Dr Oliver Bond

Biography

Oliver Bond is a Lecturer in Linguistics in Surrey Morphology Group (SMG), a research centre based in the School of English and Languages. Before joining Surrey in 2012, he held posts as a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Salford and as a Researcher in Language Documentation and Description in the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP), at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

Oliver is the Meetings Secretary of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), and in this role he is responsible for matters relating to the annual conference of the Association.

External webpage: http://www.eleme.org.uk/oliverbond/

Research Interests

• Typology
• Morphology (especially Paradigm Function Morphology)
• Syntax (especially Lexical Functional Grammar)
• Language documentation and description
• Niger-Congo languages (especially Eleme and other Benue-Congo languages)
• Tibeto-Burman languages (especially the languages of Manang District, Nepal)

Publications

Bond, Oliver. In press. A base for canonical negation. In Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina & Greville G. Corbett (eds.), Canonical morphology and syntax, pp. 20-47. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bond, Oliver. 2011. Negation in clause linkages. In Julia Sallabank (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol 9: 77-120.

Hildebrandt, Kristine A. & Oliver Bond. 2011. Negation in Nar. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, David Nathan & Lutz Marten (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3, pp. 141-150. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond, David Nathan & Lutz Marten (eds.). 2011. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Bond, Oliver. 2010a. Intra-paradigmatic variation in Eleme verbal agreement. Studies in Language, 34: 1-35.

Bond, Oliver. 2010b. Language documentation and language typology. In Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol 7: 238-261.

Bond, Oliver. 2009a. The locative-applicative in Eleme. Transactions of the Philological Society, 107: 1, 1-30.

Bond, Oliver. 2009b. Mapping negation in conceptual space. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2, pp. 51-60. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells (eds.). 2009. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Hildebrandt, Kristine A. & Oliver Bond. 2009. WALS in the university classroom, Linguistic Typology, 13, 181-191.

Bond, Oliver. 2008. Multiple analytical perspectives of the Eleme Anterior-Perfective. In Current issues in unity and diversity of languages: collection of papers selected from the CIL 18 [CD-ROM], pp. 1480-1496. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea.

Bond, Oliver. 2007. Towards a canon for negation. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond & David Nathan (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory, pp. 39-49. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Bond, Oliver. 2006a. A broader perspective on point of view: logophoricity in Ogonoid languages. In John Mugane, John P. Hutchinson & Dee A. Worman (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African languages and linguistics in broad perspective, pp. 234-244. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Bond, Oliver & Gregory D. S. Anderson. 2006. Divergent structure in Ogonoid languages. In Rebecca T. Cover & Yuni Kim (eds.), Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society: special session on languages of West Africa, pp. 13-24. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.