Dr. Oliver Bond

Postdoctoral Researcher in Language Documentation (ELAP)

Oliver Bond is a postdoctoral fellow in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP) at SOAS. His principal research interests lie in typology, historical linguistics and language documentation, including fieldwork on Eleme (Ogonoid, Benue-Congo), an under-described language spoken in southeast Nigeria.

Oliver's research project, entitled ‘NegTyp’, aims to contribute to a broader understanding of the properties of negation in language. The main objective of the project is to capture information relevant to negative constructions in terms of their morphosyntactic/prosodic realisation and the formal/semantic-pragmatic distinctions encoded by negative constructions. For more deatils of this project, visit the NegTyp website.

Oliver was awarded his PhD from the University of Manchester, where he also studied for a BA and a MA in Linguistics. His PhD thesis, entitled ‘Aspects of Eleme verbal morphosyntax’, discusses Eleme fieldwork data from a functional-typological perspective, with a focus on participant reference (including logophoric reference and applicative morphology) and tense-aspect morphology. For more on Oliver's research you can visit his SOAS staff page or visit www.eleme.org.uk.

In Term 2 2009/10, Oliver will be teaching Linguistic Typology (open to MA and BA students with the appropriate background). Students who are enrolled for this course can access the full syllabus, handouts and assignments from the Blackboard web site.

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Publications

Bond, Oliver. 2010a. Intra-paradigmatic variation in Eleme verbal agreement. Studies in Language, 34: 1-35.
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Bond, Oliver. 2010b. Language documentation and typology. In Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, vol 7: 238-261.

Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan and Peter Sells (eds.). 2009. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Bond, Oliver. 2009a. The locative-applicative in Eleme. Transactions of the Philological Society, 107: 1, 1-30.
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Bond, Oliver. 2009b. Mapping negation in conceptual space. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan and Peter Sells (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2, pp. 51-60. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Hildebrandt, Kristine A. and Oliver Bond. 2009. WALS in the university classroom, Linguistic Typology, 13, 181-191.
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Bond, Oliver. 2008. Multiple analytical perspectives of the Eleme Anterior-Perfective. In Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of Papers Selected from the CIL 18 [CD-ROM], pp. 1480-1496. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea.
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Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond and David Nathan (eds.). 2007a. Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
http://www.hrelp.org/eprints/ldlt

Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond and David Nathan. 2007b. Introduction. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond and David Nathan (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory, pp. 1-2. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
http://www.hrelp.org/eprints/ldlt_01.pdf

Bond, Oliver. 2007. Towards a canon for negation. In Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond and David Nathan (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory, pp. 39-49. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
http://www.hrelp.org/eprints/ldlt_06.pdf

Bond, Oliver. 2006a. A Broader Perspective on Point of View: Logophoricity in Ogonoid languages. In John Mugane, John P. Hutchinson and Dee A. Worman (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspective. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/abstract1313.html

Bond, Oliver. 2006b. Aspects of Eleme Verbal Morphosyntax. PhD Thesis: University of Manchester.

Bond, Oliver and Gregory D. S. Anderson. 2006. Divergent Structure in Ogonoid Languages. In Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim (eds.), Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society: Special Session on Languages of West Africa, pp. 13-24. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Reviews

Bond, Oliver. 2009b. Review of Heine, Bernd, & Nurse, Derek, 2008. A linguistic geography of Africa (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Linguistics, 45, 472-476.
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Bond, Oliver. 2006c. Review of Miestamo, Matti. 2005.Standard Negation: The Negation of Declarative Verbal Main Clauses in a Typological Perspective (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 31). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-1982.html

Submitted/In preparation

Under consideration: Bond, Oliver. 2009. A base for canonical negation. Ms. SOAS.

In preparation: Bond, Oliver. Eleme cognate objects. Ms. SOAS.

In preparation: Bond, Oliver & Anderson, Gregory D. S. Towards a typology of cognate objects: Evidence from Africa.

In preparation: Evans, Bethwyn & Bond, Oliver. Negation in Marovo.