Michael C Ewing
Biographic Data
| ID | 728918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C Ewing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewing |
| SIGNATURE | EWING M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5971-2892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language maintenance among the Baduy of western Java, Indonesia
Balancing Linguistic Goals and Community Relevance
Language documentation plays a critical role in preserving linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. However, balancing the academic goals of linguists with the practical needs and interests of indigenous communities remains a challenge. This study reports on the first phase of documenting the relatively isolated indigenous language of Baduy Dalam in Banten, Indonesia. Using a linguist-centered approach, the fieldwork involved eliciting languag…
The Atypicality of Predicates with Two Explicit Arguments in Indonesian Conversation
While transitive clauses with a subject and object have long been a fundamental focus of grammatical analyses across languages of the world, more recently, it has become apparent that naturally occurring language-in-use is in fact overwhelmingly intransitive and transitive clauses with two arguments have a relatively low frequency. In this study, I examine conversational Indonesian and focus on one construction type, a transitive predicate with t…
The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies
The predicate as a locus of grammar and interaction in colloquial Indonesian
Descriptions of Indonesian usually take the clause as the starting point for analysing grammatical structure and rely on the notion of ellipsis to account for the way speakers actually use language in everyday conversational interaction. This study challenges the status of “clause” by investigating the structures actually used by Indonesian speakers in informal conversation and it demonstrates that the predicate, rather than the clause, plays a c…
The Encoded Cirebon Mask
Investigating Indonesian conversation; Approach and rationale
Colloquial Indonesian has often been described in terms of its differences from standard Indonesian, but with such an approach, aspects of informal language usage will go unexplored. This article proposes using the theoretical approach of Interactional Linguistics to more adequately describe the dynamic nature of Indonesian as actually used by its speakers. Interactional Linguistics emphasizes usage-based analysis of natural language data, especi…
Reiterative construction of narrative
Using Ochs & Capp’s (2001) five dimensions of narrative, I analyse small stories that emerge during informal conversation among Javanese speakers. Of particular interest are the dimensions of Linearity, Tellership and Moral Stance. While many of these narratives are organised in chronological order, nearly half emerge from their conversational context non-chronologically. The primary organising strategy found among the non-chronological narrative…
Motivations for first and second person subject expression and ellipsis in Javanese conversation
Language and religion
Both within the Ambonese community, and in scholarly discourse, it is frequently noted that Muslim villages in Maluku have retained their indigenous languages ( bahasa tanah ‘language of the land’) whereas Christian villages have not. This article sketches the historical and sociological background of this difference, principally an outcome of colonial and religious policy by the Dutch administration. On the basis of current evidence of linguisti…
Hierarchical constituency in conversational language
This study investigates the role of constituency in structuring clauses during spoken interaction. It examines transitive clauses in a corpus of conversational Javanese. Do clauses unfold in a flat structure as each element is produced in real-time, or is there evidence of a hierarchical structure among constituents? By looking at adjacency in the production of clausal elements, with prosody as the key to understanding how speakers organize lingu…
Reference and Recovery in Cirebon Javanese
This paper discusses referential forms in Cirebon Javanese conversation, including full lexical nominals and their information flow marking, personal and demonstrative pronouns, and unexpressed arguments. Less explicit forms are generally used for more accessible referents, as expected from crosslinguistic studies. Unlike Standard Central Javanese and other Western Austronesian languages, Cirebon Javanese has a fairly attenuated and generalized s…
Reference and Recovery in Cirebon Javanese
This paper discusses referential forms in Cirebon Javanese conversation, including full lexical nominals and their information flow marking, personal and demonstrative pronouns, and unexpressed arguments. Less explicit forms are generally used for more accessible referents, as expected from crosslinguistic studies. Unlike Standard Central Javanese and other Western Austronesian languages, Cirebon Javanese has a fairly attenuated and generalized s…
Two pathways to identifiability in Cerebon Javanese
The Discourse Functions of Relative Clauses in Indonesian
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 81-91
Motivations for first and second person subject expression and ellipsis in Javanese conversation
Reference and Recovery in Cirebon Javanese
This paper discusses referential forms in Cirebon Javanese conversation, including full lexical nominals and their information flow marking, personal and demonstrative pronouns, and unexpressed arguments. Less explicit forms are generally used for more accessible referents, as expected from crosslinguistic studies. Unlike Standard Central Javanese and other Western Austronesian languages, Cirebon Javanese has a fairly attenuated and generalized s…
Investigating Indonesian conversation; Approach and rationale
Colloquial Indonesian has often been described in terms of its differences from standard Indonesian, but with such an approach, aspects of informal language usage will go unexplored. This article proposes using the theoretical approach of Interactional Linguistics to more adequately describe the dynamic nature of Indonesian as actually used by its speakers. Interactional Linguistics emphasizes usage-based analysis of natural language data, especi…
Language and religion
Both within the Ambonese community, and in scholarly discourse, it is frequently noted that Muslim villages in Maluku have retained their indigenous languages ( bahasa tanah ‘language of the land’) whereas Christian villages have not. This article sketches the historical and sociological background of this difference, principally an outcome of colonial and religious policy by the Dutch administration. On the basis of current evidence of linguisti…
The Discourse Functions of Relative Clauses in Indonesian
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 81-91
Two pathways to identifiability in Cerebon Javanese
Reference and Recovery in Cirebon Javanese
This paper discusses referential forms in Cirebon Javanese conversation, including full lexical nominals and their information flow marking, personal and demonstrative pronouns, and unexpressed arguments. Less explicit forms are generally used for more accessible referents, as expected from crosslinguistic studies. Unlike Standard Central Javanese and other Western Austronesian languages, Cirebon Javanese has a fairly attenuated and generalized s…
Reference and Recovery in Cirebon Javanese
This paper discusses referential forms in Cirebon Javanese conversation, including full lexical nominals and their information flow marking, personal and demonstrative pronouns, and unexpressed arguments. Less explicit forms are generally used for more accessible referents, as expected from crosslinguistic studies. Unlike Standard Central Javanese and other Western Austronesian languages, Cirebon Javanese has a fairly attenuated and generalized s…
Hierarchical constituency in conversational language
This study investigates the role of constituency in structuring clauses during spoken interaction. It examines transitive clauses in a corpus of conversational Javanese. Do clauses unfold in a flat structure as each element is produced in real-time, or is there evidence of a hierarchical structure among constituents? By looking at adjacency in the production of clausal elements, with prosody as the key to understanding how speakers organize lingu…
Language and religion
Both within the Ambonese community, and in scholarly discourse, it is frequently noted that Muslim villages in Maluku have retained their indigenous languages ( bahasa tanah ‘language of the land’) whereas Christian villages have not. This article sketches the historical and sociological background of this difference, principally an outcome of colonial and religious policy by the Dutch administration. On the basis of current evidence of linguisti…
Motivations for first and second person subject expression and ellipsis in Javanese conversation
Reiterative construction of narrative
Using Ochs & Capp’s (2001) five dimensions of narrative, I analyse small stories that emerge during informal conversation among Javanese speakers. Of particular interest are the dimensions of Linearity, Tellership and Moral Stance. While many of these narratives are organised in chronological order, nearly half emerge from their conversational context non-chronologically. The primary organising strategy found among the non-chronological narrative…
Investigating Indonesian conversation; Approach and rationale
Colloquial Indonesian has often been described in terms of its differences from standard Indonesian, but with such an approach, aspects of informal language usage will go unexplored. This article proposes using the theoretical approach of Interactional Linguistics to more adequately describe the dynamic nature of Indonesian as actually used by its speakers. Interactional Linguistics emphasizes usage-based analysis of natural language data, especi…
The predicate as a locus of grammar and interaction in colloquial Indonesian
Descriptions of Indonesian usually take the clause as the starting point for analysing grammatical structure and rely on the notion of ellipsis to account for the way speakers actually use language in everyday conversational interaction. This study challenges the status of “clause” by investigating the structures actually used by Indonesian speakers in informal conversation and it demonstrates that the predicate, rather than the clause, plays a c…
The Encoded Cirebon Mask
The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies
Language maintenance among the Baduy of western Java, Indonesia
Balancing Linguistic Goals and Community Relevance
Language documentation plays a critical role in preserving linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. However, balancing the academic goals of linguists with the practical needs and interests of indigenous communities remains a challenge. This study reports on the first phase of documenting the relatively isolated indigenous language of Baduy Dalam in Banten, Indonesia. Using a linguist-centered approach, the fieldwork involved eliciting languag…
The Atypicality of Predicates with Two Explicit Arguments in Indonesian Conversation
While transitive clauses with a subject and object have long been a fundamental focus of grammatical analyses across languages of the world, more recently, it has become apparent that naturally occurring language-in-use is in fact overwhelmingly intransitive and transitive clauses with two arguments have a relatively low frequency. In this study, I examine conversational Indonesian and focus on one construction type, a transitive predicate with t…
Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Conversation (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)