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(f.c.) Kokota grammar. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication. Honolulu: Uni. of Hawai’i Press.
(f.c.) Stress assignment in Kokota. A case study in prosodic change. Munich: Lincom Europa.
(f.c.) Uruava. A salvage description of an extinct Bougainville language. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
(2001) Syntax. Suva: University of the South Pacific.
(2000) SICOL Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics: vol.2, Historical and descriptive studies. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. (eds with Paul Geraghty)
(f.c.) ‘Information structure and the pragmatic function of clause order variation in Cheke Holo.’ Studies in Language
(f.c.) ‘Owners into actors: possessive morphology as argument-indexing in Northwest Solomonic.’ Linguistics
(f.c.) ‘Pointing at the lagoon: directional terms in atoll-based languages.’ In Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diane Eades (eds) Linguistic description and linguistic applications: Studies in memory of Terry Crowley. Oxford: John Benjamins.
(2003) ‘Linguistic Frame of Reference reconsidered.’ In Peter Collins & Mengistu Amberber (eds) Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society.www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/als/als2002.html
(2002) ‘Absolute spatial reference and the grammaticalisation of perceptually salient phenomena.’ In Giovanni Bennardo (ed) Representing space in Oceania: culture in language and mind. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
(2002) ‘Kokota.’ In John Lynch, Malcolm D. Ross and Terry Crowley (eds) The Oceanic languages. London: Curzon Press.
(1999) ‘Voiceless sonorants - phonemes or underlying clusters?’ Australian Journal of Linguistics 19/1:77-88.
(1997) ‘Notes on mood and aspect in Simbo ( Mandeghusu, Solomon Islands).’ In John Lynch & Fa'afo Pat (eds) Proceedings of First International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
(f.c.) Review of S.C. Levinson, 2002, Serial verbs in Oceanic . [To appear in Journal of Linguistics]
(f.c.) Review of Karen Davis, 2003, Space in language and cognition. [To appear in Australian Journal of Linguistics ]
(f.c.) Review of Stephan C. Levinson, 2003, Space in language and cognition. [To appear in GLOT]
(2005) An annotated bibliography of Northwest Solomonic languages.
(2004) A dictionary of Kokota.
(2004) A dictionary of Uruava.
(2004) A draft dictionary of Simbo.
(2004) A draft dictionary of Torau.
(2004) Northwest Solomonic materials.
(1999) A grammar of the Kokota language, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands. PhD thesis, University of Sydney.
(1999) Review of G. Senft, 1997, Referring to Space: studies in Austronesian and Papuan languages. In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5/2:331-332
(1998) Review article of P. Bloom, M.A. Peterson, L. Nadel and M.F. Garrett (eds), 1996, Language and Space. In Anthropological Linguistics 40/4:1-11
(1992) Commonality and distinctiveness: towards a theory of morphemics. MA Thesis, University of Sydney.
(2002) Talking about space - thinking about space. Linguistic spatial reference and its significance for the relationship between language and cognition. 6 th Australian Linguistics Institute, Macquarie University.
(2005) Direct characteristic possession and the dominant/subordinate distinction in Oceanic. UK Austronesian Research Group 1st Workshop on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics. St Catherine's College Oxford.
(2005) Dominant and subordinate possession in Oceanic. Workshop on Daghestanian Lexicology and Typology. University of Surrey.
(2005) MAX-BR and feature copying in Malagasy reduplication . 13th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Hulme Hall, Manchester.
(2005) 'Saving' endangered languages. Why bother? London House Trust [Public lecture]
(2004) Standing Whorf on his head: evidence from spatial reference on the relationship between language and thought. International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind, University of Portsmouth.
(2004) A unified OT account of reduplication and stress in Malagasy. Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference, University of Surrey (Roehampton).
(2003) Owners into actors: How possessive morphology became subject agreement in the languages of Bougainville. Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference, Oxford University.
(2003) Shifting stress: synchronic variation as a manifestation of diachronic change in Kokota (Oceanic) prosody. Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference, University of Sheffield.
(2002) Directional terminology in Kiribati and Marshallese. 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Australian National University.
(2002) Linguistic Frame of Reference reconsidered. Australian Linguistics Society conference, Macquarie University.
(2002) 'Possessive' marked verbal constructions in eastern Bougainville. 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Australian National University.
(2002) Rethinking spatial Frame of Reference. Linguistics Association of Great Britain conference, University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology.
(2001) From mora to syllable. A case study in prosodic change. 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, LaTrobe University.
(2001) The semantic basis of possessive marking in Kokota. 4th Annual Conference of the Victorian Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, University of Melbourne.
(2001) Three participant clauses in Kokota. Third International Workshop on Three Place Predicates and Three Participant Events, University of Melbourne.
(2000) When thought determines language: the view from space. Australian Linguistics Society conference, University of Melbourne.
(1999) Absolute frame of reference in atoll-based languages. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. [Guest presentation]
(1999) Virtual atoll: some conceptual evidence on the place of Nauru in the settlement patterns of Micronesia. XIXth Pacific Science Congress, University of New South Wales.
(1998) Grappling with the chameleon: the assignment of stress in Kokota. Vila Occasional Forum on Linguistics, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila.
(1998) Voiceless sonorants - phonemes or underlying clusters? Australian Linguistics Society conference, University of Queensland.
(1997) Finding your way on both sides of an island. Local reinterpretations of spatial reference in Austronesian languages. Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of Waikato.
(1997) The structure and form of dictionaries. National Dictionary Workshop, Vanuatu Cultural Centre.
(1995) Semantically driven agreement in Kokota (Solomon Islands). Australian Linguistics Society conference, Australian National University.
(1995) Topic and focus in Cheke Holo (Maringe). Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of the South Pacific, Suva.
(1993) Notes on mood and aspect in the language of Mandeghusu, western Solomon Islands. First International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila.
(1992) Selecting a field language: the Solomon Islands. Australian Linguistics Society conference, University of Sydney.
(1991) Commonality and distinctiveness. Australian Linguistics Society conference, University of Queensland.
(2003) Linguistic relativity and innate determinism: the view from space. University of Leeds.
(2003) Metrical Stress Theory and stress in Kokota (Oceanic). University of Leeds.
(2003) 'Possessive' marking of subject and aspect in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville. Centre for Language Research, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
(2002) Aspectual possessive marking of verbs in the Bougainville region. University of New South Wales.
(2002) Lagoons, backs, and the bottom of Heaven. Directions in Kiribati and the Marshall islands. University of Sydney.
(2002) Pointing at the Lagoon. Directional terminology in Kiribati and Marshallese. University of Leeds.
(2002) Possessive morphology as subject agreement in the languages of eastern Bougainville. Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey.
(2001) Reverbalised nominalizations: the strange case of possessive marking for tense, aspect and mood in North West Solomonic languages. University of Melbourne.
(2001) The space between Pinker and Boas. What absolute spatial reference tells us about relativism and innate determinism. LaTrobe University/Monash University.
(2001) Spatial reference in atoll-based languages. University of Melbourne.
(1999) Spatial reference in Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. University of the South Pacific, Port Vila.
(1997) Some thoughts on deixis and spatial reference. University of Western Sydney Macarthur.
(1995) Coreferential verbal indexing in Kokota (Solomon Islands). University of Sydney.
(1993) Aspects of VP structure of the language of Mandeghusu. University of Sydney.
(1991) Towards a theory of morphemic status. University of Sydney.
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