Congratulations to CoEDL Director Nick Evans & the Chief Investigators on all that has been achieved from 2014 to 2022 - it has been a team effort!
If you’re going to #GarmaFestival next week, make sure you don’t miss the dhapirrk (deadly) art from the Gapuwiyak community - direct from Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts https://t.co/heQujJGzDX
Surreal moment seeing my lovely Yolŋu family and Ganalbiŋu language/culture teacher in Canberra - yes Canberra, not Ramingining! Dhapirrk (deadly) performances - buŋgul ga manikay - to re-open the Aboriginal Memorial, relocated to the heart of @NatGalleryAus#ReconciliationWeek
"Dialectal differences and grammatical divergence: A cross-linguistic survey" - manuscript submitted with Henry Leslie-O'Neill and @Haoyi_L. Maybe unique as a systematic study of dialect differentiation. Comments most welcome! https://t.co/qVFuARr0NW
@lifeafterkey@CoEDLang Both! I’ve just been told he is the last elder left for Ganalbingu and I was adopted by my mukul so through my given skin name he is my märi.
With my märi (maternal grandfather) and mukul bäpa (paternal aunty) doing Ganalbingu language work on my last day in Darwin. Next stop Ramingining! #fieldwork#phdlife
#ICLDC7 Day 3: Talk Story 1 had so many good points come out of the discussion on language documentation but Elena Benedicto’s stance on the restrictive frameworks and deadlines imposed by academia being a process of “institutions recolonising the communities” is just spot on 🙌🏼
@Spectregraph Omg you were there too! And you got a ticket!! I tried twice and couldn’t snatch one 😂 it was still worth it though, such a great morning
Skywhales represent the relationship humans have with nature and it is only in the most serendipitous overlap of all the correct weather conditions that Skywhales can fly. So turns out that’s not today. #Skywhalepapa I hope to see you gracing Canberra’s skies another day!
Free passes are available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language workers and students to attend this year's online International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (@ICLDC_HI) in March! (4th-7th, Hawai'i standard time)
PhD confirmation = done! What a relief! THANK YOU friends and colleagues for taking the time to attend and giving me such great feedback and advice. So grateful for the wonderful support and guidance from my supervisory committee 🙏🏼