Dr (Bill) Palmer
| Work Phone | (02) 4921 5157 |
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| Bill.Palmer@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Position | Senior Lecturer School of Humanities and Social Science |
| Office | MC116, McMullin Building |
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Biography
* Linguistics Discipline Convenor
* Program Leader, Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application Group
* Linguistics Research Higher Degree and Honours coordinator
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Sydney, 1999
- Master of Arts, University of Sydney
Research
Research keywords
- Language
- Linguistic structures
Research expertise
Austronesian and non-Austronesian Pacific languages- particularly the Oceanic languages of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville, Linguistic typology, Syntax- particularly argument structure and coding, Linguistic and nonlinguistic spatial behaviour and spatial cognition and the relationship between language and thought, Phonology- particularly reduplication and stress.
Fields of Research
| Description (Code) | % |
|---|---|
| Linguistics Not Elsewhere Classified(200499) | 100 |
Centres and Groups
Centre
Memberships
Committee/Associations (relevant to research).
- Member - Australian Linguistics Society
- Member - Linguistics Association of Great Britain
- Member - Linguistics Society of America
- Member - The Association for Linguistics Typology
Editorial Board.
- Editor - Mouton de Gruyter series Pacific Linguistics
Awards
Recognition.
| 1994 | Frank Coaldrake Scholarship University of Sydney (Australia) 1994 Frank Coaldrake Scholarship (University of Sydney) |
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| 1993 | Peter Lawrence Memorial Scholarship University of Sydney (Australia) 1993 Peter Lawrence Memorial Scholarship (University of Sydney) |
| 1992 | Peter Lawrence Memorial Scholarship University of Sydney (Australia) 1992 Peter Lawrence Memorial Scholarship (University of Sydney) |
| 1992 | Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) University of Sydney (Australia) 1992-95 Australian Postgraduate Award |