
Associate Professor Bill Palmer
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science (Linguistics)
- Email:bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5157
The power of words
A dedicated team of Newcastle linguists is committed to studying the practical, scientific and cultural significance of dying local languages.
"Understanding language is important to understanding what characterizes us as humans," says Palmer, the leader of the Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application research program and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science.
"Language is something all humans are born with a capacity to develop - children learn language without effort - so it is fundamental thing that is unique to humans."
Palmer and his colleagues are interested in the 94 per cent of the world's 7,000 languages that are spoken by just six per cent of the global population.
"The big languages will still be around in 100 years' time but many of the thousands of very small languages may well not be around, so we are in a race against time to document them and study their significance," he says.
"It is estimated that between 50 and 90 per cent of languages spoken today will die in the next century. Basically, if children don't acquire a language then it dies in that generation.
"In Australia it is believed there were about 260 indigenous languages at the time of white settlement. There are still over 100 but only about 18 of them are spoken by the current generation of children. So in the space of one generation we face the loss of more than 80 of those remaining languages."
Why should we worry about the loss of languages spoken in some cases by only a single village in a small country? Palmer says there are several reasons, apart from the overarching scientific value of studying language.
"Some researchers are interested in language endangerment for what you might call the philanthropic reason that it is an important cultural thing, that there is cultural identity and ethnic identity invested in language, so they should be at least documented for future generations of the community, even if the language cannot be preserved," he says.
"Another reason is that there is a lot of traditional knowledge enshrined in local language that risks being lost when the language dies.
"I have read that something like 75 per cent of plant-based pharmaceuticals were discovered by people talking to traditional healers and drawing on the terminology in their indigenous languages.
"So another good reason to study endangered languages relates to the sum total of human knowledge, which is impoverished by the loss of human languages."
Palmer says researchers often spend up to a year living with villagers in areas where languages are endangered. That attention can itself elevate the status of local languages and convince people that they have something worth saving.
He says many villages where there are endangered languages have to balance the competing interests of preserving local culture and fostering a more global outlook that will give their children a greater chance of success in the wider world.
The Endangered Languages research program now has more than 15 researchers now working across Australia, the Pacific Islands, Africa, Central Asia and Saudi Arabia.
Find out more about the Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application research program
The power of words
A dedicated team of Newcastle linguists is committed to studying the practical, scientific and cultural significance of dying local languages.
Career Summary
Biography
Research Expertise
Austronesian and non-Austronesian Pacific languages- particularly the Oceanic languages of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville, Linguistic typology, Linguistic and nonlinguistic spatial behaviour and spatial cognition and the relationship between language and thought, Syntax- particularly argument structure and coding, Phonology- particularly reduplication and stress.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Sydney
- Master of Arts, University of Sydney
Keywords
- Language
- Linguistic structures
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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200499 | Linguistics not elsewhere classified | 100 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
Title | Organisation / Department |
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2011 - | Editorial Board - Mouton de Gruyter series Pacific Linguistics | Mouton de Gruyter series Pacific Linguistics Australia |
1/1/2001 - 1/12/2001 | Research Fellow/Lecturer | The University of Melbourne Department of Linguistics Australia |
1/1/2000 - 1/12/2000 | Lecturer | University of Western Sydney Division of Languages & Linguistics Australia |
1/1/2002 - 1/12/2002 | Research Fellow/Lecturer | The University of New South Wales Department of Linguistics Australia |
1/1/1993 - 1/1/1997 | Lecturer | The University of Sydney Department of Linguistics Australia |
1/1/1997 - 1/12/1999 | Lecturer | University of the South Pacific Pacific Languages Unit Vanuatu |
1/1/2003 - 1/1/2004 | Lecturer | University of Leeds Department of English Language & Linguistics United Kingdom |
1/1/2005 - | Membership - The Association for Linguistics Typology | The Association for Linguistics Typology Australia |
1/1/2007 - | Membership - Linguistics Society of America | Linguistics Society of America United States |
1/1/2004 - | Membership - Linguistics Association of Great Britain | Linguistics Association of Great Britain United Kingdom |
1/1/1990 - | Membership - Australian Linguistics Society | Australian Linguistics Society Australia |
1/1/2008 - | Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Awards
Recognition
Year | Award |
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1994 |
Frank Coaldrake Scholarship University of Sydney |
1993 |
Peter Lawrence Memorial Scholarship University of Sydney |
1992 |
Peter Lawrence Memorial Scholarship University of Sydney |
1992 |
Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) University of Sydney |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (5 outputs)
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2017 | Palmer WD, The Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. A Comprehensive Guide, de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin (2017) | ||||
2016 | Palmer WD, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area. A Comprehensive Guide, de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin (2016) | ||||
2009 |
Palmer WD, Kokota Grammar, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 422 (2009) [A1]
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Chapter (7 outputs)
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2018 | Palmer WD, 'Language Families of the New Guinea Area', The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide, de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 1-16 (2018) [B1] | |||||||
2018 |
Palmer B, Gaby A, Lum J, Schlossberg J, 'Socioculturally mediated responses to environment shaping universals and diversity in spatial language', 195-205 (2018) [B1] © Springer International Publishing AG 2018. This paper reports on an empirical experiment-based study testing the extent to which systems of linguistic spatial reference correlat... [more] © Springer International Publishing AG 2018. This paper reports on an empirical experiment-based study testing the extent to which systems of linguistic spatial reference correlate with aspects of the physical environment in which a language community lives. We investigated linguistic spatial behaviour in two unrelated languages in both similar and contrasting locations, ranging from atoll islands to urban environments, using standardised tests whose results were subject to quantitative analysis. Our findings reveal significant variation in spatial referential strategy preference in the two languages. Some preferences correlated with environment (e.g. island vs. urban). However, others correlated with degree and nature of interaction with environment, and others with linguistic resources available to speakers. The findings demonstrate that spatial behaviour reflects a complex interplay of responses to environment; sociocultural interaction with environment; and speakers¿ linguistic repertoire.
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2015 |
Palmer WD, 'Topography in language: Absolute Frame of Reference and the Topographic Correspondence Hypothesis.', Language Structure and Environment: Social, Cultural, and Natural Factors, John Benjamins, London 177-226 (2015) [B1]
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Journal article (13 outputs)
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2019 | Palmer W, Blythe J, Gaby A, Hoffmann D, Ponsonnet M, 'Geospatial Natural Language in Indigenous Australia: Research Priorities', CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2455 17-27 (2019) [C1] | ||||||||||
2018 |
Palmer WD, Gaby A, Lum J, Schlossberg J, 'Diversity in Spatial Language Within Communities: The Interplay of Culture, Language and Landscape in Representations of Space.', http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-95977-083-5, (2018) [C1]
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2017 |
Palmer WD, 'Categorial flexibility as an artefact of the analysis: Pronouns, articles and the DP in Hoava and Standard Fijian.', STUDIES IN LANGUAGE, 41 408-444 (2017) [C1]
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2017 | Palmer WD, 'Pronouns and the DP in Hoava', Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics, 23 191-203 (2017) [C1] | ||||||||||
2017 |
Palmer W, Lum J, Schlossberg J, Gaby A, 'How does the environment shape spatial language? Evidence for sociotopography', Linguistic Typology, 21 457-491 (2017) [C1]
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2014 |
Palmer WD, 'An innovated possessor suffix and category in central Choiseul', Oceanic Linguistics, 53 155-169 (2014) [C1]
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2011 |
Evans B, Palmer WD, 'Contact-induced change in Southern Bougainville', Oceanic Linguistics, 50 489-529 (2011) [C1]
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2011 |
Palmer WD, 'Subject-indexing and possessive morphology in Northwest Solomonic', Linguistics, 49 685-747 (2011) [C1]
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2009 |
Palmer WD, 'Clause order and information structure in Cheke Holo', Oceanic Linguistics, 48 213-249 (2009) [C1]
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2008 |
Palmer WD, 'Passive possession in Oceanic', Studies in Phillippine Languages & Cultures, 18 119-141 (2008) [C1]
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2007 |
Palmer B, Brown D, 'Heads in oceanic indirect possession', Oceanic Linguistics, 46 199-209 (2007) [C1] In many Oceanic languages the "indirect" possessive construction, which is typically associated with alienable possession, uses special forms to host person and number a... [more] In many Oceanic languages the "indirect" possessive construction, which is typically associated with alienable possession, uses special forms to host person and number agreement indexing the possessor. This can be contrasted with the "direct" possessive construction, typically associated with inalienable possession, where a lexical possessum noun itself carries possessor-indexing agreement. The host forms used in the indirect construction are often referred to as "classifiers." We argue that this term should not be applied to indirect possession marking in many Oceanic languages, and present evidence to show that indirect possessor-indexing hosts in such languages do not have the properties typically associated with classifiers. In contrast with this, we further argue that these indirect possessor-indexing hosts should be treated as the syntactic head of the noun phrase in which they occur, thereby allowing treatment of the syntax of NPs with indirect possession that is consistent with those with direct marking. In both instances, the person and number indexing morphology simply attaches to the syntactic head. © by University of Hawai'i Press. All rights reserved.
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2007 |
Palmer B, 'Imperfective aspect and the interplay of aspect, tense, and modality in Torau', Oceanic Linguistics, 46 499-519 (2007) [C1] Torau displays a highly complex system of aspect, tense, and modal marking. One of the most complex elements of this system is the marking of imperfective aspect. Imperfective in ... [more] Torau displays a highly complex system of aspect, tense, and modal marking. One of the most complex elements of this system is the marking of imperfective aspect. Imperfective in Torau is marked by a construction employing a choice of two overt imperfective markers and the possible presence of reduplication. The range of imperfective semantics encoded by this construction varies widely, encompassing progressive, habitual, persistive, and progressive inchoative or inceptive. Which reading is given depends not only on the choice of imperfective marker and the presence or absence of reduplication, but on a complex interplay of these factors with other aspectual, modal, or tense marking, and the aspectual semantics of the verb itself. This paper teases apart each of these highly interdependent factors to determine the independent functional characteristics of each imperfective marker and of reduplication. © by University of Hawai'i Press. All rights reserved.
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1999 |
Palmer B, 'Voiceless Sonorants Phonemes or underlying clusters?', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 19 77-88 (1999) [C1] This paper examines the phenomenon of voiceless sonorants in Kokota (Oceanic, Solomon Islands). The phonemic status of these phones is examined in terms of the question¿are they u... [more] This paper examines the phenomenon of voiceless sonorants in Kokota (Oceanic, Solomon Islands). The phonemic status of these phones is examined in terms of the question¿are they underlyingly phonemes, or the result of the synchronic surface coalescence of underlying /h/ plus sonorant clusters? The relevant data from Kokota are presented, then two alternative models are briefly described¿underlying voiceless sonorant phonemes in Iaai, and the surface coalescence of CC sequences in Lenakel.1 Evidence from within Kokota is then examined in an attempt to determine which model Kokota best fits. The paper concludes that these Kokota phones represent underlying voiceless sonorant phonemes, giving the language a consonant phoneme inventory in which every voiced phoneme has a voiceless counterpart. © 1999, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Conference (67 outputs)
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2020 | Palmer W, 'The phylogenetic status of the Kaure languages of northeastern West Papua', Oslo (2020) | |||||||
2019 |
Krausse D, Palmer B, Malau C, 'A non-serializing Resultative Construction in Vurës (Vanuatu)', Noumea (2019)
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2019 |
Krausse D, Palmer W, 'Resultative functions and serialized roots in Vurës', Leiden (2019)
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2017 |
Palmer W, Gaby A, Lum J, Schlossberg J, 'Socioculturally mediated responses to environment shaping universals and diversity in spatial language', L'Aquila, Italy (2017) [E1]
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2015 | Palmer B, 'Typologizing linguistic expressions of spatial frame of reference', ALT 2015: 11th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology: Abstract Booklet, Albuquerque, NM (2015) [E3] | |||||||
2015 | Palmer WD, 'Marked-absolutive? Case, topic and clefts in Mono-Alu', Albuquerque, NM (2015) [E3] | |||||||
2015 | Palmer WD, 'Case, topic and clefts in Mono-Alu', Montreal, Canada (2015) [E3] | |||||||
2015 | Palmer WD, 'Putative morphological ergativity in Mono-Alu: the problem particle ga', The Thirteenth International Conference on Austroesian Linguistics (13-ICAL): Abstracts, Taipei, Taiwan (2015) [E2] | |||||||
2012 | Palmer WD, 'Nominal number in Meso-Melanesian', Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference, Bali, Indonesia (2012) [E1] | |||||||
2010 | Palmer WD, Evans B, 'Austronesian-Papuan contact in southern Bougainville', Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference ALS 2010: Programme and Abstracts, St Lucia, Qld (2010) [E3] | |||||||
2010 | Palmer WD, 'Landscape in language: Integrating topography in linguistic spatial reference', The Shaping of Language: The Relationship between the Structures of Languages and their Social, Cultural, Historical, and Natural Environments 2010 International Workshop, Melbourne (2010) [E3] | |||||||
2009 | Palmer WD, 'VSO order and the VP in Oceanic', 11 ICAL: Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Abstracts, Aussois, France (2009) [E3] | |||||||
2009 | Palmer WD, 'External objects and phrasal incorporation: Two apparent typologically unusual phenomena in Oceanic', ALL4: 4th Conference on Austronesian Languages & Linguistics: Programme, London, UK (2009) [E3] | |||||||
2009 | Palmer WD, 'VSO clause order and the VP: The case of Oceanic', ALT8 Abstracts, Berkeley, CA (2009) [E3] | |||||||
2009 | Palmer WD, 'Non-morphological reduplication in Torau', MOWL: Morphology of the World's Languages 2009: Program, Leipzig, Germany (2009) [E3] | |||||||
2008 | Palmer WD, 'Clitic doubling and the Hoava VP', Directions in Oceanic Research. Abstracts, Ourimbah, NSW (2008) [E3] | |||||||
2008 | Palmer WD, 'Imperfective aspect and the interplay of aspect, tense and modality in Torau', Linguistics Association of Great Britain Meeting 2008. Programme and Abstracts, Colchester, UK (2008) [E3] | |||||||
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Other (1 outputs)
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2013 | Palmer WD, 'Many languages in danger of extinction.', . Newcastle (2013) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 18 |
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Total funding | $1,543,029 |
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20211 grants / $15,000
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Faculty Cash Contribution$15,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig (Lead); Professor Lyndally Ryan; and Associate Professor Bill Palmer. |
Scheme | RFP 2020 |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20202 grants / $465,000
Landscape, language and culture in Indigenous Australia.$445,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer, Associate Professor Bill Palmer, Dr Joe Blythe, A/Pro Alice Gaby, Dr Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann, Joe Blythe, Dr Alice Gaby, Maia Ponsonnet |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | G1801507 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
Faculty funding for external engagement in 2020 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$20,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr J McIntyre (Direcotr); Dr GK Ariotti; A/Prof G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Dr J Coffey; A/Prof N Cushing; E/Prof H Craig; A/Prof B Palmer et al |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20191 grants / $100,000
Faulty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme 2019 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$100,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Prof H Craig; Prof P Dwyer; A/Prof J Gulddal; A/Prof M Harvey; Prof V Haskins (Director); Prof M Johnson; A/Prof B Palmer; A/Prof T Pender; Prof L Ryan. |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $100,000
Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$100,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Prof H Craig (Director); Prof P Dwyer; A/Prof J Gulddal; A/Prof M Harvey; Prof V Haskins; Prof M Johnson; Dr B Palmer; A/Prof T Pender; Prof L Ryan; Prof R Smith (Deputy Director). |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20161 grants / $200,000
Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme 2016/17 - Centre for 21st century Humanities$200,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Prof Hugh Craig; Prof Lisa Adkins; A/Prof Ros Smith; Prof Roland Boer; Prof Philip Dwyer; Dr Bill Palmer; A/Prof Mark Harvey; Prof Victoria Haskins; Prof Lyndall Ryan; Dr Trisha Pender. |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20141 grants / $90,000
Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application$90,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer, Associate Professor Mark Harvey, Associate Professor Aashild Naess, Doctor Catriona Malau |
Scheme | Research Programme 2014 |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1400925 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20132 grants / $9,241
IGS0220 Materials in Ratsua and the dialects of Hahon, two virtually undocumented endangered Oceanic language of northern Bougainville.$7,741
Funding body: The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Funding body | The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Small Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1300992 |
Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
Category | 3IFA |
UON | Y |
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 20, Arlington USA, 17-19 May 2013$1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | G1300646 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20122 grants / $314,267
Thinking and talking about atolls: the role of environment in shaping language and our understanding of physical space.$312,767
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer, Dr Alice Gaby |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1100293 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association XIX, Academia Ninica, Taipei, Taiwan, 26 - 30 June 2011$1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | G1200562 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20111 grants / $25,000
Using spatial language on atolls to understand how the environment shapes the way humans think about the physical world and their place in it. $25,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Near Miss Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2011 |
Funding Finish | 2011 |
GNo | G1001036 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20101 grants / $195,698
Documenting Ririo and Papapana: the two most highly endangered Northwest Solomonic languages$195,698
Funding body: University of London School of Oriental and African Studies
Funding body | University of London School of Oriental and African Studies |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2010 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G0190543 |
Type Of Funding | International - Non Competitive |
Category | 3IFB |
UON | Y |
20091 grants / $1,500
Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Aussois, 22-26 June 2009$1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2009 |
Funding Finish | 2009 |
GNo | G0190243 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20084 grants / $27,323
Expressing spatial relations in atoll-based communities: findings from Kiribati and the Marshall Islands$10,761
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Pilot Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189384 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Expressing spatial relations in atoll-based communities: findings from Kiribati and the Marshall Islands$9,112
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Pilot Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189054 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Northwest Solomonic Materials$5,750
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189027 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Linguistics Association of Great Britain Meeting 2008, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 10/9/2008 - 13/9/2008$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Bill Palmer |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189317 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
News
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August 22, 2017
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Linguistics breaks into world’s top 100
March 25, 2014
Associate Professor Bill Palmer
Position
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Linguistics
Contact Details
bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5157 |
Office
Room | SR140 |
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Building | Social Science Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |