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Bradley McDonnell
Associate Professor
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Department of Linguistics
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Curriculum Vitae
Statement of Endeavors
Publications
Publications prior to promotion to Associate Professor in August 2021, are in light gray text.
To explain my contributions to co-authored work below, I draw on a subset of the roles from the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT): Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft, Writing – review & editing, Project administration, Data curation, Funding acquisition as well as the three degrees of contribution: “lead”, “equal”, “supporting”.1
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Billings, Blaine & Bradley McDonnell. 2024. Sumatran. Oceanic Linguistics 63(1). 112–174. 10.1353/ol.2024.a928205. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Writing (supporting)
Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Bradley McDonnell, Lisa Vahapoglu, Jeff Good, Mandana Seyfeddinipur & Katarzyna Kordas. 2022. Public health information for minority linguistic communities. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 100(1). 78–80. 10.2471/BLT.21.285617.→ Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (equal), Investigation (equal), Project administration (equal), Supervision (equal), Writing (supporting)
McDonnell, Bradley. 2022. Universal quantifiers, focus, and grammatical relations in Besemah. Studies in Language 47(2). 422–462. 10.1075/sl.20060.mcd.
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L, Noella Handley, Bradley Rentz, Jim Yoshioka, Victoria Anderson & Bradley McDonnell. 2020. Supporting small languages together: The history and impact of the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation series. Language Documentation & Conservation 14. 642–666. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24966. → Conceptualization (supporting), Writing (supporting)
Chen, Victoria & Bradley McDonnell. 2019. Western Austronesian Voice. Annual Review of Linguistics 5(1). 173–195. 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011731.
McDonnell, Bradley. 2016. Acoustic correlates of stress in Besemah. In Timothy McKinnon & Yanti (eds.), Studies in language typology and change (NUSA: Linguistic Studies of Languages in and Around Indonesia), vol. 60, 1–28. http://hdl.handle.net/10108/87442.
Peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in edited volumes
McDonnell, Bradley. to appear. Pragmatic annotation: A method for increasing accessibility of documentation through contextual, ethnographic, and interactional commentary. In Rich Sandoval & Nicholas Jay Williams (eds.), Interactional Approaches to Language Documentation (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication).
McDonnell, Bradley. to appear. Documenting Multilingualism in Southwest Sumatra. In Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Abigail C Cohn, Thomas J Conners, Joseph J Errington & Yanti (eds.), Indonesian Languages and Linguistics: State of the Field. Ithaca: SEAP Publications, Cornell University Press.
McDonnell, Bradley, Blaine Billings & Yanti. to appear. The Languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. In Bill Palmer & Ellen Smith-Dennis (eds.), Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. → Conceptualization (lead), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (lead)
Kaufman, Daniel, Nathan Adamson, Victoria Chen, Bradley McDonnell & Olivia Waring. 2026. Austronesian: Tagalog and Indonesian. In Laurie Bauer & Salvador Valera (eds.), Conversion in Morphology: Theory and Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/9780198943990.003.0014. → Conceptualization (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Writing (supporting)
McDonnell, Bradley. 2026. What’s a passive in Besemah? In Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), The documentarist turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations (Studies in Language Companion Series), 572–609. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 10.1075/slcs.240.21mcd.
Billings, Blaine & Bradley McDonnell. 2025. Fillers in the gray: Indeterminacy in their use in everyday conversation. In Brigitte Pakendorf & Françoise Rose (eds.), Fillers: Hesitatives and placeholders (Research on Comparative Grammar 5), 211–250. Berlin: Language Science Press. 10.5281/zenodo.15697584.→ Conceptualization (lead), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (equal)
McDonnell, Bradley & Blaine Billings. 2025. Choosing fillers in Besemah. In Brigitte Pakendorf & Françoise Rose (eds.), Fillers: Hesitatives and placeholders (Research on Comparative Grammar), 169–209. Berlin: Language Science Press. 10.5281/zenodo.15697582.→ Conceptualization (lead), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (equal)
McDonnell, Bradley & Christina L. Truong. 2024. Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia. In Fernando Zuniga & Denis Creissels (eds.), Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages, 971–1004. Berlin: De Gruyter. 10.1515/9783110730951-028. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (equal)
McDonnell, Bradley, Jiang Wu, Timothy McKinnon & Alexander Adelaar. 2024. The Malayic languages. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia, 431–454. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0029. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Project administration (lead), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (lead)
McDonnell, Bradley & Christina L Truong. 2024. The Non-Malayic languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia, 409–430. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0028. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (equal)
McDonnell, Bradley & Victoria Chen. 2022. The evolution of syntax in western Austronesian. In Chris Shei & Saihong Li (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, 11–32. London: Routledge. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (equal), Writing (equal)
Truong, Christina & Bradley McDonnell. 2022. Neglected functions of western Indonesian applicatives. In Sara Pacchiarotti & Fernando Zuñiga (eds.), Applicative morphology: Neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 10.1515/9783110777949. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Investigation (supporting), Methodology (equal), Project administration (equal), Supervision (lead), Writing (supporting)
McDonnell, Bradley. 2020. The pragmatics of “light nouns” in Besemah. In Tsuyoshi Ono & Sandra A Thompson (eds.), The “Noun Phrase” across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction (Typological Studies in Language 128), 237–270. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.128.10mcd.
McDonnell, Bradley. 2018. Reflections on linguistic analysis in documentary linguistics. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds.), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 15), 191–200. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24820.
Edited volumes
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller & Lauren B. Collister (eds.). 2022. The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. The MIT Press. 10.7551/mitpress/12200.001.0001.
McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds.). 2018. Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 15). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24800.
Manuscripts
Billings, Blaine, Johan Safri, Wawan Sahrozi, Jacob Hakim, Yanti, and Bradley McDonnell. in progress. Nasal Dictionary Kamus Baso Nasal https://basonasal.org2
→ Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (lead), Investigation (supporting), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (supporting)
Conference Proceedings
Billings, Blaine, Bradley McDonnell, Johan Safri & Wawan Sahrozi. 2025. Connecting Automated Speech Recognition to Transcription Practices. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Honolulu, HI. https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main.14.pdf.→ Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (supporting), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Investigation (supporting), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (lead), Writing (supporting)
Bartelds, Martijn, Nay San, Bradley McDonnell, Dan Jurafsky & Martijn Wieling. 2023. Making more of little data: Improving low-resource automatic speech recognition using data augmentation. In Proceedings of the 61st annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics (volume 1: Long papers), 715–729. Toronto, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics. 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.42.→ Conceptualization (supporting), Data curation (equal), Investigation (supporting), Supervision (supporting), Writing (supporting)
San, Nay, Martijn Bartelds, Blaine Billings, Ella De Falco, Hendi Feriza, Johan Safri, Wawan Sahrozi, Ben Foley, Bradley McDonnell & Dan Jurafsky. 2023. Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 1–6. Remote: Association for Computational Linguistics. 10.48550/arXiv.2302.04975.→ Conceptualization (supporting), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Investigation (supporting), Project administration (equal), Supervision (lead), Writing (supporting)
McDonnell, Bradley & Rory Turnbull. 2018. Neural network modeling of prosodic prominence in Besemah (Malayic, Indonesia). In 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 759–763. ISCA. 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-154.
McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton. 2018. Reflections on documentary linguistics. In Sebastian Drude, Nicholas Ostler & Marielle Moser (eds.), Endangered languages and the land: Mapping landscapes of multilingualism (Proceedings of FEL XXII/2018 (Reykjavík, Iceland)), 79–83. London: FEL & EL Publishing. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/4012.
McDonnell, Bradley. 2017. Prospects of a Community Based Language Project in the Nasal Speech Community. In Nicholas Ostler, Vera Ferreira & Chris Moseley (eds.), Communities in Control: Learning tools and strategies for multilingual endangered language communities, 64–69. Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Other publications
Wong, Annette Kuuipolani, Keao NeSmith, William O’Grady, Kainehe Chun-Lum & Bradley McDonnell. 2025. Research Study of Olelo Niihau: Report to the Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission. Research Report. Honolulu, HI: Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission. https://www.chartercommission.hawaii.gov/images/Olelo-Niihau-Study-Final-Report.pdf.→ Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Supervision (equal), Writing (lead)
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Bradley McDonnell, Lauren B. Collister & Eve Koller. 2022. Data, Data Management, and Reproducible Research in Linguistics: On the Need for The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller & Lauren B. Collister (eds.), The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, 3–8. The MIT Press. 10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0005. → Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Writing (equal)
McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton. 2018. Introduction. In Bradley McDonnell, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton (eds.), Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998 (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 15), 1–11. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/10125/24803.
Curated documentary linguistic datasets
McDonnell, Bradley (collector), Blaine Billings (researcher), Jacob Hakim (researcher), Johan Safri (participant) & Wawan Sahrozi (participant). 2019–. The languages of the Nasal speech community (BJM02). Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. 10.26278/5f46870d43f29.
McDonnell, Bradley. 2017. Documentation of Nasal (0468). Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-798B-E.
Kurniawan, Eri (researcher), Chye Retty Isnendes (researcher), Hernawan Sunda (researcher), Christina L Truong (researcher), Michael Ewing (researcher) & Bradley McDonnell (collector). 2014–2023. Documenting the endangered Indonesian language of the Baduy Dalam (BAC01). Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. 10.26278/500Z-JN08.
McDonnell, Bradley. 2008–. Besemah (BJM01). Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. 10.4225/72/56E823DF6C2D4.
Grants
US National Science Foundation, 2024-, Documenting endangered languages through training and capacity building among diaspora communities, (NSF BCS 2421485), PI [co-PI Andrew Cheng, Shelece Easterday, Gary Holton, Leah Pappas], $449,534.
State Public Charter School Commission, 2023–, Olelo Niihau Study, (RFP 24-01), PI [co-PI Kuuipolani Kanahele Wong, Keao NeSmith, William O’Grady], $30,000.
US National Science Foundation, 2019–25, Investigating Language Use in a Multilingual Community, PI (NSF BCS 1911641), $351,074.
US National Science Foundation, 2019–22, Documenting the endangered Indonesian language of the Baduy Dalam, co-PI [PI Jill Beckman, co-PI Michael Ewing] (NSF BCS 1562130), $300,400 (UH Mānoa sub-award $106,162).
US National Science Foundation, 2019–21, The 2021 International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Identifying and Fostering Relationships to Overcome Critical Challenges, PI [co-PI Noah Williams-Solomon] (NSF BCS 1937611), $59,986.
US National Science Foundation, 2019-2023, Conference: Support for Three Professional Meetings on Southeast Asian Linguistics, co-PI [PI Kamil Deen] (NSF BCS 1921334), $43,770.
US National Science Foundation, 2017–19, RR: EAGER: Data Science Literacy for All of Linguistics, co-PI [PI Andrea Berez-Kroeker] (NSF MSA 1745249), $151,007.
US National Science Foundation, 2017–19, The 2019 International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Connecting Languages, Communities, and Technology, co-PI [PI Gary Holton] (NSF BCS 1745711), $59,863.
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, 2017, Documentation of Nasal: An overlooked Malayo-Polynesian isolate of southwest Sumatra, Small Grant (SG0472, £8,255).
Footnotes
I collapse Writing - original draft and Writing - review & editing into a single category when I served both roles, as is often the case.↩︎
The dictionary was compiled as a part of Blaine Billings doctoral dissertation, Documentary Lexicography: A Case Study of Building a Nasal Dictionary. It currently contains over 2,000 entries with definitions in Indonesian and English, and Blaine and I are actively working with other team members to add definitions, cross-references, example sentences among other aspects of the dictionary.↩︎