McDonnell, Bradley. 2025. Reconciling Documentation Practices with Maintenance Goals in Multilingual Communities. Invited paper presented at the NINJAL International Symposium: Language Revitalization Synergy Symposium (LRSS), Tokyo, Japan, June 13-15.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2025. Documenting Multilingualism, Maintaining the Ancestral Code. Invited paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language and Literature Preservation, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 19-21.

McDonnell, Bradley & Blaine Billings. 2025. Divergence and convergence in Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. Invited paper presented at the Enggano Language Documentation and Lexicography: A Reflection, Denpasar, Bali, January 9-10. https://www.cirhss.org/enggano-research-seminar-2025/.

→ Conceptualization 50%, Analysis 50%, Writing 50%, Presentation 50% (Total Contribution 50%)

Chen, Victoria, Daniel Kaufman & Bradley McDonnell. 2024. Towards a typology of person indexing in western Austronesian, with special reference to Tagalog. Paper presented at the Tagalog Lecture Series, University of Zurich, Switzerland, October 21.

→ Analysis 33%, Conceptualization 33%, Presentation 33%, Writing 33% (Total Contribution 33%)

McDonnell, Bradley. 2024. Choosing fillers. Invited paper presented at the 27th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, Singapore, June 05-06.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2024. Fillers in the gray. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, February 22.

McDonnell, Bradley, Yanti, Dendi Wijaya, Blaine Billings & Jacob Hakim. 2023. The Changing Face of Language Documentation: Examples from Indonesia. Invited paper presented at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Center for Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series, Honolulu, HI, United States, November 8.

→ Conceptualization 40%, Analysis 40%, Writing 40%, Presentation 40% (Total Contribution 40%)

McDonnell, Bradley. 2023. Describing what’s left unsaid. Invited paper presented at the NINJAL-UHM Linguistics Workshop 2023, Honolulu, HI, United States, February 16-17.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2022. Uncovering the history of Nasal one layer at a time. Invited paper presented at the 1st International Symposium on Research and Community Service (ISRECOs) and the 2022 International Conference on The Austronesian and Papuan Worlds (ICAPaW), Bengkulu, Indonesia, September 9-10. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2022. Multilingualism and contact-induced linguistic change in southern Sumatra. Invited paper presented at the 4th Linguistics Society of the Philippines International Conference and the 21st English in Southeast Asia: A joint conference, Manila, Philippines, March 10-12. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2021. Collaboration in the (post-)covid era. Invited paper presented at the 2nd International Virtual Seminar on Endangered Language and Linguistics, Medan, Indonesia, October 25. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2021. Language contact and change in western Indonesia: Prospects and challenges. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Field Work, Language Documentation, and Linguistic Theory in Indonesia, Newark, DE, United States, October 22-23. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2021. Challenges of language documentation/description in a multilingual contact setting. Invited paper presented at the Challenges to language documentation in multilingual contact settings: A virtual roundtable discussion, Manilla, Philippines, April 29. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2021. Relating universal quantifiers and information structure in Besemah. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States, February 5. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2020. On documenting multilingualism in Indonesia. Invited paper presented at the 1st International Virtual Seminar on Endangered Language and Linguistics (IVSoELL), Medan, Indonesia, November 28. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2020. Explaining restrictions on universal quantifiers in Besemah. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, October 30. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2020. An illustration in reproducible research in documentary liguistics. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, April 23. Virtual.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2020. Documenting multilingualism in southwest Sumatra. Paper presented at the Indonesian Languages and Linguistics: State of the Field, Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 16-18.

McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton. 2019. Digital tools for endangered languages. Invited paper presented at the Endangered Language Knowledge and Digital Technologies (ELK-Tech), Ottowa, Ontario, Canada, September 27-28. Carleton University.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2018. Focus restrictions on grammatical relations in Besemah. Invited paper presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Malay Varieties, Tokyo, Japan, October 13-14. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2018. On universal quantification & exhaustive focus in Besemah. Invited paper presented at the Center for Languages & Cultures, Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 30.

Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L, Eve Koller & Bradley McDonnell. 2018. Data citation and reproducible research in linguistics: The state of the art. Invited paper presented at the Open Science Symposium, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, April 21.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2017. Grammaticalization of applicative suffixes in western Indonesia. Invited paper presented at the Center for Languages & Cultures, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 4.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2017. On the history of negation in Malay languages. Invited paper presented at the Faculty of Education, Bengkulu University, Bengkulu, Indonesia, July 6.

McDonnell, Bradley, Ryan Henke Khairunnisa, Ashleigh Smith, Peter Schuelke & Margaret Ransdell-Green. 2017. Collaborative digital language documentation methodologies in Field Methods. Invited paper presented at the Underdescribed Languages & Histories: Linguist’s & Historian’s Challenges (NINJAL-NMJH-UHM Workshop), Honolulu, HI, United States, May 16-18.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2017. On utilizing corpus methodologies in language documentation. Paper presented at the Underdescribed Languages & Histories: Linguist’s & Historian’s Challenges (NINJAL-NMJH-UHM Workshop), Honolulu, HI, United States, May 16-18.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2016. Transitivity and voice selection in an Indonesian-type symmetrical voice language. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, April 21.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2016. Symmetrical voice constructions in Besemah. Presented at the Department of Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, March 31.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2016. Floating quantifiers in Besemah. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, January 14.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2015. Do Besemah quantifiers float? Invited paper presented at the Center for Languages & Cultures, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 26.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2014. Recent advances in language documentation research methodology. Invited paper presented at the Faculty of Education, Bengkulu University, Bengkulu, Indonesia, November 7.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2013. A discourse explanation for causative/applicative syncretism in Besemah. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, December 11.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2013. Toward an integrated typology of causative/applicative syncretism. Invited paper presented at the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, October 9.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2010. A look at linguistic variation in South Sumatra and its implications. Invited paper presented at the Language Institute, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia, May 15.

McDonnell, Bradley. 2008. Words and sounds in Besemah: Notes from recent fieldwork in the highlands of South Sumatra. Presented at the Center for Language and Culture, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 18.