Dr Simon Musgrave
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| Simon Musgrave with Mr Daan Saija, a speaker of the Haruku language, at a language workshop in the Netherlands in 2003. |
- Qualifications and position
- Background
- Research areas
- Recent publications
- Full CV including publication list [PDF format only, 22 KB]
- Contact
Qualifications and Position
- BA(Hons), University of Sydney
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- Dip.Arts (Music), Victorian College of the Arts
- Lecturer
Background
My PhD thesis (available in PDF format only, 2 MB) looked at aspects of the syntax of Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), from the viewpoint of Lexical-Functional Grammar.
Between 2001 and 2003, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leiden in the Spinoza Project: Lexicon and Syntax developing the typological database which is a part of the project. In that project, I also researched some issues in comparative syntax of languages from Eastern Indonesia.
From mid 2003 until 2007, I was an ARC post-doctoral fellow in the Linguistics Program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash. I worked on the project "Cross-linguistic study of endangered Maluku languages: Eastern Indonesia and the Dutch diaspora" with Dr Margaret Florey and Dr Michael Ewing. Within the project, I worked on documentation of the language spoken in the villages of Tulehu , Tial, Tengah-tengah, Liang and Waai.
Current research projects include an investigation of knowledge of endangered languages amongst the Sudanese community in Melbourne (with Prof. John Hajek, University of Melbourne) and projects looking at issues in medical communication in intercultural settings. I am also a member of the steering committee of the AusNC (Australian National Corpus) initiative.
Research Areas
- languages of Central Maluku
- syntax of languages of the Austronesian family, particularly Indonesian and Sasak
- non-derivational formal models of syntax
- syntactic typology
- computational tools for handling linguistic data, especially data managment for linguistic field work and archiving of linguistic data
- medical communication, particularly in intercultural contexts
More information about my research (including pre-prints and handouts) can be found on my unofficial pages.
Recent Publications
- to appear Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography. Language. [Donohue, Musgrave, Whiting and Wichmann]
- in press. Establishing a niche in applied linguistics and educational technology research articles. In Salager-Meyer, Françoise and Lewin, Beverly A. (Eds.). Crosswords: Criticism in Scholarly Writing. Bern: Peter Lang. [Pho, Musgrave and Bradshaw]
- 2010 Reduced pronouns and argument coding in Sou Amana Teru, Ambon Island. In Michael C. Ewing & Marian Klamer (eds.) Typological and Areal Analyses: Contributions from East Nusantara, 143-164. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
- 2010 Kinship, Optimality and Ttypology (Commentary on Jones). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33(5):397-8. [Musgrave, Dowe]
- 2009 Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments. In Proceedings of COLING 2008 (The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics) [Mistica, Meladel, Timothy Baldwin, Marisa Cordella & Simon Musgrave]
- 2009 (editor with Martin Eveaert and Alexis Dimitriadis) The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 2009 Introduction. In Everaert, Musgrave and Dimitriadis (eds) The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies, 1-12. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter [Musgrave, Everaert, Dimitriadis]
- 2009 Designing linguistic databases: a primer for linguists. In Everaert, Musgrave and Dimitriadis (eds) The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies, 13-75. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter [Dimitriadis, Musgrave]
- 2009 Language documentation and an Australian National Corpus. In Michael Haugh, Kate Burridge, Jean Mulder, and Pam Peters (eds) Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages 10-18.Somerville MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [Musgrave, Cutfield]
- 2008 (editor with Peter K. Austin) Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian CSLI Publications
- 2008 Introduction. In Musgrave& Austin (eds), Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian CSLI Publications
- 2008 The status of the grammatical function OBJ in Indoensian. In Musgrave& Austin (eds), Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian CSLI Publications
- 2007 Typology and the linguistic macro-history of Island Melanesia. Oceanic Linguistics 46:325-364. (with Mark Donohue)
- 2007 Documentary linguistics and ethical issues. In Peter K.Austin (ed.) Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics, Vol. 4, 26-37. London: School of Oriental and Asian Studies. [with Nick Thieberger]
Contact
Dr Simon Musgrave
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building 11
Monash University
Clayton
Australia 3800
Room: Rm W409
Ph: +61 (3) 9905 8234
Fax: +61 (3) 9905 5437
Email: Simon.Musgrave@arts.monash.edu.au
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