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Dr Cindy Schneider

Cindy Schneider

Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences

Qualifications

BS (Delaware), GrDip (UNE), MA (Oregon), PhD (UNE)

Contact

Email: Cindy.Schneider@une.edu.au
Room: Arts (E11) 176
Phone: 02 6773 2483 (or +61 2 6773 2483 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3748

Cindy Schneider has a background in language description, particularly of the Austronesian and Papuan language families of Oceania. She has produced a grammar and related literacy materials for Abma, a Vanuatu language, and she also recently conducted linguistic fieldwork on two related languages spoken in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, in order to create grammatical descriptions and literacy materials for these two communities. For her Master’s thesis (1998), Cindy went to Kenya to investigate the status of adjectives in the Maasai language.

Aside from indigenous languages, Cindy also has an interest in English literacy acquisition and TESOL. She worked at TAFE from 2002 until 2007, teaching adult literacy to native English speakers, and ESL + literacy to new migrants. Cindy also worked in TESOL for many years, teaching tertiary-level students in the USA, Mexico, and Australia, and working as an IELTS examiner.

Research interests

Syntax; language description and typology; Austronesian and Papuan languages; literacy acquisition and TESOL.

Publications

  • Schneider, Cynthia. 2009. Information Structure in Abma. Oceanic Linguistics 48:1.
  • Schneider, Cynthia. In Press. The Partitive Marker in Abma. Anthropological Linguistics.
  • Schneider, Cynthia. In Press. A Grammar of Abma, a Language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Schneider, Cynthia, ed., with contributions from Andrew Gray and Catriona Hyslop Malau. 2008. An Apma-English Dictionary. 25 copies printed and distributed.
  • Schneider, Cynthia, ed. 2008. Topnan Vini Nada [Stories of Our Place]. 25 copies printed and distributed.
  • Schneider, Cindy. 2007. 'Verb Serialisation and Incipient Grammaticalisation in Abma'. In Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley, Diana Eades, John Lynch and Jeff Siegel, (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Schneider, Cindy. 2001. Linguist List book review: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/indices/Review2001.html, Index #12.468. Crawford, James. 2000. At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 143 pages.
  • Schneider, Cynthia. 1998. Property Concept Terms in Maasai. M.A. thesis, University of Oregon.

Conference Papers and Seminars
  • ‘Information Structure in Abma', Directions in Oceanic Research, University of Newcastle, 9th - 11th December 2008.
  • Qairaq Writing Workshop, Malabonga Elementary School, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, 30th June - 1st July 2008.
  • ‘Information Structure in Abma', Discourse Group Bimonthly Seminar Series, Melbourne, 8th February 2008.
  • ‘The Partitive Marker in Abma', RCLT Seminar Series, La Trobe University, 24th October 2007.
  • ‘Word-class-changing derivations in Abma', RCLT Local Workshop on Word-Class-Changing Derivations, La Trobe University, 22nd August 2007.
  • ‘The Associative Construction in Abma', Terry Crowley Memorial Workshop on Vanuatu Languages, Victoria University of Wellington, 13th November 2006.
  • ‘The Associative Construction in Abma', Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference, University of Queensland, 7th July 2006.
  • ‘Verb Serialisation and Incipient Grammaticalisation in Abma', Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, UNE, 26th November 2005.
  • ‘Verb Serialisation in Abma', LCL Postgraduate Residential School, UNE, 6th May 2005.
  • ‘Proposed Functions/Meanings Of Te in Apma', COOL6 (Sixth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics), University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu, 9th July 2004.
  • ‘An Analysis of the Function of Te in Apma (Central Pentecost, Vanuatu)', LCL Research Seminar Series, UNE, 18th June 2004.
  • ‘Grammar: The Reasons Behind the Rules', TESOL on the Beach, Coffs Harbour, NSW, September 2001.
  • ‘Literacy and Language Use in the Primary Schools of Maasailand', LCL Research Seminar Series, UNE, November 2000.
  • ‘Teaching Writing to EFL Students', English Department Seminar and Workshop Series, Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Mexico, February 2000.
  • ‘Property Concept Terms in Maasai', Department of Linguistics Research Seminar Series, University of Oregon, December 1998.
  • ‘Making Dictionaries' (two workshops), Open Day for high school students, University of Oregon, April 1998.
  • ‘Dictionary Making and the Maasai-English Dictionary Project', public information session, Daystar University, Kenya, November 1997.

Research Projects Supervised
  • External co-supervisor of PhD thesis (La Trobe University): ‘A grammar of Barok' (currently).
  • Co-supervisor of Honours thesis: ‘Language Use by Women with Power' (2001).