Tom Dutton (linguist)

Tom Dutton
Tom Dutton
Born	Thomas Edward Dutton; 10 May 1935; Dayboro, Queensland, Australia
Died	21 December 2021
Occupation	Linguist
Spouse	Corinne Dutton
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Queensland

Last updated May 20, 2023

doi:10.15144/PL-B9

Dutton, T.E. A checklist of languages and present-day villages of central and south-east mainland Papua. B-24, iv + 84 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973. doi : 10.15144/PL-B24

Dutton, T. A first dictionary of Koiari . C-122, vii + 178 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1992. doi : 10.15144/PL-C122

Dutton, T.E. Conversational New Guinea Pidgin. D-12, xvi + 310 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973. doi : 10.15144/PL-D12

Dutton, T.E. and Voorhoeve, C.L. Beginning Hiri Motu . D-24, xviii + 276 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1974. doi : 10.15144/PL-D24

Dutton, T. Queensland Canefields English of the last nineteenth century (a record of interview with two of the last surviving Kanakas in North Queensland, 1964). D-29, xiv + 160 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980. doi : 10.15144/PL-D29

Dutton, T. and Thomas, D. A New Course in Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin). D-67, xxviii + 407 (3 maps 110 photos) pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1985. doi : 10.15144/PL-D67

Dutton, T. A dictionary of Koiari, Papua New Guinea, with grammar notes. PL-534, xxvi + 424 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2003. doi : 10.15144/PL-534

Dutton, T. Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The history of a Papuan language family. PL-610, xii + 126 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2010.

Edited volumes

Dutton, T.E. editor. Studies in languages of Central and South-East Papua. C-29, xviii + 852 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. doi : 10.15144/PL-C29
Dutton, T. editor. Culture change, language change: Case studies from Melanesia. C-120, viii + 164 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1992. doi : 10.15144/PL-C120
Dutton, T., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. editors. The Language Game: Papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock . C-110, xviii + 684 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1992.

Articles

Dutton, T. "Languages of South-East Papua". In Dutton, T., Voorhoeve, C. and Wurm, S.A. editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 14. A-28:1-46. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1971. doi : 10.15144/PL-A28.1
Dutton, T. "Police Motu of the Second World War: a record of interview with Nanai Gigovi, 1942". In Smith, G., Dutton, T., Voorhoeve, C.L., Schooling, S., Schooling, J., Conrad, R., Lewis, R., Wurm, S.A. and Barnum, T.) editors, Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 26. A-76:133-179. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1988. doi : 10.15144/PL-A76.133
Dutton, T.E. "Notes on the Languages of the Rigo Area of the Central District of Papua". In Wurm, S.A. and Laycock, D.C. editors, Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell . C-13:879-984. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1970. doi : 10.15144/PL-C13.879
Dutton, T.E. "A Koita Grammar Sketch and Vocabulary". In Dutton, T.E. editor, Studies in languages of Central and South-East Papua. C-29:281-412. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. doi : 10.15144/PL-C29.281
Dutton, T.E. "South-Eastern Trans-New Guinea Phylum Languages". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 1, Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene. C-38:613-666. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. doi : 10.15144/PL-C38.613
Dutton, T.E. "History of Research in Austronesian Languages: Eastern Part of South-Eastern Mainland Papua". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 2, Austronesian languages. C-39:129-140. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976. doi : 10.15144/PL-C39.129
Dutton, T.E. "Austronesian Languages: Eastern Part of South-Eastern Mainland Papua". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 2, Austronesian languages. C-39:321-334. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976. doi : 10.15144/PL-C39.321
Dutton, T.E. "Magori and Similar Languages of South-East Papua". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 2, Austronesian languages. C-39:581-636. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976. doi : 10.15144/PL-C39.581
Dutton, T.E. "The Distribution of Cultural Vocabulary in Papua". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:51-100. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. doi : 10.15144/PL-C40.51
Dutton, T.E. "The Teaching of New Guinea Pidgin to Europeans". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:733-748. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. doi : 10.15144/PL-C40.733
Dutton, T.E. and Brown, H.A. "[Hiri Motu] The Language Itself". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:759-794. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. doi : 10.15144/PL-C40.759
Dutton, T.E. "The Teaching of Hiri Motu to Europeans". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:795-806. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. doi : 10.15144/PL-C40.795
Dutton, T.E. "U.P.N.G.: The Hiri Motu and Tok Pisin Research Unit". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:1257-1272. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. doi : 10.15144/PL-C40.1257
Dutton, T.E. "U.P.N.G.: The Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea". In Wurm, S.A. editor, New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world. C-40:1273-1278. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1977. doi : 10.15144/PL-C40.1273
Dutton, T. "Tracing the Pidgin Origin of Hiri (or Police) Motu: Issues and Problems". In Wurm, S.A. and Carrington, L. editors, Second International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Proceedings. C-61:1351-1375. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1978. doi : 10.15144/PL-C61.1351
Dutton, T. "Current use and expansion of Tok Pisin: teaching and Tok Pisin". In Wurm, S.A. and Mühlhäusler, P. editors, Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin). C-70:535-537. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1985. doi : 10.15144/PL-C70.535
Dutton, T. "Borrowing in Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages of coastal south-east mainland Papua New Guinea". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors, Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic. C-74:109-177. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1982. doi : 10.15144/PL-C74.109
Dutton, T. "Police Motu and the Second World War". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors, FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. C-94:351-406. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1986. doi : 10.15144/PL-C94.351
Dutton, T. "Successful intercourse was had with the natives": aspects of European contact methods in the Pacific". In Laycock, D.C. and Winter, W. editors, A World of language: Papers presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th birthday. C-100:153-171. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1987.
Dutton, T. "Dictionary-making in minor languages of the Pacific: some further problems". In Dutton, T., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. editors, The Language Game: Papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock . C-110:125-134. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1992.
Dutton, T. "Sago and related items in early Austronesian vocabulary". In Pawley, A.K. and Ross, M.D. editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and change. C-127:101-126. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1994. doi : 10.15144/PL-C127.101
Dutton, T. "Lau'una: another Austronesian remnant on the south-east coast of Papua". In Lynch, J. and Pat, F.'A. editors, Oceanic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics. C-133:61-82. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1996. doi : 10.15144/PL-C133.61

Related Research Articles

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References

1 2 3 Pawley, Andrew. 2022. Thomas Edward Dutton (1935–2021). Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 61 no. 1 (Jun 2022), 602-613, doi : 10.1353/ol.2022.0009.
↑ Pawley, A., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. (eds). 2001. The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. PL-514, x + 424 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. doi : 10.15144/PL-514
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pawley, Andrew. 2001. Tom Dutton: linguist. In Pawley, A., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. (eds), The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. PL-514:1-12. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. doi : 10.15144/PL-514.1
↑ Carrington, L. "T.E. Dutton: a personal bibliography". In Pawley, A., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. editors, The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. PL-514:13-22. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2001. doi : 10.15144/PL-514.13

External links

Tom Dutton's Pacific linguistics research papers at the Australian National University Archives
Tom Dutton collection (TD1) held by Paradisec

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[obit-1] 1 2 3 Pawley, Andrew. 2022. Thomas Edward Dutton (1935–2021). Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 61 no. 1 (Jun 2022), 602-613, doi : 10.1353/ol.2022.0009.

[2] Pawley, A., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. (eds). 2001. The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. PL-514, x + 424 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. doi : 10.15144/PL-514

[Pawley-2001-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pawley, Andrew. 2001. Tom Dutton: linguist. In Pawley, A., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. (eds), The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. PL-514:1-12. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. doi : 10.15144/PL-514.1

[4] Carrington, L. "T.E. Dutton: a personal bibliography". In Pawley, A., Ross, M. and Tryon, D. editors, The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. PL-514:13-22. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2001. doi : 10.15144/PL-514.13

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Tom Dutton
Born	Thomas Edward Dutton 10 May 1935 (1935-05-10) Dayboro, Queensland, Australia
Died	21 December 2021 (2021-12-22)^[1]
Occupation	Linguist
Spouse	Corinne Dutton

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Queensland