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DR NICK THIEBERGER



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/thieberger/index.html
Room: 15B
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
language documentation, language description, Vanuatu languages linguistic software, text-media linking, development Australia, Vanuatu

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Vanuatu Vanuatu Cultural Centre Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Papua New Guinea Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies Research, Technical Assistance/Training
France CNRS Laboratoire des langues et civilisations a tradition orale Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom School of Oriental and African Studies Research
United States University of Alaska Research
New Caledonia University of New Caledonia Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Malaysia The Tun Jugah Foundation Research, Teaching, Technical Assistance/Training
Netherlands Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Research, Technical Assistance/Training
New Caledonia Tjibaou Centre Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Italian Speak, Read & Write
Oceanic Austronesian Languages nec (includes Hawai'ian, Rotuman, Tuvaluan) Speak, Read & Write
Oceanic Pidgins and Creoles nec(incl Bislama,Pitcairnese,Solomon Islands Pidgin) Speak, Read & Write
French Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2004
Master of Arts La Trobe University 31-Dec-1988
BA La Trobe University 31-Dec-1981

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Resources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), (Nick Thieberger- Project Manager) received the 2008 award 01-Oct-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
New methodologies for representing and accessing resources on endangered languages: a case study from South Efate Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
SHARING ACCESS AND ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC DIGITAL MEDIA USING HIGH SPEED NETWORKS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL ARC Special Research Initiatives E-Research 01/01/2005
ASIA PACIFIC FUTURES RESEARCH NETWORK - AFTER 26 YEARS: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN VANUATU SINCE INDEPENDENCE Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Research Networks (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 26/07/2006
Doing great things with small languages: Safeguarding Indigenous language material of Australia's region by clever use of new technology Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Language is like a carpet. Carl Georg von Brandenstein and Australian languages


    Year: 2008
    Book: Encountering Aboriginal languages: Studies in the history of Australian linguistics
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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Major Reference Works

  • Living, endangered, and lost: One thousand languages:

    Australia-Pacific languages in One Thousand Languages


    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Living, endangered, and lost: One thousand languages
    Publisher: University of California Press(Berkeley)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • The demise of serial verbs in South Efate
    Year: 2007
    Book: Language Description, History and Development
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Supporting language work in our region: the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD)
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Conference on Endangered Austronesian Language Documentation, Taiwan, June 2007
    Conference Publication: Pre-Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 295 - 314
    Publisher: Providence University, Department of English, Literature and Linguistics(Taichung)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • A Grammar of South Efate. An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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  • Sustainable data from digital fieldwork
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Cybraries in Paradise: New Technologies and Ethnographic Repositories


    Year: 2006
    Book: Libr@ries. Changing Information Space and Practice
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(Mahwah)
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  • Keeping Track of Indigenous Language Endangerment in Australia
    Year: 2006
    Book: Language Diversity in the Pacific. Endangerment and Survival
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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Journal Articles

  • The Benefactive Construction in South Efate
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Oceanic Linguistics
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 297-310
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • EOPAS, the EthnoER online representation of interlinear text
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Sustainable data from digital fieldwork
    Conference Publication: sustainable data from digital fieldwork
    Page numbers: 99-124
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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  • Ethical challenges in documentary linguistics
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 2005 Conference of the Australain Linguistic Society
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Australian Linguistics Society(Sydney)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Obituary: Carl Georg von Brandenstein
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Aboriginal Studies
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 125 - 127
    Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press(Canberra)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Extinction in whose terms? Which parts of a language constitute a target for language maintenance programmes?


    Year: 2002
    Book: Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre.
    Year: 2001
    Book: Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages.
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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