Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...

In this boot camp, students learn to take risks and get “messy” — by studying grammar, that is. Claire Bowern, professor of linguistics, conceived of the Grammar Boot Camp several ago as a way of ...

With some Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction, the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) has adopted Microsoft SharePoint and Access to help its work to preserve one ...

When I first learned about the Australian Aboriginal language Warlpiri, I instantly became obsessed and had to learn as much as I could about it. Warlpiri has around 3,000 speakers in Australia’s ...

This study in the methodology of cross-linguistic semantics within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework posits the existence of universal lexico-semantic primitives. Among these are ...

Australia's Catholic bishops have approved a liturgy incorporating elements of Aboriginal language and culture, marking what some liturgists are hailing as a lived expression of the Second Vatican ...

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Whirling barefoot in a sand circle, Clark Webb leads a class of school children as they dance to clapsticks and the songs of the Gumbaynggirr, an ...

On Tuesday, Australia’s Catholic bishops officially approved a liturgy used in a remote Western Australian diocese that incorporates elements of Aboriginal language and culture. The liturgy has been ...