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20132023

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Research interests

James is a lecturer in linguistics at Charles Darwin University, an honorary lecturer at the Australian National University and a member of the Top End Language Lab.

His research and teaching interests are focused around areas of morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics and their interfaces; semantic and structural typology; language documentation and description methods; and language revitalisation and maintenance practices.

His research is collaborative and community-guided, having lived and worked in Mid-West Western Australia and in east Arnhem Land for over a decade. He works in collaboration with a number of First Nations language communities, particularly with the Badimia/Badimaya community in Mid-West WA, and with Warnumamalya communities on the Groote Eylandt archipelago in east Arnhem Land .

Current research interests and projects include:

  • the semantics of tense, aspect, modality and event structure in Top End Australian languages (particularly Anindilyakwa)
  • methods for monolingual encyclopedic and lexicographic descriptions (incl. word storytelling, riddle-making and language games) (with the Groote Eylandt Language Centre)
  • Badimia/Badimaya language revitalisation, including the develoment of a community-led language learning/teaching online portal (with Kiara Rahman, Gary Passmore, Bundiyarra - Irra Wangga Language Centre and the Badimia Reference and Working Groups)
  • expressing mathematical concepts in First Nations languages for teaching and learning in school contexts, particularly considering topics of geometric shape and spatial expression (with Cris Edmonds-Wathen and Groote Eylandt Bickerton Island Primary College Aboriginal Corporation (GEBIPCAC))

Visit James' personal website for more about current projects, downloadable papers and other information.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, L’expression de la temporalité, de l’aspectualité, et de la modalité en Anindilyakwa, la langue de Groote Eylandt, Australie, Université de Paris

Award Date: 7 Jul 2021

PhD, Temporal, aspectual and modal expression in Anindilyakwa, the language of the Groote Eylandt archipelago, Australia, Australian National University

Award Date: 21 Dec 2020

Bachelor of Arts (Honours, H1) in Linguistics, University of Western Australia

Award Date: 13 Mar 2012

Bachelor of Music (Performance), University of Western Australia

Award Date: 23 Mar 2011

Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics, Anthropology, French), University of Western Australia

Award Date: 22 Mar 2011

External positions

Honorary Lecturer, Australian National University

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