Archive for the 'Laves' Category

The Laves Texts (precontact narratives)

May 27, 2007

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 [...]