Australian Linguistics Network

This page lists Australian university departments with linguists and web pages that we're aware of, and certain other Australian linguistics-related links.

Societies

Australian Linguistics Society

Applied Linguistics Association of Australia

Australex

The Australasian Association for Lexicography

The Australian Speech Science and Technology Association

ASSTA, Inc.

Australian university linguistics departments

University of Adelaide, General Linguistics (Centre for European Studies and General Linguistics)

Australian National University

The above top level link is the best place to go for information on courses/degrees, but you can also go straight to the ANU's two departments:

• Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts
• Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Batchelor College Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics

University of Canberra Applied Linguistics

Only basic info from a gopher.

Edith Cowan University Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Research

Griffith University School of Languages and Linguistics

Hedland College Aboriginal/Indigenous Languages

James Cook University Applied Linguistics

La Trobe University

Macquarie University

Also, the Centre for Language Technology

University of Melbourne

Much interesting material can be found in their research projects descriptions. See also the Horwood Language Centre.

Monash University

University of New England

University of New South Wales

Minimalist. A bit more promotional material is available here.

University of Newcastle

Northern Territory University Language and Cultural Studies

University of Queensland

The "pure" linguists are in the English department, but now have their own web pages.

Centre for Research in Language Processing and Linguistics

Centre for Language Teaching and Research

Applied Linguistics. Includes the journal On-CALL.

University of Sydney

University of Western Australia Centre for Linguistics

Also, Educational Linguistics.

University of Western Sydney

Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing

Otherwise hard to find Australian linguists

Avery Andrews

Cathryn and Mark Donohue

David Nash

Has an online mountain of material available about Australian languages and people who work on them.

Bert Peeters

Steve Swartz (Warlpiri Bible Translation Project)

Other General Resources

AIATSIS

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies including AIATSIS language resources.

Australian Indigenous Languages

Section of the World Wide Web Virtual Library. Has an extensive set of links.

ASEDA

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies A List of Electronic Data Files Held in ASEDA - the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive. Includes Notes for the computer assisted language worker edited by Nicholas Thieberger.

Austronesian Linguistics On-Line

Pacific Linguistics

Publishers of books on Australian, Papuan and Austronesian Linguistics.

Computation and Language (cmp-lg) Preprint Archive

Australian mirror.

Alston Collection (Linguistics)

In 1974 the National Library acquired the Alston Collection of books on linguistics. The collection was built up over 14 years by Dr Robin Alston, sometime Senior Lecturer in Philology at the University of Leeds, founder of the Scolar Press and editor of "English linguistics 1500-1800".

Uw Oykangand and Uw Olkola Multimedia Dictionary

Currently a small word list, but with nice photos.

The Jiwarli Language of Western Australia

New Zealand

Linguistic Society of New Zealand

Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand