Scott Paauw
Visiting Instructor, Linguistics
Contact
Office: 509 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2366
E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=paauw)
Office hours: by appointment
Current Courses (Spring 2008)
Research Interests
Austronesian linguistics, Malay dialects, Sri Lanka Malay, morphology, typology, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics (especially issues relating to diglossia and language planning), languages in contact, pidgins & creoles.
Research
- A description of the nominal morphology of Sri Lanka Malay (a contact language with Malay lexicon and Dravidian typology).
- A classification of Malay dialects (standard, inherited and contact-influenced).
- Recent field work in Indonesia gathering data on Larantuka Malay and Kupang Malay with an emphasis on morphology.
- A new approach to understanding language planning in Indonesia and its implications for language planning in general.
- A model for creoloization in contexts not involving a European superstrate language.
Courses Taught
Selected Presentations and Publications
Presentations
- A New Classification of Malay Dialects. Paper presented at the meeting of the Niagara Linguistics Society, Buffalo NY, September 30-October 2, 2005.
- Postpositions, N(Y)-Elements, and Case in Sri Lankan Malay. Paper presented with Peter Slomanson at the South Asia Linguistic Analysis Roundtable, University of Illinois, September 15-18, 2005.
- A Historical Analysis of the Lexicon of Sri Lanka Malay. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics at the LSA Conference, Oakland, CA, January, 2005.
- Your Older Sister is My Older Brother: Semantic Shift in Sri Lanka Malay. Paper presented at the MATAL Forum, York University, April, 2004.
- Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or Convert? Paper presented with Ian Smith, York University Lecture Series in Linguistics, February, 2004.
- Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or Convert? Paper presented with Ian Smith at the meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics at the LSA conference, Boston, MA, USA, January, 2004.
- What is Bazaar Malay? Paper presented at The Seventh International Symposium On Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2003.
Publications
- Sri Lanka Malay: The State of the Art (with Ian Smith and B.A. Hussainmiya), in R. Singh (ed.), Yearbook of South Asian Linguistics, 2004, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 197-215.
- Sri Lanka Malay: creole or convert? (with Ian Smith) To appear in collected papers from the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Hawaii and Boston [Title TBA], (Creole Language Library), A. Deumert and S. Durlemann (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [in press]