Publications
Hemmings, Charlotte. in preparation. 'Information Structure in the Languages of Northern Sarawak'.
Hemmings, Charlotte. forthcoming. ‘Information Structure and Syntactic Choices in Kelabit’. To appear in Bethwyn Evans, Åshild Næss and Jozina Vander Klok (eds.) Prominence in Austronesian. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hemmings, Charlotte. 2021. 'Subjects in Austronesian: Evidence from Kelabit'. In I Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh & Tracy Holloway King (eds.) Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge, 160-180. Oxford: OUP
Janic, Katarzyna & Charlotte Hemmings. 2021. ‘Alignment Shift as Functional Markedness Reversal’. Journal of Historical Linguistics 11(2): 299-341.
Hemmings, Charlotte. 2021. 'When an Antipassive isn’t an Antipassive anymore: The Actor Voice construction in Kelabit’. In K. Janic and A. Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.) Antipassive: Typology, Diachrony, and Related Constructions, 579-620. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hemmings, Charlotte. 2020. ‘Methods in Language Documentation and Description: A Guide to the Kelabit Documentation Project’. Journal of Modern Languages 30 (1): 6-76.
Archival Deposits
Hemmings, Charlotte. 2020. Documentation of the Sa’ban Language, Sarawak, Malaysia. SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/d64e7007-775c-403a-b16b-449406b92d00.
Hemmings, Charlotte. 2020. Documentation of the Lun Bawang Language, Sarawak, Malaysia. SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/cd1cf7ee-2570-489b-91a4-748488e71266.
Hemmings, Charlotte. 2017. Documentation of the Kelabit Language, Sarawak, Malaysia. SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-B667-4.
Invited Talks and Conference Papers
‘Symmetrical Voice and Information Structure in the Languages of Northern Sarawak’. Paper presented at the Workshop on Complex Motion and Related Topics, SOAS, University of London, 31st January 2020.
‘Information Structure and Syntactic Choices in Kelabit’. Paper presented at the Workshop on Prominence in Austronesian, ANU, Canberra, 9th December 2019. Handout here.
‘Information Structure and Syntactic Choices in Northern Sarawak’. Poster presented at the 52nd meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Leipzig University, 21st-24th August 2019. Handout here.
‘A distributional markedness approach to alignment change’. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Australian National University, Canberra, 1st-5th July 2019 (with Katarzyna Janic).
‘Word Order and Information Structure in Kelabit’. Paper presented at the 11th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, University of Leiden, 13-15th June 2019.
‘Grammatical Functions and the Challenge from Western Austronesian’. Paper presented at the Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Manchester, 7th May 2019.
'Differential Case Marking in Northern Sarawak’. Paper presented at the Linguistics Department Seminar Series, University of Essex. 2nd May 2019. Handout here.
‘The Subject GF in Western Austronesian’. Paper presented at the 26th South of England Lexical Functional Grammar (SE-LFG) Meeting, 27th October 2018. Handout here.
‘Subjecthood and Case in Lun Bawang’. Paper presented at Syntax of the World’s Languages 8 at INALCO, Paris, 3rd-5th Sept 2018. Handout here.
‘Information Structure, Word Order and Differential Marking in Kelabit’. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at Tallinn University, Estonia, 29th Aug-1st Sept 2018. Handout here.
‘On the subject of ‘subjects’’. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 17th-20th July 2018. Handout here.
‘Information Structure and Differential Actor Marking in Kelabit’. Paper presented at the Workshop on Information structure, Referential status and Referent Type in Discourse and Grammar, University of Manchester, 27th-28th June 2018. Handout here.
‘Symmetrical Voice in Northern Sarawak’. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 17th-19th May 2018. Handout here.
‘Information Structure and Differential Actor Marking in Kelabit’. Paper presented at the 10th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, University of Surrey, 4th-5th May 2018. Handout here.
‘A New Perspective on the Western Austronesian Alignment Debate’. Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Canberra, Australia, 11th-15th December 2017. Handout here.
‘Discourse Topicality in the Languages of Northern Sarawak’. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Kent, 4th-6th September 2017. Handout here.
‘On symmetrical voice alternations: the case of Kelabit’. Paper presented at the Cambridge Workshop on Voice (CamVoice), University of Cambridge 22-24th May 2017. Handout here.
‘Pronouns and Information Structure in Kelabit’. Poster presented at the Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns, Department of English Linguistics, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 24th-25th February 2017. Handout here.
‘Beyond a two-way typology of Western Austronesian’. Paper presented at the General Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Oxford, 23rd January 2017.
‘The Kelabit Language’. Paper presented at the Endangered Languages Seminar Series, University of Oxford, 23rd November 2016.
Language Resources
A collection of subtitled videos are available to view via the Language Landscape project Documenting Languages in Borneo
A collection of audio recordings made by speakers of indigenous languages in Malaysia during the 6th eBorneo Knowledge Fair, including recordings of Kelabit and Lun Bawang, are available to view via the Language Landscape project eBorneo Knowledge Fair 2017.
A sketch grammar of the Kelabit language is included in my 2016 PhD Thesis, 'The Kelabit Language, Austronesian Voice and Syntactic Typology' which can be viewed here.