Archive for the 'Kimberley region' Category

Termies..

June 14, 2008

Sorry for the suspense. A fourth termite appeared, but apparently they want to remain within the numbers that Bardi has, as there were no others. I think they were an exploratory party going up the phone line, or maybe they were trying to get a better view of the Hawthorn-Adelaide game – “an enthralling contest” [...]

Laves project web page

June 9, 2007

I’ve started a page for the Laves materials project. It’s still a draft at this stage but more material will go up as the project progresses. You can reach it here: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bowern/laves/laves.htm.

New Language!

June 4, 2007

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 [...]

What do you want?

June 2, 2007

Here’s a gem from a tape I was listening to a few days ago. I’d better not say who the linguist was, and I don’t know who the speaker was. He was elderly in the mid 1960s.
Linguist: How do you say “what do you want”?
Speaker: Anggi liyan min.. I mean anggi liyan ngan .. no [...]

Goolarrabooloo

May 17, 2007

Some time ago I mentioned that I would blog about the name/term Goolarrabooloo. It’s a Yawuru/Jugun clan name, it seems.
First up, morphology. Goolarra means ‘west’, and -(a)booloo is a kind of collective denizen suffix; X-booloo translates as “people belonging to X”. X is most often a compass point, but it can also be an environment [...]

Two unusual articles

April 26, 2007

Notice anything about this article? or this one?

community problems

April 17, 2007

If anyone knows which community this story refers to, could you let me know?