Publications (Past, Present, and Future) by Shelly
Books
- 1977. Mokilese-English Dictionary. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii
- 1976. Mokilese Reference Grammar. (with S.Y. Albert) Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii
Reviews
- 1988. Review of Pereira, F.C.N. and S.M. Shieber. Prolog and natural language analysis. Language 64:627-631
- 1979. Review of R. Huddleston. An Introduction to English Transformational Syntax. Talanya 6, 96-97
Review Articles
- 1981. Recent directions in Oceanic linguistics: a review of Studies in Pacific Languages and Cultures in honour of Bruce Biggs. Oceanic Linguistics XX, 2:151-231
Invited Talks
- Review of:
Schniedewind, William M. How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel. CUP 2004
Talk broadcast on ABC Radio National Lingua Franca, 22/06/06
(v. 7/06 [html])
- Linguistic Evidence in Text Dating: The Case of the Hebrew Bible
Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society
Monash University, Thursday 29/09/05 [abstract][ppt]
Articles
- ms. The Epiphenominal Nature of Affectedness Marking in Dusunic Languages(draft 08/01/07 [abstract][pdf ])
- ms. Antoine Meillet and the Comparative Method: On Shared Aberrancies as Evidence of Genetic Relatedness(draft 23/04/07 [abstract][pdf ]) under peer review
- to appear. Comparative Method. in Patrick Hogan, ed. Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. New York: CUP. (draft 27/09/06 [doc ])
- ms. Meillet's Magic Bullet: On the Logic of Genetic Arguments Using Morphological
Evidence. (with A.C. Dench) (v. 8/02 [abstract][pdf])
- 2003. Vowel Quantity in Jewish Literary Aramaic. in Journal of Semitic Studies XXVIII/2:229-257 [abstract] (v. 25/9/01 [pdf][ps])
- 2003. On the Limits of the Comparative Method. In Josephs, B. and R. Janda, eds. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 213-43 [pdf]
- 2001. The Gilbertese -i Intransitives, High Vowel Erasure, and Related Phenomena. In Bradshaw, R. and K. Rehg, eds. Issues in Austronesian Morphology. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- 1999. Trimoric Feet in Gilbertese. (with Juliette Blevins) Oceanic Linguistics 38:203-230.
- 1995. Micronesian Languages. in Tryon, D., ed. Intercontinental Dictionary, vol. 2: Austronesian languages. The Hague: Mouton
- 1994. Linguistic evidence for Polynesian influence in the Gilbert Islands. in Dutton, T. and D. Tryon, eds. Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian world. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 77:321-350. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
- 1992. Restriction and termination in parsing with feature-theoretic grammars. (with T.M. Ellison) Computational Linguistics 18-4:519 - 530
- 1991. A reanalysis of Proto Polynesian case marking. in Blust, R., ed. Currents in Austronesian Linguistics: papers on Austronesian linguistics in honour of George Grace. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-117:129-144
- 1990. Lexically-governed preposition choice in Gilbertese. in Harlow, R. and R. Hooper, eds. VICAL1: Oceanic Languages. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand: 211-236.
- 1988. A plausible history for Micronesian possessive classifiers. Oceanic Linguistics XXVII:63-78.
- 1986. On the nature of subgrouping arguments. in Geraghty, P., Carrington, L., and S. Wurm, eds. FOCAL II: Papers from the fourth international conference on Austronesian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-94:13-21.
- 1984a. On the verbal nature of Kiribati bane 'all'. in Bender, B.W., ed., Studies in Micronesian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-80:491-501
- 1984b. Segmental quantity in Mokilese: a synchronic and diachronic study. in Bender, B.W., ed., Studies in Micronesian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-80:375-401
- 1984c. Mokilese reflexes of Proto-Oceanic. in Bender, B.W., ed., Studies in Micronesian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-80:339-373
- 1984d. Some arguments for prenominal PMC *te. Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Hawaii, vol.16, 2:39-61
- 1984e. Higher numerals in several Micronesian languages. (with F.H. Jackson). in Bender, B.W., ed., Studies in Micronesian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-80:61-79
- 1982. Proto-Oceanic *aki(ni) and the Proto-Oceanic periphrastic causative. in Wurm and Carrington, eds. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-74:179-230
- 1978. Transitive marking in Micronesian languages. Pacific Linguistics, Series C-61:1067-1127
- 1977.Some problems in the history of Mokilese morpho-syntax. unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaii
- 1973. Reduplication in Micronesian languages. Oceanic Linguistics XII, 407-454