Professor Andrew Pawley
BA (NZ), MA, PhD (University of Auckland), FRSNZ, FAHA
Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History & Language
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Pacific Languages 200320
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Linguistic Anthropology 160103
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Linguistics 2004
Research interests
Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.
Biography
Current projects: Collaborating with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond on a seven volume series using lexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment of Proto Oceanic speakers; completing dictionaries of Kalam (Papua New Guinea), Wayan (Western Fiji) and Gela (Solomon Is.); collaborating with Ian Saem Majnep on a book on Kalam ethnobotany.
Career highlights
Taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland from 1965-1989, with periods at UPNG (1969) and U. Hawaii (1973-78). Moved to ANU in 1990. Taught at the Linguistic Society of America's summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), U. Frankfurt (1994), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001).
Publications
- Pawley, A & Hammarstroem, H 2017, 'The Trans New Guinea Family', in Bill Palmer (ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, Germany, pp. 21-195.
- Pawley, A 2017, 'Were the first Lapita colonisers of Remote Oceania farmers as well as foragers?', in Phillip Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck (ed.), New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory, ANU Press, Acton, Australia, pp. 293-310.
- Osmond, M & Pawley, A 2016, 'Perception', in M Ross, A Pawley and M Osmond (ed.), The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Vol.5: People: Body and mind, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 489-518.
- Ross, M, Pawley, A & Osmond, M 2016, 'Introduction', in M Ross, A Pawley and M Osmond (ed.), The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Vol.5: People: Body and mind, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 1-36pp.
- Ross, M, Pawley, A & Osmond, M, eds, 2016, The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, vol.5: People: Body and mind, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Pawley, A 2015, 'Frantisek (Frank) Lichtenberk, 1945-2015: A Tribute', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 597-607.
- Pawley, A 2014, 'Grammar Writing from a Dissertation Advisor's Perspective', in Toshihide Nakayama and Keren Rice (ed.), The Art and Practice of Grammar Writing, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 7-24.
- Pawley, A 2014, 'In Memoriam, John (Hans) Z'graggen, 1932-2013', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 170-175.
- Pawley, A 2013, 'In Memoriam, Darrell Tryon, 1942-2013', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 524-539.
- Pawley, A 2012, 'On the Argument Structure of Complex Predicates in Kalam, a Language of the Trans New Guinea Family', The Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkley Linguistics Society, ed. Zhenya Antic, Charles B. Chang, Clare S. Sandy, Maziar Toosarvandani, University of California at Berkeley, California, pp. 83-108.
- Pawley, A 2012, 'How reconstructable is Proto Trans New Guinea? Problems, progress, prospects', Journal of the Linguistics Society of Papua New Guinea, vol. Special issue 2012, pp. 84-164.
- Pawley, A 2011, 'Event Representation in serial verb constructions', in Jurgen Bohnemyer and Eric Pederson (ed.), Event Representation in Language and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 13-42.
- Pawley, A 2011, 'On the position of Bugotu and Gela in the Guadalcanal-Nggelic subgroup of Oceanic', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 1-24.
- Osmond, M & Pawley, A 2011, 'Mammals, reptiles, amphibians', in Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond (ed.), The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Volume 4: Animals, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 217-269.
- Pawley, A 2011, 'Patterns of stability and change in Oceanic fish names', in Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond (ed.), The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Volume 4: Animals, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 137-160.
- Ross, M, Pawley, A & Osmond, M, eds, 2011, The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society 4: Animals, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia.
- Pawley, A 2011, 'Were turtles fish in Proto Oceanic? Semantic reconstruction and change in some terms for animal categories in Oceanic languages', in Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond (ed.), The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Volume 4: Animals, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 421-452.
- Pawley, A 2011, 'Aquatic invertebrates', in Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond (ed.), The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: the culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society, Volume 4: Animals, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 161-215.
- Pawley, A 2011, 'What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages', in Geoffrey L. J. Haig, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell, Claudia Wegener (ed.), Documenting endangered languages: achievements and perspectives, Walter de Gruyter, Germany, pp. 263-287.
- Pawley, A 2010, 'Prehistoric Migration and Colonisation Processes in Oceania: A view from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology', in Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning (ed.), Migration History in World History: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, pp. 77-112.
- Blevins, J & Pawley, A 2010, 'Typological implications of Kalam predictable vowels', Phonology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-44.
- Pawley, A 2010, 'Origins and Diversification of the Austronesian Languages from Southeast Asia to Remote Oceania', in Christophe Sand and Stuart Bedford (ed.), Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors, Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, pp. 76-89.
- Pawley, A 2010, 'Roger Green the Linguist', Archaeology in New Zealand, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 28-36.
- Pawley, A 2010, 'Helter skelter and nugl nagl: English and Kalam Rhyming Jingles and the Psychic Unity of Mankind', in Kenneth A. McElhanon and Ger Reesink (ed.), A Mosaic of Languages and Cultures: studies celebrating the career of Karl J. Franklin, SIL International, Texas, USA, pp. 273-293.
- Pawley, A 2010, 'Roger Green, 1932-2009: Linguistic Archaeologist', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 288-297.
- 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.
- Pawley, A 2009, 'The role of the Solomon Islands in the first settlement of Remote Oceania: Bringing linguistic evidence to an archaeological debate', in Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley (ed.), Austronesian Historical Linguistics and Culture History: A festschrift for Robert Blust, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 515-540.
- Pawley, A 2009, 'Greenberg's Indo-Pacific hypothesis: an assessment', in Bethwyn Evans (ed.), Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 153-180.
- Adelaar, A & Pawley, A, eds, 2009, Austronesian Historical Linguistics and Culture History: A festschrift for Robert Blust, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia.
- Adelaar, A & Pawley, A 2009, 'Reflections on Bob Blust's career', in Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley (ed.), Austronesian Historical Linguistics and Culture History: A festschrift for Robert Blust, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 3-15.
- 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.
- Pawley, A 2008, 'Where and When Was Proto Oceanic Spoken? Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence', in Yury A. Lander and Alexander K. Ogloblin (ed.), Language and Text in the Austronesian World: Studies in honour of Ulo Sirk, Lincom Europa, Muenchen, Germany, pp. 47-71.
- Pawley, A 2008, 'Compact versus narrative serial verb constructions in Kalam', in Gunter Senft (ed.), Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 171-202.
- Pawley, A 2007, 'Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view', in Paul Skandera (ed.), Phraseology and Culture in English, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 3-45.
- Pawley, A 2007, 'Recent Research on the Historical Relationships of the Papuan Languages, or, What Does Linguistics Say about the Prehistory of Melanesia?', in Jonathan Scott Friedlaender (ed.), Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 36-58.
- Pawley, A 2007, 'The origins of Early Lapita culture: the testimony of historical linguistics', in Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand and Sean P. Connaughton (ed.), Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement (Terra Australis 26), ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 17-49.
- Hide, R, Pawley, A, Majnep, I et al 2006, 'The most important as mammals: the colonial-nesting small rodents, and some other small creatures of the forest', in Ian S.Majnep, Ralph Bulmer, Robin Hide & Andrew Pawley (ed.), Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA, pp. 203-209.
- Pawley, A 2006, 'Madang Languages', in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 429-432.
- Pawley, A 2006, 'Trans New Guinea Languages', in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 17-21.
- Pawley, A 2006, 'Papuan Languages', in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 162-170.
- Pawley, A 2006, 'Explaining the Aberrant Austronesian Languages of Southeast Melanesia: 150 Years of Debate', Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 215-257.
- Pawley, A & Hide, R 2006, 'Editors' Preface', in Ian S.Majnep, Ralph Bulmer, Robin Hide & Andrew Pawley (ed.), Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA, pp. xix - xxxvii.
- Pawley, A & Gardner, R 2006, 'Annotated List of Local Plant Names From Waya Island, Fiji', Records of the Auckland Museum, vol. 43, pp. 97-108.
- Pawley, A 2006, 'On the size of the Lexicon in preliterate language communities: Comparing Dictionaries of Australian, Austronesian and Papuan Languages', in Genzor, J, Buckova, M (ed.), Favete Linguis: Studies in Honour of Viktor Krupa, Institute of Oriental Studies, Bratislava, pp. 171-191.
- Pawley, A, Majnep, I & Bulmer, R 2006, 'Madaw: the ground cuscus', in Ian S.Majnep, Ralph Bulmer, Robin Hide & Andrew Pawley (ed.), Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA, pp. 149-151.
- Pawley, A 2006, 'The South Pacific', in Ammon, U, Dittmar, N, Mattheier, K, Trudgill, P (ed.), Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society (2nd ed), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 2034 - 45.
- Majnep, I, Bulmer, R, Hide, R et al, eds, 2006, Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA.
- Pawley, A, Hide, R, Majnep, I et al 2006, 'The Spotted Quoll; and the Water-rats and Water-side Rat', in Ian S.Majnep, Ralph Bulmer, Robin Hide & Andrew Pawley (ed.), Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA, pp. 190-192.
- Hide, R, Pawley, A, Majnep, I et al 2006, 'Women's prime game, the bandicoots. Introduction', in Ian S.Majnep, Ralph Bulmer, Robin Hide & Andrew Pawley (ed.), Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Belair, SA, pp. 173-175.
- Pawley, A, Attenborough, R, Golson, J et al, eds, 2005, Papuan Pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of the Papuan-speaking peoples, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia.
- Pawley, A 2005, 'Preface', in Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide (ed.), Papuan pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. xi-xvii.
- Pawley, A 2005, 'Introduction to the chapters on historical linguistics', in Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide (ed.), Papuan pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-14.
- Pawley, A 2005, 'The chequered career of the Trans New Guinea Hypothesis: recent research and its implications', in Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide (ed.), Papuan pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 67-107.
- Pawley, A 2005, 'The Meaning(s) of Proto Oceanic *Panua', in Claudia Gross, Harriet D. Lyons, Dorothy A Counts (ed.), A Polymath Anthropologist: Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning, University of Auckland, Auckland, pp. 211-223.
- Pawley, A & Ross, M 2004, 'The Pre-history of Oceanic languages: A Current View', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 43-80.
- 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.
- Pawley, A 2002, 'The Austronesian dispersal: languages, technologies, people', in Peter Bellwood & Colin Renfrew (ed.), Examining the farming / language dispersal hypothesis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 149-172.
- Pawley, A 2002, 'Using He and She for inanimate referents in English: Questions of grammar and world view', in N. J. Enfield (ed.), Ethnosyntax: Explorations in grammar and culture, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 110-137.
- Pawley, A 2002, 'Book review: Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An essay in Historical Anthropology', Archaeology in New Zealand, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 237-250.
- Pawley, A 2002, 'Stephen Wurm, 1922-2001: Linguist extraordinaire', Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
- Pawley, A 2001, 'Phraseology, linguistics and the dictionary', International Journal of Lexicography, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 122-134.
- Pawley, A 2001, 'The Proto Trans New Guinea obstruents: arguments from top-down reconstruction', 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. 261-300.
- Pawley, A, Ross, M & Tryon, D, eds, 2001, The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Pawley, A 2001, 'Tom Dutton: linguist', 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. 1-12.
- Pawley, A 2001, 'Proto Polynesian *-CIA', in Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth L. Rehg (ed.), Issues in Austronesian morphology: a focusschrift for Byron W. Bender, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 193-216.
- Pawley, A & Syder, F 2000, 'The One-clause-at-a-time Hypothesis', in unknown (ed.), Perspectives on Fluency, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, USA, pp. 163-199.
- Pawley, A, Gi, S, Kias, J et al 2000, 'Hunger Acts on Me: the grammar and semantics of bodily and mental processes in Kalam', in unknown (ed.), Grammatical Analysis in Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: studies in honor of Stanley Starosta, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, USA, pp. 153-185.
- Pawley, A 2000, 'Two bes or not two bes? On the copulas of Wayan Fijian', International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics 1995, ed. Palmer, W, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 297-314.
