Personal Details______________

Name: Pascale Jacq

Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia

Citizenship: Australian/French                        

Date of Birth: 19th November, 1974

Qualifications:Graduate Diploma in Horticulture, University of Melbourne (Burnley) 2007
Master of Philosophy (Linguistics), Australian National University 2002
Bachelor of Arts (honours), University of Melbourne, 1998
Current Position:Fulltime Retail Assistant (Manager level 1) at Botanical Creations a retail nursery in Carnegie
Previous Position:Casual Gardener with Grass and Gardens providing high quality programmed garden maintenance for private and commercial gardens in Melbourne Bayside area
Last Academic Position:Full time Linguist Research Assistant for the Jawoyn Documentation Project, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University
Mobile Phone: 0417148764
E-mail: [email protected]

Career Aims ________________________________________

  I have recently completed my Graduate Diploma in Horticulture at the Burnley Horticultural College, Melbourne University, and work part time (casually) at a retail nursery where I can put my plant knowledge to use and help customers with plant care and selection.

My career aim is to eventually own a horticultural business which promotes re-introduction of indigenous habitat to urban/suburban settlement, to encourage the return of native wildlife and limit the use of water, fertilisers and pesticides. I also want to explore innovative ways in which to encourage people to enjoy their gardens, as the modern lifestyle is increasingly keeping us indoors and out of touch with nature.

My previous career as a linguist took me to remote places such as the Boloven Plateau in southern Lao P.D.R., Katherine (Northern Territory), and I also recently travelled to the Eastern Highlands (Goroka) of Papua New Guinea. In all my travels I have lived for short periods with local minority ethnic groups, learning their languages and participating in their daily life, with an aim to learn as much as I can about different cultures and environments.

Industry Skills ________________________________________

·  excellent customer service and retail experience;

·  trained in the safe handling and proper techniques of lawn mowing, edging, hedgetrimming, and rose pruning for programmed garden maintenance;

·  gained experience in using power tools and equipment for gardening, including lawn mowers, blowers, whippersnippers, electric hedgetrimmer, and proper handling of secateurs;

·  limited experience in the safe application of pesticides and fertilisers;

Academic Skills ________________________________________

·  Linguistic Researcher with extensive experience in documenting minority languages of the world using data collected in the field , and producing grammatical analyses and multilingual dictionaries for publication;

·        Master of Philosophy in Linguistics and Bachelor of Arts (Honours);

·        Excellent Academic English (mother tongue). Competent written and spoken German and conversational Laotian. Basic French. Competent in several minority languages only recently documented including: Jru' (Loven) and Nyaheun (Mon-Khmer), Jawoyn (Australian Aboriginal);

·        Author, compiler, copy editor of many linguistic publications, including dictionaries of Indigenous Australian, Austronesian, Southeast Asian (Lao) minority languages;

·        Recognised expert with specialist linguistic software programs (Shoebox, LexiquePro, Transcriber, Praat) and others (Dreamweaver, Microsoft Word, FilemakerPro) for creating linguistic databases for language documentation, and generating high quality published materials in web or printed formats for various readerships (semi-literate readers, language community, and academic linguists);

·        Assistant organiser of various international academic conferences (the 15th International Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Conference, May, 2005; 9th International Conference on Austronesian linguistics, January 2002; and 5th International Conference On Oceanic Languages, January 2002);

·        Convener and assistant in linguistic training workshops (AIATSIS Dictionary Making Workshops for Australian Languages, December 2004 and June 2005) for language speakers/linguists in the use of these software and methodologies of language documentation and dictionary making (see co-authored publication: Shoebox: Beginners' Quick Start Guide);

·        Presenter of several international conference papers and seminars on linguistic research;

·        Self-taught web page designer, maintainer, and assistant editor of web published newsletters (http://crlc.anu.edu.au)

 

Employment History _________________________________________

April 4th 2006 — 31st May 2006

Casual gardener with Grass and Gardens. Duties: High quality garden maintenance for private and commercial properties. Average 21-28 hours a week. Trained by Head Gardener in the proper safe and high quality methods of lawn mowing, edging, hedgetrimming, blowing, rose pruning, weeding, planting and care of annuals (incl. fertilising, use of pesticides if necessary), turf laying etc.

October 18th 2005 — 21st November 2005

Casual farmhand position at Maxiflora (Monbulk) flower farm. Duties: Picking and bunching flowers for sale, weeding, potting, propogating, general maintenance. Average 30 hours a week.

June 16th 2003 — September 2nd 2005

Full-time Linguistic Research Assistant to Prof. Francesca Merlan, School of Anthropology and Archaeology, Australian National University (ANU); funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Project: Jawoyn language major documentation project Duties: work for the most part independently on updating a language database with data recorded since 1976, recently digitised. Using this data (and data collected in the field in 2004 with the last remaining full speaker), analyse the language to create a high quality comprehensive dictionary, thesaurus, and grammatical description for language maintenance purposes and archiving for language preservation.

January 2003 — June 2003

Part-time Linguistic Research Assistant to Dr. Harold Koch, School of Languages, Australian National University (ANU); funded by the Faculties Research Grant Scheme (FRGS). Project: Reconstruction of Proto-Pama-Nyungan verb inflection. Duties: compile a database of verb systems of over 60 Australian Aboriginal languages from published and manuscript sources. Analyse and reconstruct ancestral verb systems from these to present to the historical linguistic community.

January 2002 — July 2002

Part-time Linguistic Research Assistant to Dr. Harold Koch, School of Languages, Australian National University; funded by a Faculty-based ARC small grant. Project: Reconstructing Verbal Morphology in Australian Languages. Duties: create a database of verb systems of over 60 Australian Aboriginal languages from published and manuscript sources; analyse and reconstruct ancestral verb systems from these to present to the historical linguistic community.

May 2002 — June 2002

Casual Private tutor for a foreign student for the course: Introduction to Syntax (2003), Australian National University.

January 2001 — June 2003

Casual Research Assistant Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University. Supervisors: Professor Andrew Pawley, Dr. Malcolm Ross, Dr. John Bowden. Duties: This position involved various responsibilities including:

a) Research Assistant to the Linguistics Department (assisting supervisors with their research, copying, editing of publications)
b) Organiser of the 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (9ICAL) and the 5th International Conference on Oceanic Languages (COOL5), January 2002
c) Copy editor for Pacific Linguistics Publications
d) Administrative Assistant and Web page designer/maintainer for the
Centre for Research on Language Change (http://crlc.anu.edu.au )

May 2001 — August 2001

Casual Research Assistant to Dr. Harold Koch, School of Languages, Australian National University. Project: Linguistic Interaction between the Arandic and Karnic Subgroups (funded by a Faculty-based ARC small grant). Duties: Compare vocabulary from Arandic and Karnic Australian Aboriginal Languages (Central Australia) and reconstruct sound changes and identify borrowings and cognates between the languages.

July 1999 — November 1999

Casual Tutor for the linguistics course: Introduction to Syntax (6/2003) Faculty of Arts, Australian National University (Lecturer Dr. Avery Andrews)

July 1998 — January 1999

Casual Research Assistant to Prof. Peter Blamey of the Department of Otolaryngeology, Bionic Ear Institute for Research, University of Melbourne. Project: Transcription & analysis of speech development of children with cochlear implants. Duties: Transcribe video recordings from 10 year archival material of patients using specialised software designed for the project; compare data for each speaker; create reports on speakers speech development and compare data between speakers for publication

 

Educational Background______________________________________

2002

Awarded Master of Philosophy, School of Languages, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Thesis entitled: A Description of Jruq (Loven): A Mon-Khmer language of the Lao P.D.R. (562 pp.)

1996

Awarded Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), Double major in Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.

1992

Awarded Victorian Certificate of Education, Mooroolbark Heights Secondary College, Melbourne, Australia.

Scholarships and Awards_____________________________________

2002

Awarded a Faculty-based Small Research Grant (AUD$4980) through the Australian National University for the Nyaheun Language Project (Nyaheun is a highly endangered minority language of southern Laos).

2002

Awarded US$500 from the Foundation for Endangered Languages for the Nyaheun Language Project.

1999-2001

Awarded a Master of Philosophy Full-time Research Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University

1999

Received a Fieldwork Grant for research on the Jru’ language, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University

1995

Awarded the ‘Exhibition Prize’ in Linguistics for highest aggregate grades in undergraduate study, University of Melbourne.

 

Publications________________________________________________

Books (co-authored)

2005

(with Francesca Merlan) Jawoyn-English Dictionary and English-Jawoyn Finder-list. Katherine: Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation.

2005

(with Francesca Merlan) Jawoyn Topic Dictionary (Thesaurus). Katherine: Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation.

2003

(with Paul Sidwell) A Comparative handbook of the Bahnaric Languages, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics 551.

2000

(with Paul Sidwell) A Comparative West Bahnaric Dictionary. Munich, Lincom Europa.

1999

(with Paul Sidwell) Sapuan (Sépuar). Munich, Lincom Europa.

1999

(with Paul Sidwell) Loven (Jruq) Consolidated Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

Books (as translator and editor)

1998

(with Paul Sidwell) Ferlus, Michel. Nhaheun-French-English Lexicon. Munich, Lincom Europa.

Books in preparation as co-author

(with C. E. Fox, A. Pawley), A Dictionary of the Gela language, Solomon Islands (2 volumes), Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

(with Paul Sidwell) Nyaheun, a West Bahnaric Language (sketch grammar).

Papers

2006

'The who and how of Nyaheun /hü/'. Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 36. Mahidol University: Thailand.

2004

'The Development of a Lao-based Orthography for Jru''. Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 34. Mahidol University: Thailand, pp.97-112.

2002

'Phonetic realisations of /?C/ and /hC/ word initial sequences in Jruq (Loven)'. Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 32. Mahidol University: Thailand, pp.25-53.

2002

(with Paul Sidwell) 'Austroasiatic Languages'. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing.

2002

(with Paul Sidwell) 'Mon-Khmer Languages'. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Massachusetts: Berkshire Publishing.

2001

(with Peter J. Blamey, Johanna G. Barry) 'Phonetic Inventory Development in Young Cochlear Implant Users 6 Years Post-operation'. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research Vol. 44, Washington DC: The American Speech and Hearing Association, pp.73-79.

2001

'ANU’s Centre of Research on Language Change'. Diachronica Vol. XVII, No.2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.395-397.

1998

'Sasak: How Many Dialects Are There?' In: Austin, P.K. (Gen. ed.). Lombok and Sumbawa Research Project: Working Papers in Sasak, Vol.1. University of Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp.67-89.

Book Reviews

1998

Review of Joseph Grimes’ Language Survey Reference Guide. 1995. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. In: Costello, J. (ed.). Published in WORD, Vol.49.3 (1998).

1997

(with Paul Sidwell) Review of R. L. Trask. Language: The Basics. (1995). London & New York: Routledge. Published in Nicholas, N. (Gen. ed.) Journal for the History of Language, Vol.4.2 (1998).

Thesis

2001 (unpublished ms.)

A Description of Jruq (Loven): A Mon-Khmer Language of the Lao P.D.R. Master of Philosophy dissertation (Linguistics), School of Language Studies, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University, 562pp.


Conference and Seminar presentations, Guest lectures______________

April 20th, 2005

The who and how of Nyaheun /hü/. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Conference, The Australian National University. (to appear in Mon-Khmer Studies Journal Vol. 35 (2006))

May 28th, 2004

(with Francesca Merlan) Spatial and Textual Deixis in Jawoyn: Towards the Notion of 'Communicative Frame of Reference'. HistLing Seminar paper for the Centre for Research on Language Change, The Australian National University. [http://crlc.anu.edu.au/seminars/series1_2004.html#Merlan]

May 17th, 2002

Orientation Origins, where do Jru’ cardinal directions come from? 12th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asia Linguistics Society, Northern Illinois, De Kalb.

October 30th, 2001

An introduction to Jru’: a Mon-Khmer Language of the Lao P.D.R. Seminar at Max Planck Institüt, Leipzig, Germany.

October 11th, 2001

How to represent various constituents in Jruq (Mon-Khmer) which break the overriding left-headed Constituency. A look at the Auxiliary ‘slot’, Serial Verb Phrases and Relative Clauses. Guest Lecture for Study of a Language Family: Tai-Kadai, School of Language Studies, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University.

September 8th, 1999

Cowboys and Coffee: the Loven people of the Boloven Plateau. Seminar for Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University.

 

Organisational affiliations and memberships______________________

2005 (June 16th – December 16th)

Visiting Fellow, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University.

2001-ongoing

Full member and former Administrator and Web Page Maintainer, the Centre for Research on Language Change, Australian National University.

2001

Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asian Research Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University.


Travel and Fieldwork experience________________________________________

2004

1 fieldtrip, Barunga, Northern Territory, Australia, with Prof. Merlan to work with the last remaining full speaker of Jawoyn.

1997-2002

7 fieldtrips, Boloven Plateau and neighbouring districts (Champassak/Attapeu provinces), Lao People's Democratic Republic, to record and document endangered minority languages Jru' and Nyaheun.

 

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