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Dr Dineke Schokkin

Contact

Department: Linguistics

Email: dineke.schokkin@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690782

Office: Elsie Locke Building 207

Languages: English, Dutch, German, Tok Pisin

About
Research / Creative works
Supervision
Networks

Fields of Research

  • language documentation
  • language description
  • Oceanic languages
  • Papuan languages
  • sociolinguistics
  • semantics and pragmatics

Researcher Summary

I am a field linguist specialising in two typologically distinct languages of Papua New Guinea: Paluai (Oceanic) spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, and Idi (Pahoturi River), spoken in Western Province. My research combines methodologies from language documentation and description, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics, with the aim to integrate these research fields.
My research interests include language contact and multilingualism, pragmatics and discourse strategies in underdocumented languages, and New Guinea island and its surroundings as a linguistic area.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Languages & Linguistics: Linguistics

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books
  • Schokkin D. (2020) A Grammar of Paluai: The Language of Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 1-459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110675177.
Chapters
  • Schokkin D. (2022) Ngiä dm bloyag dand: Coconut Stories from Southern New Guinea. In Storch A; Dixon RMW (Ed.), The Art of Language: 288-301. Leiden: Brill. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004510395_019.
  • Lindsey KL. and Schokkin D. (2021) Introduction: Phonetic fieldwork in southern New Guinea. In Lindsey KL; Schokkin D (Ed.), Phonetic fieldwork in southern New Guinea: 1-4. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
  • Schokkin D. (2021) Preverbal directionals as markers of associated motion in Paluai (Austronesian, Oceanic). In Guillaume A; Koch H (Ed.), Associated Motion: 385-416. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110692099.
  • Schokkin D. (2021) Preverbal directionals as markers of associated motion in Paluai (Austronesian; Oceanic). Associated Motion: 385-416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110692099-010.
  • Schokkin D. (2021) The integration of languages and society: A view from multilingual Southern New Guinea. In Aikhenvald AY; Dixon RMW; Jarkey N (Ed.), The Integration of Language and Society: A Cross-Linguistic Typology: 288-311. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845924.001.0001.
  • Schokkin D., Gast V., Evans N. and Döhler C. (2021) Phonetics and phonology of Idi. In Lindsey KL; Schokkin D (Ed.), Phonetic fieldwork in Southern New Guinea: 76-107. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
  • Evans N., Arka W., Carroll M., Choi YJ., Döhler C., Gast V., Kashima E., Mittag E., Olsson B. and Quinn K. (2017) The Languages of Southern New Guinea. In Palmer B (Ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide: 641-774. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter Mouton. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110295252.
Journal Articles
  • Schokkin D., Lindsey KL. and Wu N. (2023) The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles. Linguistic Typology http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-2096.
  • Schokkin D. (2022) Verbal number in Idi. Studies in Language http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.21052.sch.
  • Schokkin D. (2021) Variable realisation of verb-final /n/ in Idi. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7(1): 1-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aplv.19011.sch.
  • Schokkin D. (2018) Language Contexts: Paluai, also known as Pam-Baluan (Papua New Guinea). Language Documentation and Description 15: 65-86.
  • Schokkin D. (2017) Contact-induced change in an oceanic language: The Paluai - Tok Pisin case. Journal of Language Contact 10(1): 76-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01001005.
  • Schokkin D. and Otto T. (2017) Relatives and relations in Paluai. Oceanic Linguistics 56(1): 226-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2017.0009.
  • Kashima E., Williams D., Mark Ellison T., Schokkin D. and Escudero P. (2016) Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language: The vowels of Nambo. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139(6): EL252-EL256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4954395.
  • Schokkin D. (2016) Neuhaus, Karl: Grammar of the Lihir Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Anthropos 111(2): 729-730. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2016-2-729-1.
  • Schokkin D. (2014) Discourse practices as an areal feature in the New Guinea region? Explorations in Paluai, an Austronesian language of the Admiralties. Journal of Pragmatics 62: 107-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.09.021.
  • Schokkin D. (2013) Directionals in Paluai: Semantics, use, and grammaticalization paths. Oceanic Linguistics 52(1): 169-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2013.0009.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Schokkin D. (2021) Bo yeka mg: Southern New Guinea multilingual ideologies and the expression of possession in Idi. University of Waikato: Language and Society Conference, 10-12 Feb 2021.
  • Schokkin D. and Fromont R. (2021) From corpus to grammar: a bottom-up approach to grammatical description. Paris, France: Grammar2021, 1-1 Dec 2021.
  • Schokkin D. and Lindsey KL. (2021) A new type of auxiliary: Evidence from Pahoturi River complex predicates. University of Edinburgh: Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics, 10-12 Jun 2021.
  • Schokkin D., Fromont R. and Hurring G. (2021) Towards an electronic reference grammar of Idi. Christchurch, New Zealand: DHA2021: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, 22-25 Nov 2021.
  • Schokkin D., Lindsey KL., Barth D., Kashima E., Strong K. and Marley A. (2021) Variation off the beaten path: Continuing the conversation. The University of Texas at Austin: New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49, 19-24 Oct 2021.
  • Evans N., Lindsey KL. and Schokkin D. (2019) Reconstructing liquids in proto Pahoturi. Canberra: International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 1-5 Jul 2019.
  • Lindsey KL., Kashima E. and Strong K. (2019) Variationist Studies in Southern New Guinea. Paris: Colloquium on Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics, 10-11 Dec 2019.
  • Schokkin D. (2019) The multifaceted expression of number on the Idi verb. Leiden: Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics, 13-15 Jun 2019.
  • Schokkin D. (2018) Towards a sociogrammar of Idi: Exploring final nasal deletion in verbs. Brisbane: New Ways of Analysing Variation (NWAV) Asia-Pacific, 31 Jan-2 Feb 2018.
  • Schokkin D., Evans N. and Kashima E. (2018) Emic views on having multiple languages in Southern New Guinea: a qualitative description of stable multilingualism across generations. Cape Town: International Congress of Linguists, 2-6 Jul 2018.
  • Ellison TM., Evans N., Kashima E., Lindsey KL., Quinn K., Schokkin D. and Siegel J. (2017) Diachronic typology meets contact typology: a regional case study from Southern New Guinea. Canberra: Association for Linguistic Typology, 12-14 Dec 2017.
  • Schokkin D. (2017) Capturing inherent variability while doing language description: the case of the Idi auxiliary. Canberra: Association for Linguistic Typology, 12-14 Dec 2017.
  • Ellison TM., Evans N., Schokkin D., Kashima E. and Williams D. (2016) Do shared norms cross language boundaries? A case study from multilingual Southern New Guinea. 22-24 Apr 2016.
  • Schokkin D. (2016) Irrealis and past habitual: snapshots from the fringes of Papua New Guinea. London: Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics, 12-13 May 2016.
  • Schokkin D. (2015) Variation in Idi nominal case marking. Kiola campus, ANU: Workshop on the languages of Melanesia, 21-23 Jun 2015.
  • Schokkin D. (2014) Contact-induced change in an Oceanic language: the Tok Pisin-Paluai case. Newcastle, Australia: Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, 10-12 Dec 2014.
  • Schokkin D. (2013) Contact-induced change in Oceania: the Paluai-Tok Pisin case. Newcastle, Australia: Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, 4-8 Feb 2013.
  • Schokkin D. (2012) Discourse practices as an areal feature in the New Guinea region? Explorations in Paluai, an Austronesian language of the Admiralties. Lisbon: Language, Culture & Mind, 26-29 Jun 2012.
  • Schokkin D. (2012) Referring to space in Paluai, an Oceanic language of the Admiralties subgroup in Papua New Guinea. Denpasar: International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 2-6 Jul 2012.
Other
  • Schokkin D. (2019) Recordings of Paluai (DS1). PARADISEC. http://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5df25608c0f9f.
  • Schokkin D. (2015) Recordings of the Idi language (WSDS1). PARADISEC. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E97A18E14F3.
Oral Presentations
  • Schokkin D. (2020) What do Idi narratives look like? online: Celebrating Indigenous voice: legends and narratives in languages of the tropics, 26 Nov 2020.

Student Supervision

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  • Masters - Castro R: How do government efforts to support Indigenous Language Revitalization efforts in English language dominant countries correlate to the success of these programs?
  • Completed
  • PhD - Carroll M: The Ngkolmpu Language with special reference to distributed exponence (2016)
  • PhD - Duhamel M-F: Variation in Raga: A quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu (2019)
  • PhD - Tamelan T: A grammar of Dela (2021)
  • Masters - McConvell WP: Preliminary study of transitivity and voice in Rampi’ (2017)

Review and Refereeing

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  • Biennial meeting of the Association of Linguistic Typology ( 2017 )
  • Language Documentation and Conservation ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Oceanic Linguistics ( 2020 - 2023)
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