{"id":3858,"date":"2010-01-14T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/01\/new-titles-in-sydney-university-escholarship-repository\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"new-titles-in-sydney-university-escholarship-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/01\/new-titles-in-sydney-university-escholarship-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"New titles in Sydney University eScholarship repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some recent accessions on Indigenous languages to the Sydney eScholarship repository:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeremy Hammond&#8217;s Honours thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2123\/5796\"><em>The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu<\/em><\/a>.  A ripper read for Oceanists thinking about arguments for there being distinct categories of nouns and verbs.\n<li>Aidan Wilson&#8217;s Honours thesis <a href=\" http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2123\/5385\"><em>Negative Evidence in Linguistics: The case of Wagiman Complex Predicates<\/em><\/a>.  What&#8217;s a possible complex predicate?  Good to read in conjunction with Stephen Wilson&#8217;s  University of Sydney Honours thesis also on Wagiman which was published by CSLI as <a href=\"http:\/\/csli-publications.stanford.edu\/site\/1575861720.shtml\"><em>Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman<\/em><\/a>.  NOTE:  Aidan is <b>not<\/b> Stephen.\n<li>My 1985 paperlet <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2123\/5794\">&#8220;How Warumungu people express new concepts&#8221;<\/a> published in the long dead, still lamented journal <em>Language in Central Australia<\/em> (issue 4, the last issue before it morphed into <em>Language in Aboriginal Australia<\/em> and died a couple of issues later).  It was inspired by Geoffrey O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s 1960 paper, &#8220;New concepts in Nyangumarda: some data on linguistic acculturation&#8221; [1], and was followed by Rob Amery&#8217;s 1993 paper &#8220;Encoding new concepts in old languages: a case study of Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains&#8221; [2].  I think the topic is due for further exploration.  Psycholinguists are getting into it experimentally, but it&#8217;s important to understand what actually has happened when people have had to find new ways of talking about things.<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n[1]  <em>Anthropological Linguistics<\/em> 2: 1 (January), 1-6.<br \/>\n[2]  <em>Australian Aboriginal Studies<\/em> 1. 33-47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some recent accessions on Indigenous languages to the Sydney eScholarship repository: Jeremy Hammond&#8217;s Honours thesis The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu. A ripper read for Oceanists thinking about arguments for there being distinct categories of nouns and verbs. Aidan Wilson&#8217;s Honours thesis Negative Evidence in Linguistics: The &#8230; <a title=\"New titles in Sydney University eScholarship repository\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/01\/new-titles-in-sydney-university-escholarship-repository\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New titles in Sydney University eScholarship repository\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-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\/3858","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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}