It's yellow everywhere in Canberra - it's Wattle Day. Read more »
It's yellow everywhere in Canberra - it's Wattle Day. Read more »
1st Call for Papers for a graduate student colloquium on Language Documentation, to be submitted as part of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawai'i, March 12-14 2009. This colloquium, organized by and for graduate students, will provide an opportunity for graduate students to share their research and experiences. The main conference website is at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 20th 2008. Read more »
In late August, the sun, blue skies and daffodils turn a person to cleaning up the old (spring-cleaning, grave-tending, proof-reading), and starting up the new. The new this time is a grammar-writing workshop that Nick Evans has started at the Australian National University. Read more »
[From our woman in the Victoria River District and Manchester, Felicity Meakins]
"Humans have an in-built ability to do mathematics even if they do not have Read more »
[From our man in Hawai'i and Melbourne - Nick Thieberger] Read more »
Peter K. Austin
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
8th September 2008 Read more »
"A history of neglect and a neglect of history" was Nick Evans' summary of some gaps in work on Indigenous languages in Australia on Friday, as he launched a new collection of papers Encountering Aboriginal Languages: Studies in the history of Australian linguistics, edited by William B. McGregor. Gaps that we authors hope we've shoved fingers into... Read more »
Ngapartji Ngapartji has launched a policy paper regarding Australian Indigenous languages. You can download it [.pdf] from their website. The press release is below.
PRESS RELEASE JULY 29th 2008.
Indigenous languages a key to delivering better health and education
outcomes for indigenous Australians Read more »
[ from Peter K. Austin, Linguistics Department, SOAS] Read more »
Peter K. Austin
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
1st September 2008 Read more »
The appalling war in the Caucasus is the subject of an article "Barriers are steep and linguistic" by Ellen Barry in the New York Times, 24/8/08 [thanks Philip!]. Read more »
Peter K. Austin
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
23rd August 2008 Read more »
I've been feeling the need for an Australian corpus for a long time - do people really speak the way I so confidently say to our students that they do? Maybe not... Read more »
I could whinge for hours & hours & hours about the time&labour-wasting process of getting ethics clearance for - wait for it - the dangerous act of giving students questionnaires about everyday language use on everyday subjects. You have better things to read. Read more »
Loved the fireworks.
Loved history on and through paper.
Loved the moving movable type.
Loved the delighted athletes of the world.
Loathed the goose-stepping soldiers.
Loathed the mass synchronised movements.
Loathed the rhythmic grunts.
Bit worried about the cute young people in ethnic minority dress.
Hope that unity doesn't mean homogeneity.
Hope that harmony comes from welcoming difference.
Wish Crouching Tiger Roy and Hidden Dragon H.G. were doing the TV commentary.
[ from Peter K. Austin, Linguistics Department, SOAS]
Last week my wife, Patrizia Pacioni, and I were having lunch at Da Peppe, a seafood restaurant in the small fishing village of Sant'Angelo in southern Ischia, Italy. We were on two weeks holiday -- no computers, no internet, no work, no talking about linguistics (or linguists). After four days, so far so good. Read more »
I am down in Adelaide at the moment delivering the Kaurna electronic dictionaries we've been working on to the Kaurna Warra Pintyandi group. We've produced a Kirrkirr Kaurna dictionary and a mobile phone Kaurna dictionary, based on the work of the 19th century German missionaries Christian Teichelmann and Clamor Schürmann. Both dictionaries were well received. Read more »
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