David Nash (linguist)
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David Nash is a prominent Australia
n field linguist, specialising in the Aboriginal languages of Australia
. Brought up in Parkes, New South Wales
, he received a B.A.
in pure mathematics
from the Australian National University
followed by an M.A.
in Linguistics
. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, where he studied with Ken Hale
and received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1980. Before returning to Australia, he worked on the Lexicon Project at MIT. In 2005 he was Ken Hale
Professor at the Linguistic Society of America
Summer Institute. He works as a consultant for various Aboriginal organisations. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
.
Nash is an expert on Warlpiri
and other languages of the Northern Territory
of Australia as well as on the oral history of the Aboriginal peoples of this area. In this capacity, in addition to his purely scholarly work, he has provided expert testimony regarding land claims. He is also known for his knowledge of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages.
Nash, David. 1979. Warlpiri vowel assimilations, pp. 12–24 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 1. Papers on Syllable Structure, Metrical Structure and Harmony Processes, ed. by Ken Safir. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T.
Nash, David. 1980. A Traditional Land Claim by the Warlmanpa, Warlpiri, Mudbura and Warumungu Traditional Owners. Alice Springs: Central Land Council.
Nash, David. 1981. Preliminary vocabulary of the Warlmanpa language. 64pp., M.I.T., May, revised December 1979, June 1981. [with grammatical preface, and Capell text] Photocopied and distributed. AIAS Library. Revised as machine-readable data files. Deposited at ASEDA, AIATSIS.
Nash, David. 1981. Prospects for Warumungu literacy. Institute for Aboriginal Development, October 1981. Abridged version published in Aboriginal Languages Association Newsletter No. 3, May 1982:9-10.
Nash, David. 1981. (ed.) Sourcebook for Central Australian Languages. Compiled by Kathy Menning. Pilot edition, November. Alice Springs: I.A.D. Machine-readable version deposited at ASEDA, AIATSIS, including vocabularies in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. * bibliographies are included in Austlang, an AIATSIS project
Nash, David. (with Jane Simpson). 1981. "No-name" in central Australia, pp. 165–77 in Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior, ed. by Carrie S. Masek et al. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Nash, David. 1982. An etymological note on Warlpiri kurdungurlu, pp. 141–59 in Languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia, ed. by Jeffrey Heath, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey. Oceania Linguistic Monographs No. 24. Sydney: University of Sydney.
Nash, David. 1982. Review notice of R.M.W. Dixon: The Languages of Australia (CUP 1980). Hemisphere 26.4 (January/February),234-5.
Nash, David. 1982. The outstation movement: the long road back. Central Australian Land Rights News 15,16. Outstation update. 16, Spring 1982,14.
Nash, David. 1982. "Warlpiri verb roots and preverbs." In Stephen M. Swartz (ed.), Papers in Warlpiri grammar: In memory of Lothar Jagst, 165-216. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch A, 6. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Nash, David and B.Alpher. 1999. Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 19, No.1(April), pp. 5–56.
Nash, David. 2001. Kenneth Locke Hale. [obituary] Australian Aboriginal Studies 2001/2,84-86.
Nash, David. 2001. American's work spoke to Warlpiri. [Ken Hale obituary] Australian 'Time and Tide', 4 December 2001, page 12.
Nash, David. 2001. Bibliography of Ken Hale and Australian languages, pp. 1–18 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Nash, David. 2001 (with Geoff O’Grady). Hale and O’Grady’s 1960 SA and WA vocabularies, pp. 231–7 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Nash, David, J. Simpson, M. Laughren, P. Austin and B.Alpher (eds) 2001. Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Nash, David. 2002 (appeared March 2003). [review of] Scott Cane, Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002). Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002/2.97-100. * errata and addenda (not published in AAS)
Nash, David. 2002. Mary Alice WARD (1896–1972), pp. 490–1 in Australian dictionary of biography. Volume 16. 1940-1980 Pik-Z, edited by John Ritchie and Diane Langmore. Melbourne University Press. * launch: Adelaide, 12 November 2002
Nash, David. 2002. Proving country, prospecting for places: re-visiting Karlantijpa country, pp. 164–9 in Planning for Country. Cross-cultural approaches to decision-making on Aboriginal lands, ed. by Fiona Walsh and Paul Mitchell. Alice Springs: Jukurrpa Books (IAD Press). ix+203pp. ISBN 1-86465-037-0 © Central Land Council * launch 28 August, Alice Springs
Nash, David. 2002 (with John Henderson, eds) Language in Native Title.Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press. * Papers presented to the Linguistic Issues in Native Title Claims workshop, Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference, University of WA, Saturday 2 October 1999.
Nash, David. 2002. Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia, pp. 205–30 in Language in Native Title, ed. by John Henderson & David Nash. Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press.
Nash, David. 2002. Ken Hale 1934-2001 [obituary] GLOT International, Vol. 5 No. 9/10, November/December 2001, pages 339-340. [PDF, with permission]
Nash, David and Henderson, John (eds). 2002. Language in Native Title. Canberra: Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS.
Nash, David. 2003. Authenticity in toponymy, in Blythe, J. and R. McKenna Brown (eds): Maintaining the links: Language, identity and the land. (Proceedings of the Seventh FEL Conference, Broome, Western Australia, 22–24 September.) Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Nash, David. 2005. Kenneth Hale, pp. 432–5 in Volume A-L, Encyclopedia of linguistics, ed. by Philipp Strazny. New York, Abingdon: Fitzroy Dearborn / Routledge Reference (Taylor and Francis). 2 volumes. ISBN 1-57958-391-1(set) 1-57958-450-0 (v.1)
Nash, David. 2006. Comment, pp. 54–55, on 'Reassessing Australia’s linguistic prehistory' by Mark Clendon, Current Anthropology 47.1(February 2006), 39-61.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n field linguist, specialising in the Aboriginal languages of Australia
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...
. Brought up in Parkes, New South Wales
Parkes, New South Wales
- Transport :Parkes has a local bus service provided by Western Road Liners, which acquired Harris Bus Lines in March 2006. The Indian Pacific also stops twice a week, as well as the Broken Hill Outback Xplorer service, run by CountryLink, which heads to Broken Hill on Mondays and Sydney on...
, he received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in pure mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
from the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
followed by an M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, where he studied with Ken Hale
Kenneth L. Hale
Kenneth Locke Hale was a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially indigenous languages of North America, Central America and Australia...
and received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1980. Before returning to Australia, he worked on the Lexicon Project at MIT. In 2005 he was Ken Hale
Kenneth L. Hale
Kenneth Locke Hale was a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially indigenous languages of North America, Central America and Australia...
Professor at the Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
Summer Institute. He works as a consultant for various Aboriginal organisations. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is Australia's premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is located on Acton...
.
Nash is an expert on Warlpiri
Warlpiri
The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory, north and west of Alice Springs...
and other languages of the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
of Australia as well as on the oral history of the Aboriginal peoples of this area. In this capacity, in addition to his purely scholarly work, he has provided expert testimony regarding land claims. He is also known for his knowledge of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages.
Publications
Nash, David. 1979. Foreigners in their own land: Aborigines in court. Legal Service Bulletin 4.3,105-7.Nash, David. 1979. Warlpiri vowel assimilations, pp. 12–24 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 1. Papers on Syllable Structure, Metrical Structure and Harmony Processes, ed. by Ken Safir. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T.
Nash, David. 1980. A Traditional Land Claim by the Warlmanpa, Warlpiri, Mudbura and Warumungu Traditional Owners. Alice Springs: Central Land Council.
Nash, David. 1981. Preliminary vocabulary of the Warlmanpa language. 64pp., M.I.T., May, revised December 1979, June 1981. [with grammatical preface, and Capell text] Photocopied and distributed. AIAS Library. Revised as machine-readable data files. Deposited at ASEDA, AIATSIS.
Nash, David. 1981. Prospects for Warumungu literacy. Institute for Aboriginal Development, October 1981. Abridged version published in Aboriginal Languages Association Newsletter No. 3, May 1982:9-10.
Nash, David. 1981. (ed.) Sourcebook for Central Australian Languages. Compiled by Kathy Menning. Pilot edition, November. Alice Springs: I.A.D. Machine-readable version deposited at ASEDA, AIATSIS, including vocabularies in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. * bibliographies are included in Austlang, an AIATSIS project
Nash, David. (with Jane Simpson). 1981. "No-name" in central Australia, pp. 165–77 in Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior, ed. by Carrie S. Masek et al. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Nash, David. 1982. An etymological note on Warlpiri kurdungurlu, pp. 141–59 in Languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia, ed. by Jeffrey Heath, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey. Oceania Linguistic Monographs No. 24. Sydney: University of Sydney.
Nash, David. 1982. Review notice of R.M.W. Dixon: The Languages of Australia (CUP 1980). Hemisphere 26.4 (January/February),234-5.
Nash, David. 1982. The outstation movement: the long road back. Central Australian Land Rights News 15,16. Outstation update. 16, Spring 1982,14.
Nash, David. 1982. "Warlpiri verb roots and preverbs." In Stephen M. Swartz (ed.), Papers in Warlpiri grammar: In memory of Lothar Jagst, 165-216. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch A, 6. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Nash, David and B.Alpher. 1999. Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 19, No.1(April), pp. 5–56.
Nash, David. 2001. Kenneth Locke Hale. [obituary] Australian Aboriginal Studies 2001/2,84-86.
Nash, David. 2001. American's work spoke to Warlpiri. [Ken Hale obituary] Australian 'Time and Tide', 4 December 2001, page 12.
Nash, David. 2001. Bibliography of Ken Hale and Australian languages, pp. 1–18 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Nash, David. 2001 (with Geoff O’Grady). Hale and O’Grady’s 1960 SA and WA vocabularies, pp. 231–7 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Nash, David, J. Simpson, M. Laughren, P. Austin and B.Alpher (eds) 2001. Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Nash, David. 2002 (appeared March 2003). [review of] Scott Cane, Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002). Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002/2.97-100. * errata and addenda (not published in AAS)
Nash, David. 2002. Mary Alice WARD (1896–1972), pp. 490–1 in Australian dictionary of biography. Volume 16. 1940-1980 Pik-Z, edited by John Ritchie and Diane Langmore. Melbourne University Press. * launch: Adelaide, 12 November 2002
Nash, David. 2002. Proving country, prospecting for places: re-visiting Karlantijpa country, pp. 164–9 in Planning for Country. Cross-cultural approaches to decision-making on Aboriginal lands, ed. by Fiona Walsh and Paul Mitchell. Alice Springs: Jukurrpa Books (IAD Press). ix+203pp. ISBN 1-86465-037-0 © Central Land Council * launch 28 August, Alice Springs
Nash, David. 2002 (with John Henderson, eds) Language in Native Title.Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press. * Papers presented to the Linguistic Issues in Native Title Claims workshop, Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference, University of WA, Saturday 2 October 1999.
Nash, David. 2002. Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia, pp. 205–30 in Language in Native Title, ed. by John Henderson & David Nash. Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press.
Nash, David. 2002. Ken Hale 1934-2001 [obituary] GLOT International, Vol. 5 No. 9/10, November/December 2001, pages 339-340. [PDF, with permission]
Nash, David and Henderson, John (eds). 2002. Language in Native Title. Canberra: Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS.
Nash, David. 2003. Authenticity in toponymy, in Blythe, J. and R. McKenna Brown (eds): Maintaining the links: Language, identity and the land. (Proceedings of the Seventh FEL Conference, Broome, Western Australia, 22–24 September.) Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Nash, David. 2005. Kenneth Hale, pp. 432–5 in Volume A-L, Encyclopedia of linguistics, ed. by Philipp Strazny. New York, Abingdon: Fitzroy Dearborn / Routledge Reference (Taylor and Francis). 2 volumes. ISBN 1-57958-391-1(set) 1-57958-450-0 (v.1)
Nash, David. 2006. Comment, pp. 54–55, on 'Reassessing Australia’s linguistic prehistory' by Mark Clendon, Current Anthropology 47.1(February 2006), 39-61.