An anthropologist linguist. In addition to primary work recording the endangered indigenous languages of Australia & New Guinea, he has written widely on their implications for linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, prehistory & other fields
The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.
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