Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Lectures and Book Chapters
I’ve had a busy and eventful week, and right now appears to be about the only spare time I’ve had. I attended the Australian Languages Workshop last weekend at Kioloa on the NSW south coast, an outpost of ANU. I didn’t present anything, but I managed to discuss the mobile phone dictionary with a number [...]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Folk Lexicography: Snusted
A situation came up during the week in which I used a word that I know from high school, and it appears that no one else is even aware of this word’s existence, let alone its meaning. The word is snusted as you might guess from the title of this post, and it means ‘caught [...]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Take that, Microsoft
I just received over the RNLD1 mailing list, a call for papers for the second biennial conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory hosted by SOAS in November (see here for details), and the instructions for abstract submission contain the following (emphasis mine): Abstracts are invited for 20 minute papers followed by 10 minutes of [...]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Slowly but surely
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working my way through my several hours of Wagiman recordings from my recent fieldtrip, all the time remarking at how excellent they are. It’s a combination of a good recording device; a Roland Edirol R-4, a great microphone with a proven track record in the field; a [...]
