TELC meetings 2000-2004
Paul Black, 2014; last adjusted 2 Nov.
During these years here is generally good information available for most meetings, but
we would appreciate any further information anyone may be able to provide, whether of
these or additional meetings or on any associated publications, which we have tried to
note as far as possible.
2000 June 16 meeting
2:00 to 6:15 pm at the Summer Institute of Linguistics (Berrimah)
2:00
Introduction and welcome
2:15
Chuck Grimes (SIL)
Keeping track of who's who in Ndao (West Timor)
2:45
Yasuko Nagai (SIL)
Speaking Maiwala language properly: The role of a vernacular elementary
school in Papua New Guinea [cf. Nagai 1999]
3:15
Tea break
3:45
Brian O'Herin (SIL)
Optimality theory and pragmatics
4:15
Barbara Grimes (SIL)
Bad Indonesian or what? The creolization of local Malays in Eastern Indonesia
4:45
Michael Christie (NTU)
Emic analysis of Yolngu verbs
5:15
Paul Black (NTU) & Zane Goebel (LaTrobe)
Online teaching of code choice in Indonesia: A concept proposal [essentially
published as Black & Goebel 2001]
3:00
Clive McClelland (NTU)
Comparison of prosodic, pragmatic and syntactic features of two VSO
languages - Agta of the Philippines and Berber of North Africa
6:15
Comments / next meeting / close
2000 September 29 meeting
2:30 to 5:00 pm in room 23.51 on the Casuarina campus of Northern Territory
University
2:30
Chuck Grimes (SIL)
The politics of language choice in East Timor
3:15
Margaret Sharpe (UNE)
Update on the Alawa dictionary project [cf. Sharpe 2001]
3:30
Refreshment break
3:45
Lys Ford & Aloysius Kunggul (WALC)
Language shift at Port Keats
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4:30
Jenny Lee (SIL)
Sociolinguistic implications of the Gospel selection in Tiwi
4:45
TELC business meeting (informal, till no later than 5:00)
2001 November 30 meeting
2:00-5:30 pm in the Building 23 (Education) Lecturer Theatre (room 23.01) at Northern
Territory University (Casuarina Campus).
2:00
René van den Berg
The place of Tukangbesi and the Muna-Buton languages (Southeast Sulawesi,
Indonesia) [published as van den Berg 2003]
2:30
Paul Etherington
‘We used to cut ourselves with one word’ — An overview of Nggem verb
morphology [cf. Etherinton 2002]
3:15
Break for refreshments
3:45
Michael Christie
Yolngu studies on-line: A look at the resources, a report on the trial offering of
the introductory unit on line, and the reactions of the Yolngu advisers
4:15
Neil Chadwick
Written language — spoken language: Which one is prior?
4:45
Paul Black
Catering for non-native English teachers
5:15
TELC business meeting
2002 June 11 meeting
9:00-11:30 am hosted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Diverse Educational
Contexts, Building 23 room 23.51, Northern Territory University (Casuarina Campus)
9:00
SIL’s contributions to linguistics
Discussion session led by Clive McClelland (SIL)
10:00
Morning tea
10:30
Approaches to teaching pronunciation
Discussion session led by Swarnamali Seneviratne (NTU)
2002 September 13 meeting
1:00-6:00 pm hosted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Diverse Educational
Contexts, Building 23 room 23.51, Northern Territory University (Casuarina Campus)
1:00
Neil Chadwick (Darwin)
User friendly dictionaries
1:30
Peter Carroll (Peter J. Carroll Advisory Services)
Translation and culture: A progress report on ongoing research
2:00
Kevin Ford (Singapore)
The semantics of English adverbials
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2:30
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS)
The endangered languages documentation project
3:00
Afternoon tea break
3:30
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS)
Onomastics and native title [cf. McConvell 2002]
4:00
Paul Black (NTU)
Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk [published as Black 2005]
4:30
TELC business meeting
4:45
Using Indigenous languages in education
Discussion led by Ailsa Purdon (BIITE)
2003
Apparently no TELC meetings were held during 2003. Please let us know if you should
have evidence to the contrary.
2004 April 30 meeting
2:30-5:30 pm sponsored by CDU’s Program in Learning Research on the Casuarina
Campus of Charles Darwin University, Building 23 (Education Building), Room 51
2:30
Margaret Sharpe (UNE)
Aspect, mood and tense in Yugambeh-Bundjalung verbal affixation [cf. Sharpe
2007]
3:00
Mark Clendon (BIITE)
Social and structural contexts of Omaha skewing in the north Kimberley, as
evidenced by Worora kinship terminologies
3:30
Afternoon tea
4:00
Helen Harper (CDU) and Ailsa Purdon (BIITE)
Teaching in NT bilingual contexts
4:30
Michael Christie (CDU)
Thinking about voice recognition software for Aboriginal languages
5:00
Paul Black (CDU)
What can we learn from Japanese signs? [developed into Black & Nakahara
2006]
2004 December 9 meeting
2:00-5:00 pm hosted by the Learning Research Group of the CDU School of Education
in Building 23 (Education) Room 23.47 on the Casuarina Campus
2:00
Neil Chadwick (BIITE)
Benedict's Austro-Thai hypothesis
2:30
Harold Koch (ANU)
Top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to linguistic reconstruction and
classification
3:00
Break for refreshments
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3:30
Paul Black (CDU)
Lexicostatistics involving massive borrowing: The case of Jingulu and
Mudburra [published as Black 2007]
4:00
John Wimbish (SIL)
The FieldWorks Data Notebook software for the analysis of cultural data
4:45
TELC business meeting
Note: A memorable aspect of this meeting was that the electricity went off before 3:30,
so that Paul Black had to recreate his Powerpoint presentation on the whiteboard of the
dimly lit classroom, and John Wimbish could only talk about the software instead of
demonstrating it.
References
Black, Paul 2005, ‘Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk’, in Historical Linguistics 2003:
Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,
Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003, eds Michael Fortesque, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens
Erik Mogensen & Lene Schøsler, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 21-29.
Black, Paul 2007, ‘Lexicostatistics with massive borrowing: The case of Jingulu and
Mudburra’, Australian Journal of Linguistics vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 63-71.
Black, Paul & Zane Goebel 2001, ‘A student-centered multimedia exploration of code
choice in Indonesia’, in Jim White (ed.), FLEAT IV: The Fourth Conference on
Foreign Language Education and Technology July 28 to August 1, 2000:
Proceedings, Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, n.p.: pp.
633-8.
Black, Paul & Masumi Nakahara 2006, ‘Japanese signs as a learning resource?’,
Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, vol. 3, suppl. 1, pp. 6-21,
electronic document found at <http://e-flt.nus.edu.sg/v3sp2006/black.htm> and at
<http://e-flt.nus.edu.sg/ v3sp2006/black.pdf>.
Etherington, Paul 2002, Nggem morphology and syntax, masters thesis, Northern
Territory University.
McConvell, Patrick 2002, ‘Linguistic stratigraphy and native title: The case of
ethnonyms’, in John Henderson & David Nash (eds), Language in Native Title,
Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. 259-290.
Nagai, Yasuko 1999. ‘Developing a community-based vernacular school: A case study
of the Maiwala elementary school in Papua New Guinea’, Language and Education
13(3): 194-206.
Sharpe, M. C. (comp.) 2001. Alawa Nanggaya Nindanya Yalanu junggulu = AlawaKriol-English dictionary, Prospect, SA: Caitlin Press,.
Sharpe, M. C. 2007. ‘A revised view of the verbal suffixes of Yugambeh-Bundjalung’,
Language description, history and development, eds by J. Siegel, J. Lynch & D.
Eades, 53-78. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
van den Berg, René 2003, ‘The place of Tukang Besi and the Muna-Buton languages.’,
in John Lynch (ed.), Issues in Austronesian historical phonology, 87-114,
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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