Obit for Hector Jandany
Posted by Claire on September 14, 2006
Legacy of a spiritual giant lies in his works. Obituary by Frances Kofod in the Australian.
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Archive for September, 2006
Review of “Language in Australia and New Zealand”
Posted by Claire on September 14, 2006
Nick Thieberger’s review of Mouton’s bibliography of Language in Australia and NewZealand.
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Sydney eScholarship Repository
Posted by Claire on September 12, 2006
via Transient Languages and Cultures, the Sydney University eScholarship repository has a number of items of interest to Australianists, including Tom Honeyman’s thesis Topic and Focus in Ngardi.
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Colour terms and Australian languages
Posted by Claire on September 10, 2006
Link to abstract of David Nash’s paper Colour and the Ordinary Working Linguist.
Link to abstract of Anna Wierzbicka’s paper Deconstructing ‘colour’, exploring indigenous meanings.
See also Jane Simpson’s report here.
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