[PapuanLanguages] new to the list

[Andrew Pawley]

Dear Nick

> I'm joining the list to see what's going on in the Papuan world,  and to hopefully make some connections with other fieldworkers in the region.

-- The Papuan list only bursts into life now and then.  The best way to find out what's going on the Papuan world is probably to check websites of departments, centres and individuals and then to correspond with people.   

>I'm  considering working with one of the languages on Alor in Indonesia.


-- There's certainly a need there.  As you may know, Marian Klamer of the U. Leiden has for the past few years been directing a project on Papuan languages of Alor and Pantar, concerned with language documentation and history. 


Regards


Andrew Pawley
Dept Linguistics, RSPAS
Australian National University

----- Original Message -----
From: nick williams <n.jay.williams at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:26 pm
Subject: [PapuanLanguages] new to the list
To: papuanlanguages at anu.edu.au

> Hi All,
> 
> My name is Nicholas Williams. I'm a new PhD student at the 
> University of
> Colorado at Boulder. As a linguist, I'm particularly interested 
> in language
> documentation/description, typology, 
> directionals/locationals/associatedmotion, and language-culture-
> cognition. I'm hoping to do fieldwork on a
> un(der)described language for my dissertation. I'm looking for a 
> place to
> work in the Pacific. I recently spent a year in the Marshall Islands,
> teaching and learning Marshallese. I also have some field 
> methods experience
> with Malay, and I'm currently studying Indonesian. However, I'm also
> interested in non-Austronesian languages of the region, and I'm 
> consideringworking with one of the languages on Alor in Indonesia.
> 
> I'm joining the list to see what's going on in the Papuan world, 
> and to hopefully make some connections with other fieldworkers in the region.
> 
> cheers!
> 
> -Nick
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