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Bradley McDonnell
Associate Professor
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Department of Linguistics
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Below I draw on a subset of the roles from the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), including Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing, Project administration, Data curation, Funding acquisition as well as the three degrees of contribution: “lead”, “equal”, “supporting”.
Curriculum Vitae
Statement of Endeavors
Publications
Includes only publications that were published after promotion to Associate Professor in August 2021. See my CV above for a list of all of my publications.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Billings, Blaine & Bradley McDonnell. 2024. Sumatran. Oceanic Linguistics 63(1). 112–174. 10.1353/ol.2024.a928205.
→ Conceptualization 40%, Analysis 25%, Writing 20% (Total Contribution 28%)
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 30%, Analysis 30%, Resources 40%, Writing 20% (Total Contribution 30%)
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.
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
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 20%, Analysis 20%, Writing 10% (Total Contribution 17%)
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 50%, Analysis 50%, Writing 50% (Total Contribution 50%)
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 50%, Analysis 50%, Writing 50% (Total Contribution 50%)
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 50%, Analysis 50%, Writing 50% (Total Contribution 50%)
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 40%, Analysis 30%, Writing 30% (Total Contribution 33%)
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 50%, Analysis 50%, Writing 50% (Total Contribution 50%)
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 50%, Analysis 50%, Writing 50% (Total Contribution 50%)
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 40%, Analysis 35%, Writing 25% (Total Contribution 33%)
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.
Gordon, Matthew K., Edita Ghushchyan, Bradley McDonnell, Daisy Rosenblum & Patricia A Shaw. 2012. Sonority and central vowels: A cross-linguistic phonetic study. In Steve Parker (ed.), The sonority controversy, 219–256. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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 40%, Analysis 40%, Writing 40% (Total Contribution 40%)
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).
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.
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.
→ Conceptualization 40%, Analysis 30%, Writing 30% (Total Contribution 33%)
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 15%, Analysis 5%, Writing 10% (Total Contribution 10%)
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 20%, Analysis 10%, Writing 10% (Total Contribution 13%)
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 40%, Analysis 50%, Writing 60% (Total Contribution 50%)
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.
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).