I am currently working on a project on the Malyangapa language which was traditionally spoken in far western New South Wales and eastern South Australia. This work is based on materials collected by Stephen A. Wurm in 1957 together with some older sources and data collected by Jeremy Beckett and Luise Hercus. You can read more about the project here.
There are now available for download sixpresentations from talks and lectures I gave in 2018. You can download PDFs under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) from this page. Materials from talks for other years will be added in future.
There are now available for download five presentations from talks and lectures I gave in 2019. You can download PDFs under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) from this page. Materials from talks for other years will be added in future.
My invited webinar for the Department of Linguistics, Central University of Rajasthan, on 31 October 2020 about “Local and Global Linguistic Diversity – what is it and what can we do about it?” was attended by 90 people. You can now download the presentation.
There are now available for download eight handouts and presentations from talks and lectures I gave in 2017. You can download PDFs under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) from this page. Materials from talks for other years will be added in future.
I have been invited to present at talk in the online Linguistics seminar series of Central University of Rajasthan, India at 11:30GMT on Saturday 31st October 2020. The title is “Local and Global Linguistic Diversity – what is it and what can we do about it?”. I will circulate information about accessing the talk later, and will post the slides from the presentation on my website after the talk.
I gave an online guest lecture in the MA module Introduction to Language Documentation at SOAS, University of London on 14 October 2020. The topic was “Language documentation and language description: theory and practice”. The slides are available for download.
I gave at talk in this online series organised by the Society for Endangered and Lesser Known Languages, India, at 11:30am GMT on Saturday 3rd October 2020. The title is “Language documentation, language description, and language revitalisation: snog, marry, avoid?” A pdf of my presentation is available for download here.
I gave a presentation on 24 September 2020 entitled “Developing Bayungu Language and Culture Awareness for a Marine Park” — you can download a PDF of my presentation
My paper on ‘Communities, ethics and rights in documentary linguistics’ is now available in Spanish translation:
Austin, Peter K. 2019. Comunidades, ética y derechos en lingüística de la documentación. In Lucía Golluscio, Paola Pacor, Florencia Ciccone, Marta Krasan (eds.) Lingüística de la Documentación: textos fundacionales y proyecciones en América del Sur, 169-192. Spanish translation of Austin 2010. Buenos Aires : Eudeba & Universidad de Buenos Aires. link