George Lindsay
I joined the linguistics PhD program at the ANU School of Culture, History & Language in 2024. I am currently working on the documentation and grammatical description of of Kimaghima, a Kolopom (Trans-New Guinea) language spoken on Yos Sudarso Island in South Papua Province, Indonesia. Before starting my PhD, I spent my Bachelor of Arts (Honours) year working on the prosody-syntax interface in Marori (Trans-New Guinea, isolate) through the lens of the Lexical Functional Grammar framework. I also currently work as part of a small team to develop a learner’s grammar and other resources as part of an Australian language revitalisation project in southeast Queensland.
Research Interest
I am primarily interested in Papuan languages and the evolutionary dimensions that have given rise to their immense diversity. I am also interested in the position of minority languages in Australia and Indonesia in the twenty-first century, namely contemporary and future strategies to assist with language maintenance and language revitalisation. Other research interests include morphology, syntax, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and theoretical/formal approaches to grammar.
Thesis Title/Topic
A grammar of Kimaghima, a Kolopom language of southern New Guinea