Publications

Publications

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Books authored

• 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction and Comparative Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 2015. The Palaungic Languages: Classification, Reconstruction and Comparative Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 2010. (with Philip Jenner) Old Khmer Grammar. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics.

• 2009. Classifying the Austroasiatic Languages: history and state of the art. Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 2005. The Katuic Languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 2003. (with Pascale Jacq). A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: volume 1 — West Bahnaric, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics 551.

• 2000. Proto South Bahnaric: a reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics 501.

• 2000. (with Pascale Jacq) A Comparative West Bahnaric Dictionary. Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 1999. (with Pascale Jacq) Sapuan (Sepuar). Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 1999. (with Pascale Jacq) Loven (Jruq) Consolidated Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

Books edited (incomplete list)

• 2021. (editor, with Mathias Jenny) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston

• 2021. (translator/editor) A Grammar of May: an Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam. Kirill Babaev & Irina Samarina. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

• 2020. (editor) A Grammar of Makasar: a language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Anthony Jukes. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

• 2019. (editor, with Mathias Jenny, Mark Alves) Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

• 2017. (editor) A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea. Hannah Sarvasy. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

• 2014. (editor, with Mathias Jenny) The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages (2 vols). Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Papers, Book chapters, Reviews

• In Press (pre-publication PDF download here) with Alexis Michaud. Consonant shifts in Mon-Khmer initial stops (1965) English translation of “Les mutations consonantiques des occlusives initiales en môn-khmer”. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 60 (1): 160–172 (1965). Reprinted in Problèmes de phonologie diachronique: 303-316. To appear in: Haudricourt, André-Georges. Evolution of languages and techniques. (Ed.) Martine Mazaudon, Boyd Michailovsky & Alexis Michaud. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 270). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• 2024. 500 Proto Austroasiatic Etyma: Version 1.0. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 17.1:i-xxxii 

• 2023. (with Mark Alves) Re-Evaluating Shorto's MKCD Reconstructions. In Paul Sidwell & Mark Alves (eds.) Papers from the Ninth and Tenth International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. JSEALS Special Publication No. 12. Manoa, University of Hawaii Press. E-ISSN: 1836-6821

• 2022. Austroasiatic dispersal: the AA "water-world" extended: Were the Proto-Austroasiatics coastal migrants? In Mark Alves & Paul Sidwell (eds.) Papers from the 30th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 57-72. eVols at University of Hawaii at Manoa: Papers from the 30th Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021) 

• 2022. A Classification of the Nicobarese languages. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 15.1:1-16. eVols at University of Hawaii at Manoa: A Classification of the Nicobarese languages 

• 2021. (with Mark Alves) The Vietic languages: a phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Language Relationship • Вопросы языкового родства. 19/3 • Pp. 166–194. 

• 2021. (with Mathias Jenny) Introduction. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.1-20.

• 2021. History of MSEA Austroasiatic studies. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.61-92.

• 2021. (with Mathias Jenny) History of Tai-Kadai studies. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.93-110.

• 2021. (with Jean Pacquement & Mathias Jenny) French contributions to the study of Mainland Southeast Asian languages and linguistics. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.149-162.

• 2021. Classification of MSEA Austroasiatic languages. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.179-206.

• 2021. (with Lawrence A. Reid) Language macro-families and distant phylogenetic relations in MSEA. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.261-276.

• 2021. Northern Austroasiatic languages of MSEA. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.499-546.

• 2021. Eastern Austroasiatic languages. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.547-598.

• 2021. MSEA epigraphy. In Paul Sidwell & Mathias Jenny (eds.) The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston. pp.855-878.

• 2020. Proto-Austroasiatic cultural lexicon: retention or diffusion. In Tariq Khan (ed.) Alternative Horizons in Linguistics: a festschrift in honour of Prof. Panchanan Mohanty. Munich: LINCOM GmbH.

• 2020. AUSTROASIATIC DISPERSAL: THE INDO-CHINA MARITIME HYPOTHESIS. Indian Linguistics 81.12:15-32.

• 2020. RECONSTRUCTING LANGUAGE CONTACT AND SOCIAL CHANGE ON THE BOLOVEN PLATEAU, LAOS. In N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell, and Charles H. P. Zuckerman (eds.) Studies in the Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia (JSEALS Special Publication No. 6). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

• 2020. Nicobarese Comparative Grammar. In Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell, Mark Alves (eds.). Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective. Leiden/Boston: Brill. pp. 82-104.

• 2020. (with Mark Alves and Mathias Jenny) Austroasiatic Affixes and Grammatical Lexicon. In Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell, Mark Alves (eds.). Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective. Leiden/Boston: Brill. pp. 287-333.

• 2020. (with Mathias Jenny and Mark Alves) Introduction: Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective. In Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell, Mark Alves (eds.). Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective. Leiden/Boston: Brill. pp. 1-18.

• 2019 (with Felix Rau). The Munda Maritime Hypothesis. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 12.2:35-57. DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52454 

• 2018. Proto-Nicobarese phonology. Papers from the seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics, JSEALS Special Publication No. 3. University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 101-131

• 2017 with Nate Cheeseman and Anne Osborne. Khmuic Linguistic Bibliography with Selected Annotations JSEALS 10.1 [1]

• 2016 (with Yishan Huang, Mark Donohue, Phil Rose) Normalization of Zhangzhou Citation Tones. SST2016:217-220 (ISSN 2207-1296)

• 2015a Austroasiatic dataset for phylogenetic analysis: 2015 version. Mon-Khmer Studies 44.lxviii-ccclvii.

• 2015b Local drift and areal convergence in the Restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages. In Nicholas Enfield and Bernard Comrie (eds.) Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: the state of the art. Berlin: deGruyterMouton. pp. 51–81.

• 2015c Review of: Jan-Olof Svantesson, Kàm Ràw (Damrong Tayanin), Kristina Lindell and Håkan Lundström (2014) Dictionary of Kammu Yùan Language and Culture, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 16:2, 202-205, DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2014.961595.

• 2015d Review of: Justin Watkins (2013): Dictionary of WA (2 vols) With Translations into English, Burmese and Chinese.', Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, vol. 8, pp. 1–2.

• 2015e The Austroasiatic language phylum: a typology of phonological restructuring. In Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-52789-7. pp. 675–703.

• 2014 Austroasiatic Classification. In Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.) The handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 144–220.

• 2014 (with Felix Rau) Austroasiatic Comparative-Historical Reconstruction: an overview. In Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.) The handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 221–362.

• 2014 Old Khmer. In Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.) The handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 643–676.

• 2014 (with Kenneth Smith) Sedang. In Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.) The handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 789–833.

• 2014 (with Kees Jan Bos) Kui Ntua. In Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.) The handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 837–880.

• 2014 Car Nicobarese. In Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.) The handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 1229–1265.

• 2014 (with Mathias Jenny) 'Editor's Introduction', The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 3–12.

[Note: citation date for the Brill Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages is ambiguous; the publisher lists publication date December 2014 but copyright 2015]

• 2014 Proto-Khasian: An emerging reconstruction. In Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Stephen Morey & Priyankoo Sarmah (eds) North East Indian Linguistics 6. Canberra; Asia Pacific Linguistics. pp. 149–166.

• 2014 (with Harold Koch, Robert Mailhammer, Robert Blust, Clair Bowern, Don Daniels, Alexandre François, Simon Greenhill, Brian Joseph, Lawrence Reid, Malcolm Ross) Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: a view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Diachronica 31:267–278.

• 2014 Khmuic classification and homeland. Mon-Khmer Studies 43.1:47–56

• 2013 Southeast Asian mainland: linguistic history. In The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by Immanuel Ness. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm833 pp. 259–269.

• 2013 Expressives in Austroasiatic. In The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia, edited by Jeffrey P. Williams. New York, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00712-3. pp. 17–35.

• 2013 Issues in Austroasiatic Classification. Language and Linguistics Compass 7/8 (2013): 437–457.

• 2013 (with Nathaniel Cheeseman & Jennifer Herington) Bahnaric linguistic bibliography with selected annotations. Mon-Khmer Studies 42: xxxiv–xlvii.

• 2013 (with K. S. Nagaraja & Simon Greenhill) A Lexicostatistical Study of the Khasian Languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War. Mon-Khmer Studies 42:1–11

• 2013 (with Supawan Pingjai and Shunishi Ishihara) A Likelihood Ratio-based forensic voice comparison using formant trajectories of the Thai diphthongs. Proceedings of 2013 International Congress on Acoustics. Acoustical Society of America, pp. 315–343.

• 2011. Katuic-Bahnaric: Austroasiatic sub-family or convergence area?. In Sophana Srichampa, Paul Sidwell & Kenneth Gregerson (eds.) Austroasiatic Studies: papers from the ICAAL4: Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Special Issue No. 3. Dallas, SIL International; Canberra, Pacific Linguistics; Salaya, Mahidol University.

• 2011. Proto Khasian and Khasi-Palaungic. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 4.2:144-168.

• 2011. (with Roger Blench) The Austroasiatic Urheimat: the Southeastern Riverine Hypothesis. In The Dynamics of Human Diversity. N. J. Enfield (ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 315–343.

• 2011. (with Jerold A. Edmondson, Kenneth Gregerson) The North Bahnaric Clade: A Computational Approach. In Sophana Srichampa, Paul Sidwell & Kenneth Gregerson (eds.) Austroasiatic Studies: papers from the ICAAL4: Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Special Issue No. 3. Dallas, SIL International; Canberra, Pacific Linguistics; Salaya, Mahidol University. pp. 23–37

• 2011. (with Roger Blench). Is Shom Pen a Distinct Branch of Austroasiatic? In Sophana Srichampa, Paul Sidwell & Kenneth Gregerson (eds.) Austroasiatic Studies: papers from the ICAAL4: Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Special Issue No. 3. Dallas, SIL International; Canberra, Pacific Linguistics; Salaya, Mahidol University. pp. 90–101

• 2010. Comparative Mon-Khmer Linguistics in the 20th Century: where from, where to?. Austro-Asiatic Linguistics: In memory of R. Elangaiyan. K.S. Nagaraja (ed.) (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Austroasiatic Languages). Mysore, Central Institute of Indian Languages. pp. 38–104

• 2010. The Austroasiatic central riverine hypothesis. Вопросы языкового родства/Journal of Language Relationship 4:117–134

• 2010. What can the Mon-Khmer lexical borrowings in Acehnese tell us? In John Bowden, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross (eds.) A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: papers in honour of Andrew K. Pawley. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, PL-615, pp. 271–282.

• 2010. Three Austroasiatic branches and the ASJP.

• 2009. How many branches in a tree? Cua and East (North) Bahnaric. In Bethwyn Evans (ed). Discovering history through language. Papers in honour of Malcolm Ross. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, PL-605. pp. 193–204.

• 2009. Proto-Mon-Khmer Vocalism: moving on from Shorto's 'alternances'. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 1:205–214

• 2008. The Khom script of the Kommodam Rebellion. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, pp. 15–25.

• 2008. Issues in the Morphological Reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer. In Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.) Morphology and Language History in honour of Harold Koch, Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 251–265.

• 2008. On the sources of loans in the Proto-Chamic lexicon. In SEALS XIV(Volume 1) Papers from the 14th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2004), edited by Wilaiwan Khanittanan.& Paul Sidwell, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. pp. 261–267.

• 2007a. The Mon-Khmer Substrate in Chamic: Chamic, Bahnaric and Katuic Contact. In SEALS XII Papers from the 12th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2002), edited by Ratree Wayland et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. pp. 113–128.

• 2007b. (with Pascale Jacq) Orientation Origins: the Source of Jru' Cardinals. In SEALS XII Papers from the 12th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2002), edited by Ratree Wayland et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. pp. 101–106.

• 2006. Preface to A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary by Harry Shorto. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 579.

• 2005a. Acehnese and the Aceh-Chamic Language Family. In Chamic and beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages, edited by Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 569. pp211–246.

• 2005b. (with Anthony Grant) Editor's Preface to Chamic and beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages, edited by Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL 569. ppix-xvii.

• 2005c. Proto Katuic Phonology and implications for sub-grouping. In SEALS XV: papers from the 15th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, edited by Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Pacific Linguistics PL E1. pp193–204.

• 2004. (with Greg Aumann) Subgrouping of Mienic Languages: some observations. Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society: SEALS XI.

• 2004. A note on the reconstruction of Proto West Bahnaric and investigation of early West Bahnaric-Katuic contact. Mon-Khmer Studies, 33:159–166.

• 2002. Classification of the Bahnaric Languages: a comprehensive review. Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 32. Mahidol University, Thailand.

• 2002. (with Pascale Jacq) Austroasiatic Languages. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing.

• 2002. (with Pascale Jacq) Mon-Khmer Languages. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing.

• 2002. Reconstruction & Classification: progress with the Bahnaric (Mon-Khmer) languages. In The Linguist's Linguist: a collection of papers in honour of Alexis Manaster Ramer. Edited by Fabrice Cavoto. Munich, Lincom Europa.

• 2000a. Comments on La Vaughn H. Hayes 'On the Origins of Affricates in Austric'. Mother Tongue 6:119–121.

• 1999. A report on the status and distribution of Bahnaric languages and speakers on the Boloven Plateau, Lao PDR. History of Language 5.1:10–18.

• 1999. (with Stefan Georg, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Peter Michalove) Telling general linguists about Altaic. Journal of Linguistics 35:65–98.

• 1999. The Austroasiatic numerals 1 to 10 from a historical and typological perspective. In Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide. Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanovic. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 253–271.

• 1999. The Role of Historiography in Evaluating the results of Comparative Linguistic Work: a case study. In The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics, in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 597–608.

• 1998. (with Alexis Manaster-Ramer & Alexander Vovin) On body part terms as evidence for the Altaic hypothesis. Ural-Altaische Jahrbuecher 15.

• 1997. (with Alexis Manaster-Ramer) The Altaic Debate and the Question of Cognate Numerals. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 87:153-75.

• 1997. (with Alexis Manaster-Ramer) The Truth about Strahlenberg's classification of the languages of Northeastern Eurasia. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 87:139–160.

• 1995. Bolyu is a Mon-Khmer language even if Benedict says so! La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 8:121–133.

• 1994. The Proto-Bahnaric Vowel System: a revised model. University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics 14:71–75.

• 1995. Proto-Jeh-Halang and Proto-North-Bahnaric Revisited. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 7:133–142.

• 1993. The Proto-Bahnaric Vowel System: a new theory. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 6:137–142