Darrell Tryon, MA (Cant), PhD (ANU), FASSA
Emeritus Professor, Department of Linguistics

Email: darrell.tryon@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I was educated in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury, and later at The Australian National University. Most recently, I have been involved in the completion of a book on Pacific Pidgins and Creoles (with J-M Charpentier, CNRS, Paris) and am actively engaged in work on language endangerment and national languages in the Pacific.

Research Interests

Austronesian linguistics; pidgins and creoles; language contact and language change; vernacular education; language endangerment and globalisation.

Key Publications

• (ed.) Austronesian Dictionary, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1995.
• (ed. with Tom Dutton) Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1994.
• (ed. with S.A. Wurm and Peter Mühlhausler) Atlas of the Languages of Intercultural Communication, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1997.

Career Highlights

Deputy Director, RSPAS, and prescribed authority; Constitutional Adviser to Vanuatu Government; Council Member, University of New Caledonia; Member, South Pacific Cultures Fund Advisory Board (1983-96).