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Pawley was born in Sydney but moved to New Zealand at the age of 12.
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Andrew Pawley
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Pawley taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland from 1965-1989, with periods at the University of Papua New Guinea (1969) and the University of Hawaii (1973-1978). He moved to the Australian National University in 1990. He has taught at the Linguistic Society of America"s Summer Institute in 1977 and 1985.
Pawley took sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001).
Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at Australian National University"s College of Asia and the Pacific. Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology and idiomaticity.
