Emerita Professor Jane Simpson
Areas of expertise
- Linguistics 2004
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Languages 200319
- Lexicography 200407
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- English Language 200302
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Policy 160501
Biography
Jane Simpson retired in 2022 and became Professor Emerita at ANU. She 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 (1977-78). 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 consultancies (e.g. Aboriginal Legal Aid, Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority), and worked on the Warumungu land claims. In 1987-89 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 (2011-2014). In 2014 the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language was established, and she acted as Deputy Director until the Centre came to a natural end in 2022.
Researcher's projects
- Working with Nick Evans and others on the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
- Working with Michael Christie (CDU) and Brian Devlin (CDU) on the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages
- Working with Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne) and others on ACLA, a project on child language acquisition in Aboriginal communities in Central and Northern Australia.
- Working with Robert Amery and MaryAnne Gale (University of Adelaide) on the indigenous languages spoken around Adelaide.
- Working with Samantha Disbray (University of Queensland) on Warumungu, a language spoken around Tennant Creek.
- Working with Mary Laughren (University of Queensland) and David Nash (ANU) on the Warlpiri Dictionary
- Working with Denise Angelo and Carmel O'Shannessy (ANU), Susan Poetsch (University of Sydney) and Sally Dixon (UNE) on language ecologies
- Working with Roy Barker, Martin Thomas, Alison Mount and Samantha Bennett (ANU) and Barton Staggs (AIATSIS) on Muruwari recordings
- Working with Robert Mailhammer (WSU), Mark Harvey (University of Newcastle), Mike Proctor, Mitch Browne and Clara Stockigt (Macquarie University) on the concept of word in Central Australian languages
- Syntax, especially Lexical-Functional Grammar, and semantics
- Working 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.
Available student projects
As a retired professor, I cannot be the main supervisor of students. However, I am happy to be on the panels of Indigenous Australians and people from the Pacific and South East Asia wanting to describe their own languages, as well as people wanting to work on syntax and/or semantics.
Current student projects
Lesley Woods Ngiyampaa Language
James Gray Pintupi Luritja language
Haoyi Li Art and language in Arnhem Land
Anneke Myers Indigenous languages in Hansard
Past student projects
Robert Amery 1998. Warrabarna Kaurna, University of Adelaide. (primary supervisor Peter Mühlhäusler)
Denise Angelo 2021 Countering misrecognition of Indigenous contact languages and their ecologies
I Wayan Arka 1997 From Morphosyntax to Pragmatics in Balinese: a Lexical-Functional approach. University of Sydney. (primary supervisor William Foley)
James Bednall 2020 (co-tutelle,Université Pari Diderot) Temporal, aspectual and modal expression in Anindilyakwa, the language of the Groote Eylandt Archipelago, Australia (co-supervisor Patrick Caudal)Lynn Berry 1999 Alignment and adjacency in optimality theory : evidence from Warlpiri and Arrernte (primary supervisor Toni Borowsky)
Joe Blythe 2009 Doing referring in Murriny Patha conversation. Sydney: University of Sydney PhD. [co-supervisor with Linda Barwick and Michael Walsh]
†Cathy Bow 2020 (co-tutelle, Charles Darwin University) Australian Indigenous languages and digital humanities (primary supervisor Michael Christie) (d. 2021)
Lea Brown 2001 A grammar of Nias Selatan (primary supervisor Bill Foley)
Winnie Chor 2010 Grammaticalization of directional particles in Cantonese [co-supervisor with Derek Herforth, Chinese]
Christopher Cleirigh 1999 The genesis of phonic texture: a selectionist model of Systemic Phonology and Universal Darwinism. (co-supervisor Christian Matthiessen)
Bronwyn Dyson 2004 Developmental style in second language processing: A study of inter-learner variation in the acquisition of English as a Second language University of Western Sydney (primary supervisor Stuart Campbell)[
Johnson Haan 2002 A grammar of Adang (primary supervisor Bill Foley)
Arlene Harvey 1997 Equivalence and depersonalisation in definitions: an exploration of lexico-grammatical and rhetorical patterns in English technical discourse University of Sydney (co-supervisor Christian Matthiessen)
Jason Johnston 1996 Systematic homonymy and the structure of morphological categories: some lessons from paradigm geometry. University of Sydney (primary supervisor, co-supervisor Avery Andrews, Australian National University) [lawyer, lecturer in linguistics, University of Sydney 2015]
Barbara Jones 2003 A Grammar of Wangkajunga : A Language of the Great Sandy Desert of North Western Australia. (primary supervisor, co-supervisor with Michael Walsh)
Chong Han 2010 Informing while amusing: metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news. Sydney: University of Sydney PhD. (co-supervisor with Derek Herforth, Chinese)
Sally Jane Dixon. 2017. Alyawarr children's variable present temporal reference expression in two, closely-related languages of Central Australia. [Lecturer, UNE, 2021]
Aishah Khojah 2014 Saudi second language learners' receptive and productive skills in English figurative language, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney. [co-supervisor with Bronwen Dyson]
Sydney Kingstone (2019) Mapping Australian English: reported, recognised and perceived regional variation (co-supervisor with Evan Kidd, Psychology)
Caroline Lipovsky 2005 Negotiating solidarity: a social-linguistic approach to job interviews (primary supervisor, co-supervisors Alice Caffarel, French Department, and James Martin)
Alison Mackey 1995 Stepping up the pace. University of Sydney (co-supervisor Patsy Lightbown).
John Mansfield. 2014. Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: The language and culture of Murrinh Patha youth. PhD dissertation. Linguistics, SLLL, Australian National University [DECRA and University of Melbourne staff member, 2018]
Ikuko Nakane 2003 Silence in Japanese-Australian Classroom Interaction: perceptions and performance. (primary supervisor Ingrid Piller)
Adam Blaxter Paliwala. 2012. Creole/Superstrate Code-Switching : Analysing the Dynamic Relationship between Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea [University of Sydney, co-supervisor with Linda Barwick and Michael Walsh]
Susan Poetsch 2021-2 Arrernte children’s language at Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa)
Carmel O'Shannessy 2006 Language contact and child bilingual acquisition: learning a mixed language and Warlpiri in northern Australia (co-supervisor with Melissa Bowerman and Penny Brown, MPI Nijmegen).
Nicholas Riemer 1999 A study of semantic extension of percussion/impact verbs in English and Warlpiri (primary supervisor, co-supervisor Michael Walsh)
Yoshiko Sheard 1995 Phrase structure in Japanese. Australian National University (primary supervisor Avery Andrews)
Takahiro Teranishi 2003 Concept formation through iconicity: basic shapes and their related metaphorical extensions in English and Japanese. (co-supervisor Hugh Clarke)
†Reiko Tomatsu 2006 A computational analysis of literary style: comparison of Kawabata Yasunari and Mishima Yukio (primary supervisor Hugh Clarke, Japanese Studies) (1959 - 2014)
Myfany Turpin 2005 Form and meaning of Akwelye: a Kaytetye women’s song series from Central Australia (co-supervisor with Linda Barwick)
Marie-Elaine van Egmond 2012. Enindhilyakwa phonology, morphosyntax and genetic position. (University of Sydney, co-supervisor with Brett Baker)
Xueqing [Norah] Zhong 2019 A dictionary of Yugur, an endangered language of China
completed MPhil theses
I Wayan Arka 1994 Morpholexical aspects of the -kan causative in Indonesian. (co-supervisor with William Foley)
Grete Dalmi 1995 Hungarian infinitival constructions. (co-supervisor William Foley)
Philippa Horton 2000 Determiners and Complementizers in Cook Islands Maori
Pamela Leung 1994 Conjunctive relations in Chinese. (co-supervisor James Martin)
William Palmer 1992 Commonality and distinctiveness: towards a theory of morphemics.
Mark Richards 1994 Developing language teaching materials for Mangarrayi
Completed MA thesis
Chul-Hwa Chung 2011 Agreement in Kuo
Publications
- Carignan, C, Chen, J, Harvey, M et al. 2023, 'An investigation of the dynamics of vowel nasalization in Arabana using machine learning of acoustic features', Laboratory Phonology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-31.
- San, N, Bartelds, M, Ogunremi, T et al. 2022, 'Automated speech tools for helping communities process restricted-access corpora for language revival efforts', Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, ed. Sarah Moeller, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Antti Arppe, Aditi Chaudhary, Atticus Ha, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 41-51.
- Jampin Jones, M, Nangali Morrison, S, Jungarrayi Morrison, R et al. 2022, Warumungu plants and animals: Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from the Tennant Creek area, Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Corp & Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security, Northern Territory, AUS.
- San, N, Bartelds, M, Browne, M et al. 2021, 'Leveraging Pre-Trained Representations to Improve Access to Untranscribed Speech from Endangered Languages', 2021 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), IEEE, United Kingdom, pp. 1094-1101.
- Gale, M, Amery, R, Simpson, J et al. 2021, 'Bound, free and in between: A review of pronouns in Ngarrindjeri in the world as it was', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 314-343.
- Gale, M, Giles, A, Simpson, J et al. 2021, 'What women want: Teaching and learning pronouns in Ngarrindjeri', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 477-502.
- Koch, H & Simpson, J 2020, 'Junior skin names in Central Australia: function and origin', 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. 165-191.
- Simpson, J 2020, 'Language studies by women in Australia: 'A well-stored sewing basket'', in Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Helena Sanson (ed.), Women in the history of linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 367-399.
- Dinku, Y, Markham, F, Venn, D et al. 2020, Language use is connected to indicators of wellbeing: Evidence from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey 2014-15 .
- DITRC, AIATSIS: J. Battin, J. Lee, D. Marmion, R. Smith, T. Wang, ANU: Y. Dinku, J. Hunt, F. Markham, D. Angelo, E. Browne, I. Kral, C. O’Shannessy, J. Simpson & H. Smith (2020) National Indigenous Languages Report. Canberra: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, formerly the Department of Communications and the Arts. https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/indigenous-arts-and-languages/national-indigenous-languages-report
- Simpson, J 2020, 'Qualitative comparison in Warlpiri: semantic case, adposition and/or derivational affix?', 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LGF-20), ed. Miriam Butt, Ida Toivonen, CSLI Publications, Online, pp. 349-362.
- Meakins, Felicity, Disbray, Samantha & Simpson, Jane Helen 2020, 'Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms, Morphology. 30. 373-393
- Simpson, Jane Helen 2020, 'Self-determination with respect to language rights', in Laura Rademaker, Tim Rowse (ed.), Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia, ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 293-313.
- Angelo, D, O'Shannessy, C, Simpson, J et al. 2019, Well-being & Indigenous Language Ecologies (WILE): A strengths-based approach. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/186414
- Harvey, Mark, San, Nay, Carew, Margaret, Strangways, Sydney, Simpson, Jane Helen, Stockigt, Clara 2019, 'Pre-stopping in Arabana', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 1 - 45.
- Simpson, Jane Helen 2019, 'Why women botanists outnumbered women linguists in nineteenth century Australia'. Blogpost History of philosophy of the language sciences. https://hiphilangsci.net/2019/05/01/women-botanists-women-linguists/
- Simpson, Jane Helen & Wigglesworth, Gillian. 2019, 'Language diversity in Indigenous Australia in the 21st century', Current Issues in Language Planning, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 67-80.
- Simpson, Jane Helen, Disbray, Samantha & O'Shannessy, Carmel. 2019, 'Setting the scene: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages learning and teaching', Babel, vol. 54, no. 1 & 2, pp. 7-10.
- Simpson, Jane Helen, Patrick McConvell, Nicholas Thieberger, 2019, 'Languages Past and Present', in Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy (ed.), Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, Pan Macmillan Publishers Australia, Sydney, Australia, pp. 76-85.
- Simpson, Jane Helen. 2019, 'The Horwood Memorial Lecture: Learning and speaking First Nations languages in Australia', Babel, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 7-10.
- Simpson, Jane Helen. 2019, 'The state of Australia's Indigenous languages and how we can help people speak them more often'. The Conversation. 21 January 2019
- Austin, Peter, Koch, Harold & Simpson, Jane Helen, eds, 2018, Language, Land and Song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus, Batchelor Institute Press, Australia. [Second edition]
- Simpson, Jane Helen; Angelo, Denise;Browne, Emma Clare,;Kral, Inge; Markham, Francis; O'Shannessy, Carmel; Venn, Danielle 2018, 'Census data on Australian Languages', 22nd Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, ed. Sebastian Drude, Nicholas Ostler, Marielle Moser, FEL & EL Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 115-120.
- Wigglesworth, Gillian & Simpson, Jane Helen 2018, 'Going to School in a Different World', in G Wigglesworth, J Simpson, J Vaughan (ed.), Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 1-20.
- Wigglesworth, Gillian, Simpson, Jane Helen & Vaughan, Jill, eds, 2018, Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom.
- Austin, P, Koch, H & Simpson, J, eds, 2016, Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus, EL Publishing, London, United Kingdom.
- Koch, H, Austin, P & Simpson, J 2016, 'Introduction to Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus', in P K Austin, H Koch & J Simpson (ed.), Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus, EL Publishing, London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-19pp.
- Simpson, Jane Helen 2016, 'Working verbs: the spread of a loan word in Australian languages', in P K Austin, H Koch & J Simpson (ed.), Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus, EL Publishing, London, United Kingdom, pp. 244-262pp.
- Simpson, J 2015, 'Language attrition and language change', in Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 537-554.
- Kral, I, Ellis, E, Simpson, J et al 2015, 'Panel: The expressive use of voice quality in Aboriginal languages. Presentation: "Desert clicks, taps and sound symbolism: Vocal style in Ngaanyatjarra narratives", Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, ed. Australian Linguistic Society, Australian Linguistic Society, http://www.als.asn.au/conferences/uws-2015.
- Simpson, J 2014, 'Pama-Nyungan', in Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Stekauer (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 651-668.
- Simpson, J 2014, 'Teaching minority indigenous languages at Australian universities', FEL XVIII Okinawa: Indigenous Languages: their Value to the Community, ed. Patrick Heinrich and Nicholas Ostler, Foundation for Endangered Languages, United Kingdom, pp. 54-58.
- Simpson, J 2013, 'Warumungu Kinship Over Time', in Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, Rachel Hendery (ed.), Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, USA, pp. 239-254.
- Amery, R & Simpson, J 2013, Kulurdu Marni Ngathaitya! Sounds Good to Me!: A Kaurna Learner's Guide, Wakefield Press, Adelaide Australia.
- Loakes, D, Moses, K, Wigglesworth, G et al 2013, 'Children's language input: A study of a remote multilingual Indigenous Australian community', Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 683-711.
- Simpson, Jane 2013 What's done and what's said: language attitudes, public language activities and everyday talk in the Northern Territory of Australia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34(4): 383-398. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2013.794811
- 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.
- Simpson, J 2012, 'Information structure, variation and the Referential Hierarchy', in F. Seifart, G. Haig, N. P. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts and P. Trilsbeek (ed.), Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 73-82.
- McConvell, P & Simpson, J 2012, 'Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages', 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, Berlin, Germany, pp. 159-180.
- Loakes, D, Moses, K, Simpson, J et al 2012, 'Developing Tests for the Assessment of Traditional Language Skill: A Case Study in an Indigenous Australian Community', Language Assessment Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 311-330.
- Giacon, G & Simpson, J 2012, 'Teaching Indigenous languages at universities', Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium (LCNAU 2011), ed. John Hajek, Colin Nettelbeck and Anya Woods, Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities, Melbourne Australia, pp. 61-73.
- Wigglesworth, G, Simpson, J & Loakes, D 2011, 'Naplan language assessments for indigenous children in remote communities: Issues and problems', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (print edition), vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 320-343.
- Bardsley, D & Simpson, J 2009, 'Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English', in Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith (ed.), Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English; Grammar and beyond, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 49-69.
- Simpson, J 2009, 'Pama-Nyungan: Warlpiri', in Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 609-622.
- Simpson, J & Mushin, I 2008, 'Clause-initial position in four Australian languages', in Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker (ed.), Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 25-57.
- Simpson, J 2008, 'Reconstructing pre-Warumungu pronominals', 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. 71-87.
- Simpson, J & Wigglesworth, G 2008, 'The language learning environment of preschool children in Indigenous communities', in J. Simpson and G. Wigglesworth (ed.), Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School, Continuum Publishing Company, London, pp. 13-29.
- Simpson, J 2008, 'Language Landscapes of Children in Remote Australia', Inaugural Indigenous Languages Conference (ILC), ed. R Amery & J Nash, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, pp. 51-60.
- Simpson, J, Amery, R & Gale, M 2008, 'I could have saved you linguists a lot of time and trouble: 180 years of research and documentation of South Australia's Indigenous languages, 1826-2006', in William B McGregor (ed.), Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 85-144.
- Simpson, J & Wigglesworth, G, eds, 2008, Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School, Continuum Publishing Company, London.
- Simpson, J & Mushin, I 2008, 'Free to Bound to Free? Interactions Between Pragmatics and Syntax in the Development of Australian Pronominal Systems', Language (Washington), vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 566-596.
- Arka, I Wayan & Simpson, J 2008, 'Objective Voice and Control into Subject Clauses in Balinese', in Peter K. Austin and Simon Musgrave (ed.), Voice and Grammatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, CSLI Publications, Stanford, pp. 90-127.
- Simpson, J, ed., 2007, Architectures, rules, and preferences: Variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan, CSLI Publications, USA.
- Simpson, J 2007, 'Expressing Pragmatic Constraints on Word Order in Warlpiri', in Annie Zaenen, Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling (ed.), Architectures, Rules, and Preferences; variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan, CSLI Publications, USA, pp. 403-427.
- Simpson, J 2005, 'Depictives in English and Warlpiri', in Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. and Eva Schultze-Berndt (ed.), Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 69-106.
- Disbray, S & Simpson, J 2005, 'The expression of possession in Wumpurrarni English, Tennant Creek', Monash University Linguistics Papers, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 65-85.
- Simpson, J, Nash, D, Laughren, M et al, eds, 2001, Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, Australia.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Modularised cultural heritage archives future-proofing PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) Ext-led by University of Melbourne (Secondary Investigator)
- Muruwari Ngulli Yaandibu (Muruwari we speak) (Primary Investigator)
- The building blocks of language: Words in Central Australian languages (Secondary Investigator)
- Language Data Commons of Australia (Secondary Investigator)
- External review of benefits and content of the online professional development tool: the EAL/D Hub (Primary Investigator)
- Understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language ecologies (Primary Investigator)
- Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages (Secondary Investigator)
- Evaluation of the English Language Learning for Indigenous Children (ELLIC) trial - Phase 1 and 2 (Secondary Investigator)
- Working papers on improving Education Outcomes for Indigenous Student (Primary Investigator)
- Indigenous Languages Project (Primary Investigator)
- Western Desert speech styles and verbal arts (Secondary Investigator)
- Analysis of Ngarrindjeri texts from the Lower Murray, Lakes and Coorong region of South Australia, as recorded by Ronald and Catherine Berndt in the early 1940s (Secondary Investigator)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL) (Secondary Investigator)
- A Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages - Stage II (Secondary Investigator)
- Skin and Kin in Aboriginal Australia: linguistic and historical perspectives on the dynamics of social categories (Secondary Investigator)
- A Living Archive of Australian Indigenous Languages (Primary Investigator)
- A national language studies portal for Australian universities (Primary Investigator)
- Equipment and facilities upgrade for Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (Secondary Investigator)
- Understanding Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus (Primary Investigator)