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Cultural Heritage, Death and Bereavement, Development, Emotions, Landscape, Linguistic Anthropology, Navigation, Perception, Poetics, Ritual, Social Change, Tourism, Social Organization, Austronesian Languages, Papuan Languages, Nominal Classification, Categorization, Language Change, Space, Language-Culture-Cognition, Semantics-Pragmatics |
Discipline(s) |
Linguistics
Anthropology
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Member of |
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)  |
Geographic administrative areas |
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Geographic places |
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
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Historical periods |
20th century
21st century
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Indigenous languages |
Kilivila |
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Experiences |
Field Research (1982 to 2012)
Trobriand Islanders' language, culture and cognition — German Research Scoiety
Kilivila grammar (including orthography) and dictionary, ritual communication, conceptualization of space, Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking, indigenous genres (= text categories) and metalinguistic classification of texts, eschatology, language and culture change, language, culture and cognition interface, endangered languages, language of perception, semantics-pragmatics interfaceTeaching Experiences (1990 to 2014)
general linguistics, anthropological linguistics — TU Berlin, U.K
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