I wrote my first ever blog post on 7th February 2007, and in the following almost six years contributed 170 posts to the Transient Languages and Cultures blog, which later became the Endangered Languages and Cultures blog, associated with the Paradisec project in Australia. My last post there was on 10th November 2012. I continued blogging after this, but on EL Blog and my own sites, like the Diyari language blog, which I set up on 15 February 2013.
The following is a list of all my posts which are still available on the Paradisec blog — many of them are not attributed to me by name, but appear under the byline of admin or Jane Simpson, who as editor at the time posted my writings for me, before I was accorded my own editing status. Sadly, there are quite a few broken links in the posts now due to the disappearance of websites over the intervening years, but some of the posts, and the comments on them, deal with important issues in the theory and practice of the study of endangered and minority languages.
07 February 2007 | Diyari spoken and written language | link |
27 April 2007 | Communicating about our work | link |
30 May 2007 | Seen in London | link |
16 June 2007 | Endangered Languages and Taiwan | link |
06 July 2007 | Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory: Call for Papers | link |
09 July 2007 | (W)rite of passage | link |
29 July 2007 | News from Rome: “Australia declares war on the Aborigines” | link |
31 July 2007 | Towards a social linguistics | link |
18 September 2007 | On the nose | link |
16 October 2007 | European Science Foundation and Endangered Languages | link |
26 October 2007 | The perils of fieldwork | link |
29 October 2007 | European Australianists workshop 2007 | link |
12 November 2007 | I speak English and I can prove it | link |
18 November 2007 | World Language Centre conference on cultural and linguistic diversity | link |
21 December 2007 | Language Revitalisation and Maintenance Workshop 9 February 2008 | link |
01 January 2008 | How do you say that in Aboriginal? | link |
13 January 2008 | Dying to be counted: commodification of endangered languages in documentary linguistics | link |
15 January 2008 | Is mine big enough? | link |
21 January 2008 | More on language documentation corpora | link |
25 January 2008 | Australia’s linguistic exports | link |
24 February 2008 | Taking our show on the road | link |
07 March 2008 | Where do you get the dosh from? | link |
03 April 2008 | Honourable mentions | link |
08 April 2008 | Endangered languages on TV | link |
23 April 2008 | it’s a comprehensive reference grammar, innit | link |
25 April 2008 | Endangered Languages Week 2008 | link |
10 May 2008 | Endangered Languages Outreach | link |
13 May 2008 | Chirac Foundation sponsors Endangered Languages event | link |
15 May 2008 | Your language footprint | link |
16 May 2008 | The times they are a changin’ | link |
25 May 2008 | Things move fast | link |
29 May 2008 | All the news that’s fit to print | link |
06 June 2008 | And now we are five | link |
26 June 2008 | 1000 Languages | link |
28 June 2008 | 3L Summer School | link |
03 July 2008 | Copy, right? | link |
04 July 2008 | There’s copying and there’s research | link |
16 July 2008 | Top of the Pops | link |
09 August 2008 | Endangered Swans | link |
25 August 2008 | Indigenous languages in Argentina | link |
01 September 2008 | Top 10 Endangered Languages | link |
16 September 2008 | Spreading the word | link |
17 September 2008 | Fieldwork by phone | link |
22 September 2008 | Engaged scholarship | link |
23 September 2008 | Heard on the radio | link |
28 September 2008 | Talkin’ ’bout them endangered languages, y’ know | link |
20 October 2008 | “Living Language” in London | link |
13 November 2008 | Dueling languages | link |
15 November 2008 | Black Swan redux | link |
24 December 2008 | Read all about it | link |
06 January 2009 | The Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS: developing and sharing language materials through archiving | link |
13 January 2009 | Facebook and Endangered Languages | link |
30 January 2009 | Beliefs and Ideology on Endangered Languages | link |
01 February 2009 | Endangered Languages Week 2009 | link |
07 February 2009 | Announcement: 3L Summer School | link |
09 February 2009 | Back in Tokyo | link |
21 February 2009 | Unesco’s “Atlas of The World’s Languages in Danger” | link |
02 March 2009 | Report on EL Week 2009 | link |
01 April 2009 | ELAP students fieldtrip | link |
10 May 2009 | Fieldwork workshops | link |
12 May 2009 | EuroBABEL projects announced | link |
13 May 2009 | Endangered languages and finances | link |
04 June 2009 | Endangered Languages in Chronicle of Higher Education | link |
07 June 2009 | Australia beats US, again | link |
09 June 2009 | Technologically-enhanced fieldwork | link |
18 June 2009 | New publications from SOAS and FEL | link |
01 July 2009 | 3L summer school mid-term report | link |
09 July 2009 | World Oral Literature Project | link |
09 July 2009 | 3L Summer School final report | link |
31 July 2009 | Look What They’ve Done to My Song (and other time-aligned data and analysis), Ma | link |
25 August 2009 | New ELAR publications | link |
05 September 2009 | FEL publication special offer ending 15th September | link |
06 September 2009 | LDLT2 conference | link |
07 September 2009 | Forza dialetti! | link |
17 October 2009 | Teaching linguistic fieldwork and sustainability | link |
18 October 2009 | Sorosoro website launch | link |
23 October 2009 | More on Facebook and endangered languages | link |
29 October 2009 | ELDP Programme Director job | link |
03 December 2009 | Inauguration of Linguamón Casa de les Llengues | link |
04 December 2009 | FEL Scholarship established | link |
04 December 2009 | Book announcement – Language Documentation and Description Volume 7 | link |
26 December 2009 | Workshop on Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge and Sustainability | link |
01 January 2010 | Another year over and a new one just begun | |
14 March 2010 | 3L Summer School 2010 | link |
07 April 2010 | LDD 7 now available | link |
14 April 2010 | How long is a piece of string? | link |
20 April 2010 | Bienvnus a Dgernesi | link |
26 April 2010 | Fieldwork training workshop in Manchester | link |
07 June 2010 | And still they speak it | link |
13 June 2010 | Contemporary Aboriginal naming practices | link |
22 June 2010 | New website: Aboriginal Languages Network, Port Augusta | link |
09 August 2010 | How much room is there in the arc(hive)? | link |
02 September 2010 | It’s only natural | link |
27 September 2010 | Where does the dosh go? | link |
01 October 2010 | Psst, want some data? | link |
29 October 2010 | The play’s the thing | link |
31 October 2010 | Alive & Digital event in New York | link |
04 November 2010 | No more Ngarla | link |
23 November 2010 | The public wavelength | link |
26 November 2010 | SOAS publication plans | link |
28 November 2010 | Good on you LTU! | link |
03 December 2010 | Free and open | link |
06 December 2010 | Endangered genres | link |
04 January 2011 | Happy Anniversary | link |
06 January 2011 | Small and strong | link |
21 January 2011 | LSA 2011 Sessions on Metadata in Language Documentation and Description | link |
11 February 2011 | Another forty years on | link |
11 February 2011 | LDP grant application round open | link |
19 February 2011 | Open for business | link |
27 February 2011 | Language Documentation Training | link |
01 March 2011 | LDLT3 conference | link |
02 March 2011 | Workshop on applied language documentation | link |
02 March 2011 | ELAR turns 36 | link |
11 March 2011 | CUP Handbook of Endangered Languages | link |
13 March 2011 | Trung-Yiddish translation | link |
14 March 2011 | Endangered Languages: Critical Concepts in Linguistics | link |
18 March 2011 | Endangered Languages Week 2011 | link |
18 March 2011 | LDD 9 available for pre-publication order | link |
18 March 2011 | FEL books available for online purchase | link |
23 March 2011 | Endangered Languages tweets | link |
04 April 2011 | They’re out to get you (or your data at least) | link |
09 April 2011 | Rights, responsibilities, and data duffers | link |
26 April 2011 | LEGO blocks | link |
26 April 2011 | Citation, citation | link |
29 April 2011 | Who uses digital language archives? | link |
01 May 2011 | A new transcription system | link |
06 May 2011 | London’s Language Landscape | link |
23 May 2011 | Happy snaps | link |
27 May 2011 | Searching in Endangered Languages Archives | link |
18 June 2011 | Podcasts on SOAS radio | link |
30 June 2011 | Gresham College webcasts | link |
01 July 2011 | History in the making | link |
07 July 2011 | More searching | link |
16 August 2011 | LDLT-3 conference news | link |
21 September 2011 | Archiving at ELAR | link |
22 September 2011 | “Indigenous” blogs | link |
17 October 2011 | ELDP grants 2012 | link |
17 November 2011 | New Austronesian and Papuan research group | link |
16 December 2011 | Great Andamanese deposit launched | link |
16 December 2011 | Two jobs at ELAR | link |
21 December 2011 | New look HRELP online store | link |
22 December 2011 | LDD 10 now out | link |
16 January 2012 | Where are they now? | link |
19 February 2012 | Endangered languages, technology and social media (again) | link |
21 February 2012 | Get stuffed endangered languages! | link |
01 March 2012 | ELAR turns 50 | link |
05 March 2012 | APLL5 conference registration open | link |
05 March 2012 | 7th European Australianist workshop | link |
05 March 2012 | 3L Summer School in Lyon, France, July 2012 | link |
25 March 2012 | ELAR update | link |
30 March 2012 | Another one bites the dust (with apologies to Queen) | link |
02 April 2012 | More stories from ELAP graduates | link |
22 April 2012 | Is Toolbox the linguistic equivalent of Nietzsche’s typewriter? | link |
23 April 2012 | Hammers and nails | link |
23 April 2012 | Yet another 40 years on | link |
26 April 2012 | ELAR update update | link |
29 April 2012 | Endangered Languages Week 2012 | link |
03 May 2012 | ELW podcasts | link |
04 May 2012 | LDD and FEL books on sale | link |
19 May 2012 | Australian Aboriginal Language Materials in ELAR | link |
06 June 2012 | ‘e’s a diamond (jubilee) geezer, innit | link |
23 June 2012 | Endangered linguistics in Australia? | link |
25 June 2012 | ELAR cracks a ton | link |
27 June 2012 | Australian Aboriginal Languages Virtual Library | link |
25 August 2012 | New blog about endangered languages | link |
30 August 2012 | Signs of change? | link |
10 October 2012 | ELDP Grant Round 2013 – Call for applications | link |
13 October 2012 | New book on minority languages of Nigeria | link |
01 November 2012 | London tweets | link |
05 November 2012 | Every Language Matters | link |
10 November 2012 | LDD 11 now available for order | link |