Nick Thieberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 167203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Thieberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Thieberger |
| SIGNATURE | THIEBERGER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8797-1018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nafsan, a language from central Vanuatu
Endangered Languages in Australia
Australia has the dubious reputation of being home to many of the world's most endangered languages, and having been the home of many indigenous languages that are no longer spoken.
The New Protectionism
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looking for information on their own languages and by non-Indigenous researchers supporting language work. It is motivated by Indigenous people not being able to access materials in archives, libraries, and museums that they need for heritage reasons, for personal reasons, or for revitalisation of language or cultural perfo…
Doing it for Ourselves
In this paper I address the following research questions in the context of having built a research data repository to safeguard cultural research data. How can the PARADISEC team ensure the records we create in the course of our research will exist into the future and remain citable? How can our research data be made available for a wider public, most importantly for the people recorded and their descendants? How can we prepare our students for t…
Nafsan
Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Erakor, Eratap and Pango, three villages situated along the southern coast of the island of Efate (Figure 1) (Clark 1985, Lynch 2000, Thieberger 2006). Nafsan is also closely related to Eton, Lelepa, Nakanamanga and Namakura, spoken further to the north on Efate and some smaller neighbouring islands.1 Nafsan is ofte…
Un nouveau souffle numérique pour les corpus en langues océaniennes
Les savoirs autochtones sont intimement liés aux langues océaniennes et aux textes, oraux ou écrits, produits dans ces langues. Les corpus primaires, que ce soit des écrits ou des enregistrements audio ou vidéo, recueillis sur le terrain par les chercheur·euses et conservés comme base de leurs publications académiques sont longtemps restés inaccessibles aux communautés source. Avec l’essor des archives numériques, ces ressources peuvent désormais…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
Documentary Linguistics
Seeing the present situation, I think that, at the very least, it behooves us as scientists and as human beings to work responsibly both for the future of our science and for the future of our languages, not so much for reward according to the fashion of the day, but for the sake of posterity. What we need to do now stares us in the face. If we do not act, we should be cursed by future generations for Neronically fiddling while Rome burned. (Krau…
Assessing Annotated Corpora as Research Output
The increasing importance of language documentation as a paradigm in linguistic research means that many linguists now spend substantial amounts of time preparing digital corpora of language data for long-term access. Benefits of this development include: (i) making analyses accountable to the primary material on which they are based; (ii) providing future researchers with a body of linguistic material to analyse in ways not foreseen by the origi…
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings:An Australian Example Nick Thieberger (bio) Introduction Hundreds of hours of ethnographic field recordings and their associated oral tradition were destined to be lost until the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC, http://paradisec.org.au) was established in 2003 to digitize and curate this legacy made by Australian academic researchers since the 196…
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork offers a guide to linguistic fieldwork reflecting the collaborative nature of the field across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. Articles consid…
Working Together in Vanuatu
This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives relating to the unique program of social, political and historical research and management that has been fostered in that island nation. While not diminishing the
Understanding Human Relations (Kinship Systems)
Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship system. Such systems include aspects of language (kinship terminology), aspects of practice and strategy (marriage, normative behaviours) and aspects of transmission and social reproduction (inheritance and descent). This chapter provides the theoretical and methodological tools to investigate this important social field
Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs
Journal Article Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs: Examples from Legacy Data and from Multimodal Fieldwork Get access Nick Thieberger Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 24, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 463–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecr027 Published: 10 September 2011
Language maintenance
This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Multilingua 1990 published by Walter de Gruyter. This version is reproduced with permission from Walter de Gruyter. www.reference-global.com
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings:An Australian Example Nick Thieberger (bio) Introduction Hundreds of hours of ethnographic field recordings and their associated oral tradition were destined to be lost until the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC, http://paradisec.org.au) was established in 2003 to digitize and curate this legacy made by Australian academic researchers since the 196…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
Assessing Annotated Corpora as Research Output
The increasing importance of language documentation as a paradigm in linguistic research means that many linguists now spend substantial amounts of time preparing digital corpora of language data for long-term access. Benefits of this development include: (i) making analyses accountable to the primary material on which they are based; (ii) providing future researchers with a body of linguistic material to analyse in ways not foreseen by the origi…
Language maintenance
This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Multilingua 1990 published by Walter de Gruyter. This version is reproduced with permission from Walter de Gruyter. www.reference-global.com
Nafsan
Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Erakor, Eratap and Pango, three villages situated along the southern coast of the island of Efate (Figure 1) (Clark 1985, Lynch 2000, Thieberger 2006). Nafsan is also closely related to Eton, Lelepa, Nakanamanga and Namakura, spoken further to the north on Efate and some smaller neighbouring islands.1 Nafsan is ofte…
Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs
Journal Article Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs: Examples from Legacy Data and from Multimodal Fieldwork Get access Nick Thieberger Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 24, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 463–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecr027 Published: 10 September 2011
Language maintenance
This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Multilingua 1990 published by Walter de Gruyter. This version is reproduced with permission from Walter de Gruyter. www.reference-global.com
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork offers a guide to linguistic fieldwork reflecting the collaborative nature of the field across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. Articles consid…
Working Together in Vanuatu
This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives relating to the unique program of social, political and historical research and management that has been fostered in that island nation. While not diminishing the
Understanding Human Relations (Kinship Systems)
Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship system. Such systems include aspects of language (kinship terminology), aspects of practice and strategy (marriage, normative behaviours) and aspects of transmission and social reproduction (inheritance and descent). This chapter provides the theoretical and methodological tools to investigate this important social field
Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs
Journal Article Building A Lexical Database with Multiple Outputs: Examples from Legacy Data and from Multimodal Fieldwork Get access Nick Thieberger Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne ([email protected]) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 24, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 463–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecr027 Published: 10 September 2011
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings:An Australian Example Nick Thieberger (bio) Introduction Hundreds of hours of ethnographic field recordings and their associated oral tradition were destined to be lost until the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC, http://paradisec.org.au) was established in 2003 to digitize and curate this legacy made by Australian academic researchers since the 196…
Assessing Annotated Corpora as Research Output
The increasing importance of language documentation as a paradigm in linguistic research means that many linguists now spend substantial amounts of time preparing digital corpora of language data for long-term access. Benefits of this development include: (i) making analyses accountable to the primary material on which they are based; (ii) providing future researchers with a body of linguistic material to analyse in ways not foreseen by the origi…
Documentary Linguistics
Seeing the present situation, I think that, at the very least, it behooves us as scientists and as human beings to work responsibly both for the future of our science and for the future of our languages, not so much for reward according to the fashion of the day, but for the sake of posterity. What we need to do now stares us in the face. If we do not act, we should be cursed by future generations for Neronically fiddling while Rome burned. (Krau…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
Un nouveau souffle numérique pour les corpus en langues océaniennes
Les savoirs autochtones sont intimement liés aux langues océaniennes et aux textes, oraux ou écrits, produits dans ces langues. Les corpus primaires, que ce soit des écrits ou des enregistrements audio ou vidéo, recueillis sur le terrain par les chercheur·euses et conservés comme base de leurs publications académiques sont longtemps restés inaccessibles aux communautés source. Avec l’essor des archives numériques, ces ressources peuvent désormais…
Doing it for Ourselves
In this paper I address the following research questions in the context of having built a research data repository to safeguard cultural research data. How can the PARADISEC team ensure the records we create in the course of our research will exist into the future and remain citable? How can our research data be made available for a wider public, most importantly for the people recorded and their descendants? How can we prepare our students for t…
Nafsan
Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Erakor, Eratap and Pango, three villages situated along the southern coast of the island of Efate (Figure 1) (Clark 1985, Lynch 2000, Thieberger 2006). Nafsan is also closely related to Eton, Lelepa, Nakanamanga and Namakura, spoken further to the north on Efate and some smaller neighbouring islands.1 Nafsan is ofte…
The New Protectionism
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looking for information on their own languages and by non-Indigenous researchers supporting language work. It is motivated by Indigenous people not being able to access materials in archives, libraries, and museums that they need for heritage reasons, for personal reasons, or for revitalisation of language or cultural perfo…
Nafsan, a language from central Vanuatu
Endangered Languages in Australia
Australia has the dubious reputation of being home to many of the world's most endangered languages, and having been the home of many indigenous languages that are no longer spoken.
Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Library science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Indigenous (3 works)