The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages . They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea .
16-593: All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm 's 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit, retaining Kwerba within Capell's 1962 Dani–Kwerba proposal, for example. Foley (2018) classifies the Orya–Tor and Kwerbic languages together, as Tor–Kwerba . Usher (2020) adds Nimboran and Mawes, naming the expanded family Foja Range , after the Foja mountain range that passes through all four branches of
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48-641: A dissertation on Uzbek . In 1946, he married fellow student Helen Groger-Wurm , a specialist in African ethnography. He taught Altaic linguistics at the University of Vienna until 1951. After reading some works by Sidney Herbert Ray , Wurm became interested in Papuan languages and began a correspondence with Arthur Capell , a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Sydney . Wurm began teaching himself Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu from books and took up
64-678: A position in London. In 1954, the Wurms moved to Australia, where Capell had organised for Wurm a post in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney . In 1957, the Wurms moved to Canberra , where Stephen took up a post as Senior Fellow within the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS, now Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs ) at the new Australian National University (ANU). The same year,
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96-582: The Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1977. He was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours , for "service to education, particularly in the field of linguistics". In tribute to the scholarship of the man, the journal Oceanic Linguistics titled an article on Wurm "Linguist Extraordinaire". In recognition of Wurm's outstanding contribution,
112-536: The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The first intake comprising sixteen Fellows (including Geoffrey Blainey , Kenneth Inglis , John Mulvaney , David Monro, Franz Philipp, Saiyid Rizvi , Oskar Spate and Judith Wright ) and one Honorary Fellow ( J. C. Beaglehole ) were elected by the fifty-one Foundation Fellows at a Special General Meeting on 20–21 September 1969. Annual elections have taken place since that time. For an account of
128-791: The Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969. Its antecedent was the Australian Humanities Research Council (AHRC) , which was convened informally in 1954 through the combined efforts of Brian R. Elliott and Professor A. N. Jeffares , who organised preliminary meetings in Melbourne of delegates drawn from the Faculties of Arts in Australian universities. The AHRC was a positive force in education and scholarship, and its activities gradually evolved, especially in its support for national projects in
144-738: The Stephen Wurm Graduate Prize for Pacific Linguistic Studies was inaugurated in 2008. Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australian Government. The Australian Academy of
160-547: The Wurms received Australian citizenship . From then on, the main focus of Wurm's research was the study of the languages of New Guinea , but he also carried out research on a number of Australian Aboriginal languages . At the Australian National University , he was Professor of Linguistics from 1968 to 1987. Wurm was elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1976 and of
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#1732780701842192-420: The debates and efforts that led to the establishment of the Academy, see Graeme Davison FAHA's article in the inaugural edition of Humanities Australia : 'Phoenix Rising: The Academy and the Humanities in 1969'. The Academy is governed by a Council of leaders in the humanities, elected from among its Fellows, who provide strategic direction, policy guidance, and management oversight. The Council meets four times
208-554: The family. Even though grammatical gender is present in Tor-Kwerba languages, there is no overt gender marking on nouns. Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns are: Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba words that are widely distributed throughout the family (Foley 2018): Stephen Wurm Stephen Adolphe Wurm AM FASSA FAHA ( Hungarian : Wurm István Adolf , pronounced [ˈvurm ˈiʃtvaːn ˈɒdolf] ; 19 August 1922 – 24 October 2001)
224-493: The humanities. Recognition among the AHRC executive of the changing functions of the Council led in 1967 to the proposal of establishing an Academy. Royal consent was granted to the petition on 25 June 1969, and Letters Patent issued, constituting the Academy from that date. The Academy's Foundation Fellows were the members the AHRC. The highest distinction in scholarship in the humanities was required of candidates for election to
240-584: The time he reached adulthood, a gift he inherited from his father, who spoke 17. Wurm went on to master at least 50 languages. Wurm grew up stateless , unable to take the nationality of either of his parent or of his country of residence, Austria . That enabled him to avoid military service and attend university. He studied Turkic languages at the Oriental Institute in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in linguistics and social anthropology in 1944 for
256-702: Was a Hungarian -born Australian linguist . Wurm was born in Budapest , the second child to the German -speaking Adolphe Wurm and the Hungarian -speaking Anna Novroczky. He was christened Istvan Adolphe Wurm . His father died before Stephen was born. Both of his parents were multilingual, and Wurm showed an interest in languages from an early age. Attending school in Vienna and travelling to all parts of Europe during his childhood, Wurm spoke roughly nine languages by
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