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Professor Jane Simpson is a Chief Investigator of the LIving Archive for Aboriginal Languages project.
Qualifications:
- PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
- MA in Linguistics (Australian National University),
- BA (Hons) (Australian National University)
- Chair of Indigenous Linguistics, Head of School of Language Studies
- ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise:
- Linguistics 2004
- Language Studies 2003
- English Language 200302
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Languages 200319
- Lexicography 200407
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics 200401
Biography:
Jane Simpson majored in Chinese and English literature at ANU, followed by honours in Middle English and an MA in Linguistics (1977). She spent 10 months in Moscow as an ANU exchange scholar (1977-1978). She has carried out fieldwork on Indigenous Australian languages since 1979, and received a PhD in linguistics from MIT in 1983 for a study of Warlpiri in the Lexical-Functional Grammar framework. She was a Sloan postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She then worked in Central Australia on Warumungu language and language maintenance, and helped set up a language centre in Tennant Creek. She also carried out various consultancies (e.g. Aboriginal Legal Aid, Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority), and worked on the Warumungu land claims. In 1986-1988 with David Nash she worked as lexicography fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, helping set up a digital archive of Aboriginal language material, which became ASEDA. In 1989 she became a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. In 2005, with Mary Laughren and David Nash, she shared the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Inaugural Ken Hale Chair. In 2011 she moved to ANU as the inaugural chair of Indigenous linguistics and head of the school of Language Studies.
At Sydney she embarked on various collaborative projects including: (with Linda Barwick, Allan Marett and others) the establishment of the PARADISC digital archive; (with Chris Manning and others) on several dictionary projects and the lexicography software Kirrkirr; (with Patrick McConvell, Gillian Wigglesworth and others) on the Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition project; (with Ilana Mushin) on papers on the functions of free word order in Australian languages; (with Luise Hercus and others) on placenames and Indigenous history; (with Wayan Arka and Avery Andrews) on Indonesian computational grammars.
Researcher's projects:
- working with Patrick McConvell, Harold Koch Jeanie Bell and Laurent Dousset on AUSTKIN 2 [http://austkin.pacific-credo.fr/]
- working with Gillian Wigglesworth and others on ACLA, a project on child language acquisition in Aboriginal communities in Central and Northern Australia, funded by the Australian Research Council
- working with Robert Amery (University of Adelaide) on a book of materials of Kaurna, the indigenous language spoken around Adelaide. This includes a grammar and comparative word-lists.
- a grammar and dictionary of Warumungu, a language spoken around Tennant Creek. A Learner's Guide has been published by IAD Press.
- syntax, especially Lexical-Functional Grammarworking with colleagues on digital archiving, and on establishing PARADISEC, an archive of Pacific and regional language and endangered culture material, directed by Linda Barwick with Nick Thieberger.
- language maintenance.
- working with Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews and Meladel Mistica on Indonesian computational grammar
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