Jane Simpson (linguist)
Jane Simpson is an Australian linguist.
Simpson completed both a B.A. (Hons) and M.A. at The Australian National University (ANU). Her B.A. included majors in Chinese and English literature, with Honours in Middle English. Jane's Ph.D. was received from MIT in 1983, and her dissertation was a detailed study of Warlpiri in the Lexical-Functional Grammar framework.
Simpson's research focuses on the Indigenous languages of Australia. She has worked extensively with the Warumungu language, and in this work assisted in setting up a language centre in Tennant Creek.[1] She also helped to create the a digital archive of Aboriginal language material, which became ASEDA.[2] This was during her time as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
In 2005, Simpson shared the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Inaugural Ken Hale Chair with Mary Laughren and David Nash.[3] She is now Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language at ANU.[4] From 1989-2010 Jane taught at The University of Sydney in their linguistics department. From 2011-2014 she was the inaugural chair of Indigenous linguistics and head of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at ANU.
Selected publications
- (2013) Simpson, J. '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, vol. 34, pp. 1–16.
- (2012) Nash, D. & J. Simpson. 'Toponymy: recording and analyzing placenames in a language area.' In Nicholas Thieberger (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, pp. 392–404. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- (2012) Simpson, J. 'Information structure, variation and the Referential Hierarchy/' in F. Seifart, G. Haig, N. P. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts & P. Trilsbeek (ed.), Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization, pp/ 73-82. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- (2011) Wigglesworth, G., J. Simpson & D. Loakes. '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.
- (2008) Simpson, J. & G. Wigglesworth (eds). Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School. London: Continuum.
- (2001) Simpson, J., D. Nash, M. Laughren, et al. (eds). Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- (1991) Simpson, J., Warlpiri morpho-syntax: a lexicalist approach. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic.
References
- ↑ Simpson, Jane (2002). A learner's guide to Warumungu : Mirlamirlajinjjiki Warumunguku apparrka. Alice Springs: IAD Press. ISBN 1864650346.
- ↑ "History of ASEDA at AIATSIS". 2005. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
- ↑ "The Dynamics of Human Language".