Ms Meredith Osmond
B.A., Dip.Ed (UQld), Dip. Lang. & Reading (Canberra CAE) M.A. (ANU)
Honorary lecturer (B)
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Pacific Languages 200320
- Linguistic Anthropology 160103
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
Publications
- Osmond, M 2009, 'Cat's cradle: A disappointing field for lexical reconstruction', in Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley (ed.), Austronesian Historical Linguistics and Culture History: A festschrift for Robert Blust, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 509-514.
- Osmond, M & Pawley, A 2009, 'Verbs of perception in Proto Oceanic', in Bethwyn Evans (ed.), Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 431-459.
- Ross, M, Pawley, A & Osmond, M, eds, 2008, The lexicon of Proto Oceanic The culture and environment of ancestral oceanic society 3: Plants, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Ross, M, Pawley, A & Osmond, M 2003, The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Vol.2 The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia.
- Osmond, M 2001, 'The semantics of mong in the Chimbu-Wahgi languages of the Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea', in A. Pawley, M. Ross and D. Tryon (ed.), The Boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honour of Tom Dutton, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 251-259.
- Osmond, M 2000, 'Star, wind and wave: Searching for early Oceanic navigation terms', International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics 1995, ed. Palmer, W, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 3-35.
