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A manual for reconstructing materials in Australian indigenous languages from historical sources
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This is a concise guide and an excellent introduction to the complicated issues of language reconstruction. Finding out about languages that are no longer spoken, or those that are still spoken by only a few people, can be a long and difficult process.
Taking texts and wordlists from historical sources and making them useful in current language programs and literature presents a variety of challenges. While some early recording of Australian indigenous languages was quite good, much of it was done by people who were not expecting to find complicated grammars or a rich understanding of the natural environment. In some areas of research there may be material recorded by trained linguists available to help decipher the relationship between written forms and the sound they are meant to represent.
Each contributor to Paper and Talk works through some of the complex issues vital to language workers in an accessible, easy-to-read style. Exercises throughout the book provide immediate ways for readers to put some of the ideas into practice, and to experience the frustrations of this kind of language work.
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CONTENTS
Bill Reid ix
Welcome xi
Introduction xi
I. Jeanie Bell 1
Working on a dictionary for Murri languages
2. Nicholas Thieberger 9
What is your language?
How to find your language name
Using maps to locate language names
3. Geraldine Triffitt 13
What is written on your language?
How do you obtain access to it?
Who recorded information about languages in the past?
The importance of knowing the origin of sources
Copyright 33
4. Jaki Troy 35
Reading old sources
Examples and possible errors
Tamsin Donaldson 43
What word is that?
5. Peter Austin and Terry Crowley 53
Interpreting old spelling
Spelling and pronunciation
Information sources
Comparing information
Common spelling errors
Printing mistakes
Using information from other languages
Exercises
Further reading
Ganai - a lost opportunity
6. Nicholas Thieberger 103
How to decide on a spelling system
Charts of orthographies in use now and in the past
Exercises
7. Jane Simpson 121
Making sense of the words in old wordlists
Morphology
How words are made
Figuring out what a word should be from many sources
Exercises
An example of how not to use historical sources 146
8. Rob Amery 147
What to do with language material
How to reintroduce languages, ideas and experiences from Kauma
Exercises
9. Nicholas Thieberger 165
Using computers
Presenting and storingyour data
Case studv o f reworking a handwritten document
Appendix 1 175
List of participants
Appendix 2 178
List of dictionaries and wordlists reworked from historical sources
Appendix 3 182
Resources (including contacts for language centres)
References 187
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