James McElvenny's website

E-mail: my first name followed by the at sign and then pfed dot info

Academic pieces

• forthcoming. The diachronic evolution of the direction particle lái in Mandarin. In Rachel Hendery and Jennifer Hendriks (eds.), Grammatical Change: theory and description, CRLC series ‘Studies in Language Change’.
• 2008. Review of Kirrkirr. Language Documentation and Conservation, 2.1.

Popular pieces

• 14 March 2009. 'Producing pidgins', on Lingua Franca, ABC Radio National.

Unpublished pieces

• 2006b. The diachronic evolution of directional constructions in Mandarin, Honours thesis, University of Sydney.
• 2006a. Draft Sketch Grammar of the Mudukumo Language, East Sepik Province, PNG. (Available on request.)
• 2005. Serial verb constructions in Muna. (Available on request.)

Bits and pieces

• XSL for interlinear texts.
• I am an occasional contributor to the Transient Languages and Cultures Blog

Conference presentations

• 2009b. Edward Sapir, linguistic relativity and international language. Third International Free Linguistics Conference, Sydney.
• 2009a. With Aidan Wilson. Electronic dictionaries for language reclamation. International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Hawai‘i.
• 2008. The Kaurna pronouncing dictionary. Australian Languages Workshop, Kioloa.
• 2006b. With Jane Simpson and Tom Honeyman. Indigenous languages and linguistics in Australia and its region. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney.
• 2006a. The diachronic evolution of directional complement constructions in Mandarin. Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Grammatical Change Workshop, Brisbane.

Software

• With Elwin Cross and Daniel Rosewell. Catsplat, a game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
• With contributions from many others. Wunderkammer, an application for storing and displaying dictionaries on mobile phones.

James McElvenny (first name followed by the at sign then pfed dot info), 22 October 2009