Paul Sidwell

Paul Sidwell is an independent Canberra based researcher and consultant in linguistics, specializing in Southeast Asian languages and language history, forensic linguistics, and applied research for security and law-enforcement (via his business Language Intelligence email language.intel@gmail.com). 2013 to 2016 Sidwell was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian National University (College of Asia and the Pacific). Sidwell is a leading specialist in Austroasiatic linguistics, especially the Katuic and Bahnaric branches. His most recent significant contribution was to edit (with Mathias Jenny) the Brill Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages.

In 2015 Sidwell was elected President of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. He serves as Editor of JSEALS (the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society), and as an editor of Mon-Khmer Studies, and is the Series Editor for Brill monographs Grammars and Sketches of Languages of Mainland and Insular SEAsia. 2011-2014 he served as Managing Editor for Pacific Linguistics (ANU/DeGruyterMouton).

Paul James Sidwell
Born Melbourne 1963
Resting place on the couch
Residence Canberra
Citizenship Australian
Nationality Australian
Fields Austroasiatic languages; forensic linguistics and phonetics; historical phonology
Institutions ANU (Canberra), CRCL (Bangkok)
Alma mater Melbourne University
Thesis A reconstruction of Proto-Bahnaric (1998)
Doctoral advisor Ilia Peiros
Known for Comparative Austroasiatic studies, Editing: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Mon-Khmer Studies, Pacific Linguistics (2011-2014), Mon-Khmer Language Project: http://sealang.net/monkhmer/, http://sealang.net/munda/
Spouse Saowapha Viravong
Children Tom Sidwell

Previous professional appointments

On May 28, 2015, Sidwell was elected President of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

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Papers, Book chapters, Reviews

[Note: citation date for the Brill Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages is ambiguous; the publisher lists publication date December 2014 but copyright 2015]

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