Dr Jan Tent
BA (Hons) Dip Ed (Macq.), PhD (Otago), Grad. Cert. of Editing & Electronic Publishing (Macq.)
Honorary Senior Lecturer
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Linguistics 2004
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Lexicography 200407
- Linguistics Not Elsewhere Classified 200499
Research interests
Varieties of English, especially Fiji English
Toponymy of Australia
Toponymic theoery
Biography
Jan taught Linguistics and English language at Sydney University from 1977 to 1990. He then moved to Suva (Fiji) for seven years and taught Linguistics at the University of the South Pacific. Whilst there he completed a PhD at the University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ) on the dynamics of Fiji English. In 2001 he started teaching Linguistics at Macquarie University. He retired in 2015.
Researcher's projects
Jan's current reserach projects include:
* A number of projects on Australian toponymy and loanwords
- the origin and meaning of three placenames Cogie, Cowal and Kangarooby/Kangaroobie
- indigenous toponyms and loanwords in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji
- the placenames bestowed by Major T.L. Mitchell during his three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia
- the placenames bestowed by John Oxley during his 1817 and 1818 expeditions into the interior of NSW
* Writing a book on toponymic theory
* Co-authoring a book on the Dutch exploration of the Pacific during the 17th and 18th centuries
Publications
- Tent, J 2021, 'Topographic descriptors on the early Dutch charts of the antipodes', International Journal of Cartography, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 272-290.
- Blair, D & Tent, J 2021, 'A Revised Typology of Place-Naming', Names, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 30-47.
- Tent, J 2021, 'Naming Places: Dutch Voyagers And Toponyms In The Fifth Part Of The World, 1616-1722', The Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, no. 89, pp. 1-14.
- Tent, J 2021, 'No, Australia Was Never Almost Named New Zealand', The Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, no. 89, pp. 15-22.
- Tent, J 2021, A namescape of the Australian Antarctic Territory. ANPS Occasional Paper No. 11. South Turramurra: Placenames Australia.
- Tent, J 2021, 'The 1705 van Delft expedition to northern Australia: a toponymic perspective', International Journal of Cartography, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 6-37.
- Tent, J 2020, Landscape Ontologies and Placenaming. ANPS Occasional Paper No. 10. South Turramurra: Placenames Australia.
- Blair, D & Tent, J 2020, A revised typology of place-naming. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, Vol. 69, No. 4: 30-47.
- Tent, J 2020, The 'Sugarloaf'. ANPS Occasional Paper No. 9. South Turramurra: Placenames Australia
- Tent, J 2020, 'Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four English-speaking Jurisdictions', Names, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 17-31.
- Tent, J 2020, 'Kangarooby : the case of a hybrid toponym: ANPS Occasional Paper No 8. South Turramurra', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. 8, pp. 38pp.
- Tent, J & Geraghty, P 2020, 'Miegunyah: From bark huts to grand houses and a Fiji cane farm', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 428-443.
- Tent, J 2019, 'The uncertain origin of Brooklyn in the antipodes: ANPS Occasional Paper No 7. South Turramurra', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. 7, p. 11.
- Tent, J 2019, 'On the scent of Coogee? ANPS Occasional Paper No 6. South Turramurra', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. 6, pp. 24pp.
- Tent, J 2019, 'The cartographic migration of Wesel(s) Eijland', The Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, vol. 85, pp. 13-34.
- Tent, J 2019, 'The curious Van Dijk of the Gulf of Carpentaria', The Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, vol. 85, pp. 35-50.
- Tent, J 2019, 'Book Review: Rolf E. DuRietz, Daniel Djurberg and 'Polynesia': Some notes on Australia and Oceania in Swedish and German cartography 1772-1831: Banksia, vol. 9, parts 1 & 2. Dahlia Books, Uppsala (Sweden) 2018', The Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, vol. 85, pp. 86-87.
- Tent, J 2019, 'Placename dictionaries and dictionaries of places: An Australian perspective. ANPS Occasional Paper No. 5. South Turramurra', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. 5, pp. 61pp.
- Tent, J 2019, 'I am, you are, we are...', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. March 2019, pp. 8-9, 12.
- Tent, J 2019, 'Indigenous toponymy - Part 3', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. March 2019, pp. 10-11.
- Tent, J 2018, 'What?s in a Demonym? A Note on a New and Uplifting Ethnonym', Names, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 103-105.
- Tent, J 2018, 'Making a mountain out of a channel', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. March 2018, pp. 6-6.
- Tent, J 2018, 'Ulimaroa revisited', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. June 2018, pp. 10-10.
- Tent, J 2018, 'The low down on Yo Yo Creek', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. September 2018, pp. 1-5.
- Tent, J 2018, 'Indigenous toponymy - Part 1', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. September 2018, pp. 8-10.
- Tent, J 2018, 'Indigenous toponymy - Part 2', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. December 2018, pp. 10-12.
- Tent, J 2018, 'All over the compass: Those CCP placenames', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. December 2018, pp. 8-9.
- Tent, J 2018, 'The Cogie: the case of a conflated name? ANPS Occasional Paper No. 4. South Turramurra', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, vol. 4, pp. 20pp.
- Tent, J 2018, 'On rivulets and macaronic duplex placenames', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. March 2018, pp. 8-8.
- Tent, J 2018, 'Revisited... Is it -y or -ey?', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. June 2018, pp. 7-8.
- Tent, J & Blair, D 2018, 'A Clash of Names: The Terminological Morass of a Toponym Class', Names, Vol. 67, No. 2: 65–77.
- Tent, J 2018, 'Placenames and compass points: Questions', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. June 2018, pp. 9-9.
- Tent, J 2017, 'Toponymy 101 F: How to coin a toponym', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. June 2017, pp. 5-6.
- Tent, J 2017, The Early Names of Australia's Coastal Regions: ANPS Occasional Paper No 2.
- Tent, J 2017, 'Toponymy 101 G: The regulation of placenaming', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey.
- Tent, J 2017, 'Toponymy 101 H: Placenames as Identity Markers', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. December 2017, pp. 8-10.
- Tent, J 2017, 'Toponymy 101 E: How placenames define our world', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. March 2017, pp. 8-9.
- Tent, J 2017, 'Indigenous Toponyms in the Antipodes: A Gazeteer-Based Study', Names, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 204-214.
- Nick, I & Tent, J, eds, 2017, Guest Editorial. Names, vol. 65, no. 4,
- Tent, J 2017, 'Out-of-the-blue Names of Paint Colors', Names, Vol. 66, No. 1: 25–35
- Tent, J 2016, 'Toponymy 101 B: How toponyms are structured', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. March 2016, pp. 6-7.
- Tent, J 2016, 'What you see is not always what you get or, a brief lesson in how to pronounce some toponyms from the Pacific', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. June 2016, pp. 3-4.
- Tent, J 2016, 'Toponymy 101C: The power of placenames, or if you want to make enemies, try to change something, Part 2', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. September 2016, pp. 8-9.
- Tent, J 2016, 'Toponymy 101 C: The power of placenames, or if you want to make enemies, try to change something, Part 1', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. June 2016, pp. 9-10.
- Tent, J 2016, 'Toponymy 101 D: The geographical and economic significance of toponyms or, Placenames Don't Lie', Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, no. December 2016, pp. 8-11.
- Tent, J 2016, 'The Ghosts of Christmas (Island) Past: An Examination of its Early Charting and Naming', Terra Incognitae, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 160-182.
- Tent, J 2016, 'Antecedent Generics: How Capes, Lakes, Mounts, and Points Are Named in the Antipodes', Names, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 148-157.
- Tent, J 2016, 'Dinnings Land: A case of mistranscription?', The Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, vol. 80, pp. 26-32pp.
