Product Code Database
Andrew Kenneth Pawley (born 1941 in Sydney) is an Australian–New Zealand linguist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.
His doctoral thesis, The structure of Karam: a grammar of a New Guinea Highlands language, was dedicated to Kalam language, a Papuan languages (Trans–New Guinea) language of Papua New Guinea.
He taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland from 1965 to 1989, with periods at the University of Papua New Guinea (1969) and the University of Hawaii (1973 to 1978). He moved to the Australian National University in 1990. He has taught at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Pawley took sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001). Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific.
Andrew Pawley has completed dictionaries of Wayan language (an Oceanic language of Western Fiji); and of Kalam language (a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea), in collaboration with Ian Saem Majnep.
Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond on the Oceanic Lexicon Project, an encyclopedic series using lexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment of Proto-Oceanic speakers. Homepage of the Oceanic Lexicon Project. Link to the published volumes, in open access. Five volumes have been published, in 1998, 2003, 2008, 2016.
Among these, the most important ones include:
|
|
