Nick Thieberger's paper publications

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Last edited 30/06/2009

 

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.

I am working together with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre's fieldworkers on production of a collection of texts in South Efate (Vanuatu).

I have an ongoing role as manager of the digital archive PARADISEC and in the development of the University of Hawai'i's archive, Kaipuleohone.

Research interests include lexicography, use of computers as practical tools for descriptive linguistics, languages of Central Vanuatu, Warnman (Great Sandy Desert, WA), representation of small and endangered languages.

Recent and forthcoming publications

  • 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. 141-158.
  • 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. In print. Linguistic preservation and linguistic responsibility: examples from the Pacific. Gunter Senft. (ed) Endangered languages in the Pacific: Essays on their Documentation, Archiving, and Revitalization. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Albarillo, Emily E. and Nick Thieberger. 2009. Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai'i's Digital Ethnographic Archive. Language Documentation and Conservation. Vol 3:1, 1-14.
  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2009. Steps towards a grammar embedded in data. Epps, Patricia and Alexandre Arkhipov. (eds.) New Challenges in Typology: Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions. Berlin ; New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter Mouton. 389-408.
  • Nick Thieberger and Chris Ballard. 2008. Daniel Macdonald and the 'compromise literary dialect' in Efate, central Vanuatu. Oceanic Linguistics, Volume 47, no.2: 365-382
  • Purdie, Nola, Tracey Frigo, Clare Ozolins, Geoff Noblett, Nick Thieberger, Janet Sharp. 2008. Indigenous Languages Programs in Australian Schools - A Way Forward, a report for the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, prepared as part of a team led by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

    • 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 - other peer reviewed articles/book sections

  • Thieberger, Nicholas. 2008. Language is like a carpet: Carl-Georg von Brandenstein and Australian languages. William M.McGregor (ed) Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 321-335.
  • 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. 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, Patrick and Nick 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. Bradley, David & 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. Simpson, Jane, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics: 325-335.
  • Goddard, Cliff and Nicholas Thieberger. 1997. Lexicographic research on Australian Aboriginal languages, 1968 -1993. Darrell Tryon and Michael 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, Ian (ed) 1991 Linguistics in the service of society: Essays to honour Susan Kaldor, Edith Cowan University, Claremont Institute 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, Guy (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, Barbara & Sue McGinty (eds), 1988 Learning My Way Perth: IAAS. 81-90
  • McGregor, William 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. [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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