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James Sneddon

James Sneddon

Australian linguist


James Neil Sneddon is an Australian linguist who specializes in Indonesian and languages of Sulawesi.

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Education

He studied Linguistics and Indonesian at the University of Sydney. In 1974, he obtained a doctorate from the Australian National University, where he completed his dissertation Tondano Phonology and Grammar. He was an associate professor at Griffith University in Queensland.[1]

Career

Sneddon has written numerous works on the Indonesian language, including grammar textbooks. He is the author of the book Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian, which describes the Jakarta dialect.[1] In the book The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society, he presents the history of the Indonesian language and its function in modern Indonesia.[2]

Sneddon's proto-language reconstructions include Proto-Minahasan and Proto-Sangiric.[3][4]

Books

  • Indonesian Reference Grammar (1996)
  • Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar (1996)
  • Understanding Indonesian Grammar: A Student’s Reference And Workbook. (2000)
  • The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society (2003)
  • Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (2006)

References

  1. "The Team". Bahasakita.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020.
  2. Hugh Stretton (2005). Australia Fair. UNSW Press. ISBN 978-0-86840-539-1.
  3. Sneddon, James N. 1978. Proto-Minahasan: phonology, morphology, and wordlist. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  4. Sneddon, James N. (1984). Proto-Sangiric and the Sangiric languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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