Thanks to everyone who joined us at ANU in Canberra for #ALS2024! We look forward to seeing you at the Griffith University Gold Coast campus for #ALS2025 🌞

Our newest title is a grammatical description of the Warlmanpa language, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia presently spoken in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory and surrounding country Purchase a copy or download for free doi.org/10.22459/GW.2024 #morphology

SELLING FAST: Registrations are selling fast for the #ALTA2024 conference affiliated with the @aclmeeting.bsky.social 🎉 📆 Monday 2nd Dec - Wed 4th Dec 2024 📍 Birch Building Innovation Space, 35 Science Road, #ANU #Online and in-person options available. events.humanitix.com/alta-2024?hx...

FTA: @ivacheung.com's series on unparliamentary language. First up: Australia, of course! stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/u...

The ALS 2024 Conference is happening next week (26-29 November) at ANU, Canberra! We look forward to seeing you there! Details and programme: als.asn.au/Conference/2... #ALS2024

Our Word of the Year for 2024 is 'Colesworth': used in reference to the perceived duopoly of Australia's largest supermarket retailers, Coles and Woolworths. For more about our choice, and shortlist: tinyurl.com/yeyn5tkp

Next week – Voices of Regional Australia Seminar Series (mornings of Nov 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd). Seminars are in-person apart from Tues 19th (hybrid). Details and registration:

Missed early-bird registration for #ALS2024? You can still register for the conference - tomorrow is the last day!

📢 Reminder – abstract submission for the 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics closes Oct 30! #COOL13 will be June 23-27 2025, at ANU in Canberra

Check out the full program for #ALS2024 here: https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Program2024 (Canberra, Nov 26th to 29th) Remember to register by October 31st!

A thread on Australian languages from the Society for the Neurology of Language 2024 conference in Brisbane.

Considering a Master of General and Applied Linguistics at ANU? Drop by the online info session on Nov 6th, 4pm AEDT. Register here: https://cass.anu.edu.au/events/postgraduate-study-options-general-and-applied-linguistics-webinar #linguistics

The Australian Linguistic Society annual conference will be held in the Sir Roland Wilson building, at the south end of the ANU campus https://maps.app.goo.gl/3eDmJPgNJgR3n6Pz9 See here for some accommodation suggestions: https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Accommodation #ALS2024

📢 Reminder – abstract submission for the 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics closes Oct 30! #COOL13 will be June 23-27 2025, at ANU in Canberra

Check out the full program for #ALS2024 here: https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Program2024 (Canberra, Nov 26th to 29th) Remember to register by October 31st!

Still buzzing with excitement for PARADISEC who won the highly competitive award for research and innovation, presented in Ghent, Brussels, 16 September 2024. Thank you Digital Repository of Ireland! Read about PARADISEC's submission for this award: https://t.co/QUXvpYdxnU

Congratulations to @drmarydahm.bsky.social, one of four recipients of the 2024 ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, recognising significant contributions to science and community engagement and outreach 🎉

Videos from the ELAR/PARADISEC Conference on Language Documentation & Archiving (4-6 September 2024 in Berlin and online) can be viewed via the LD&A YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@langdoc/playlists. Videos include in-person and online talks as well as online poster sessions. Enjoy!

The Australian Linguistic Society is calling for applications from any member of the Society for a grant of up to $2,500 to support publication costs (e.g. open access fees and other publishing costs). Apply online before 30 October 2024. Details: als.asn.au/alsgrant/det...

📢 Reminder – closing today! #ALS2024

Registration is now open for the Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Nov 26-29 at ANU in Canberra. Early-bird rego closes Oct 31st! (5pm AEDT) https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Registration2024 #ALS2024

First Nations language professionals from across Australia visited ANU last week to work on an ARC project about language ecologies. Policy attending to which languages are spoken and how in specific places can transform lives. The team gave the Paul Bourke Award public lecture, led by Denise Angelo

Out now: Special issue in the Australian Journal of #Linguistics on 'Language Corpora in Australia', with papers in the new Data Article format. Papers include Travis & Nguyen (2024) 'Introduction: Language corpora in Australia' https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2389151 👇🧵

'Drongos, Drop bears & Dictionaries' – Join Amanda Laugesen (director, Australian National Dictionary Centre) and Pip Williams (author, The Dictionary of Lost Words) on Oct 27 at the #Canberra Writers Festival

'The language universe is shrinking – can we stop it?' Interview with Evan Kidd on the importance of initiatives that document and help strengthen Australia’s first languages, and foster a multilingual future

The 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics will take place from June 23-27 2025 at ANU in Canberra. Abstracts due by Oct 30! We welcome submissions on a broad range of themes relating to Oceanic, Papuan and regional creole languages buff.ly/4gDFp09 #COOL13 #linguistics

Submissions for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association closing 27 Sep! (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12) Conference will take place Dec 3rd-4th at ANU, Canberra (hybrid format) https://buff.ly/3XWHKf4 #ALTA2024

'Indigenous language landscapes: Why a fuller understanding of Indigenous peoples’ language contexts is important'. Public lecture Oct 1st 6:30 ANU (in person) by Denise Angelo, Carmel Ryan, Bernadine Yeatmen, Marmingee Hand, Tara Bonney, Jasmine Seymour, Corina Norman. Rego: https://buff.ly/4eofIi3

The ALJ has published a Special Issue featuring a curated collection of papers on language corpora in Australia. Catherine Travis and Li Nguyen first introduce the scope of the selected articles in this issue here: tinyurl.com/ms5yd7xj Stay tuned for highlights!

Position available – education-focused Associate Lecturer in French (Level A) at the Australian National University in Canberra (Full time, continuing). Details here: https://buff.ly/3z8XzFU Applications due by October 15th

Are you from the #Hobart #Tasmania area? PhD researcher Thomas Powell-Davies is currently looking for participants for their Talking About Tasmania project – if interested, reach out here! buff.ly/4gieIxR #linguistics

Our latest issue of the newsletter is out! Find out about the latest PhD projects in linguistics and applied linguistics that our students our working on now, or have recently completed in this special edition: als.asn.au/newsdetail/3...

The Language Trailblazer: Alpheaus' Story: PhD student Alpheas Zobule, a speaker of the Luqa language, is looking at how vernacular languages can be used as metalanguages to describe their grammars, and working towards a template for other Solomon Islands languages

PhD researcher Thomas Powell-Davies talks #linguistics and Australian English in #Tasmania with John O'Hara on ABC Tasmania Evenings

The 2024 Australian Languages Workshop is happening from September 20th-22nd in Canberra, bringing together people working on Indigenous languages from across Australia and offering a supportive place for sharing information and ideas. Draft program available here: https://buff.ly/3zFhEnn #ALW2024

'Weird, brat and childless cat ladies: a guide to the language of the US presidential campaign so far' – from @alaugesen.bsky.social @ozworders.bsky.social

Three months until #ALS2024 in Canberra – we look forward to seeing you there!