SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009 (forthcoming). Out-of-Borneo Subgrouping Hypothesis for Rejang: Re-weighing the Evidence. In Festschrift, ed. by K. Alexander Adelaar. Canberra: Australian National University.
2009 (forthcoming). Asal Bahasa Rejang. Lingua: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra. Palembang: Universitas Sriwijaya.
2009 (forthcoming, co-authored with Dr. Zainubi Arbi). Serial Buku Bacaan Bahasa Rejang untuk Kanak-kanak. (10 children's Readers: five dialects, two titles each). Bengkulu and Palembang: Indonesian Department of Education.
2005. What the Rawas Dialect Reveals About the Linguistic History of Rejang. Oceanic Linguistics Vol.44. no. 1, pp. 12-64.
2003. Raising of PMP *a in Bukar-Sadong Land Dayak and Rejang. In Issues in Austronesian Historical Phonology, ed. by John Lynch. Canberra: Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics Series C.
2002. Review Article: Pacific Languages: An Introduction by John Lynch. In Pacific Studies Vol. 24, Nos.3/4—Sep.-Dec. 2001 Honolulu: Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Institute for Polynesian Studies, pp. 93-100.
2000. Where Did the Rejangs Come From? In Marlys Macken (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Southeast Asia Linguistics Society, University of Arizona.
1999. The Position of the Rejang Language of Sumatra in Relation to Malay and the 'Ablaut' Languages of Northwest Borneo. In Elizabeth Zeitoun and Paul Jen-kuei Li (eds.), Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Taipei: Academia Sinica Institute of Linguistics, 205-226.
1998. Anti-ECP Effects in the Rejang Language of Sumatra. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43(3/4): 359-376.
1997 Some Irregular Reflexes of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Vowels in the Rejang Language of Sumatra. Diachronica XIV.1:67-108.
1994 COTSEAL Tenth Anniversary Address. Journal of Southeast Asian Language Teaching III:34-40.
1991 Pronouns, Politeness and Hierarchy in Malay. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Festschrift in Honor of George W. Grace. Canberra, Australian National University: Pacific Linguistics C-117, pp. 197-221.
1989 The Animacy Hierarchy and Western Austronesian Languages. The Ohio State University: ESCOL '89, pp. 207-217.
1988a Book editor, with Introduction. Studies in Austronesian Linguistics. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series No. 76; 492 pp.
1988b Government and Case in Tagalog. Studies in Austronesian Linguistics, McGinn (ed.), pp. 275-294.
1985a Introduction to Interpretive Approaches to Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures (with Susan Rodgers). Journal of Asian Studies , XLIV No. 4. pp. 735-742.
1985b A Principle of Text Coherence in Indonesian Languages. Journal of Asian Studies XLIV No. 4, pp. 743-753.
1982a Outline of Rejang Syntax. Jakarta: Series NUSA, Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia.
1982b On the So-Called Implosive Nasals of Rejang (with James Coady), Gava` 17: Studies in Austronesian Languages and Cultures: Festschrift for Hans Kahler. Reiner Carle (ed), pp. 437-449.
Research Papers Presented at Conferences
2006. Indirect Licensing at the Interface of Syntax and Semantics in Rejang. Paper delivered at the XVI-th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, September 20-22.
2002 McGinn, Richard. Raising of PMP *a in Bukar-Sadong Land Dayak and Rejang. Paper delivered at the 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Canberra, Australia, January 8-10.
2000 Where Did the Rejangs (And the Malays) Come From? Presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Linguistics Society, Madison, Wisconsin, May 5-7.
1997 The Position of Rejang among the Malayo-Polynesian Languages. Presented at the Eighth International Conference for Austronesian Linguistics, Taiwan, R. O. C., December 28-30.
1997 Syllable Reduction in Rejang and Malay. Invited paper, Workshop in Comparative Linguistics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 15-16.
1997 Isolation vs. Adaptability in Rejang Language and Culture, Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Chicago, IL, March 16-18.
1995 Discourse, Markedness, and the Evolution of Focus in Rejang. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) annual meeting, Montreal.
1994 The Role of Dialect Evidence in Rejang Historical Phonology. Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Leiden, The Netherlands.
1994 The Empty Category Principle and Western Austronesian Languages. University of Toronto. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) annual meeting, Toronto.
1991 Some Indirect Object Properties in Philippine Languages. Sixth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Research in Progress
THE REJANG LANGUAGE: VOLUME I - MUSI DIALECT: PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGYTHE REJANG LANGUAGE: VOLUME II - MUSI DIALECT: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
REJANG READERS IN TRILINGUAL FORMAT (12 CHILDREN'S BOOKS -- TWO EACH PREPARED FOR SIX DIALECT AREAS)