Morphology Database

I’ve posted a call for data at the Pama-Nyungan blog.

Undergraduate and Graduate Research Jobs

I’ve put an advertisement on Rice’s Student Employment web page for research assistants. Information can be found in these places*:

Undergraduate research opportunities
Undergraduate employment

Notes: these are the same jobs, just advertised in two places; also, you need to be a Rice undergrad or grad to apply.

LSA Handouts

Here is a zip archive of the handouts for my LSA course on the historical linguistics of Australian languages. You’re welcome to download them for your own interest, use, etc, but if the materials ends up in papers or classes please check with me first.

Pama-Nyungan Grant Web Site

I’ve set up the bare bones of a web site for my Pama-Nyungan grant. (I’ll be employing someone to do the site and also take over day to day management of Ozpapers.)

LSA: Labov

The Institute is over and I’m back in Houston after my month in academic fairyland. If my intentions pan out, I’ll be writing a series of posts on various things I went to at the Institute.
Let’s start with Bill Labov’s lecture on defining sound change and explaining diffusion and isogloss bunching. [The paper is available [...]

New Language!

Well, not really, but it was new to me, and it was a bit of a shock.
This post was originally going to be a bit of a rant about “people” who don’t catalogue their tapes, or record who’s speaking on the tape (or what the language is). I’ve been at AIATSIS for the past couple [...]

The Laves Texts (precontact narratives)

In the most recent round of Documenting Endangered Language Grants (offered as a joint program by the NSF and NEH) I received a grant to work on the Laves Bardi texts. Here’s the blurb:
Detailed linguistic fieldwork on the Indigenous languages of Australia did not begin in earnest until the 1960s. One of the few earlier [...]