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Margaret Florey's Publications
Edited volumes
2010 Endangered Languages of Austronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007 (with D. Victoria Rau) Documenting and revitalising Austronesian languages. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
2005 (with Patrick McConvell) Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1).
2001 (with Peter Austin and Barry J. Blake) Explorations in valency in Austronesian languages. La Trobe Papers In Linguistics 11, Melbourne.
Book Chapters
2010a "Introduction", in Margaret Florey (ed.) Endangered Languages of Austronesia: 3-11. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010b (with Nikolaus Himmelmann) "New directions in field linguistics: Training strategies for language documentation in Indonesia", in Margaret Florey (ed.) Endangered Languages of Austronesia: 121-140. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010c (with Michael Ewing), "Political acts and language revitalisation: community and state in Maluku", in Gunter Senft (ed.) Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal languages: 155-173. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
2010d "Negation in Central Moluccan languages", in Michael Ewing and Marian Klamer (eds.) East Nusantara: Typological and Areal Analyses: 227-250. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
2009 "Supporting Indigenous languages and Indigenous knowledge: developing community training approaches for the 21st century", in Peter Bates, Moe Chiba, Sabine Kube and Douglas Nakashima (eds.) Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today: 25-37. Paris: UNESCO.
2008 "Language activism and the "new linguistics": Expanding opportunities for documenting endangered languages in Indonesia", in Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 5, 120-135. London: SOAS.
2007 "Introduction: documenting and revitalizing Austronesian languages", in D. Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey (eds.) Documenting and revitalising Austronesian languages: 1-12. Honolulu: Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 1.
2006 "Malukan languages", in Brown, K. (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition). London: Elsevier.
2005 "Language shift and endangerment", in Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: 43-64. London: Routledge.
2004 "Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a training programme for community language workers", in Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2, 9-27. London: SOAS.
2002a "Community aspirations towards language renewal among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands", in D. Bradley and M. Bradley (eds.) Language endangerment and language maintenance: 257-271. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
2002b (with Barbara F. Kelly) "Spatial reference in Alune", in Giovanni Bennardo (ed.) Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind: 11-46. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
2001a "Verb and valence in Alune", in Peter Austin, Barry Blake and Margaret Florey (eds.) Explorations in valency in Austronesian languages. La Trobe Papers In Linguistics Volume 11: 73-120, Melbourne.
2001b (with Peter Austin and Barry J. Blake) "Introduction", in Peter Austin, Barry J. Blake and Margaret Florey (eds.) Explorations in valency in Austronesian languages. La Trobe Papers In Linguistics Volume 11: 1-10, Melbourne.
2001c "Threats to indigenous knowledge: a case study from eastern Indonesia", in Luisa Maffi (ed.) On Biocultural Diversity: linking language, knowledge and the environment: 325-342. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
2001d "Language shift and the demise of indigenous knowledge", in T. Ammerlaan, M. Hulsen, H. Strating, K. Yagmur (eds.) Sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on maintenance and loss of minority languages: 109-125. Münster: Waxmann.
1998 (with Xenia Y. Wolff) "Foraging, agricultural, and culinary practices among the Alune of west Seram, with implications for the changing significance of cultivated plants as foodstuffs", in Sandra Pannell and Franz von Benda-Beckmann (eds.) Old world places, new world problems: exploring resource management issues in Eastern Indonesia: 267-321. Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.
1997 "Skewed performance and structural variation in the process of language obsolescence", in Cecilia Ode and Wim Stokhof (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: 639-660. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V.
1991 "Shifting patterns of language allegiance: a generational perspective from eastern Indonesia", in Hein Steinhauer (ed.) Papers in Austronesian Linguistics, No.1: 39-47. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Journal Articles
2005a "A cross-linguistic perspective on emergent possessive constructions in Central Moluccan languages", in Margaret Florey and Patrick McConvell (eds.) Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 59-84.
2005b (with Patrick McConvell) "Introduction: language shift, code-mixing and variation", in Margaret Florey and Patrick McConvell (eds.) Language shift, code-mixing and variation. (Special volume of) Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 1-7.
2005c "Overview: the languages of Central Maluku", in Simon Musgrave (ed.) Language Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties: Emergent Possessive Constructions (Special volume of) Monash University Linguistic Papers Vol. 4(1).
2003 (with Christopher J. Healey) "Alune arachnophagy and approaches to spiders among an Eastern Indonesian people". Journal of Ethnobiology: 23(1): 1-22.
2002a (with Christopher J. Healey) "'Work well and guard your honour': Temporary labour migration and the role of adolescent women in Eastern Indonesia". Asian Studies Review 26 (3): 355-381.
2002b (with Kate Burridge)"'Yeah no he's a good kid': a discourse analysis of 'yeah no' in Australian English". Australian Journal of Linguistics 22(2): 149-171.
2001 (with Aone van Engelenhoven) "Language documentation and maintenance programs for Moluccan languages in the Netherlands". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 151: 195-219.
1998a "Alune incantations: continuity or discontinuity in verbal art?" Journal of Sociolinguistics 2(2): 205-231.
1998b (with Xenia Y. Wolff) "Incantations and herbal medicines: Alune ethnomedical knowledge in a context of change". Journal of Ethnobiology 18: 39-67.
1997 (with Rosemary A. Bolton) "Personal names, lexical replacement, and language shift in eastern Indonesia". Cakalele: Maluku Research Journal Vol. 8: 27-58.
1993 "The reinterpretation of knowledge and its role in the process of language obsolescence". Oceanic Linguistics 32(2): 295-309.
Blog posts
2012 "The Bhasha Vasudha: Global Languages Meet. A report by RNLD’s Margaret Florey". Endangered Languages and Cultures blog 15 January.
Newsletter Articles
2004 "Countering purism: the revitalization of Moluccan languages" International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter 33: 25.
2000 (with Aone van Engelenhoven) "Moluccan languages in the Netherlands: documenting moribund languages in an immigrant setting". Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (Köln, Germany) Bulletin No. 4: 38-47. (Reproduced in Ogmios: Newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, UK Vol. 2(2): 3-7)
Published Reports
2002a Report on The World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-31 August 2002). Langscape 24: 4-10.
2002b (with Christopher J. Healey) "Terralingua in Bali: The 4th Preparatory Committee Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, May-June 2002". Langscape 23: 4-10.
1984 (with C. Clarke, H. Ross, N. Trahanas) Before lines are drawn: a social impact study of a housing development project for Upurl Upurlila Ngurratja (Cundeelee). A report commissioned by the Dept. for Community Welfare, Western Australia.