Dr David Nash
BA(Hons) MA (ANU), PhD (MIT)
Honorary Senior Lecturer
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Languages 200319
- Lexicography 200407
- Linguistics Not Elsewhere Classified 200499
Publications
- Nash, D 2021, 'Luther, Maurice Jupurrurla (c. 1945–1985)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Australia. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/luther-maurice-jupurrurla-30109/
- Nash, D 2020, 'Wheeled vehicle terminology in Australian languages', in Paul Monaghan and Michael Walsh (ed.), More than mere words: Essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 214-234.
- Nash, D & Wilkins, D 2020, 'Where we part from NSM: understanding Warlpiri yangka and the Warlpiri expression of part-hood', in Helen Bromhead, Zhengdao Ye (eds), Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 461¬489.
- Green, Rebecca, Jennifer Green, Amanda Rose Hamilton-Hollaway, Felicity Helen Meakins, David John Osgarby & Rob Pensalfini. WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM: Glenn Wightman, Patrick McConvell, David Nash, Mary Laughren. 2019, Mudburra to English Dictionary, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- Nash, D 2019, 'Loma Langi, Loma Larnee: imported heaven'. Posted on Endangered Languages & Cultures on 4 June 2019, 9:00 am http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2019/06/loma-langi-loma-larnee-heaven-on-earth/
- Foley, B, Arnold, J, Coto-Solano, R et al 2018, 'Building Speech Recognition Systems for Language Documentation: The CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)', The 6th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, International Speech Communication Association, Internet site registered by Network Solutions, LLC, Florida, USA, pp. 200-204.
- Nash, D 2018, 'In the margins of some Australian dictionaries: exploring the etymology of berigora', in Peter K Austin, Harold Koch and Jane Simpson (ed.), Language, Land and Song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus, Batchelor Institute Press, Australia, pp. 215-224.
- Nash, David 2017, 'Loss of color terms not demonstrated', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 114, no. September Early Edition. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1714007114 Supplementary details at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123084
- Nash, David 2016, 'In the margins of some Australian dictionaries: exploring the etymology of berigora', in Peter K Austin, Harold Koch and Jane Simpson (ed.), Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus, EL Publishing, London United Kingdom, pp. 263-274. http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/6/01/LLS-Chapter-18-Nash.pdf
- Nash, D 2017, 'Book Review: Aviation English: A Lingua Franca for Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers. Dominique Estival, Candace Farris and Brett Molesworth, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 37.4,527-530. published online 31 July 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2016.1212639
- Nash, David 2016, 'Orana ~~ an Australian welcome for a Polynesian word?', Placenames Australia : Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey June 2016, pp.1,5–8. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/June_2016.pdf
- Nash, David 2016, 'Placenames evidence for NSW Pidgin', in Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy (ed.), Loss and renewal: Australian languages since colonisation, de Gruyter Mouton, Boston/Berlin, pp. 113–144.
- Nash, David 2016, 'The Speewah', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. March 2016, pp.1,8. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/March_2016.pdf
- Nash, David 2014, 'Comitative placenames in central NSW', in Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski (ed.), Indigenous and minority placenames: Australian and international perspectives, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 11-37. http://press.anu.edu.au?p=286811
- Nash, David 2014, 'The diminutive suffix -dool in placenames of central north NSW', in Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski (ed.), Indigenous and minority placenames: Australian and international perspectives, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 39-55. http://press.anu.edu.au?p=286811
- Nash, David 2014, 'The value of scientific names from (Australian) Indigenous languages', FEL XVIII Okinawa: Indigenous Languages: their Value to the Community, ed. Patrick Heinrich and Nicholas Ostler, Foundation for Endangered Languages, United Kingdom, pp. 37-42.
- Nash, David 2014, 'Reviving unique words: The niche of scientific names', in Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Julia Miller and Jasmin Morley (ed.), Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival, AustraLex, Adelaide, pp. 1-26.
- Nash, David 2014, What flows from ngaka-rna: How naming books spread a Dieri word, Placenames Australia : Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey (December 2014), pp. 7-9. In http://www.anps.org.au/documents/Dec_2014.pdf.
- Nash, David 2014, 'Alternating generations again again: A response to Wierzbicka on generation moieties', 44th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013, ed. L Gawne and J Vaughan, University of Melbourne, Australia, pp. 77-101.
- Nash, David 2013, 'The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend', in Robert Mailhammer (ed.), Lexical and structural etymology: Beyond word histories, Walter de Gruyter, Boston/Berlin, pp. 293–311.
- Nash, David 2013, 'Wind direction words in the Sydney Language: a case study in semantic reconstitution', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 51-75. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2013.787905
- Nash, D & Simpson, J 2012, 'Toponymy: recording and analyzing placenames in a language area', in Nicholas Thieberger (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 392-404.
- Nash, David 2012, '"It's etymology Captain, but not as we know it": pump in north Australia', in Diana Santos, Krister Lindén and Wanjiku Ng'ang'a (ed.), Shall we play the Festschrift game?: Essays on the occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th birthday, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 7-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30773-7_2
- Nash, D 2010, 'Dawes' Law generalised: cluster simplification in the coastal dialect of the Sydney Language', in Brett Baker, Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (ed.), Indigenous language and social identity: papers in honour of Michael Walsh, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, ACT, pp. 159-178.
- Nash, D 2010, 'A further note on Manildra', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. 1, pp. 6-7.
- Nash, David 2009, 'Australian Aboriginal Words in dictionaries: a reaction', International Journal of Lexicography, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 179-188.
- Wilkins, D & Nash, D 2008, 'The European 'discovery' of a multilingual Australia: the linguistic and ethnographic successes of a failed expedition', in William B McGregor (ed.), Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 485-507.
- Nash, David 2008, 'Warlpiri verb roots in comparative perspective', in Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (ed.), Morphology and language history: In honour of Harold Koch, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 221-234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.298 Corrigenda in http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/papers/papers.html
- Nash, D 2007, 'Beetaloo BILL Jangari', in Di Langmore (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volume 17 (1981-1990 A-K), Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, pp. 98-99pp.
- Nash, D 2006, 'Comment, pp.54-55, on 'Reassessing Australia's linguistic prehistory' by Mark Clendon, Current Anthropology 47.1(February 2006), 39-61.'.
- Nash, D 2005, 'Kenneth Hale', in Philipp Strazny (ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, New York / Oxon UK, pp. 432-435pp.
- Nash, D 2002, 'Proving country, prospecting for places: re-visiting Karlantijpa country', in Fiona Walsh and Paul Mitchell (ed.), Planning for Country. Cross-cultural approaches to decision-making on Aboriginal lands, Jukurrpa Books (IAD Press), Alice Springs, pp. 164-169.
- Simpson, J, Nash, D, Laughren, M et al, eds, 2001, Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, Australia.
- Nash, D 2003, 'Authenticity in toponymy', in J Blythe and R McKenna Brown (ed.), Maintaining the links, Foundation for Endangered Languages, Bath, UK, pp. 36-40.
- Nash, David 2003, 'Book Review: Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2002/2, pp. 97-100. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=594912913544975;res=IELIND Errata and addenda http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/papers/2002/cane-errata.html
- Nash, D 2002, 'Historical Linguistic Geography of South-East Western Australia', in Henderson, John. Nash, David (ed.), Language in Native Title, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. 205-230.
- Nash, D & Henderson, J, eds, 2002, Language in Native Title, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- Nash, D & Henderson, J 2002, 'Introduction [to Language in Native Title]', in Henderson, John. Nash, David (ed.), Language in Native Title, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. v.
- Nash, David & Barry Alpher 2000, 'Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 5-56.
