{"id":3416,"date":"2006-07-18T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/07\/publishing-dictionaries-and-a-recent-grammar-of-an-australian-language\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:06","slug":"publishing-dictionaries-and-a-recent-grammar-of-an-australian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/07\/publishing-dictionaries-and-a-recent-grammar-of-an-australian-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing dictionaries and a recent grammar of an Australian language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way back from the interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ali2006.une.edu.au\/\">Australian Linguistics Institute<\/a> in Brisbane, we stopped in Newcastle to talk with&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brumac.com.au\/\">Christine Bruderlin and Mark MacLean<\/a>,&nbsp; who produce very well laid-out dictionaries and learners&#8217; grammars of Australian languages.&nbsp;&nbsp; The latest is Amanda Lissarrague&#8217;s 2006 <a href=\"http:\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/elac\/ALissarrague grammar_flyer.pdf\">&nbsp; <em>A salvage grammar and wordlist of the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie<\/span><\/a>. Nambucca Heads: Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative.&nbsp; I think this is the first grammar of a mid-southern coastal NSW language to be produced for nearly 30 years.&nbsp; Amanda has gone through Threlkeld&#8217;s nineteenth century material and made sense of it, while retaining the original spellings so that her reconstructions can be checked.&nbsp;  It isn&#8217;t a learner&#8217;s grammar, but rather a reference grammar with the original Threlkeld sentences included.  See the <a href=\"http:\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/elac\/ALissarrague grammar_flyer.pdf\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">flyer<\/em><\/a> to buy this book &#8211; contact Muurrbay at 14 Bellwood Road, Nambucca Heads NSW 2448.&nbsp; Oh, for an Amazon of hard-to-get Australian&nbsp; language material!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way back from the interesting Australian Linguistics Institute in Brisbane, we stopped in Newcastle to talk with&nbsp; Christine Bruderlin and Mark MacLean,&nbsp; who produce very well laid-out dictionaries and learners&#8217; grammars of Australian languages.&nbsp;&nbsp; The latest is Amanda Lissarrague&#8217;s 2006 &nbsp; A salvage grammar and wordlist of the language from the Hunter River &#8230; <a title=\"Publishing dictionaries and a recent grammar of an Australian language\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/07\/publishing-dictionaries-and-a-recent-grammar-of-an-australian-language\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Publishing dictionaries and a recent grammar of an Australian language\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}