Dr Sebastian Fedden

Biography

Apr 2002 M.A. in Linguistics and English, University of Bielefeld

May 2007 Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Melbourne

Nov 2007 – Research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Mar 2009 

Employed since 2009 as a Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey.

Currently working on the AHRC funded project Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact

Research Interests

Currently working on the typology of pronominal argument marking in the languages of Alor and Pantar in eastern Indonesia. His main interests are Papuan linguistics, nominal classification, and the typology of argument realization

Publications

Fedden, S. (accepted). Reciprocals in Mian. Studies in Language.
Fedden, S, D. Brown, G. Corbett, M. Klamer, G. Holton, L. Robinson and A. Schapper. 2013. Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages. Linguistics 51(1). 33 – 74.
Fedden, S and L. Boroditsky. 2012. Spatialization of time in Mian. Frontiers in Psychology 3: 485. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00485
Fedden, S. 2012. Origin of switch-reference markers in Mian. In Gast, V. and H. Diessel (eds.), Clause combining in cross-linguistic perspective, 393-413. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Fedden, S. 2012. Change in traditional numeral systems in Mian and other Trans New Guinea languages. In Hammarström, H. and W. van den Heuvel (eds.), On the history, contact and classification of Papuan languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. Special Issue 2012 (part 1), 1-22.
Adang, M., B. Delpada, S. Fedden, M. Klamer, H. Retebana, L. C. Robinson, L. Titing and M. Wa’ang. 2012. “Daftar Kosokata Bahasa Adang, Abui, Teiwa, Kaera, dan Wersing” [A vocabulary of the languages Adang, Abui, Teiwa, Kaera, and Wersing]. ms. Denpasar (Bali), Indonesia.
Fedden, S. 2011. A grammar of Mian. MGL 55. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Loughnane, R. and S. Fedden. 2011. “Is Oksapmin Ok? A study of the genetic relatedness of Oksapmin and the Ok languages”. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 31, 1-42.
Fedden, S. 2010. Ditransitives in Mian. In Malchukov, A., M. Haspelmath and B. Comrie (eds.), Studies in ditransitive constructions: A comparative handbook, 456-485. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Fedden, S., D. Brown and G. Corbett. 2010. Conditions on pronominal marking: A set of 42 video stimuli for field elicitation. Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey.
Fedden, S. 2007. Women, houses, and plural objects? – Homophony in the Mian gender system. In Loughnane, R., C. P. Williams and J. Verhoeven (eds.), In between wor(l)ds. Transformation and translation. School of Languages and Linguistics Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature, vol. 6, 183-198. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, School of Language and Linguistics.
Fedden, S. 2007. A grammar of Mian, a Papuan language of New Guinea. PhD diss. University of Melbourne.
Fedden, S. 2006. Composite tone in Mian noun-noun compounds. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: UC Berkeley.
Singer, R. and S. Fedden. 2006. “Review: Lang Description: Vajda (2004)”. Linguist List 17.202.
Fedden, S. 2003. Reciprocal constructions in Tok Pisin. Unpublished ms. University of Melbourne.
Fedden, S. 2002. Verbalklassifikation in nordamerikanischen Indianersprachen. Linguistische Berichte 192, 395-415.
Fedden, S. 2002. Nominale Klassifikationssysteme: Ein Vergleich zwischen Verbalklassifikation und Nominalklassen. Unpublished M.A. thesis. University of Bielefeld

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Paper presented at Décembrettes 8, 6-7 December 2012: Aspectual distinctions in Mian verb stems