Peter Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Language Documentation
Language documentation, also known as documentary linguistics, is the subfield of linguistics that deals with creating multipurpose records of languages through audio and video recording of speakers and signers and with annotation, translation, preservation, and distribution of the resulting materials. It shows by its nature multidisciplinarity and draws on theoretical concepts and methods from linguistics, ethnography, folklore studies, psycholo…
Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy
This paper is a study of eight postcards written in the Diyari language1 2 by Rebecca Maltilina and addressed to Miss Dorothea Ruediger. As Cane and Gunson argue (this volume), postcards are potentially an important record of Australian history and Australian Aboriginal biogra phy. These postcards are of additional linguistic and socio-linguistic importance in that they represent literature written in an Aboriginal language by an Aboriginal perso…
The earthquake and Halley’s Comet
The transcription and translation of two Jiwarli texts that are eyewitness accounts of Jack Butler recorded in 1985 are presented. They describe an earthquake that occurred in 1906 and the appearance of the Halley's comet in the sky in 1910, which he witnessed as a child
Afghans and Aborigines
Ben Murray, the oldest and most fluent speaker of Diyari, now lives at Marree, South Australia, where he was bom in 1891. His mother was Arabana and his father Afghan. Diyari was formerly spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in the far north of South Australia and currently has fewer than a dozen speakers. Ben Murray's two humorous stories about encounters with Afghans were told in Diyari to Peter Austin, who transcribes and analyses
Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)
The biography of Ben Murray, born in 1891 to an Aboriginal mother and a Baluchistani (Afghan) father in northern South Australia, is presented. Some texts of his recollections, as spoken by him in Arabana-Wangkangurru and Diyari-Thirrari languages are also presented with their English translations
Emu and Brolga, a Kamilaroi myth
The Kamilaroi (or Kamilaraay)2 are an Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied a large tract of country in north-central New South Wales (Tindale 1974, Austin, Williams and Wurm 1980). The Kamilaroi language was spoken in several dialect forms and is closely re lated to Yuwaaliyaay (the Euahlayi of It is more distantly linked to Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa of central New South Wales (Austin et al 1980, Donaldson 1980 -see Map 1)
The Yarli languages
Forty Years on
Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Access to Invasive Cardiac Procedures and on Mortality after Acute Myocardial Infarction
BACKGROUND: Universal health care systems seek to ensure access to care on the basis of need rather than income and to improve the health status of all citizens. We examined the performance of the Canadian health system with respect to these goals in the province of Ontario by assessing the effects of neighborhood income on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality one year after acute myocardial infarction. METHODS: We linked claims…
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages
(1988). Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point …
Structural change in language obsolescence
(1986). Structural change in language obsolescence: Some eastern Australian examples. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-230
Basic Materials in Wankumara (Galali)
Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages
Australian Linguistic Studies
Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology
Switch-Reference in Australia
A number of Australian Aboriginal languages have syntactic mechanisms which can be analysed as instances of ‘switch-reference’. These languages have verb suffixes indicating whether or not the subjects of syntactically-related main and subordinate clauses are referentially the same or different. The distribution of switch-reference in various subordinate clause types is examined here, and its formal and functional characteristics are described in…
Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point …
Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages
(1988). Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Australian Linguistic Studies
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages
Switch-Reference in Australia
A number of Australian Aboriginal languages have syntactic mechanisms which can be analysed as instances of ‘switch-reference’. These languages have verb suffixes indicating whether or not the subjects of syntactically-related main and subordinate clauses are referentially the same or different. The distribution of switch-reference in various subordinate clause types is examined here, and its formal and functional characteristics are described in…
Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages
Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)
The biography of Ben Murray, born in 1891 to an Aboriginal mother and a Baluchistani (Afghan) father in northern South Australia, is presented. Some texts of his recollections, as spoken by him in Arabana-Wangkangurru and Diyari-Thirrari languages are also presented with their English translations
Emu and Brolga, a Kamilaroi myth
The Kamilaroi (or Kamilaraay)2 are an Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied a large tract of country in north-central New South Wales (Tindale 1974, Austin, Williams and Wurm 1980). The Kamilaroi language was spoken in several dialect forms and is closely re lated to Yuwaaliyaay (the Euahlayi of It is more distantly linked to Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa of central New South Wales (Austin et al 1980, Donaldson 1980 -see Map 1)
Language Documentation
Language documentation, also known as documentary linguistics, is the subfield of linguistics that deals with creating multipurpose records of languages through audio and video recording of speakers and signers and with annotation, translation, preservation, and distribution of the resulting materials. It shows by its nature multidisciplinarity and draws on theoretical concepts and methods from linguistics, ethnography, folklore studies, psycholo…
Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages
Australian Linguistic Studies
Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology
Switch-Reference in Australia
A number of Australian Aboriginal languages have syntactic mechanisms which can be analysed as instances of ‘switch-reference’. These languages have verb suffixes indicating whether or not the subjects of syntactically-related main and subordinate clauses are referentially the same or different. The distribution of switch-reference in various subordinate clause types is examined here, and its formal and functional characteristics are described in…
Basic Materials in Wankumara (Galali)
Structural change in language obsolescence
(1986). Structural change in language obsolescence: Some eastern Australian examples. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-230
Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages
(1988). Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point …
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages
Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Access to Invasive Cardiac Procedures and on Mortality after Acute Myocardial Infarction
BACKGROUND: Universal health care systems seek to ensure access to care on the basis of need rather than income and to improve the health status of all citizens. We examined the performance of the Canadian health system with respect to these goals in the province of Ontario by assessing the effects of neighborhood income on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality one year after acute myocardial infarction. METHODS: We linked claims…
Forty Years on
The Yarli languages
Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy
This paper is a study of eight postcards written in the Diyari language1 2 by Rebecca Maltilina and addressed to Miss Dorothea Ruediger. As Cane and Gunson argue (this volume), postcards are potentially an important record of Australian history and Australian Aboriginal biogra phy. These postcards are of additional linguistic and socio-linguistic importance in that they represent literature written in an Aboriginal language by an Aboriginal perso…
The earthquake and Halley’s Comet
The transcription and translation of two Jiwarli texts that are eyewitness accounts of Jack Butler recorded in 1985 are presented. They describe an earthquake that occurred in 1906 and the appearance of the Halley's comet in the sky in 1910, which he witnessed as a child
Afghans and Aborigines
Ben Murray, the oldest and most fluent speaker of Diyari, now lives at Marree, South Australia, where he was bom in 1891. His mother was Arabana and his father Afghan. Diyari was formerly spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in the far north of South Australia and currently has fewer than a dozen speakers. Ben Murray's two humorous stories about encounters with Afghans were told in Diyari to Peter Austin, who transcribes and analyses
Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)
The biography of Ben Murray, born in 1891 to an Aboriginal mother and a Baluchistani (Afghan) father in northern South Australia, is presented. Some texts of his recollections, as spoken by him in Arabana-Wangkangurru and Diyari-Thirrari languages are also presented with their English translations
Emu and Brolga, a Kamilaroi myth
The Kamilaroi (or Kamilaraay)2 are an Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied a large tract of country in north-central New South Wales (Tindale 1974, Austin, Williams and Wurm 1980). The Kamilaroi language was spoken in several dialect forms and is closely re lated to Yuwaaliyaay (the Euahlayi of It is more distantly linked to Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa of central New South Wales (Austin et al 1980, Donaldson 1980 -see Map 1)
Language Documentation
Language documentation, also known as documentary linguistics, is the subfield of linguistics that deals with creating multipurpose records of languages through audio and video recording of speakers and signers and with annotation, translation, preservation, and distribution of the resulting materials. It shows by its nature multidisciplinarity and draws on theoretical concepts and methods from linguistics, ethnography, folklore studies, psycholo…
Linguistics (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · History (11 works) · History (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Media studies (5 works)