Project members

Current research project:

The Äiwo language

Åshild Næss has previously worked on Pileni, one of the languages on which the project focuses, and has published a grammar sketch and several articles on various aspects of this language. She has also done typological work on questions relating to transitivity, argument linking and case-marking. In the current project, her main focus will be on Äiwo, the non-Austronesian language with which Pileni has a long tradition of contact.

Previous publications:

• Submitted: "Case semantics and the agent-patient opposition". In Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.): Case, valency and transitivity. Benjamins.
  
• To appear: "What markedness marks: The markedness problem with direct objects". Lingua.
• To appear: "Serial verbs and complex constructions in Pileni". In Bril, Isabelle, and Francoise Ozanne-Rivierre (eds.): Complex predicates in Oceanic languages: studies in the dynamics of binding and boundness. Mouton de Gruyter.
• To appear: "Spatial deixis in Pileni". In Senft, Gunter (ed): Deixis and demonstratives in Oceanic languages. Pacific Linguistics.
• 2003. Transitivity: from semantics to structure. PhD dissertation, University of Nijmegen.
• 2002 (with Even Hovdhaugen and Ingjerd Hoëm). Pileni texts with a Pileni-English vocabulary and an English-Pileni finderlist. The Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers 7. Oslo: The Kon-Tiki Museum.
• 2002. "Transitivity and accusativity in Pileni". Rongorongo Studies 12:2, 66-76.
• 2000. Pileni. Languages of the World/Materials 325. München/Newcastle: Lincom Europa.
• 2000. "Possessive marking in Pileni". Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 53:3/4, 308-318.

Planned publications:

• A grammar of Äiwo
• A collection of Äiwo texts, similar to that previously published for Pileni (Hovdhaugen et al. 2002)
• Articles in linguistic journals