Place-names of Indigenous Origin

An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Sponsors: AUSTRALEX, the Australasian Association for Lexicography, the National Place-names Project and the Australian Language Research Centre .

A one-day workshop will be held at the Babel Building, Baldessin Precinct, Australian National University, Canberra, on Sunday 31st October 1999.

Papers

Robert Amery & Georgina Yambo Williams

Reclaiming Through Renaming: The Reinstatement of Kaurna Toponyms in Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains

Mark Harvey Place-names and land-language connections in the Western N.T.

Luise Hercus Aboriginal naming practices

Patrick McConvell Changing places: European and Aboriginal style

Nicholas Reid Creating Aboriginal Place-names: applied philology in Armidale City

Franca Tamisari

Names and naming: Speaking Forms into Place (Yolngu, North-east Arnhem Land)

Michael Walsh Transparency vs Opacity in Aboriginal place-names Other papers are planned and reports on National Place-names Projects, Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia, place-names of North West S.A., and New South Wales.

For abstracts of papers, and other details, see the AUSTRALEX web pages, www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/alex/a99/ or, the Australian National Placenames Survey, www.humanities.mq.edu.au/npnp.

Registration fee $30 (includes lunch). Please register with:

Jane Simpson, Department of Linguistics F12, University of Sydney, NSW 2006

(02)9351-3655, fax (02)9351-7572, jhs@mail.usyd.edu.au

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