Curriculum Vitae
Dr Michael C. EwingProfessional AddressIndonesian Program Tel: +61 3 8344 7557 |
Degrees, Qualifications
| 1999 | Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 1986 | M.A. in English as a Second Language, University of Hawai`i at Manoa |
| 1981 | B.A. in Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz |
Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held
| 1996- | Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies, Asia Institute |
| 1995 | Teaching Associate, Linguistics Department, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 1993-1994 | Fulbright Research Fellow, Atmajaya University, Indonesia |
| 1991-1992 | Instructor, Indonesian language, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, U.S.A. |
| 1991, 1992 | In-country Coordinator, Consortium of Teachers of Indonesian Advanced Indonesian Abroad Program at Malang Teacher’s College, Indonesia |
| 1990-1991 | Instructor, Intensive ESL Course and TESL Training Institute, English Language Program, University of California at Santa Barbara Extension |
| 1986-1989 | International Education Specialist in TEFL, School of Agriculture, University of Kentucky at Lexington. Academic Coordinator and Instructor at the Language Centre of Lampung University, Bandar Lampung, Indonesia |
| 1986 | Instructor, Hawai`i English Language Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Extension, U.S.A. |
| 1983-1984 | TEFL Consultant, The Asia Foundation. Assigned to Language Centre, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. |
Research Interests
- Discourse, Grammar, and Conversation in Indonesian and Javanese
- Language Endangerment
- Languages of Central Maluku
- Austronesian Linguistics
- Language Education – Project Oriented CALL
- Language, Culture, and Society
Grants Awarded
- Australian Research Council Discovery Grant "Dialect variation in Javanese: an integrated historical-linguistic and typological analysis" with K.A. Adelaar, 2006-2008.
- Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Major Documentation Project "Documentation of four moribund Moluccan languages: Eastern Indonesia and the Dutch diaspora" Held jointly by M. Ewing, M. Florey, S. Musgrave, B. Litamahuputty, 2003-2005.
- Australian Research Council "Cross-linguistic study of endangered Maluku languages: Eastern Indonesia and the Dutch diaspora" Held jointly by M. Ewing, M. Florey, S. Musgrave, N. Himmelman, 2003-2006.
- Australian Research Council Small Grant "The clause in Indonesian Conversation" 1999.
- Humanities Pre-Doctoral Special Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1989-1995.
- Fulbright-Hayes Grant for Research Abroad, 1993-1994
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Pre-Doctoral Grant, 1992.
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1989.
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1989.
- East-West Center Graduate Student Fellowship, 1982-1985.
- Fellowship for Advanced Indonesian Abroad, U.S. Department of Education, 1978.
- University of California President's Undergraduate Fellowship, 1978.
Publications
Sole-authored book
- Grammar and inference in conversation: identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2005.
Articles and chapters
- "Language and religion: a case study of two Ambonese communities". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 179:179–194, with Simon Musgrave. 2006.
- "Diverging and converging patterns of possession: Allang in its Central Maluku Context”. Monash University Linguistic Papers 4.1:45-64. 2005.
- "Hierarchical constituency in conversational language: The case of Cirebon Javanese" Studies in Language 29.1:89-112, 2005.
- "Colloquial Indonesian."In K.A. Adelaar and N. Himmelman, eds., The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 227-258. London: Routledge. 2005.
- "Two verbs of giving in Cirebon Javanese Conversation." In Toshihide Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Ono, and Hongyin Tao, eds., Recent Studies in Empirical Approaches to Language, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics Vol. 12, 3-21. Santa Barbara: UCSB Department of Linguistics, 2003.
- "Reference and Recovery in Cirebon Javanese Conversation." Australian Journal of Linguistics 21.1:25-47, 2001.
- "Conversations of Indonesian Languages Students in Computer-Mediated Projects: Linguistic Responsibility and Control." Computer Assisted Language Learning 13.4-5:333-356, 2000.
- "Face to face and cyberspace interaction: Relative Clauses in Indonesian conversation" with Susanna Cumming. In Shobhana L. Chelliah and Willem J. de Reuse (eds.), Papers from the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1995, 79-98. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University Southeast Asian Studies Program, 1998.
- "Two Pathways to identifiability in Cirebon Javanese." Special Session on Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages of Berkeley Linguistics Society 21:72-82, 1995.
- "The discourse functions of relative clauses in Indonesian," in Berkeley Linguistics Society 17:81-91, 1991.
- "Akan: a case marking preposition in Malay," in Asian Discourse and Grammar, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics Vol 3, 33-45. Santa Barbara: UCSB Departiment of Lingusitcs. 1991.