Paul Sidwell, BA, PhD (Melbourne)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Linguistics
Email: Paul.Sidwell@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
I first studied Russian and comparative Slavonic languages at the University of Melbourne, subsequently turning to minority languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. I moved to Canberra in 1999, and took up an ARC postdoctoral fellowship in 2001. I am now pursuing 2 main lines of research:
- linguistic prehistory of the Mon-Khmer speaking peoples, and
- survey and documentation of endangered languages of southern Laos.
Research Interests
Comparative and Palaeolinguistics, descriptive linguists, Mon-Khmer languages and ethnic groups, Southeast Asian (pre)history, language contact, phonetics, phonology, forensic linguistics, history of linguistics.
Research site at: people.anu.edu.au/~a108009
Key Publications
- 'The Katuic Languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon'. Munich, Lincom Europa, 2005.
- (with Pascale Jacq). 'A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: volume 1 West Bahnaric', ¯ Canberra, Pacific Linguistics 551, 2003.
- 'Proto South Bahnaric: a reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China', Canberra, Pacific Linguistics (501), 2001.
- 'Genetic classification of the Bahnaric languages: a comprehensive review', Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 32, 2002.
- (with Stefan Georg, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Peter Michalove) 'Telling general linguists about Altaic'. Journal of Linguistics 35:65-98, 1999.
- (as editor) 'A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary', by Prof. H. L. Shorto (1919-1995). Canberra, Pacific Linguistics (In Press)
Career Highlights
Australian Research Council Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University (2001-04).
