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Craig Alan Volker. Published 2 articles in journals. Has 4 section(s) of books and 8 book(s). Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Languages and Literatures with emphasis on Linguistics and Humanities with emphasis on Languages and Literatures with emphasis on Specific Languages.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Craig Alan Volker

Citation names

  • Volker, Craig
  • Volker, Craig Alan

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3A17-28E8-1806
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9773-1111

Email addresses

  • wantok@protonmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 920402046 (Personal)
  • (+675) 79393689 (Professional)

Addresses

  • PO Box 642, NIP-631, Kavieng, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea (Professional)
  • Rua Cidade de Santa Clara da Califórnia Lote 40 5dt, 3000-111, Monte Formoso, Coimbra, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Languages

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
German Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Tok Pisin Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Austronesian (Other) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Japanese Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Indonesian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Esperanto Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
1987/01/02 - 1994/05/15
Concluded
 PhD Linguistics (Doctor)
Major in Linguistics
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, United States
"Nalik Grammar (New Ireland, Papua New Guinea)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1983/02/24 - 1988/04/19
Concluded
 Graduate Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in TESOL
University of South Australia, Australia
1977/07/29 - 1981/02/02
Concluded
 Master of Literary Studies (MLitSt) (Master)
Major in German
The University of Queensland Graduate School, Australia
"An introduction to Rabaul Creole German (Unserdeutsch)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1972/09/25 - 1975/08/22
Concluded
 German / English (Bachelor)
University of Montana College of Arts and Sciences, United States
 with Honors
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/08/16 - 2023/09/17 Invited Coordinator Researcher (Research) Übersee-Museum, Germany
Übersee-Museum, Germany

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/03/21 - Current Director (Linguistics) Education Projects International, United States
2010/01/24 - Current Adjunct Professor James Cook University -- The Cairns Institute, Australia
James Cook University -- The Cairns Institute, Australia
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Hiro and the Miso Ghost. Japan. 2018.
  2. Let's go to the Park! ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿!. Japan. 2015.
  3. The Lives and Times of Movie Stars./ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿. Japan. 2013.
  4. Hawai¿i: English with Aloha. Japan. 2011.
  5. The Oxford Papua New Guinea Dictionary of Tok Pisin. Australia. 2008.
  6. Culture in a Global Society. Japan. 2002.
  7. Internet Surfing. Japan. 2001.
  8. The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. United States. 1998.
Book chapter
  1. "The legacy of the German language in Papua New Guinea". edited by Klaus Mühlhahn. Germany: De Gruyter, 2017.
    10.1515/9783110525625-009
  2. "The diversity of Asia-Pacific language ecologies". 1-11. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.
    10.1075/impact.35.01vol
  3. "Vernacular education in Papua New Guinea". In Reform or deform?, 205-221. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.
    10.1075/impact.35.12vol
  4. "Variation in Nalik grammar". Australia, 1996.
    10.15144/PL-C133.451
Edited book
  1. Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives. Netherlands. 2015.
    doi.org/10.1075/impact.35
Journal article
  1. "Documenting Unserdeutsch". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (2017): http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.32.2.06mai.
    10.1075/jpcl.32.2.06mai
  2. "Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German) Dokumentation einer stark gefährdeten Kreolsprache in Papua-Neuguinea". Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik (2016): https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/journals/zfgl/44/1/article-p93.xml.
    10.1515/zgl-2016-0004
Activities

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/08/16 - 2023/09/17 Visiting researcher and Papua New Guinea coordinator, provenance of the ethnographic collections from the German colonial period in “Neumecklenburg”, a collaborative research project between New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and the Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany.