Dr Paul Sidwell
PhD
Senior Lecturer
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
T:
0438626621
Areas of expertise
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Linguistics 2004
- Other Asian Languages (Excl. South East Asian) 200317
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- South East Asian Languages (Excl. Indonesian) 200314
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Lexicography 200407
- Comparative Language Studies 200322
- Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science 200404
Biography
Professional Appointments
2012- Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, College of Asia Pacific, ANU
2007-2011 Director of Mon-Khmer Languages Project, Centre for Research in Computational Linguistics (Bangkok)
2004-2011 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, RSPAS,ANU (2005 through 2006 funded by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany).
2001-4 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
2001 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Collaborating Scientist), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
2000 Sessional Lecturer/Tutor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University; and Research Assistant, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Publications
- Jenny, M & Sidwell, P, eds, 2015, The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Sidwell, P & Rau, F 2015, 'Austroasiatic Comparative-Historical Reconstruction: An Overview', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 221-363.
- Smith, K & Sidwell, P 2015, 'Sedang', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 789-833.
- Bos, K & Sidwell, P 2015, 'Kui Ntua', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 837-880.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Car Nicobarese', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 1229-1265.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Austroasiatic Classification', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 144-220.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Old Khmer', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 643-676.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'The Austroasiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring', in Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 675-703.
- Jenny, M & Sidwell, P 2015, 'Editor's Introduction', in Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell (ed.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 3-12.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Review of Justin Watkins (2013): Dictionary of WA (2 vols) With Translations into English, Burmese and Chinese', Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, vol. 8, pp. 2pp.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Review of: Dictionary of Kammu Yùan Language and Culture', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 202-205.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Local drift and areal convergence in the Restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages', in Nicholas Enfield and Bernard Comrie (ed.), Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: the state of the art, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, pp. 51-81.
- Sidwell, P 2015, 'Austroasiatic dataset for phylogenetic analysis: 2015 version', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 44, pp. lxviii-ccclvii.
- Sidwell, P 2015, The Palaungic Languages Classification, Reconstruction and Comparative Lexicon, Lincom Europa, Munich.
- Koch, H, Mailhammer, R, Blust, R et al 2014, 'Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific', Diachronica, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 267-278.
- Sidwell, P 2014, 'Khmuic classification and homeland', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 47-56.
- Sidwell, P 2014, 'Proto Khasian: an emerging reconstruction', in Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Stephen Morey, Priyankoo Sarmah (ed.), North East Indian Linguistics Volume 6, Asia-Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 149-163.
- Sidwell, P 2014, 'Expressives in Austroasiatic', in Jeffrey P. Williams (ed.), The Aesthetics of Grammar, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 17-35.
- Nagaraja, K, Sidwell, P & Greenhill, S 2013, 'A Lexicostatistical Study of the Khasian Languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 42, pp. 1-11.
- Sidwell, P 2013, 'Southeast Asian Mainland: linguistic history', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Volume 1 Prehistory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 259-268.
- Sidwell, P 2013, 'Issues in austroasiatic classification', Language and Linguistics Compass, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 437-457.
- Cheeseman, N, Herington, J & Sidwell, P 2013, 'Bahnaric linguistic bibliography with selected annotations', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 42, p. 35.
- Pingjai, S, Ishihara, S & Sidwell, P 2013, 'A Likelihood Ratio-based forensic voice comparison using formant trajectories of Thai dipthongs', Proceedings of 2013 International Congress on Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, United States of America, pp. 1-9.
- Sidwell, P & Blench, R 2011, 'The Austroasiatic Urheimat: the Southeastern Riverine Hypothesis', in Enfield, N. J. (ed.), Dynamics of human diversity : the case of mainland Southeast Asia, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 315-343.
- Sidwell, P, ed., 2011, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Volume 4.2.
- Sidwell, P, ed., 2011, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Volume 4.1.
- Sidwell, Paul & Roger Blench. 2011. Is Shom Pen a Distinct Branch of Austroasiatic? In Sophana Srichampa, Paul Sidwell & Kenneth Gregerson (eds.) Austroasiatic Studies: papers from the ICAAL4: Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Special Issue No. 3. Dallas, SIL International; Canberra, Pacific Linguistics; Salaya, Mahidol University. pp. 90-101.
- Sidwell, Paul & Roger Blench. 2011. The Austroasiatic Urheimat: the Southeastern Riverine Hypothesis. In The Dynamics of Human Diversity. N. J. Enfield (ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp.315-344.
- Sidwell, Paul, Jerold A. Edmondson & Kenneth Gregerson. 2011. The North Bahnaric Clade: A Computational Approach. In Sophana Srichampa, Paul Sidwell & Kenneth Gregerson (eds.) Austroasiatic Studies: papers from the ICAAL4: Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Special Issue No. 3. Dallas, SIL International; Canberra, Pacific Linguistics; Salaya, Mahidol University. pp.23-37
- Sidwell, Paul. 2011. Comment on Holman et al. "Automated Dating of the World's Language Families Based on Lexical Similarity", In Current Anthropology 52.6:869-870.
- Sidwell, Paul. 2011. Comparative Mon-Khmer Linguistics in the 20th Century: where from, where to?. Austro-Asiatic Linguistics: In memory of R. Elangaiyan. K.S. Nagaraja (ed.) (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Austroasiatic Languages). Mysore, Central Institute of Indian Languages. pp.38-104
- Sidwell, Paul. 2011. Katuic-Bahnaric: Austroasiatic sub-family or convergence area?. In Sophana Srichampa, Paul Sidwell & Kenneth Gregerson (eds.) Austroasiatic Studies: papers from the ICAAL4: Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Special Issue No. 3. Dallas, SIL International; Canberra, Pacific Linguistics; Salaya, Mahidol University.
- Sidwell, Paul. 2011. Proto-Khasian and Khasi-Palaungic, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 5.2:144-168.
- Jenner, P & Sidwell, P 2010, Old Khmer Grammar, Pacific Linguistics, Australia.
- Sidwell, P 2010, 'Cua(Kor) historical phonology and classification', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 39, no. 2010, pp. 105-122.
- Sidwell, P, ed., 2010, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Volume 3.1.
- Sidwell, P, ed., 2010, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Volume 3.2.
- Sidwell, P, ed., 2009, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Volume 2.
- Sidwell, P, ed., 2009, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Volume 1.
- Sidwell, P & Tadmor, U, eds, 2008, SEALS XVI: papers from the 16th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2006, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Sidwell, P 2009, Classifying the Austroasiatic languages: History and state of the art, Lincom Europa, Munich Germany.
- Sidwell, P 2009, 'How many branches in a tree? Cua and East (North) Bahnaric', in Bethwyn Evans (ed.), Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 193-204.
- Sidwell, P 2008, 'Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer', 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. 251-268.
- Sidwell, P 2008, 'The Khom script of the Kommodam Rebellion', International Journal of the sociology of language, vol. 2008, no. 192, pp. 15-25.
- Sidwell, P 2008, 'On the sources of loans in the Proto-Chamic lexicon', Annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2004, ed. Wilaiwan Khanittanan and Paul Sidwell, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 261-267.
- Jacq, P & Sidwell, P 2007, 'Orientation Origins: The source of Jru' cardinals', in Ratree Wayland, John Hartmann and Paul Sidwell (ed.), SEALS XII: Papers from the 12th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2002), Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 101-106.
- Wayland, R, Hartmann, J & Sidwell, P, eds, 2007, The Mon-Khmer substrate in Chamic: Chamic, Bahnaric and Katuic contact, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Sidwell, P 2007, 'The Mon-Khmer substrate in Chamic: Chamic, Bahnaric & Katuic contact', in Ratree Wayland, John Hartmann and Paul Sidwell (ed.), SEALS XII: Papers from the 12th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2002), Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 113-128.
- Sidwell, P 2005, 'Proto-Katuic Phonology and the Sub-Grouping of Mon-Khmer Languages', Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2005, ed. Paul Sidwell, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 204-215.
- Sidwell, P 2005, 'Acehnese and the Aceh-Chamic Language Family', in Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell (ed.), Chamic and beyond: studies in mainland Austronesian languages, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 211-231.
- Sidwell, P 2005, The Katuic Languages: Classification, Reconstruction and Comparative Lexicon, Lincom Europa, Muenchen, Germany.
- Sidwell, P 2005, 'Genetic classification of the Bahnaric languages: a comprehensive review', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 32, no. Jan, pp. 1-24.
- Sidwell, P & Jacq, P 2003, A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: Volume 1: West Bahnaric, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.
- Sidwell, P 2003, 'A note on the reconstruction of Proto West Bahnaric and investigation of early West Bahnaric-Katuic contact', Mon-Khmer Studies: a journal of Southeast Asian Languages and cultures, vol. 33, pp. 159-166.
- Jacq, P & Sidwell, P 2000, A Comparative West Bahnaric Dictionary, Lincom Europa, Munich.
- Georg, S, Michalove, P, Ramer, A et al 1999, 'Telling general linguists about Altaic', Journal of Linguistics, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 65-98.
- Jacq, P & Sidwell, P 1999, 'Loven (Juruq) Consolidated Lexicon', in <> (ed.), <>, p. 110.
- Sidwell, P 1999, 'The Austroasiatic numerals 1 to 10 from a historical and typological perspective.', in Givozdanovic, Jandranka (ed.), Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Berlin. New York, pp. 253-271.
- Sidwell, P 1999, 'The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work-A Case Study', in unknown (ed.), The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics, in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 597-608.
Projects and Grants
Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.
- Unlocking the Missing Millennia of Mainland Southeast Asia: the Proto-Austroasiatic Lexicon Project (Primary Investigator)
- Linguistic Preshistory in Southeast Asia: 2000 Years of Contact Between Austroastic and Austronesian Speakers (Primary Investigator)
- History of the Bahnaric Languages (Primary Investigator)
