{"id":3771,"date":"2009-01-01T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/geoffrey-noel-ogrady-1928-2008\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"geoffrey-noel-ogrady-1928-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/geoffrey-noel-ogrady-1928-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"&#10013; Geoffrey Noel O&#8217;Grady 1928-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to learn that Geoffrey O&#8217;Grady [1] has died &#8211; on 28th December at home in Victoria, British Columbia.  He was a fine linguist, who documented Australian languages (Nyangumarta most extensively), wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.cat-vn2763911\">the report with Ken Hale<\/a> that started bilingual education in the Northern Territory, and loved with a great passion the work of understanding relationships between Australian languages. Above all, he was a generous and kind man. He is survived by Alix O&#8217;Grady, his wife and collaborator for over fifty years, and their two daughters.<br \/>\nMore about his life and work can be found in: &#8216;Geoffrey O&#8217;Grady: pioneer of Australian linguistics&#8217; in his aptly titled festschrift <em>Boundary rider: studies in the lexicology and comparative linguistics of Australian languages<\/em>, edited by Darrell Tryon and Michael Walsh (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, out of print but <a href=\"http:\/\/pacling.anu.edu.au\/catalogue\/Catalogue_OOP_Books.pdf\">available<\/a> as a .pdf $37.80)<br \/>\n[<em> Update: an obituary has appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/can-victoria\/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&#038;PersonId=122139265\">here<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>[1] BA Hons thesis, 1959, University of Sydney, <em>Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia<\/em>.   PhD thesis,  1963, Indiana University, <em>Nyangumata grammar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to learn that Geoffrey O&#8217;Grady [1] has died &#8211; on 28th December at home in Victoria, British Columbia. He was a fine linguist, who documented Australian languages (Nyangumarta most extensively), wrote the report with Ken Hale that started bilingual education in the Northern Territory, and loved with a great passion the work &#8230; <a title=\"&#10013; Geoffrey Noel O&#8217;Grady 1928-2008\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/geoffrey-noel-ogrady-1928-2008\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#10013; Geoffrey Noel O&#8217;Grady 1928-2008\">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-3771","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\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}