Nick Thieberger's paper publications

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Last edited 11/8/2008

 

Research

Honours dissertation, La Trobe University (1981) , 'Subordination and coordination in two Australian languages'.

MA dissertation, La Trobe University (1988) ' Aboriginal Language Maintenance: Some Issues and Strategies'.

PhD dissertation, University of Melbourne (2004) 'Topics in the Grammar and Documentation of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu', available as a pdf from http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au.

Currently working on recording and analysing the languages of South Efate and Lelepa (Vanuatu). I am working together with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre's fieldworkers to produce a dictionary, texts and grammar of their languages.

Research interests include lexicography, use of computers as practical tools for descriptive linguistics, representation of small and endangered languages.

Publications - books

  • Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, No. 33. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. (see errata here).
  • Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger. (eds.) 2006. Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • McConvell, P. and Thieberger N. 2001. State of Indigenous languages in Australia - 2001, Australia State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series (Natural and Cultural Heritage), Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra. (http://www.ea.gov.au/soe/techpapers/languages/index.html#download)
  • Nicholas Thieberger (ed.). 1995. [Reprinted with corrigenda 2005] Paper and Talk, A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian indigenous languages from historical sources Canberra: AIATSIS. [a collection of papers from the seminar I co-organised in 1993].
  • Nicholas Thieberger and Bill McGregor (eds.).1994. Macquarie Aboriginal words: a dictionary of words of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languagesSydney: Macquarie Library.
  • Nicholas Thieberger. 1993. Handbook of WA Aboriginal Languages south of the Kimberley Region Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. (out of print, but see the online version).
  • Janet Sharp and Nicholas Thieberger. 1992. Bilybara: Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara Region Port Hedland: Wangka Maya.

    • Publications - peer reviewed articles/book sections

  • Thieberger, Nicholas and Michel Jacobson. under review. Sharing data in small and endangered languages: cataloging and metadata, formats and encodings. In a volume on language documentation and description edited by Lenore Grenoble and Louanna Furbee. Amsterdam: Benjamins
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. under review. Linguistic preservation and linguistic responsibility: examples from the Pacific. Gunter Senft. (ed) Endangered languages and endangered cultures in Oceania. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. Submitted. A grammar embedded in data. To appear in a volume titled New Challenges in Typology, edited by Patricia Epps and Alexandre Arkhipov and published by Mouton.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2008. Language is like a carpet: Carl-Georg von Brandenstein and Australian languages. W.M.McGregor (ed) Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 321-335.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. forthcoming. Anxious respect for linguistic data: the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD). Margaret Florey. (ed). Endangered languages of Austronesia. Oxford: OUP.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2007. The demise of serial verbs in South Efate. Diana Eades, John Lynch and Jeff Siegel (eds.), Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 237-251.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2006. The benefactive construction in South Efate. Oceanic Linguistics, Volume 45, no. 2, 297-310.
  • Schroeter, Ronald & Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. EOPAS, the EthnoER online representation of interlinear text. Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger. (eds.) 2006. Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Sydney: Sydney University Press. 99-124.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas and Simon Musgrave. 2006. Documentary linguistics and ethical issues. Peter Austin (ed). Language documentation and description, Volume 4. London: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS.
  • McConvell, Patrick and Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. Keeping track of language endangerment in Australia. Denis Cunningham, David Ingram and Kenneth Sumbuk (eds). Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. 54-84.
  • Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger 2006, Cybraries in paradise: New technologies and ethnographic repositories. to appear in C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce, (Eds) Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 133-149.
  • Musgrave, Simon and Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. Ethical challenges in documentary linguistics. Keith Allan (ed) Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. [Online peer reviewed documents]
  • Nicholas Thieberger. 2005. Computers in Field Linguistics. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Elsevier. 780-783.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2004. Documentation in practice: Developing a linked media corpus of South Efate. Peter Austin (ed). Language documentation and description, Volume 2. London: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS. 169-178.
  • McConvell, P. and N. Thieberger. 2003. Language data assessment at the national level: Learning from the State of the Environment process in Australia. Maintaining the links: Language, Identity and the Land. J. Blythe and M. Brown (eds). Bath, Foundation for Endangered Languages: 51-57
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2002. Extinction in whose terms? Which parts of a language constitute a target for language maintenance programmes? Language endangerment and language maintenance. in David Bradley & Maya Bradley (eds). London: Curzon Press 2001. 310-328.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2001. As we may link: time-aligned concordances of field recordings. A working model.  Paper presented at Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities.
  • Sharp, Janet and Nick Thieberger. 2001. Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre. Forty years on. J. Simpson, D. Nash, M. Laughren, P. Austin and B. Alpher. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics: 325-335.
  • Goddard, Cliff and Nicholas Thieberger. 1997. Lexicographic research on Australian Aboriginal languages, 1968 -1993. D.Tryon and M.Walsh (eds) Boundary Rider, Essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady,  Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.175-208
  • Thieberger, Nick. 1995. The Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive, pp. 147-150 in International Journal on the Sociology of Language 113.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1991. The road less travelled: recording and teaching Aboriginal languages in Western Australia', pp.1-24 in Malcolm, I. (ed) 1991 Linguistics in the service of society: Essays to honour Susan Kaldor, Edith Cowan University, ClaremontInstitute of Applied Language Studies.
  • Nick Thieberger.1990. Language Maintenance: Why Bother? Multilingua Vol. 9:4, 333-358.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1989 Martu statements on the ownership of Karlamilyi. Wright, G. (ed.), The Significance of the Karlamilyi Region to the Martujarra of the Western Desert, Port Hedland: Western Desert Puntukurnuparna Aboriginal Corporation. 234-248.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1988. Language Programmes: For Tradition or Today? Harvey, B. & S.McGinty (eds), 1988 Learning My Way Perth: IAAS. 81-90
  • W.McGregor and Nick Thieberger. 1986. Handbooks of Australian Languages. Language in Aboriginal Australia 2. 18- 28
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    Other publications

  • Nordlinger, Rachel and Nicholas Thieberger. 2008. Australia and the Pacific. In Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 2008. One Thousand Languages London: Thames and Hudson
  • Musgrave, Simon and Nicholas Thieberger. 2007. Who pays the piper? Proceedings of the XIth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, with SKET, University of Malaya, Working Together for Endangered Languages - Research Challenges and Social Impacts Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 26-28 October 2007. 47-55.
  • Crowley, Terry. 2007. (Field Linguistics. Oxford: OUP. [Following Terry Crowley's death I edited his book for publication at the invitation of OUP]
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2006. Well It Works! Reflections on the Audiamus model for corpus building and where it could go from here. (A presentation at the EMELD conference)
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2005. Archiving and the flow of field work. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Tutorial session on Linguistic Archiving, January 2005. Available here as a pdf file, or a powerpoint presentation.
  • McConvell, Patrick and Nicholas Thieberger. 2005. 'Languages past and present'. Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy (eds). Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia. North Ryde: Macquarie Library. 78-87
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2004. Building an interactive corpus of field recordings. Julie Carson-Berndsen (ed.), First steps for Language Documentation: Computational linguistic tools for morphology, lexicon and corpus compilation. Paris: ELRA. 88-89.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2004. PARADISEC: The Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. Continuo, Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. 33:31-33
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2001. As we may link: time-aligned concordances of field recordings. A working model. Online paper presented at Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2000. Review of Big Wok: Storian blong Wol Wo Tu long Vanuatu Lamont Lindstrom and James Gwero (eds), 1998 in Pacific Affairs, Vol 73 No.3
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2000. Review of Lamont Lindstrom and James Gwero (eds) 1998. Big Wok: Storian blong Wol Wo Tu long Vanuatu in Pacific Affairs, Vol 73 No.3
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. [1996] Language policy in Vanuatu or Bislama, now you see it now you don't. (Ms prepared for distribution within the Vanuatu education system)
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1994. Map of the current population of speakers of Australian languages (using MapInfo and tabulated population data).
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1993. A Ngarla wordlist from the 1860s [a transcription of a handwritten wordlist of Ngarla,].
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1991. Back to the desert: Linguistic evidence for the recolonisation of the Great Sandy Desert' [with Peter Veth] presented at the Arcling conference, Darwin, July 1991.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1990. Wordlist of Yinhawangka (with Alice Smith).
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1990. Wordlist of Warnman (with Desmond Taylor)
  • Thieberger, Nick. 1994. Review of Cliff Goddard Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara to English dictionary and K.C. Hansen& L.E.Hansen Pintupi/Luritja dictionary in Australian Aboriginal Studies 1994.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1994. Language Centres. David Horton (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1994. New technology and Australian languages at AIATSIS Australian Language Matters, Vol. 2:3, 1994.
  • Sue Smythe and Nick Thieberger. 1994. Yindjibarndi Thieberger, N & W. Mc Gregor (eds) 1994. Macquarie Aboriginal words: a dictionary of words of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, Sydney: Macquarie Library. 214-233
  • [Nick Thieberger.] 1994. Reclaiming identity through language, pp.9-12 in Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Valuing cultures: Recognising indigenous cultures as a valued part of Australian heritage, Canberra: AGPS.
  • 1993 [Wrote a section and prepared a map illustrating distribution of currently spoken languages for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Unit's documents Addressing the key issues for Reconciliation 1993, and their Paper on Australian indigenous cultures. ]
  • [Nick Thieberger.] 1993. Our many voices, p.14 of The little red, yellow and black (and green and blue and white) book: A short guide to indigenous Australia, AIATSIS, Canberra, 1993.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1992. Review of B.J. Blake Australian Aboriginal languages, in Australian Aboriginal Studies.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1989. Why should languages in general be maintained and why Aboriginal languages in particular? Revaluing the vernacular. Seminar paper given at the AIAS, April 1989.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1986. Discussion paper on linguistic policy issues prepared for the Western Australian Aboriginal Languages Association conference, Perth 1986.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1986. Report on key references relevant to Language Maintenance in Australia. (background paper for use of the members of the Western Australian Ministerial working party on LOTE) (with Margaret Florey).
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1986. Appropriate Research. Paper presented at the Western Australian Education Research Conference.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. [1983]. Introductory course materials in Paakantji (Western NSW).
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 1985. Transitivity and grounding: a textual example. Paper presented to the Top End Linguistic Circle Meeting, Darwin 1985.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1985. Review of L.Hercus 'Paakantji Grammar Australian Journal of Linguistics 1985.
  • Nick Thieberger. 1985. 'Language ecology in Australia', in Environment WA, Vol. 7, No.2.

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