Pawley, Andrew

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7 . 9 . 5 .  I NST I TUTI ONAL FRAMEWORK OF LANGUAGE STUDY : 7 . 9 . 5 . 1 .  I N T R O D U C T I O N  UN IVERS I TY O F  AUCKLAND An drew P awley Department s  engaged in language study at the Universi ty of Auckland inc lude Anthropology , Asian Languages and Lit eratures , C lass ics , English , Germani c  Languages ,  Philos ophy and Romanc e Language s .  An undergraduat e maj or , and graduate degrees , are o ffered in linguis t ic s . Mos t  o f  the general cours es  in linguistics  are taught in the Department of Anthro­pology , but several of the other department s  offer spec ific language­re l ated or theoret ical course s  in linguist ic s .  A concentration o n  Paci fic languages exists  in the Department o f  Anthropology (where some t e n  faculty memb ers have maj or intere s t s  in certain indigenous languages of Polynes i a ,  Fij i and Papua New Guinea ) ,  and in the Department of Romance Languages ( where several faculty memb ers have res earch intere s t s  in French- and Spanish-based creoles and varieties of French spoken in the Pacifi c ,  and in the indigenous lan­guage s of New Caledonia and the Loyalty I s l ands ) .  7 . 9 . 5 . 2 .  T H E  D E P A R T M E N T  O F  AN T H R O P O L O G Y  The Department of Anthropology has been increasingly c oncerned with the New Guinea area s ince Ralph Bulmer j oined the faculty in 19 5 8 .  The pre sence in the s ame department of soc ial anthropologists , l inguists  and archaeologists  has led to  several int erdis c iplinary research proj ects  dealing with Papua New Guinea cultures . In terms of l inguistic work , the most fruit ful has been the study : ' Language and Percept ion of the Natural Environment ' ,  among the Kalam ( formerly spelt Karam) and Kopon peoples of the Bismarck-Schrader Range s ,  Madang Province . Init iated 129 1 Pawley, A. "Institutional Framework of Language Study: University of Auckland". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:1291-1296. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977.   DOI:10.15144/PL-C40.1291 ©1977 Pacific Linguistics and/or the author(s).  Online edition licensed 2015 CC BY-SA 4.0, with permission of PL.  A sealang.net/CRCL initiative.129 2 A. PAWLEY in 1959-60  by R . N . H .  Bulmer and B . G . Biggs , this proj e c t  has involved. ext ended research by two linguists and two social anthropo logis t s  from Auckland , in collab orat ion with one social anthropo logi s t  and four natural scientists  from institut ions in Papua New Guinea ,  Australia and New Zealand , and with substantial additional ass istance in ident ifica­t ion of biological specimens from over 2 0  specialists  in 11 inst itutions in Australia ,  New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , the U . K . , the U . S . A . , and the Ne therlands . 7 . 9 . 5 . 2 . 1 .  R . N . H .  BULMER R . N . H .  Bulmer has spent some three years among the Kyaka Enga o f  the Baiyer Valley , and t he Kalam of the Kaironk Valley , between 1955  and the present , studying s ocial organisat ion and folk-biology . His pub­licat ions on Kalam folk taxonomy ( Bulmer 196 7 ,  1968a , 1968b , 1 9 70 , 1 9 7 4 , Bulmer and Tyler 19 6 8 ,  Bulmer and Men zies 1 9 7 2-7 3 ,  Bulme r ,  Menzies and Parker 19 7 5 )  are among the most detailed studies of lexical domains in any New Guinea language . An important innovation in Bulmer ' s  ethno­z oo logical work is the not ion of ' spec ieme ' or taxonomic category denot ing a minimal natural unit recogni sed to contrast with all other unit s  by multiple characters of  appearance and b ehaviour .  Bulmer is  co-author , with A . K .  Pawley and B . G .  Biggs , o f  A F��� t V�ct�on��y 0 6  K�l�m , now in the final stages of preparat i on fo r pub licat ion in P�c� 6�c L�ngu� t�c� . 7 . 9 . 5 . 2 . 2 .  B . G .  B I GGS Bruc e Biggs carried out linguistic res earch among the Kyaka Enga and Kalam in 1959-60  and among the Kalam in 19 6 3-6 4 .  His phonological analysis  of  Kalam ( 19 6 3 )  estab lished that a large proport ion of Kalam words are best  interpreted as cont aining no vowel phonemes .  He went on to suggest that the very short central vowels report ed as occurring between consonants  in several other New Guinea language s might turn out to be non-phonemic ,  as in Kalam . Sub s equent studies have tended to support this sugge s t ion ; it  may be an are al feature of New Guinea lan­guages that there is  ' loose ' execut ion of  certain type8 of consonant clus t ers , with a non- contrast ive weak vowel  or vowe l-like transition generally appearing b etween s uccess ive point s of contoid art iculation , in contrast to the ' t ight ' or ' c lose-knit ' execution of  consonant clus t ers usually found in We st European languages . Biggs is co-author , with Bulmer and Pawley , o f  A F��� t V�ctlon��y 0 6  K�l�m. 7 . 9 . 5 .  INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF LANGUAGE STUDY : U .  AUCKLAND 7 . 9 . 5 . 2 . 3 .  A . K .  PAW L E Y  1 2 9 3  Andrew Paw ley spent 1 1  months among the Kalam i n  the period 19 6 3- 7 5 . His doctoral dissert at i on ( 19 66 )  was a structural analysis  of  Kalam phonology and grammar . More recent s tudies have dealt with Kalam lexi­con ( Pawley 19 7 0 ,  Bulmer , Pawley and Biggs forthcoming ) and with aspects of Kalam syntax and s emant ics ( Pawley 1969 , forthcoming a),  particularly the fact that Kalam morpheme strings denot ing events correspond closely in structure to the ab s t ract struc tures posited as underlying s ingle morpheme verb s in English . Kalam makes very frequent use of  a do zen or s o  verb s t ems w ith very broad meanings ; typic ally , a term for an ac tion,  proce s s  or state  is  composed o f  one or a series o f  these verb stems together with other morpheme s denoting semantic components of the ' event concept ' ,  e . g . m n m  ag ii - ( speech ut ter transfer ) ' to t e n , ' .  With W . E .  Tomasetti , forme rly o f  the University o f  Papua New Guinea , Pawley  h as collected wordlis ts from more than 2 0 0  Aust rones ian languages of  Papua New Guinea ( those from languages o f  Papua appear in Pawley and Dut t on , eds , forthcoming ( a- c ) , as well as for s ome Papuan language s ( Dutton and Pawley , e ds , forthcoming ( a- c ) ) .  Two recent papers ( Pawley 19 75a , fort hcoming c )  invest igate the relationships of the Austronesian lan­guages of  New Guinea,  and another ( Pawley and Green 1 9 7 3 )  tries t o  corre lat e lingui stic and archaeo logical evidence for dat ing the spread of  Aust rones ian- spe aking communities in and east of the New Guinea area . An interes t  in the nature and evolut ion o f  the sound sys tems of  varieties of  New Guinea Pidgin ( Pawley 19 75b , forthcoming b)  has stemned from the hypo­theses  that loose execut ion o f  cons onant clus ters is a New Guinea areal feature , and that a pidgin may show a pattern of s ound corre spondences with the s uperstrate language that is  less  regular than that obtaining be tween ' normally ' related languages .  7 . 9 . 5 . 2 . 4 . G .  JACKSON Graham Jacks on has spent s ome three years be tween 1 9 6 6  and 19 7 4  among the Kopon- speaking people  of  Yhal Ridge in the Lower Kaironk . He has prepared unpub li shed analyses  o f  Yhal Kopon phono logy and morph­o logy and a sub s t antial manus cript dictionary . His doct oral diss erta­tion ( Jackson 19 7 5 )  focuses  on Kopon concepts of medicine and dis e ase , s ocial structure , and , e specially , t ab o o ,  and c ontains detai led analy s e s  o f  lexical domains related t o  these areas o f  the culture . B IGGS , B . G .  1 9 6 3  A .  PAWLEY B I B L I OGRAPH Y ' A  Non-phonemic Central Vowel Type in Karam , a ' Pygmy ' Language of  the Schrader Mountains , Central New Guinea ' .  AnL  5/4 : 13- 17 . BULMER,  R . N . H .  1 9 6 7  196 Ba 1 9 6 Bb 1 9 7 0  1 9 7 4  ' Why is  the Cassowary Not a Bird? A Prob lem of Zoological Taxonomy among the Karam of  the New Guinea Highlands ' .  Man n . s .  2 : 5- 2 5 .  ' Worms that Croak and Other Mysteries of  Karam Natural History ' . Mankind 6/12 : 6 21-39 . ' Karam Colour Categorie s ' . Kiv ung 1 : 1 2 0- 3 3 .  ' Which Came Firs t ,  the Chi cken or  the Egg-he ad? ' .  In : Pouillon , J .  and P .  Maranda , eds � chan g e4 e� communi ca�i o n4 : melang e4 o 6 6 e��4 a Claude L evi-S��au4 4 . . .  10 69-9 1 .  Pari s : Mout on . ' Folk Biology in the New Guinea Highlands ' .  S o cial S ci ence I n 6 o�ma�ion  1 3 : 9 -2 8 .  BULMER , R . N . H .  and J . I .  MENZ IES 1 9 7 2 - 7 3  ' Karam C lassification of Marsupials and Rodents ' .  JPS 81 : 4 7 2- 9 9 ; 82 : 86-1 0 7 .  BULME R ,  R . N . H . , J . I .  MENZ IES and F .  PARKER 19 7 5  ' Kalam C lassificat i on of Reptiles and Fi shes ' .  J PS 84 : 2 67-30 8 .  1 2 9 4  7 . 9 . 5 .  INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF LANGUAGE STUDY : U .  AUCKLAND 1 2 9 5  BULME R ,  R . N . H . , A . K .  PAWLEY and B . G . B IGGS forth­coming A First Di cti onary of Kalam . pub li shed in P L .  Mimeographed . T o  b e  BULME R ,  R . N . H .  and M . J .  TYLER 19 6 8  ' Karam Clas s i ficat ion of Frogs ' .  JPS 7 7 : 333-85 . DUTTON , T . E .  and A . K .  PAWLEY , eds forth- B � i e  Vo eab ula�y Li� � 0 6  N o n - Au� t�o n e� ian Lang uag e� 0 6  coming ( a ) Cent�a l ,  ( b ) S o uth- E a� t ,  and ( c ) No�the�n Papua .  To be pub lished in P L .  JACKSON , G .  19 7 5  PAWLEY , A. K .  1 9 6 6  The Kopon : Li fe and De ath on the Fringe s of  the New Guinea Highlands . Ph . D .  diss ertat io n ,  University of Auckland , New Zealand . The Structure of  Karam : A Grammar of  a New Guinea Highlands Language . Ph . D .  dissert ation , Univers ity of  Auckland , New Z e aland . 1 9 6 9  ' Trans format ional Grammar and the Native Spe aker : Some E lement ary Issues ' . Kivung 2/2 : 2 - 36 . 1 9 7 0  1 9 7 5 a  1 9 7 5b forth­coming a ' Are Emic Dict ionaries Pos sible?  An Experiment with Karam , a New Guinea Highlands Language ' .  Kivung 3/1 : 8- 1 6 . ' The Relat i onships o f  the Aus trones ian Language s of  C entral Papua : A Preliminary S tudy ' .  In : Dutton , T . E . , e d .  Studie� i n  L ang uag e� 0 6  C ent�al and S o uth- Ea�t Papua. P L , C- 2 9 : 3-10 5 .  ' On Epenthet ic Vowels in New Guinea Pidgin ' .  In : McElhanon , K . A . , ed . T o k  Pi� in i g o  we?  Proceedings of a Conference h e ld at the Univers ity of  Papua New Guinea,  Port Moresby , P . N . G . , 18-21  September , 19 7 3 .  Kivung S p eeial Publieation Num b e� O n e .  2 15-2 8 .  ' I  Eye-perce ive that Si cknes s  Acts  on Him , or , Kalam Class ification of Bodily Processes  by Syntax ' .  in W P L UH . To appear 129 6 forth­coming b forth­coming c A. PAWLEY ' On Sound Change in New Guinea Pidgin ' .  To appear in W P L UH . ' The New Guinea Oceanic Hypothes i s ' .  To appear in WPLUH . PAWLEY , A . K .  and R . C .  GREEN 19 7 3  ( 19 76 )  ' Dating the Dispersal of  the Oceani c Languages ' .  Pap e�� 0 6  �he Fi�� � I n�e�n�ional C o n 6 e�ence o n  Co mpa�a�ive  Au� ��o ne�ian Ling ui� �i� , 1 9 7 4  - Oceanic . OL  12 : 1- 6 8 .  PAWLEY , A . K .  and T . E .  DUTTON , eds forth­coming B � ic V o c ab ula�y Li��� 0 6  Au� ��one�ian Languag e� 0 6  ( a ) Cen��al , ( b ) Mai nland S o u�h - Ea� � ,  and ( c )  I n� ula� S o �h- Ea�� Papua . To b e  pub lished in P L .  Pawley, A. "Institutional Framework of Language Study: University of Auckland". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:1291-1296. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977.   DOI:10.15144/PL-C40.1291 ©1977 Pacific Linguistics and/or the author(s).  Online edition licensed 2015 CC BY-SA 4.0, with permission of PL.  A sealang.net/CRCL initiative.

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