Welcome! I am a retired Linguistics researcher living in London and this is my personal homepage where you can find information and news about what I am currently working on, as well as links to blogs and a podcast that I contribute to. You can also download my publications, presentations, and draft papers that are not yet published.
NEWS:
(1) 2025-05-13 added draft paper "Adding value to legacy linguistic fieldnotes: an Australian case study" to Unpublished papers;
(2) 2025-05-07 added new list of talks upcoming in 2025;
(3) 2025-05-09 added slides for my talk on Potentials and politics in language endangerment and linguistic diversity: some case studies from Australia at Workshop on Minorized and Endangered Languages, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal;
(4) 2025-04-24 added slides for my talk on Adding value to linguistic legacy materials:
two case studies at DiLegMa workshop in Bern, Switzerland;
(5) 2025-03-06 added Reports in Indian Media about a Mother Language Day event on 4th March 2025 at the UK House of Lords in which I participated.
I publish podcasts in and about the Diyari (Dieri) language, spoken in South Australia. You can listen to episodes. If you have the Spotify app on your phone, mobile device, or computer search for Diyari Yawarra and click Follow to listen and get regular updates as new episodes are published.
I am co-editor with David Nathan of EL Publishing, an online platform that publishes quality peer-reviewed open access eBooks and multimedia on documentation, description, and support of endangered and minoritised languages. We publish on the theory and practice of language documentation, language description, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language revitalisation. All publications are double-blind peer reviewed, and are free to download under a Creative Commons licence. Find out more here.
Note: the journal Language Documentation and Description is now hosted by Aperio at the University of Virginia.
I am co-author with David Nathan of EL Blog, which provides a place for challenge and debate around topics having to do with endangered languages, and includes updates on our publications work and other activities. You can find out more about this and other blogs that I contribute to here.
EL Training was established by David Nathan and myself in 2014 to deliver high quality workshops (1-14 days) on the theory and practice of language documentation, language description, sociolinguistics, language policy, and language revitalisation. We emphasised practical skills and group-based hands-on project work. Our website is currently being updated and will have freely downloadable curriculum, reference, and teaching materials from several years of training courses.
I strongly believe in communicating research results to the general public through books, exhibitions, activities, and public lectures. You can find out more about things I have been involved in here.
You can find out more about me here, or on English Wikipedia, Wikidata, Polish Wikipedia, WorldCat, and University of Uppsala (in Swedish). You can follow me on Facebook, BlueSky, Instagram, LinkedIn, Research Gate, and Academia.