PEOPLE

ACADEMIC STAFF

The current staff of the PLU, with their research interests and other areas of expertise, are:

John Lynch, BA Sydney, PhD Hawai’i

Professor of Pacific Languages and Director of the Unit

Oceanic languages, especially languages of Vanuatu; history of languages of the Pacific; pidgin and creole languages; language change; dictionaries; orthography design.

lynch_j@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj

Robert Early, BA Victoria University of Wellington, BD Melbourne College of Divinity, MA Aucland, PhD Australian National University

Senior Lecturer

Descriptive studies of Pacific languages, especially Polynesian languages and the languages of central Vanuatu; translation theory and practise; linguistic typology; computer applications in language studies.

early_r@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj

Apolonia Tamata, BA South Pacific, MA Hawai’i

Lecturer

Fijian, especially the Bua dialect; phonology; dictionaries; narrative discourse syntax and semantics.

tamata_a@usp.ac.fj

Hannah Vari-Bogiri, Cert. Ed. (ESL & FFL) St Mark & St John, BA, Grad. Dip. Ling., MEd Hons James Cook University

Assistant Lecturer

English and French as Second/Foreign Languages; multilingualism; Araki (Southwest Santo), Raga (Pentecost) and other languages of northern Vanuatu.

bogiri_h@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

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Past Graduates