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?
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• 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)