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 »
Peter K. Austin
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
23rd August 2008 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 »
"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 »
Peter K. Austin
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
1st September 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 »
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 »
Peter K. Austin
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
8th September 2008 Read more »
[ 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 »
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