Jocelyn Aznar
Since 2011, he has been working with the Nisvai community (nisv1234) in South-East Malekula, Vanuatu , on an ethnolinguistic documentation of their language practices. During his PhD (2019), he developed a corpus of oral narratives and demonstrated how variations in narrative texts produced by Nisvai speakers correlate with the speaker’s age and the narrative context. A significant focus of his work has been documenting narratives, producing versatile resources (Aznar & Gala, 2020) that benefit both the speakers and the linguistic community. He is currently developing a comprehensive language resource that integrates lexicographic and ethnographic approaches. Project: Bazabaza:Lex.