Scheffler with Diachronic Linguistics and Centricity', in Warren Shapiro (ed.), Focality and Extension in Kinship: Essays in Memory of Harold W. Scheffler, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 227-260.
- McConvell, P & Ponsonnet, M 2018, 'Generic terms for subsections ('skins') in Australia: Sources and semantic networks', in Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sebastien Lacrampe (ed.), Skins, kin and clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia, ANU Press, ANU, Acton, pp. 271-315.
- McConvell, P & Gardner, H 2018, 'The unwritten Kamilaroi and Kurnai: unpublished kinship schedules collected by Fison and Howitt', in Peter K Austin, Harold Koch and Jane Simpson (ed.), Language, Land and Song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus, Batchelor Institute Press, Australia, pp. 158-170.
- McConvell, P & Hendery, R 2017, 'What Is 'Kariera'? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using the AustKin Database', Oceania, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 188-208pp..
- McConvell, P & Gardner, H 2016, 'The unwritten Kamilaroi and Kurnai: unpublished kinship schedules collected by Fison and Howitt', in P K Austin, H Koch & J Simpson (ed.), Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus, EL Publishing, London, United Kingdom, pp. 194-208pp.
- McConvell, P 2016, 'Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonization', in Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy (ed.), Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation, De Gruyter Mouton, Boston/Berlin, pp. 89-112.
- McConvell, P 2015, 'Language and Culture History: The Contribution of Linguistic Prehistory', in Farzad Sharifian (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 209-224.
- Rangan, H, Bell, K, Baum, D et al. 2015, 'New Genetic and Linguistic Analyses Show Ancient Human Influence on Baobab Evolution and Distribution in Australia', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. e0119758-e0119758.
- Gardner, H & McConvell, P 2015, Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke and New York.
- Bowern, C, Haynie, H, Sheard, C et al 2014, 'Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems', Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-227.
- Haynie, H, Bowern, C, Epps, P et al 2014, 'Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia', Ampersand: an international journal of general and applied linguistics, vol. 1, pp. 1-18.
- McConvell, P, Saunders, T & Spronck, M 2014, 'Linguistic prehistory of the Australian boab', 44th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013, ed. L Gawne and J Vaughan, University of Melbourne, Australia, pp. 295-310.
- McConvell, P 2013, 'Granny got cross: semantic change of kami 'mother's mother' to 'father's mother' in Pama-Nyungan', in Robert Mailhammer (ed.), Lexical and Structural Etymology: Beyond Word Histories, Walter de Gruyter, Boston/Berlin, pp. 147-184.
- McConvell, P & Ponsonnet, M 2013, 'Results and Prospects in the Study of Semantic Change: A Review of From Polysemy to Semantic Change (2008)', Journal of Language Contact, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 180-196.
- McConvell, P & Gardner, H 2013, 'The descent of Morgan in Australia: Kinship Representation from the Australian Colonies', Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-23.
- McConvell, P 2013, 'Comment on Denham's Beyond Fictions of Closure in Australian Aboriginal Kinship', Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-6.
- Meakins, F, McConvell, P, Charola, E et al 2013, Gurindji to English Dictionary, Batchelor Press, Northern Territory, Australia.
- McConvell, P 2013, 'Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AustKin Project: Reconstructing Proto-terms for "Mother's Father" and Their Transformations', in Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, Rachel Hendery (ed.), Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, USA, pp. 192-216.
- Hendery, R & McConvell, P 2013, 'Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia', in Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, Rachel Hendery (ed.), Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, USA, pp. 217-238.
- McConvell, P, Keen, I & Hendery, R, eds, 2013, Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, USA.
- McConvell, P 2013, 'Introduction: Kinship Change in Anthropology and Linguistics', in Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, Rachel Hendery (ed.), Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, USA, pp. 1-18.
- McConvell, P 2012, 'Omaha Skewing in Australia: Overlays, Dynamism, and Change', in Thomas R Trautmann and Peter M Whiteley (ed.), Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 243-260.
- McConvell, P & Dousset, L 2012, 'Tracking the dynamics of kinship and social category terms with AustKin II', Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012), Curran Associates, Inc., Stroudsburg, United States, pp. 98-107.
- McConvell, P & Simpson, J 2012, 'Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages', in Diana Santos, Krister Lindén and Wanjiku Ng'ang'a (ed.), Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th Birthday, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 159-180.
- Bowern, C, Epps, P, Grey, R et al 2011, 'Does Lateral Transmission Obscure Inheritance in Hunter-Gatherer Languages?', PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1-9.
- McConvell, P & Bowern, C 2011, 'The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages', Language and Linguistics Compass, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 19-32.
- McConvell, P & Keen, I 2011, 'The transition from Kariera to an Asymmetrical System: Cape York Peninsula to North-East Arnhemland', in Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic (ed.), Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies, University of Utah Press, Salt lake City, Utah, United States, pp. 99-132.
- McConvell, P 2010, 'Getting the constraints right', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 394-395.
- Hill, C & McConvell, P 2010, 'Emergency language documentation teams: the Cape York Peninsula experience', in John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh (ed.), Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 418-432.
- McConvell, P, Simpson, J & Caffery, J 2010, 'Maintaining Languages, Maintaining Identities: What Bilingual Education Offers', in Brett Baker, Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (ed.), Indigenous Language and Social Identity: papers in honour of Michael Walsh, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, ACT, pp. 409-429.
- McConvell, P 2010, 'Mood swings: imperative verbs attract pronominal enclitics in Ngumpin-Yapa (Australian) and Southern European languages', in Rachel Hendery and Jennifer Hendriks (ed.), Grammatical Change: theory and description, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 123-156.
- McConvell, P 2010, 'The Archaeo-Linguistics of Migration', in Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning (ed.), Migration History in World History: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, pp. 153-186.
- Dousset, L, Hendery, R, Bowern, C et al 2010, 'Developing a database for Australian Indigenous kinship terminology: the Austkin project', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 42-56.
- McConvell, P 2010, 'Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia', in Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact, Wiley-Blackwell, USA, pp. 770-794.
- Simpson, J, Caffery, J & McConvell, P 2009, Gaps in Australia's indigenous language policy: dismantling bilingual education in the Northern Territory, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra.
- McConvell, P 2009, ''Where the spear sticks up': The variety of locatives in placenames in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory', in Harold Koch and Luise Hercus (ed.), Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-Naming the Australian Landscape, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 359-402.
- McConvell, P 2009, 'Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia', in Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor (ed.), Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 790-822.
- McConvell, P 2008, 'Language mixing and language shift in Indigenous Australia', in J. Simpson and G. Wigglesworth (ed.), Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School, Continuum Publishing Company, London, pp. 237-260.
- McConvell, P 2008, 'Grand-daddy morphs: the importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship', in Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (ed.), Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 313-327.
- McConvell, P 2008, 'Mixed Languages as Outcomes of Code-Switching: Recent Examples from Australia and their Implications', Journal of Language Contact, vol. Thema 2, pp. 187-212.
- McConvell, P & Thieberger, N 2006, 'Keeping Track of Indigenous Language Endangerment in Australia', in Denis Cunningham, D.E. Ingram and Kenneth Sumbuk (ed.), Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival, Multilingual Matters Ltd, UK, pp. 54-84.
- McConvell, P & Thieberger, N 2005, 'Languages Past and Present', in Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy (ed.), Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, Pan Macmillan Publishers Australia, Sydney, Australia, pp. 78-87.
- McConvell, P & Meakins, F 2005, 'Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code-switching', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 9-30.
- McConvell, P 2005, 'Language contact interaction and possessive variation', Monash University Linguistics Papers, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 87-105.
- McConvell, P & Florey, M 2005, 'Introduction: Language Shift, Code-mixing and Variation', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
- Peterson, N, McConvell, P, McDonald, H et al 2005, 'Social and cultural life', in Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy (ed.), Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, Macquarie University, Macquarie University, pp. 88?107.
- McConvell, P & Laughren, M 2004, 'The Ngumpin-Yapa Subgroup', in Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (ed.), Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 151-177.
- McConvell, P 2003, 'Language data assessment at the national level: learning from the State of the Environment process in Australia', in J Blythe and R McKenna Brown (ed.), Maintaining the Links, Foundation for Endangered Languages, Bath, UK, pp. 51-57.
- McConvell, P 2003, 'Book Review: Forty Years on: Ken Hale and Australian Languages', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 252-258.
- McConvell, P & Smith, M 2003, 'Millers and Mullers. The Archaeo-Linguistic Stratigraphy of Technological Change in Holocene Australia', International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2001, ed. Barry Blake and Kate Burridge, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 177-200.
- McConvell, P & Alpher, B 2002, 'On the Omaha trail in Australia: Tracking skewing from east to west', Anthropological Forum, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 159-175.
- McConvell, P 2002, 'Linguistic Stratigraphy and Native Title: The Case of Ethnonyms', in Henderson, John. Nash, David (ed.), Language in Native Title, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. 259-290.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Waves of words: mapping and modelling the history of Australias Pacific ties (Secondary Investigator)
- The Long-term Dynamics of Higher Order Social Organisation in Aboriginal Australia (Primary Investigator)
- Skin and Kin in Aboriginal Australia: linguistic and historical perspectives on the dynamics of social categories (Primary Investigator)
- Linguistic prehistory of the Kimberley region (pilot) (Primary Investigator)
