CURRICULUM VITAE
May 2008
1. Personal Information
Michael James WALSH
Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006
(02) 9351 4228; (02) 9351 4348 (message)
(02) 9351 7572 (fax); E-mail: michael.walsh.usyd.edu.au
ABN: 49521197650
Born 11 September 1948
Australian Citizen
Research interests: Australian Aboriginal languages; lexical semantics; crosscultural pragmatics; language and law; linguistic geography; language
revitalization; song language and other expressive uses of language
2. Education
Qualifications
1970 - BA (Hons) University of Sydney.
Honours Major in Early English Literature and Language
Major in Classical Greek
Sub-Major in Philosophy
1971 - MA (Qualifying), Linguistics, First Class Honours standard.
Australian National University.
1977 - PhD, Linguistics
Australian National University.
1985 - Dip Tertiary Ed
University of New England.
3. Employment
Present Position
Honorary Associate, Linguistics, within the School of Letters, Art and Media,
Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney.
Previous Position
November 1999-June 2000 Consultant, ATSIC Strategic Language Survey of
NSW [funded through AIATSIS]
1998-2004
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts
1997-99
Head, Department of Linguistics
1993-2005
Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
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[from December 1995 to December 1996 Unit Visitor, then Visiting Fellow, at
the North Australia Research Unit while on leave without pay from the
University of Sydney]
1982-1992
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
1975-81
Linguistic Research Officer, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
1975
Tutor, School of Liberal Studies, Canberra College of Advanced
Education(part-time).
1972-74
Tutor, Department of Linguistics, School of General Studies,
Australian National University (part-time).
Since 1979 I have also undertaken consultancies with a range of bodies
including the Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales, the Aboriginal
Areas Protection Authority (Northern Territory), the Northern Land Council,
the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, the NSW Board of Studies,
the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Recently involved in
a major grant from DOCITA to NSW DAA for a NSW Aboriginal Languages
Database. Currently engaged in consultancies for the Northern Land Council.
4. Memberships
Australex
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Australian Linguistic Society (Honorary Life Member)
Foundation for Endangered Languages
International Association of Forensic Linguists
Mind Association (Life Member)
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
5. Publications
Books and Monographs
1979a
1979b
1987
1993
1997a
1997b
AIAS Wordlist for Australian Languages (with P. Sutton). Canberra: Australian
Institute of Aboriginal Studies. v + 161 pp.
Revised Linguistic Fieldwork Manual for Australia (with P. Sutton). Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 64pp.
AIAS Wordlist for Australian Languages 2nd edition.(with P. Sutton). Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 210 pp.
Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (co-edited with Colin Yallop).
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. xviii+226 pp.
Boundary Rider: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey O’Grady. (co-edited with D. Tryon)
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-136. viii + 444pp.
Cross Cultural Communication Problems in Aboriginal Australia. Darwin: North
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2005
Australia Research Unit. Discussion Paper No.7/1997. 23pp.
Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (co-edited with Colin Yallop).
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. xviii+226 pp. [re-issue]
Reports
1979
Kenbi Claim Book (with Maria Brandl and Adrienne Haritos) Darwin: Northern
Land Council, xvii+295pp.
1981
Report on Gundal. Darwin: Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority, 51pp.
1989a
[Kenbi] Site Map and Site Register Darwin: Northern Land Council, 1+39pp.
1989b
Notes on Men's Business [restricted] Darwin: Northern Land Council, 10pp.
1989c
Ten Years On (with the assistance of Frank McKeown and Beth Povinelli) Darwin:
Northern Land Council, 32pp.
1989d A Supplement to Ten Years On. Darwin: Northern Land Council, 4pp.
1989e
The Wagaitj in relation to the Kenbi Land Claim Area. Darwin: Northern Land
Council, 15pp.
1990a
Belyuen Genealogies Darwin: Northern Land Council, 98pp. (co-author).
1990b
Belyuen Personal Particulars Darwin: Northern Land Council, 21pp. (co-author).
1990c
Kenbi Land Claim. Final Submissions on Traditional Ownership. Darwin: Northern
Land Council, 422pp. (major author).
1990d Larrakia Genealogies Darwin: Northern Land Council, 109pp. (major author).
1990e
Larrakia Personal Particulars Darwin: Northern Land Council, 44pp. (major author).
1990f
Remarks on Kenbi. Darwin: Northern Land Council, 51pp.
1990g
Reply to Northern Territory Government Final Submission on the Kenbi Land Claim.
Darwin: Northern Land Council, 37pp. (co-author).
1991a
“I wouldn’t be white for quids”: a consideration of Aboriginal identity Royal
Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, 35pp.
1991b
Remarks on the Anthropologists’ Report for the Lower Adelaide & Mary Rivers
(Wulna/Minitja) Land Claim, for the Northern Land Council (report), 12pp.
1995a
Larrakia Genealogies-August 1995 Darwin: Northern Land Council (report) c.100pp
1995b
Larrakia Group-Site Register Darwin: Northern Land Council (report), 12pp
1995c
Larrakia Personal Particulars Darwin: Northern Land Council (report), 39pp
1995d Larrakia Upper Generations Charts Darwin: Northern Land Council (report), 9pp
1996a
Comments on Ben Ward & Ors v The State of Western Australia & Ors: WAG 6001 of 1995
- Linguist’s Report. - for the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, 13pp
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1996b
Report on Beagle Gulf Marine Park. Darwin: Northern Land Council (report), 10pp
2000a
Larrakia Native Title Applications: Report in relation to genealogies (for
Northern Land Council), 16pp.
2000b
Strong Language Strong Culture. New South Wales Strategic Language Study. Final
Report and Strategy Action Plan. - prepared for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies. 64pp. (major author).
2002a
Aboriginal Languages Years 7-10 Draft Writing Brief. Consultation Report.
Aboriginal Curriculum Unit of the NSW Board of Studies, 50pp. (major author).
2002b
Aboriginal Languages K-10. Draft Syllabus.
Aboriginal Curriculum Unit of the NSW Board of Studies, 77pp. (major author).
2002c
Draft Framework for Aboriginal Languages K-10.
Aboriginal Curriculum Unit of the NSW Board of Studies, 36 pp. (major author).
2002d Teaching NSW’s Indigenous Languages Lessons from Elsewhere. – prepared for the
Aboriginal Curriculum Unit of the NSW Board of Studies, 27pp.
[http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/aboriginal_research/pdf_doc/teach_indig_lang_n
sw_walsh.doc]
2003a Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment – Sandon Point (with Jakelin Troy).
Preliminary report, February, 5pp.
2003b Aboriginal Languages. Mandatory and Elective Courses. K-10 Syllabus. Sydney:
Board of Studies, New South Wales. 74pp. (major author).
2004
A Preliminary Report on the Falkenberg Collection (housed at the Ethnographic
Museum, University of Oslo. 10pp.
2006
27pp.
Report on the Aboriginal languages of the Illawarra area. for Biosis Research Pty. Ltd.
2007a Draft Report to Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, and, Anthropology branch,
Northern Land Council, Darwin: Consultations for AAPA Certificate Application for
proposed APT Gas Pipeline Project: western section from Yelcher Beach (near Wadeye) to
Daly River. 47 pp.
2007b Report to Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, and, Anthropology branch, Northern
Land Council, Darwin: Consultations for AAPA Certificate Application for proposed APT
Gas Pipeline Project: western section from Yelcher Beach (near Wadeye) to Daly River. 127
pp.
2008a Report to Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, and, Anthropology branch,
Northern Land Council, Darwin: Consultations on supplementary construction requirements
in connection with the proposed APT Gas Pipeline Project: western section from Yelcher
Beach (near Wadeye) to Daly River. 13 pp.
2008b Report to Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, and, Anthropology branch,
Northern Land Council, Darwin: Consultations on an additional access track in the vicinity of
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Chilling Creek in connection with the proposed APT Gas Pipeline Project: western section
from Yelcher Beach (near Wadeye) to Daly River. 3 pp.
Articles
1976a
The derivational affix "having" (Murrinh-Patha). in R.M.W.Dixon (ed.)
Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (Canberra: Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies), 287-290.
1976b
The bivalent suffix -ku (Murrinh-Patha). in R.M.W.Dixon (ed.) Grammatical
Categories in Australian Languages (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal
Studies), 405-408.
1976c
Ergative, locative and instrumental case inflections (Murrinh-Patha). in
R.M.W.Dixon (ed.) Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies), 441-444.
1979a
Recent research in Australian linguistics. in S.A.Wurm (ed.) Australian Linguistic
Studies (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), pp.1-72.
1979b
An Australian bibliography - from Greenway to the late sixties. (with Lois
Carrington) in S.A.Wurm (ed.) Australian Linguistic Studies (Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics), pp.73-86.
1981a
Australian section of S.A. Wurm and S. Hattori (eds.) Language Atlas of the Pacific
Area (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, in
collaboration with the Japan Academy) - 5 maps and 7pp annotations.
1981b
The lost "Macassar Language" of northern Australia. (with J. Urry) Aboriginal
History 5. 91-108.
1981c
Review of Keith H. Basso Portraits of “the Whiteman”. Linguistic Play and Cultural
Symbols among the Western Apache. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979),
Aboriginal History 5. 174-5.
1981d Review of R.M.W.Dixon The Languages of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1980), Australian Book Review, No.31, 29-30.
1981e
Speakers of many tongues: towards understanding multilingualism among Aboriginal
Australians. (with M.M. Brandl) (CRES work paper C/WP3). Canberra: Centre for
Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 16pp.
1982a
Language policy - Australia. in R.B. Kaplan (ed.) Annual Review of Applied
Linguistics 1981 (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House) pp.21-32.
1982b
Remarks on a possible structure and policy for an Aboriginal language planning
organization. in J. Bell (ed.) Language Planning for Australian Aboriginal Languages
(Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development) pp.81-91.
1982c
Speakers of many tongues: towards understanding multilingualism among Aboriginal
Australians. (with M.M. Brandl) International Journal of the Sociology of Language 36,
pp.71-81.
1983
Linguistics sound archiving. in D. Lance (ed.) Sound Archives: A Guide to their
Establishment and Development IASA Special Publication No. 4 (Milton Keynes,
U.K.: International Association of Sound Archives), pp.147-61.
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1984a
Aboriginal Languages. in Elaine Russell and Sheena Coupe (eds.) Macquarie
Illustrated World Atlas (Sydney: Macquarie Library), pp.184-5.
1984b
Review of Colin Yallop Australian Aboriginal Languages (London: Andre Deutsch,
1982), Australian Journal of Linguistics 4, 136-8.
1985a
Review of Bob Dixon Searching for Aboriginal languages. Memoirs of a Fieldworker
(St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1983) Oceania 56(2), pp. 149-50.
1985b
Review of Jeffrey Heath Functional Grammar of Nunggubuyu (Canberra: Australian
Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1984) Australian Aboriginal Studies 1985/No.2, pp.89-91.
1986
Strange Food (with Harry Kulampurrut). in L. Hercus and P. Sutton (eds.) This is
What Happened. Historical Narratives by Aborigines (Canberra: Australian
Institute of Aboriginal Studies), pp.47-61.
1987a
Arthur Capell (Obituary).Australian Aboriginal Studies 1987:1. 98-9.
1987b
Australian languages. in Camm, J.C.R. & John McQuilton (eds.) Australians a
Historical Atlas Sydney: Fairfax, Syme, Weldon Associates, pp.138-9.
1987c
The Impersonal Verb Construction in Australian Languages. in Ross Steele and Terry
Threadgold (eds.) Language Topics. Studies in honour of Michael Halliday, pp.425-38.
1988
Aboriginal Languages since 1788. in James Jupp (ed.) The Australian People. An
Encyclopaedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins (Sydney: Angus and
Robertson), 148-52.
1989/90 Us and them: Systemics against the world. Network, 13/14, 17-19 (6pp.).
1991a
Conversational styles and inter-cultural communication:.an example from Northern
Australia. Australian Journal of Communication 18(1): 1-12.
1991b
How many Aboriginal languages were there? Archaeology and Linguistics: Understanding
Ancient Australia: Conference Papers Volume 2 (Darwin: Northern Territory University),
pp. 31-56.
1991c
Overview of indigenous languages. in Suzanne Romaine (ed.) Language in Australia
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.27-48.
1992
A Nagging Problem in Australian Lexical History. in Tom Dutton, Malcolm Ross and
Darrell Tryon (eds.) The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock
(Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), pp 507-19.
1993a
Classifying the World in an Aboriginal Language. In Michael Walsh and Colin
Yallop (eds.) Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal
Studies Press), 107-122.
1993b
Languages and their status in Aboriginal Australia. In Michael Walsh and Colin
Yallop (eds.) Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal
Studies Press), 1-13.
1994a
Aboriginal words. Bulletin Almanac. Sydney: ACP Press.
1994b
Interactional styles and the courtroom: an example from Northern Australia. In John
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Gibbons (ed.) Language and the Law (London: Longman), 217-233.
1994c
Language classification. In David Horton (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal
Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press).pp597-598.
1994d Murrinh-Patha. In W.B.McGregor and Nick Thieberger (eds.) The Macquarie
Dictionary of Aboriginal Words (Sydney: Macquarie Library), pp299-319.
1994e
Review of Bill Day Bunji. A Story of the Gwalwa Daraniki Movement Australian
Aboriginal Studies, No.2, 76-78.
1995a
Body Parts in Murrinh-Patha: Incorporation, Grammar and Metaphor. In Hilary
Chappell and Bill McGregor (eds.) The Grammar of Inalienability: A Typological
Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter),
pp.327-380.
1995b
“Tainted evidence”: literacy and traditional knowledge in an Aboriginal land claim.
In Diana Eades (ed.) Language in Evidence. Issues Confronting Aboriginal and
Multicultural Australia. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press), pp.97-124.
1996
Vouns and nerbs: A category squish in Murrinh-Patha (northern Australia). in W.B.
McGregor (ed.) Studies in Kimberley languages in honour of Howard Coate. pp. 227-252
(München: Lincom Europa)
1997a
Geoffrey O’Grady: pioneer of Australian Linguistics. (with Darrell Tryon) In Darrell Tryon
and Michael Walsh (eds.) Boundary Rider: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey O’Grady. Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics, C-136, pp. 1-3.
1997b
How many Australian languages were there? In Darrell Tryon and Michael Walsh (eds.)
Boundary Rider: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey O’Grady. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-136,
pp. 393-412.
1997c
Noun classes, nominal classification and generics in Murrinhpatha. In Mark Harvey and
Nicholas Reid (eds.) Nominal Classification in AboriginalAustralia. Studies in
Language Companion Series 37 (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins), pp.255-292.
1997d The Land Still Speaks? In Deborah Rose and Anne Clarke (eds.) Tracking Knowledge in
North Australian Landscapes. Studies in Indigenous and Settler Ecological Knowledge
Systems. Darwin: North Australia Research Unit, pp.105-119.
1999
Interpreting for the transcript: problems in recording land claim proceedings in
northern Australia. Forensic Linguistics 6(1), 161-195.
2001a
A case of language revitalisation in ‘settled’ Australia. Current Issues in Language
Planning 2(2&3), 251-258. Also available at: http://www.multilingual-
matters.net/cilp/002/0251/cilp0020251.pdf
2001b
Indigenous grammatical traditions in Aboriginal Australia. In Hannes
Kniffka (ed.) Indigenous Grammar in Culture-Contrastive Perspective Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter, 297-314.
2001c Indigenous languages since 1788. In James Jupp ed. The Australian People. An
Encyclopedia of the Nations, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 93-97.
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2001d Review of Rob Amery Warrabarna Kaurna!Reclaiming an Australian Language.
Current Issues in Language Planning 2(2&3), 300-302.
2002a
Language ownership: a key issue for Native Title. In John Henderson and David Nash
(eds) Language and Native Title. Canberra: Native Title Research
Series, Aboriginal Studies Press, 230-244.
2002b
Obituary. Stephen Wurm (1922-2001). Aboriginal History 25, 276-8 (with Luise
Hercus and Harold Koch).
2002c
Transparency versus opacity in Australian Aboriginal place names. In Luise
Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson (eds) The Land is a Map. Place names of
Indigenous Origin in Australia. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 43-49.
2003
Raising Babel: language revitalization in NSW, Australia. In Joe Blythe and R.
McKenna Brown (eds) Maintaining the Links. Language, Identity and the Land. Proceedings
of the Seventh Conference Presented by the Foundation for Endangered Languages. Broome,
Western Australia, 22-24 September 2003. Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages, 113117.
2004
Terminology planning in Aboriginal Australia. (with Jakelin Troy). Current Issues in
Language Planning Vol. 5 (2): 151-165.
2005a Communities of interest: issues in establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha
song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT. (with Linda Barwick, Allan Marett, Lys Ford and Nicholas
Reid). Literary and Linguistic Computing 20(4):383-397. [full text available for the purpose of
private study/research at
http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/4/383?ijkey=qSzadMJHz9MDsuS&keyty
pe=ref]
2005b Indigenous Languages of Southeast Australia, Revitalization and the Role of
Education. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 28(2): 1-14.
2005c Languages Off Country? Revitalizing the 'Right' Indigenous Languages in the South
East of Australia. (with Jakelin Troy). In Nigel Crawhall and Nicholas Ostler (eds.) Creating
Outsiders: Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalization. (Proceedings of Ninth
Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 18-20
November 2005). Bath: Foundation for Endangered Languages, 71-81.
2005d Learning while revitalizing: Aboriginal languages in New South Wales, Australia. In
May, S., Franken, M., & Barnard, R. (eds.) (2005), LED2003: Refereed Conference Proceedings
of the 1st International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity. Hamilton: Wilf
Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato.
2005e
Will Indigenous languages survive? Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 293-315.
2007a Australian Aboriginal song language – so many questions, so little to work with. Australian
Aboriginal Studies (Special Issue edited by Allan Marett and Linda Barwick). 2007/2: 128-144.
2007b Australian Indigenous languages. In Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama and Michael Krauss
(eds) The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007c The Crowley corrective: an alternative voice for language endangerment. In, Jeff
Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.) Language Description, History and Development
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Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Creole
Language Library 30), 431-437.
2007d Indigenous languages: Transitions from the past to the present. In Gerhard Leitner
and Ian Malcolm (eds.) The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present and
Future. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 58-72.
2007e
Words for Describing Australian Aboriginal song. Australian Style 15(2): 1-2.
2007f Barwick, L, Blythe, J, Marett, A & Walsh, M 'Arriving, digging, performing,
returning: an exercise in rich interpretation of a djanba song text in the sound archive of the
Wadeye Knowledge Centre, Northern Territory of Australia', in RM Moyle (ed.), Oceanic
encounters: Festschrift for Mervyn McLean, Research in Anthropology and Linguistics
Monographs, Auckland. 13-24.
2008
Terminology planning in Aboriginal Australia. (with Jakelin Troy). In Anthony J.
Liddicoat and Richard B. Baldauf Jr. (eds) Language Planning and Policy: Language Planning in
Local Contexts. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 156-170. [earlier published in 2004 in: Current
Issues in Language Planning Vol. 5 (2): 151-165.
in press a
California Down Under: Indigenous language revitalization in New South Wales,
Australia. (with Kevin Lowe). In Wesley Leonard (ed.)
in press b
Is saving languages a good investment? In Rob Amery (ed.) [Proceedings of
the Indigenous Languages Conference, 26-28 September 2007, University of Adelaide].
in press c
A linguistic renaissance in the south east of Australia (with Jakelin Troy). In
Gunter Senft (ed.) [Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the European Society for Oceanists
(ESfO), Marseille, France, 6-8 July 2005.]. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
in press d
A polytropical approach to the `floating pelican' song: an exercise in rich
interpretation of a Murriny Patha (northern Australia) song. In The Language of Song: A
Special Issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics. Edited by Tonya Stebbins, Myfany Turpin
and Stephen Morey
in press e
Reinstating Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany (with
Jakelin Troy). In Harold Koch (ed.) The Land is a Map. Vol 2.
in press f
Ten postulates concerning narrative in Aboriginal Australia. In Lesley
Stirling, Tania Strahan & Susan Douglas (eds) Narrative in Intimate Societies. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
in press g
What's the use of linguistics? In Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi Knight (eds)
Qusetioning Linguistics [Proceedings of 1st Free Linguistics Conference, University of
Sydney, 6-7 October 2007] Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 170-179.
in press h
Which way? Difficult options for vulnerable witnesses in Australian Aboriginal land
claim and native title cases. Journal of English Linguistics, Special issue Michelle Aldridge and June
Luchenbroers eds.
Recent Conference Presentations
1.
The linguistic expert as group tour guide. International Association of Forensic
Linguistics, 28 June-1 July 1999, Birmingham, UK.
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2.
The linguistic expert as group tour guide. Workshop convened by John Henderson
and David Nash Linguistics Issues in Native Title Claims, 30 September 1999, Perth WA.
3.
Transparency versus opacity in Australian Aboriginal place names. Interdisciplinary
Workshop convened by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson Place names of
Indigenous Origin, 31 October 1999, Canberra.
4.
NSW Strategic Language Study. (with Jaky Troy), AIATSIS, 15 May 2000, Canberra.
5.
Language ownership: a key issue for Native Title. Paper presented to the workshop
Crossing Boundaries: Anthropology, Linguistics, History and Law in Native Title in
connection with the Australian Anthropological Society Conference at the University of
Western Australia, Perth, WA, 20 September 2000.
6.
My role in tracking down Laves’ materials. Laves Workshop, University of Sydney, 8
December 2000.
7. Communal versus dyadic interaction in Aboriginal Australia. Department of
Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2 February, 2001.
8.
Why language revitalization sometimes works. Endangered Languages Colloquium,
Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, 30 March, 2001.
9.
Why language revitalization sometimes works. Department of Linguistics, University
of British Columbia, 30 March, 2001.
10.
Why language revitalization sometimes works. Department of Linguistics, University
of Sydney, 24 August, 2001.
11.
Why language revitalization sometimes works. Endangered Languages Colloquium,
AIATSIS, Canberra 18 September, 2001.
12.
Teaching NSW Indigenous languages. (with Kevin Lowe). Presented at the session on
Reviving, Maintaining and Teaching Indigenous Languages within the International Program
on Indigenous Language and Culture Maintenance, held at the Australian Linguistics
Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney, 9 July 2002.
13.
Kenbi Confusing. Miscommunications in an Australian Aboriginal Land Claim.
Presentation to the Section on Translating and Interpreting in Indigenous Languages within
the International Program on Indigenous Language and Culture Maintenance, held at the
Australian Linguistics Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney, 10 July 2002.
14.
What does Linguistics have to do with language revitalization? Australian Linguistic
Society, Macquarie University, Sydney, 14 July 2002 .
15.
Dual naming around Sydney Harbour: phonetic purism meets toponymic
pragmatism, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, 29 August, 2003.
16.
Raising Babel: language revitalization in NSW, Australia. Foundation for Endangered
Languages Conference, Broome, 24 September, 2003.
17.
Dual naming around Sydney Harbour: phonetic purism meets toponymic
pragmatism, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, University of Newcastle, 27
September 2003.
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18.
Deciding on the form (and pronunciation) for a proposed dual name. Workshop on
Dual Names, Australian National Placenames Survey, Tranby Aboriginal College, Glebe, 31
October 2003.
19.
Learning while revitalizing: Aboriginal languages in New South Wales, Australia.
International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity, School of Education,
University of Waikato, 28 November 2003.
20.
2004.
The NSW Aboriginal languages database project. FATSIL, Melbourne, 12 February,
21.
California Down Under: Indigenous language revitalization in New South Wales,
Australia. Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference, University of California, Berkeley,
12 June 2004 (with Kevin Lowe).
22.
Indigenous language revitalization in New South Wales, Australia. AILDI, University
of Arizona, Tucson, 15 June 2004 (with Kevin Lowe).
23.
Indigenous Australian literature, Australia. AILDI, University of Arizona, Tucson, 15
June 2004 (with Kevin Lowe).
24.
Communities of interest: establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha song at
Wadeye (Port Keats) NT (with Linda Barwick and Allen Marett), Computing Arts 2004
Conference, University of Newcastle, 8 July 2004
25. An online knowledge gateway for preserving and revitalizing NSW’s Aboriginal
languages, Computing Arts 2004 Conference, University of Newcastle, 8 July 2004
26. The Wadeye Project: Murrinhpatha song and song language at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
(with Linda Barwick, Joseph Blythe, Allan Marett), Australian Linguistic Society Conference,
University of Sydney, 15/7/04.
27. Authenticity in the revitalization of NSW’s Aboriginal languages, Special session,
Authenticity in Indigenous Languages Maintenance and Revival, within the Applied
Linguistics Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide, 17/7/04.
28. Indigenous place-names and dual naming in NSW (with Jakelin Troy), Session on
Mapping the shared terrain: Indigenous and non-Indigenous concepts of landscape, within
the AIATSIS 2004 Conference: Indigenous Studies: Sharing the Cultural and Theoretical
Space, Canberra, 28 November 2004.
29. NSW ALRRC Indigenous languages database. (with Baden Hughes), 18 March 2005.
Working with Linguistic Data. Pre-conference workshop, University of Sydney.
30. Educating the judge? Linguistic evidence in Native Title and land claim cases in Australia.
7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law, Cardiff, Wales, 2 July
2005.
31. A linguistic renaissance in the south east of Australia (with Jakelin Troy). Sixth
Conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO), Marseille, France, 6-8 July 2005.
32. The lexicon of Christianity in Aboriginal Australia. Australex Conference, University of
Melbourne, 27 September 2005.
33. A linguistic renaissance in the south east of Australia (with Jakelin Troy). Australian
Linguistic Society, Monash University, 28 September 2005.
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34. Educating the judge? Linguistic evidence in Native Title and land claim cases in Australia.
Australian Linguistic Society, Monash University, 30 September 2005.
35. The NSW Aboriginal languages database (with Baden Hughes, Steven Bird, Jaky Troy,
David Penton). Australian Linguistic Society, Monash University, 30 September 2005.
36. Languages Off Country? Revitalizing the 'Right' Indigenous Languages in the South East
of Australia. (with Jakelin Troy). Ninth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered
Languages, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 19 November 2005.
37. Murriny Patha song language and its relation to the 'everyday' language. Paper presented
to The 3rd Oxford-Kobe Linguistics Seminar: The Linguistics of Endangered Languages Kobe
Institute, Kobe, Japan 2nd – 5th April 2006. (with Joe Blythe).
38. Endangered domains of language use: some examples from northern Australia. 10th
Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference: Vital Voices - Endangered Languages
and Multilingualism, Mysore, India (25-27 October 2006).
39. Australian Aboriginal song language- so many questions, so little to work with.
Australianist Workshop, Pearl Beach, 17 March 2007.
40. Packing it in: an account of layers of meaning in the 'floating pelican' song, a Murriny
Patha (northern Australia) song. Presented at the Indigenous Music and Dance Symposium,
Charles Darwin University, 18 August 2007.
41. The lexicon of Australian Aboriginal song, Australex Conference,
25 September 2007, University of Adelaide.
42. Is saving languages a good investment? Plenary address to Australian Linguistic Society,
Adelaide. 26 September 2007.
43. A polytropical approach to the `floating pelican' song: an exercise in rich interpretation of a
Murriny Patha (northern Australia) song. ALS Workshop: Language of poetry and song, 27
September 2007, University of Adelaide.
44. What's the use of linguistics? Plenary address to Free Linguistics Conference, 6 October
2007, University of Sydney.
45. A history of research on Indigenous languages from 1967 til now, with special reference to
the role of AIATSIS. Session within the AIATSIS conference - Let their voices be heard:
Australian Indigenous languages since the 1967 Referendum, Canberra, 6 November 2007.
6. Overseas experience.
Study leave from the University of Sydney, September 1988 - May 1989.
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology - September 1988-January 1989.
visiting scholars in the U.K. at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford,
Edinburgh and Sussex - January 1989.
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• Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley - February 1989-May 1989.
Study leave from the University of Sydney, January 1994 - July 1994.
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San
Diego - January 1994-June 1994
• Visitor, Department of Linguistics, State University of New York, Buffalo,
and Participant, 1st International Cognitive Science Institute, July 1994
Study leave from the University of Sydney, January 2001 - July 2001.
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona –
January 2001-May 2001
Study leave from the University of Sydney, July 2004 - December 2004.
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley – August 2004-September 2004
7. Recent Grants
ARC SPIRT Grant
1999: $48622, 2000:$50,409, 2001: $52,192 awarded to Brett Baker and M.
Walsh (Industry partner: D. Di Angelo)
ATSIC through AIATSIS: Survey of NSW Aboriginal Language Situation
2000-2001: $13,000
ARC Discovery Grant
Murrinh-Patha Song and Language at Wadeye, NT
2004-2008: $650,000 awarded to a team including Linda Barwick, Lys Ford,
Allan Marett, Nick Reid,
8. Community Service
1975-1988
Member, Linguistics Advisory Committee [under various
names, with various additional disciplinary add-ons], Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies
1982-1988
Chair, Linguistics Advisory Committee [under various names,
with various additional disciplinary add-ons], Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies
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1982-1988
Member, Research Advisory Committee, Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies
1984-1986
Member, Executive Committee of Council, Australian Institute
of Aboriginal Studies
1984-1988
Member, Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
1979-2008
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Consultant, Northern Land Council – mainly on Kenbi Land
2001of Studies
Consultant/Advisor, Aboriginal Curriculum Unit, NSW Board
2001-2005
President, Australian Linguistic Society
2003Languages
Member, NSW Board of Studies Curriculum Committee on
2003Member, Technical and Scientific Sub-Committee of the NSW
Geographical Names Board.
2007-
Member, Executive Committee of Placenames Australia