{"id":3496,"date":"2006-11-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/11\/papuanists-workshop-wrap-up\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:40:57","slug":"papuanists-workshop-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/11\/papuanists-workshop-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Papuanists’ Workshop Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

In spite of a few early setbacks \u2013 including the workshop venue being eaten by termites \u2013 the Pearl Beach Papuanists’ Workshop<\/a>, or perhaps I should say the Itinerant Papuanists’ Workshop, was held last weekend.
\nEveryone had something interesting to say at the workshop. We heard from a range of people from SIL field linguists to PhD students to professors. The weekend was filled with intensive (and exhausting) discussion of many different aspects of Papuan languages and linguistics. Our exhaustion was kept at bay, however, by the New Guinea Fair Trade coffee that Tom so thoughtfully provided.<\/p>\n


\nSome of the most impressive talks came from PhD students in Melbourne University’s language documentation program<\/a>. Sebastian Fedden gave us a talk on reciprocal constructions in Mian. Later, he and Robyn Loughnane together presented their comparative work on the Ok family languages and Oksapmin and proposed a possible genetic relationship between the two. In another talk, Robyn and Lila San Roque from the ANU presented a survey of evidentiality in Duna and Oksapmin.
\nWe had several other visitors from the ANU. Antoinette Schapper gave us a report on grammatical gender in Bunak, based on her recent fieldwork. Alan Rumsey presented the latest work of the ANU project on tom yaya<\/i> sung narratives<\/a> from the Highlands in New Guinea. He made very good use of pictures and sound in his presentation \u2013 it’s very important when giving a talk not only to tell your audience about your latest research but also to entertain them. We also heard from Andy Pawley from the ANU, who told us about the striking similarities between English and Kalam rhyming jingles and what they tell us about the ‘psychic unity of mankind’.
\nCarl Whitehead from SIL Papua New Guinea<\/a> explained the intricacies of the pronominal system in Menya. We hope that in future more SIL linguists can join us. Their thorough work on many of the world’s largely undocumented languages is often invaluable and it is great when the opportunity arises for them to share it with us.
\nGrammatical topics were well represented in other talks. Bill Foley from Sydney University discussed direct and inverse systems in Lower Sepik languages. Wakizaka Miwako from Adelaide University presented an outline of her proposed research into the effect of substratum languages on speakers’ Tok Pisin. Syuntaro Tida from Kyoto University discussed the complexity of form-meaning correspondences in Dom. And Gerd Jendraschek<\/a> from RCLT explored some historical developments in the grammar of Iatmul.
\nThere were a few typologically oriented talks. Hil\u00e1rio de Sousa from Sydney University presented the preliminary findings of his survey project on switch reference systems in Papuan languages. And Mark Donohue from Monash University proposed a redefinition of the term ‘Papuan’ following typological principles.
\nThe weekend was great fun. We look forward to organising the workshop again in the future and hope that it will become a regular event.
\nBelow are a few photos taken by Hil\u00e1rio at the workshop.
\nAlan Rumsey’s talk.<\/b>
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\nFeeding time.<\/b>
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