Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books

• Schokkin D. (2020) A Grammar of Paluai The Language of Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea. De Gruyter Mouton. 500.

Chapters

• Schokkin D. (2021) Preverbal directionals as markers of associated motion in Paluai (Austronesian, Oceanic). In Guillaume A; Koch H (Ed.), Associated MotionDe Gruyter Mouton.

• (2017) 6. The languages of Southern New Guinea. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: 641-774.De Gruyter Mouton. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110295252-006.

Journal Articles

• Schokkin D. (2020) A Grammar of Paluai. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110675177.

• Schokkin D. (2020) Variable realisation of verb-final /n/ in Idi. Asia-Pacific Language Variation.

• 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

• 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.

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Tamelan T: A grammar of Dela
• 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)
• 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 - 2020)
• Language Documentation and Conservation ( 2020 - 2021)
• Oceanic Linguistics ( 2020 - 2021)