Stef Spronck
PhD candidate in Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU.Coombs Building, Room 7228
Office phone: + (61) (0)2 6125 3288
Thesis topic
My research focuses on reported speech and thought and the classification of stance phenomena in the North West-Australian language Ungarinyin (Non-Pama-Nyungan, Worrorran, Kimberley region) and forms part of the project Social Cognition and language: the design resources of grammatical diversity.
Current projects
- Documentation and description of Ngarinyin, a language of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, PI, funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme.
- Interpreting Howard Coate's Ungarinyin recodings, PI, funded by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander studies.
- (together with Dr. Patrick McConvell, PI) The linguistic prehistory of the Kimberley region, RA, funded by the Kimberley Foundation Australia.
Research Interests
- Reported speech and thought;
- Modality, evidentiality, stance;
- The relation between social cognition and grammar;
- Australian languages, Ungarinyin;
- Typology;
- Bakhtinian approaches to linguistics, grammatical theory.
Publications
- 2012 ‘Minds divided, speaker attitudes in quotatives,’ In Van Alphen, Ingrid & Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. This is an unedited, pre-final version of this paper.
- 2009 ‘How different is reportativity from reported speech?’, In Ender, Andrea & Marc Matter (eds.), Arbeitsberichte 43, Bern University.
- 2006 ‘Baxtin and current issues in linguistic theory’, In Lähteenmäki, Mika, Hannele Dufva, Sirpa Leppänen & Piia Varis (eds.), Proceedings of the XIIth International Bakhtin Conference, CD-ROM, University of Jyväskylä.
Other
Memberships: the Association for Linguistic Typology, the Australian Linguistic Society, the Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association, the International Association for Dialogue Analysis and the Linguistic Society of America.
Non-academic publications: This is my Dutch translation of a city guide to beautiful Saint-Petersburg and these are pieces for Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch).