Contact Details:

Discipline of Linguistics
School of Humanities
Napier Building Level 7
Room 722
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 8 8313 1044
Fax: +61 8 8313 4341
Email

Mobile Language Team
230 North Tce, Level 3
Phone: +61 8 8313 0707
Email

Faculty Office
Napier Building Undercroft (Ground)
North Terrace Campus
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

Opening hours:
Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 9am-5pm
Thurs 11am-5pm

Phone: +61 8 8313 5245
Facsimile: +61 8 8313 4382

University Contact Centre
Phone: +61 8 8313 5208
(Country and interstate callers toll free on 1800 061 459)
Fax: +61 8 8313 4401

Linguistics

Programs and courses out of Linguistics can be taken at either undergraduate or postgraduate levels. Please refer to the links on the side menu for more information.

Staff in the Discipline of Linguistics can be found on Level 9 of the Napier Building at the North Terrace campus of the University.

Mobile Language Team

A new Mobile Language Team (MLT) was established in October 2009 to support work in Aboriginal languages throughout the length and breadth of the state of South Australia. For more information, see the MLT webpage.

Awards

MILR Awards 2011:
Documenting traditional knowledge about seasons and time in the highly endangered Yankunytjatjara/Antikirinya language of northeast SA and publishing learning resources ($105,320)

Preparing for community use a set of language awareness and learning materials for the critically endangered Mirning language of the Great Australian Bight region, and training language workers ($56,000)

Kaurna Dictionary ($53,000)

Ngarrindjeri Song CD ($40,000)

ARC Grant (2011 - 2014):
ARC Linkage project between four State Health Departments and the University of Adelaide in collaboration with several other universities on a national project to look at Clinical Handover, deals with the communication between clinicians about patients. Our own focus is on the language involved in mental health handovers.
Further particulars: Dr John Walsh and Dr Nayia Cominos at nayia.cominos@adelaide.edu.au.

In 2007 Dr Rob Amery was awarded a UNESCO Certificate of Achievement for his work in Linguistics. Specifically, his award was in recognition of "the documentation both of the Kaurna language and aspects of the traditions of the Kaurna Plains people and the development of language revival resources".

2011: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, has been appointed (1) Distinguished Visiting Professor and Oriental Scholar at Shanghai International Studies University (China), and (2) Visiting Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).

Recent international guests:

      Professor Dovid Katz (Lithuania): Is Yiddish an Endangered Language?

      Professor Humphrey Tonkin (USA): Esperanto and Judaism

      Ethno-Musician Tal Kravitz (Israel): Vanishing Voices

Professor Michael Katz (Israel): Cognitive Impact of Grammatical Gender in the Israeli Language