About Jane Simpson (This is a multi-authored blog, and the views expressed are those of the authors, not of PARADISEC or the University of Sydney. If you'd like to contribute, please let us know!)
languages, language maintenance, syntax, semantics, dictionaries
I teach linguistics in the Linguistics Department, and work on the Australian languages Warumungu and Kaurna. I'm also a long-term fan of the documenting and archiving work of PARADISECand the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity.
Jane Simpson's recent entries...
- Copy, right? - Peter K. Austin
- Directions in Oceanic Research - Call for papers
- 3L Summer School - Peter K. Austin
- 1000 Languages - Peter K. Austin
- Coming down from the OzCLO State round
- Ways to deserts
- LingFest - time to register!
- Volunteer work in Vanuatu - Jeremy Hammond
- Review: Duchêne & Heller: Discourses of Endangerment - by Nick Thieberger
- And now we are five - Peter K. Austin
- All the news that's fit to print - Peter K. Austin
- Things move fast - Peter K. Austin
- The times they are a changin' - Peter K. Austin
- 5th European Australianist workshop - Eva Schultze-Berndt
- Your language footprint - Peter K. Austin
- Chirac Foundation sponsors Endangered Languages event - Peter K. Austin
- OzCLO - Inaugural Computational and Linguistics Olympiad
- Endangered Languages Outreach - Peter K. Austin
- Indigenous languages - staying in the background
- Fluency in revival situations - John Giacon
- Endangered Languages Week 2008 - Peter K. Austin
- It’s a comprehensive reference grammar, innit - Peter K. Austin
- How to discourage publication in languages other than English
- What's the price of doing nothing?
- Another State signs on..
- 2020 vision (maybe) on Australia's language capacity
- Dhanggati reference book
- Endangered Languages on TV - Peter K. Austin
- Culturally appropriate education - 'yes' and 'no' and 'and'
- Honourable mentions - Peter K. Austin
- Cool times at Kioloa
- Australian Linguistics Institute and LingFest 2008
- FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION AND TRADITION
- Literacy is not soma
- Words for new ideas: 'What's your age?'
- So where do you get the dosh from? - Peter K. Austin
- Money and respect - Frank Baarda
- Taking our show on the road - Peter K. Austin
- Seeking permission
- Sorry
- Update on Ngapartji Ngapartji - Public Forum on Indigenous languages
- Australia’s linguistic exports - Peter K. Austin
- More on language documentation corpora - Peter K. Austin
- Is mine big enough? Peter K. Austin
- Dying to be counted: commodification of endangered languages in documentary linguistics - Peter K. Austin
- How do you say that in Aboriginal? - Peter K. Austin
- Language Revitalisation and Maintenance Workshop 9 February 2008 - Peter Austin
- The hy-phen at Port Jackson - David Nash
- Voices of Australia on Voice of America
- Spreading sounds of joy
- Noisy placenames
- What's the default language for an Indigenous writer?
- World Language Centre conference on cultural and linguistic diversity - Peter Austin
- Against monolingual mindsets
- I speak English, and I can prove it - Peter Austin
- European Australianists Workshop 2007 - Peter Austin
- The perils of fieldwork - Peter Austin
- European Science Foundation and Endangered Languages - Peter Austin
- Deserts need people: Environment Blog Action Day
- A 007 licence for Australian newspapers - [now with a limitation]
- New wiki on Australian Indigenous languages
- Video in fieldwork
- NGO model of cultivated self-promotion for activism - Lise Dobrin
- Adelaide Public Forum, Monitoring the Federal Government Action in the NT
- The iNTerveNTion - me & my e-shadow
- Go Xena!
- Are you sick of emotional wallpaper? Complain!
- FiFo fieldwork
- Indigenous language work and the 2007 Deadlys
- On the nose - Peter Austin
- Phenome - one; phoneme - nil
- Back to back and neck and neck
- This week's langguj bagarap
- Digitally barefoot archivists
- Those who do not learn from history..
- 725
500new bureaucrats to the rescue of abused children - "And I for one welcome our new * overlords." - David Nash
- Senate inquiry on the NT National Emergency Response bills
- How to fix the NT National Emergency Response Legislation
- We need a bill of rights
- Justice for the Stolen Generation
- British Sign Language - a new corpus project
- Towards a social linguistics - Peter Austin
- News from Rome: "Australia declares war on the Aborigines" - Peter Austin
- Us and them are we
- Ploughing salt into the ruins of the NT - Brough's end game with CDEP and the little children - Bob Gosford
- CDEP changes
- The closure of the remote areas Indigenous Community TV network – why?? - Inge Kral
- Gunboat lip-gloss
- Nameless named
- Postdoctoral fellowships - University of Sydney 2007 for 2008
- Survey of Scottish Gaelic in Australia and New Zealand
- (W)rite of passage - Peter Austin
- Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory: Call for Papers
- Struggle for Indigenous rights - bringing the Sami and Aborigines together
- ‘The Right Thing To Do’? - Jenny Green
- NEW AND FREE: Language documentation and conservation journal
- Two community forums with the Social Justice Commissioner
- Thaynakwith people's dictionary
- To be or not to be a field linguist? Amy Cruickshanks
- The devil's in the detail
- Mutitjulu Community Statement
- Abuse of Indigenous children in towns and communities
- Endangered languages and Taiwan - Peter Austin
- Indigenous Languages Strand - LingFest 2008 - Call for expressions of interest
- Lewis O'Brien's biography
- WOTA LOTA … Gail Woods
- More opinions on the loss of Indigenous languages
- Seen in London - Peter Austin
- Languages in crisis
- Sorry Day
- Ignorance-based policy from Australia's Indigenous Affairs Minister - by Carmel O'Shannessy
- !Khwa ttu: San culture and education centre
- More on fieldwork - Peter Austin
- Open access or open slather? Nick Thieberger
- Languages and dialects - Peter Austin
- Research and teaching jobs in the SOAS Endangered Languages Academic Programme - Peter Austin
- There must be dozens - Peter Austin
- Ngapartji Ngapartji curriculum review
- For future philologists - Peter Austin
- Relocation of Language Groups - Jeremy Hammond
- Communicating about our work
- Modern ways for ancient words - Nick Thieberger
- There’s data and there’s research
- Endangered Pacific Rim languages - Peter Austin
- When is a linguist’s work done and dusted? Peter Austin
- Linguistic diversity and scholarship - Peter Austin
- Piranha Dandy
- There's fieldwork and there's fieldwork - Peter Austin
- Peter Austin on Patois
- Victorian state government language policy
- A week of Indigenous Australian languages
- Noel Pearson on saving Indigenous languages
- Notes from a field methods class (1)
- Can't get the words outta my head
- Warlpiri in Sydney
- Indigenous languages conference; Linguist wanted for Australian Indigenous languages project
- Eternity pills and common e-research problems
- Events in March and April
- Genographic project: endangered language grants and web maps
- Diyari spoken and written language: Guest blogger Peter Austin
- Two little somethings for your grant application
- Language, tourism, two-way education, reclamation
- Modern grammars from nineteenth century mission materials
- Name that spider
- Guest blogger John Giacon on the NgaawaGaray summer school
- Guest Blogger Barry Craig on the Pacific Gallery at the SA Museum
- Why not make films in Indigenous languages?
- Laughing at the powerful
- Artefacts, labels and linguists
- Three Australian Indigenous Language events in 2007
- Power, open access and language rights
- Click here - new grammar of a Papuan language
- Barking up the same tree: the need for digital archives
- Suzzy Data Workshop - Guest blogger Simon Musgrave
- Click now - thesis on acquisition of Light Warlpiri and classical Warlpiri
- 'Letter game' Warlpiri phonics
- Sovereignty over languages and land
- Good news: Raymattja Marika and Ludwig Leichhardt
- Old language materials: Elkin, Capell and gorilla linguists
- Money - I can't stop thinking about it
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Fifth International East Nusantara Conference
- Digging up prehistoric language spread
- Good things in the Language Archives
NetworkNews newsletter (No.8) - Government money and Indigenous languages in Australia
- Paper work in the Western Desert
- Blog catcher: Africa, America, Australia, art, language, literacy, software, travel
- One crap spelling system is better than two good ones
- Language of poetry and song: CALL FOR PAPERS
- Ngapartji-Ngapartji online course in Pitjantjatjara
- Sand talk - and how to record it
- Desert: forcing Aborigines off their land
- Endangered languages, cultures and the Australian Research Council lottery
- Indigenous language teaching and tasting
- Two new jobs in language documentation and endangered languages
- Ethics and the researcher
- News: Papuan programme
- Mother tongue education: the right to understand what the teacher says
- Blog-catcher - Aragonese and Fiji
- Tin trunks, gender, wax and emotion
- Summer school courses in Australian Indigenous languages
- Bush School: The Warlmanpa and the Bakers
- Where have all the old blogs gone?
- invitation.. to the launch of the Yuwaalaraay–Gamilaraay Language Programs resources
- Noongar, Native Title, Linguistic evidence: a small celebration before the night
- Market value of 'Aboriginal' words
- Making journalists accountable - rules of evidence and the right to silence?
- Bits and obits
- Transience and permanence on the web
- How do we know what they see? Field linguists and the appearance of things
- PhD scholarships at the University of Sydney
- Marking their passing
- Smoke, mirrors, language and Indigenous education
- Sinhalese/Tamil or English? Guest blogger: Thushara Gamage
- Speaking to God and Mammon
- Gimme that old-time jukurrpa!
- ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) AMENDMENT BILL 2006
- Training for speakers of indigenous languages in language work
- SBS Program on PNG
- Current fieldwork technology - over to an aunt!
- Census night
- National Indigenous Languages Forum "Technology-language-culture" 5th - 7th September 2006
- Language revival - nice Gamilaraay resources and good news on assessment
- New report on Indigenous languages in Canada
- Wiradjuri language revival
- Publishing dictionaries and a recent grammar of an Australian language
- Recognition for indigenous linguist
- Extinction of Australian languages and bilingual education
- Foundation for Endangered Languages - OGMIOS newsletter
- Notes from the launch of the AIATSIS Digitisation Project