Publications

Books

Grimes, Charles E., and Owen Edwards. 2026. The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: unravelling their prehistory and classification. Number 1 in Languages of the New Guinea Region. Berlin: Language Science Press. [full text]

Edwards, Owen. 2021. Rote-Meto comparative dictionary. Canberra: ANU press. [full text] [lexical database]

Edwards, Owen. 2020. Metathesis and unmetathesis in Amarasi. Berlin: Language Science Press. [full text]

Articles

Bracks, Christoph, and Owen Edwards. 2026. The languages of Atauro island. Oceanic Linguistics 65(1):94–128. [full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2025. Teun, Nila, Serua – a collection of language snapshots. Language Documentation and Description 25:1–12. [full paper]

Lovestrand, Joseph, Misriani Balle, and Owen Edwards. 2022. Notes on Kodi phonology. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 15:1–26. [full paper]

Klamer, Marian, Owen Edwards, Hanna Fricke, Zoi Gialitaki, Francesca Moro, Axel Palmér, George Saad, Yunus Sulistyono, Eline Visser, and Jiang Wu. 2021. Practicalities of language data collection and management in and around Indonesia. Wacana 22:467–521 [full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2019. Reintroducing Welaun. Oceanic Linguistics 58:31–58.[full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2018a. The morphology and phonology of metathesis in Amarasi. Morphology 28:25–69.[full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2018b. Parallel histories in Rote-Meto. Oceanic Linguistics 57:359–409.[full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2018c. Preliminary report on Funai Helong. NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia 65:1–27.[[full paper]] (https://tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1417/files/Edwards.pdf)

Edwards, Owen. 2018d. Top-down historical phonology of Rote-Meto. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 11:63–90 [full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2017. Epenthetic and contrastive glottal stops in Amarasi. Oceanic Linguistics 56:415–434 [full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2016a. Amarasi. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 46:113–125.[full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2016b. Parallel sound correspondences in Uab Meto. Oceanic Linguistics 55:52–86 [full paper]

Edwards, Owen. 2015. The position of Enggano within Austronesian. Oceanic Linguistics 54:55–109. [full paper]

Book Chapters

Grimes, Charles E., and Owen Edwards. in press. The Austronesian languages of Wallacea. In The languages and linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and Oceania, ed. Bill Palmer and Ellen Smith-Dennis, The World of Linguistics [WOL]. Berlin: De Gruyter

Culhane, Kirsten, & Edwards, Owen. 2026. The phonetics and phonological behaviour of vowel length in Meto. In The Documentarist Turn – From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations (pp. 433–467). John Benjamins. [full paper] [supplementary materials]

Culhane, Kirsten, and Owen Edwards. 2025. Consonant epenthesis in Meto: typologically rare but diachronically explicable. In Rarities in phonetics and phonology: evolutionary, structural, typological and social dimensions, ed. Natalia Kuznetsova, Cormac Anderson, and Shelece Easterday, 165–217. Berlin: Language Science Press. [full text]

Edwards, Owen. 2024a. Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi noun phrase. In Prominence in Austronesian, ed. Bethwyn Evans, Åshild Næss, and Jozina Vander Klok, 229–266. Berlin: De Gruyter [URL]

Edwards, Owen. 2024b. Onomatopoeia in Kotos Amarasi. In Onomatopoeia in the world’s languages, ed. Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Štekauer, 795–803. Berlin: De Gruyter. [URL]

Edwards, Owen. 2023b. Phonological innovation and lexical retention in the history of Rote-Meto. In Traces of contact in the lexicon: Austronesian and Papuan studies, ed. Marian Klamer and Francesca Moro, 101–139. Leiden: Brill.[full text]

Edwards, Owen. 2014. How to index a subject in Tolaki. In Argument realisations and related constructions in Austronesian languages, ed. I Wayan Arka and N. L. K. Mas Indrawati, volume 2 of Papers from 12-ICAL, 141–159. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. [full text]

Donohue, Mark, and Owen Edwards. 2014. Number in Tolaki. In Number and quantity in East Nusantara, ed. Marian Klamer and František Kratochvíl, volume 1 of Papers from 12-ICAL, 27–42. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. [full text]

Conference proceedings

Edwards, Owen. 2012. Non-subject participants in Tolaki. In Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference, ed. Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, 198–239. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [full text]

Archived Primary Linguistic Data

Edwards, Owen. 2023a. Emplawas and languages of the Babar Islands. Digital collection managed by Endangered Languages Archive. [URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2018. Kemak and Welaun Survey (OE8). Digital collec- tion managed by PARADISEC. [URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2017. Eastern Rote recordings (OE9). Digital collection managed by PARADISEC.[URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2017. Timaus recordings (OE3). Digital collection man- aged by PARADISEC. [URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2017. Ro’is Amarasi recordings (OE2). Digital collection managed by PARADISEC.[URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2017. Kusa-Manea recordings (OE6). Digital collection managed by PARADISEC. [URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2017. Funai Helong recordings (OE7). Digital collection managed by PARADISEC. [URL]

Edwards, Owen (collector). 2016. Edwards thesis recordings (OE1). Digital collection managed by PARADISEC.[URL]

Vernacular Language Materials

Edwards, Owen, and Heronimus Bani. 2019. Kamus maruna’ Uab Meto’ Amarasi; Kamus bergambar bahasa Amarasi; Amarasi picture dictionary. UBB Language & Culture Series, A-10. Kupang: Language & Culture Unit (UBB). [PDF]

Edwards, Owen, and Melianus Obhetan. 2017. Reta’ na’ko Tunbaun [Stories from Tunbaun]. Kupang: Language & Culture Unit (UBB). Trial edition

Edwards, Owen, and Hamrilah. 2013. Tolaki picture dictionary, Pobatuangi Ndolaki ronga gambarano, Kamus bergambar bahasa Tolaki. Kendari: Mombetolaki Publishing.