Kira Davey
Biographic Data
| ID | 6501113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kira Davey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kira |
| FAMILY NAME | Davey |
| SIGNATURE | DAVEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1542-364X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Talk across the Pacific
In this overview, we comment on recent findings from the Pacific on traditional multilingualism, acquisition, the effects of changing patterns of migration, and the role of creoles. We follow the broad definitions from Gil (2024), who considers the use of multiple varieties along a lectal cline of a single language and the use of multiple different languages to be examples of multilingualism. Multilingualism can be exoteric (more likely to be lar…
Gestures for me and you
Matukar Panau (ISO 639-3: mjk) is an Oceanic language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by a small number of people with dense social connections. As is the case with many languages, communication is primarily face-to-face, meaning interlocutors see and hear their conversational partners and it is in this context that the language has evolved. Our study centres on referential gestures, i.e. those that help to indicate or establish a ref…
Directional constructions in Matukar Panau
The Oceanic language Matukar Panau has three equivalent morphosyntactic strategies for describing the direction of the event represented by a verb, with a system of ten directional morphemes that can appear in each construction. This variation is explored using a corpus from Matukar Panau and analysed quantitatively with Bayesian regression analyses to assess what factors influence the choice of directional construction. Variables pertaining to t…
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Directional constructions in Matukar Panau
The Oceanic language Matukar Panau has three equivalent morphosyntactic strategies for describing the direction of the event represented by a verb, with a system of ten directional morphemes that can appear in each construction. This variation is explored using a corpus from Matukar Panau and analysed quantitatively with Bayesian regression analyses to assess what factors influence the choice of directional construction. Variables pertaining to t…
Talk across the Pacific
In this overview, we comment on recent findings from the Pacific on traditional multilingualism, acquisition, the effects of changing patterns of migration, and the role of creoles. We follow the broad definitions from Gil (2024), who considers the use of multiple varieties along a lectal cline of a single language and the use of multiple different languages to be examples of multilingualism. Multilingualism can be exoteric (more likely to be lar…
Gestures for me and you
Matukar Panau (ISO 639-3: mjk) is an Oceanic language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by a small number of people with dense social connections. As is the case with many languages, communication is primarily face-to-face, meaning interlocutors see and hear their conversational partners and it is in this context that the language has evolved. Our study centres on referential gestures, i.e. those that help to indicate or establish a ref…
Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 work) · Categorization, perception, and language (1 work) · Communication (1 work) · Communication (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Gesture (1 work) · Grammaticalization (1 work)