CURRICULUM VITAE
as of March 2005
Knut J. Olawsky
Personal information:
Name: |
Olawsky |
First names: |
Knut Johannes |
Date of birth: |
05. May 1965 |
Nationality: |
German |
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Work address: |
Mirima Dawang-Woorlab-Gerring Language and Culture Centre P.O. Box 48 Kununurra, WA
6743, Australia E-Mail: kj.olawsky[@]gmx.net |
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Previous education in detail:
01. October, 1986 |
Begin of university study at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität (= HHU),
Düsseldorf: M.A. course in: 1. General Linguistics (major subject) 2. Romance Linguistics (minor subject) 3. Japanology (minor subject) |
19.02.1988 |
Acquisition of the Certificate of Language Proficiency
from the |
University study at the Universitá degli Studi di Napoli, Naples/Italy |
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01. May, 1989 |
Continuation of the university study at the HHU, Düsseldorf (same course as stated above) |
17.02.1990 |
Acquisition of the Certificate of Language Proficiency
from the |
30.07.1991 |
Acquisition of the certificate Teaching German as a foreign language/Intercultural Communication, HHU Düsseldorf |
21. October, 1993 |
Final examination: Magister Artium (M.A.): Psycholinguistic experiments on the formation of participles in German. Qualification with highest degree |
Since 1993 |
PhD scholar in General Linguistics at the HHU, Düsseldorf. Additional diploma course in Educational Studies at the HHU, Düsseldorf |
December 1998 |
PhD dissertation Aspects of Dagbani Grammar (with special emphasis on phonology and morphology) submitted to the HHU, Düsseldorf |
31. March 1999 |
Awarded PhD. Thesis rated Magna cum laude; Oral exams rated Summa cum laude. |
July 1999 – June 2000 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at |
July 2000 – June 2003 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT), Melbourne. Project: Urarina language and culture. |
July 2003 – June 2005 |
Continuing the previous project, funded by the Endangered
Languages Documentation Programme (SOAS, |
Since July 2005 |
Senior Linguist/Coordinator at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring,
Language and Culture Centre, Kununurra ( Goal: Documentation, Maintenance and Preservation of the Miriwoong and Gajirrabeng languages |
Teaching experience / particulars of employment:
02. April, 1991 – 30. September, 1993 |
Teaching assistant for General Linguistics at the HHU, Düsseldorf. Courses assisted: - Introduction to general linguistics - Phonetics and phonology - Lexicography |
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01. November, 1993 – 31. March, 1994 |
Research fellow for the Lexlern language acquisition project at the HHU, Düsseldorf, supervised by Prof. Harald Clahsen |
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01. April, 1994 – 31. March 1999 |
Research fellow for the Dept. of Linguistics, HHU, Düsseldorf. Teaching responsibilities as a lecturer |
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Summer semester 1996 |
Teaching an undergraduate course: Grammatical structure of Dagbani, part 1 (elementary course). |
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Winter semester 1996/1997 |
Teaching an undergraduate course: Grammatical structure of Dagbani, part 2 (advanced course). |
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Summer semester 1998 |
Teaching a graduate course: Linguistic fieldwork in theory and practice. |
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Winter semester 1998/1999 |
Teaching a graduate course on Suprasegmental Phonology. |
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All these years .. since 1999 |
- well this really neds an
update! |
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June/July 2008 |
Instructor at InField (Institute
on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, UCSB – Santa Barbara), see: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ |
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Field trips to collect linguistic data:
03.07.1994 – 04.08.1994: |
(Funded by SFB 282, Düsseldorf) |
01.03.1995 – 28.06.1995: |
(Scholarship by DAAD = German
Academic Exchange Service, |
15.07.1996 – 18.10.1996: |
(Scholarship by CDG = Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft, Berlin) |
09.11.1997 – 10.12.1997: |
(Funded by SFB 282, Düsseldorf) |
01.07.2000 – 03.08.2000: |
(Funded by La |
15.01.2001 – 16.07.2001: |
(Funded by La |
20.08.2002 – 23.11.2002: |
(Funded by La |
(Funded by ELDP, |
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(Funded by ELDP, |
Other activities:
30.08.1993 – 10.09.1993 |
Participation at the summer course “Language description
and fieldwork” at the |
13.01.1997 – 17.01.1997 |
Winter school on Prosodic Structure, |
Awards won:
November 1988 |
Scholarship for study at Italian Universities Perugia, (Awarded by DAAD = German Academic Exchange
Service, |
Grant for fieldwork in (Awarded by DAAD, |
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Grant for fieldwork in (Awarded by CDG = |
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Fellowship for postdoctoral
research at the (Awarded by DAAD). |
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Fellowship for postdoctoral research at the RCLT, Melbourne (Awarded by ELDP = Endangered
Languages Documentation Programme, |
Publications and other outputs:
Books
Olawsky, K.J.: Aspects of Dagbani grammar – with special
emphasis on phonology and morphology. Studies in African
Linguistics.
Olawsky, K.J.: Urarina texts. Languages of the
World/Text Collections.
Olawsky, K.J.: A Grammar of
Urarina. Mouton Grammar Library 37.
Book chapters
Olawsky, K.J.: What is a word in Dagbani? In: Word. A cross-linguistic typology, edited
by R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.
Olawsky, K.J.: ObViouS OVS in Urarina syntax. In: Simpson, A. & P. Austin
(eds.), Linguistische Berichte Special Volume on Endangered Languages.
Hyman, M.L. & Olawsky, K.J.: Dagbani verb
tonology. In: Kinyira njira! - Step firmly on the pathway! Selected
Papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics,
Olawsky, K.J.: Tone Patterns and Morphology in Dagbani: The Prosodic
Structure of Nouns. In: Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of
African Linguistics,
Olawsky, K.J.: Urarina word classes. In: Proceedings
of the 5th Workshop on American Indigenous
Languages, University of California, Santa
Barbara, April 26-28, 2002. Edited by J. Castillo.
Olawsky, K.J.: What is a Noun? What is an Adjective? Problems of classification in Dagbani. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 25 (2), 2004.
Olawsky, K.J.: Urarina - Evidence for OVS constituent order. In: Boban Arsenijević, Noureddine Elouazizi, Frank Landsbergen & Martin Salzmann (eds.), Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.2 (2005), 43-68. http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl (ISSN 1574-4728).
Other publications
Olawsky, K.J.: An introduction to Dagbani phonology. Arbeiten des SFB 282, Nr. 76.
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 1996: 1-39.
Olawsky,
K.J.: Psycholinguistic experiments on Dagbani number classes. Arbeiten des SFB 282, Nr. 108.
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 1998: 1-52.
Unpublished manuscripts:
- Psycholinguistic experiments on the formation of participles in German. M.A. thesis (in German), HHU Düsseldorf, October 1993. Cited in: G. Westermann (1995), Connectionist rules of language. Braunschweig and in: Clahsen, Harald (1996): The representation of participles in the German mental lexicon. Evidence for the dual-mechanism model. Yearbook of Morphology.
- Some aspects of Dagbani grammar: a summary. Paper delivered to the
- Problems of Dagbani orthography. Proposals towards the standardization of
Dagbani writing, made to the Dagbani Orthography Committee. Tamale, August 1996.
- Notizen zu Zahlwörtern im Dagbani. HHU Düsseldorf, 1995. Cited in: G. Miehe, Zur morphosyntaktischen Markierung der niederen Kardinalzahlen in den Gursprachen. Afrika und Übersee, Band 80, 1997.
- Dagbani - English Dictionary. 3700 entries so far.
A publication is planned in cooperation with the Dagbani Dictionary Committee,
Tamale (
Selected invited paper presentations:
January
1996: Dagbani as a tonal language. 8th
Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics.
February
1997: Interaction of tone and morphology in Dagbani. DGfS-Tagung 1997. Düsseldorf, 27th
April 1997
April
1997: Stress and tone in Dagaare and Dagbani.
Phonologiezirkel der HHU Düsseldorf.
24th April 1997.
July
1997: Tone patterns and morphology in Dagbani. 2nd World
Congress of African Linguistics,
September
1997: The tonal structure of Dagbani nouns. 27th
Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics,
March
1998: Domino-effect and contour formation in Dagbani. Council on African Studies.
September 1998: Dagbani nominals in the mental lexicon. Poster presentation at the First International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada), 3rd – 5th September 1998.
November 1998: Dagbani class morphology in the mental lexicon. Linguistic colloquium of the Philipps-Universität Marburg, 27th November 1998.
October
1999: Psycholinguistic experiments on Dagbani nominals.
CSUF Linguistics Colloquium,
March
2000: Dagbani verb tonology. 31st Annual
Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 2000) at
August
2000: What is a word in Dagbani? International workshop “The status
of "word": its phonological, grammatical, cultural and cognitive
basis”. La
April 2002: Urarina word classes. Workshop on American Indigenous
Languages.
August 2002: Aspects of Urarina Grammar.
August 2002: On absent features in Urarina and how they are realised anyway. Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Düsseldorf, 26th August 2002.
November 2002: Verb Structure and Clause Linking
in Urarina. Linguistics colloquium,
October 2003: Aspects of Urarina tone. CILLA
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December 2003: Typological peculiarities of Urarina.
SOAS,
September 2004: Obvious OVS in Urarina syntax.
September 2004: Basic and exceptional
constituent order in Urarina. University
of Amsterdam, 3rd September 2004.
June 2005: Es gibt sie doch: OVS-Wortstellung in
Urarina. Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, 9th June 2005.