Reserachers working on


LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION


(alphabetical order)

Alan JONES
Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Austronesian Languages, Emotion Terminology, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Anthropology of Ontology, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Reconstruction, Myth, Morality, Narratives, Custom

John Dominic LYNCH
Professor emeritus, Faculty of Arts, Law and Education at University of the South Pacific

Administrative areas: Tafea (Vanuatu), Vanuatu, Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Contact Linguistic, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Language, Language Change, Language Documentation, Language Shift, Linguistic Reconstruction, Hitorical-Comparative Linguistics

Edgar SUTER
Research Fellow, Institut für Linguistik at Universität zu Köln, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Reconstruction, Papuan Languages, Language Classification