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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Roger</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know much about Australian languages
myself, but there is a course on them at the University of New England (New
South Wales) as part of their online MA in Applied Linguistics - see <A
href="http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/index.shtml">http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/index.shtml</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would guess that they have some contacts. I know
someone who lectures on the MA, but not on that module.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are two books on Dyirbal: <EM>Young People's
Dyirbal: A Case of Language Death from Australia</EM> by Annette Schmidt,
Cambridge University Press 1985, which describes changes in the language. It was
also documented by Robert Dixon in <EM>The Dyirbal Language of Queensland</EM>,
Cambridge University Press 1972. Normally you can contact authors via the
publisher. Dixon wrote another book for Cambridge UP in 1997, so they must still
be in touch with him. The Royalties department is the best bet if Linguistics
has no details.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dixon has also written several other books on
Australian Languages: <EM>Working with Aboriginal Languages</EM>, published
by the University of Chicago Press in 1984; <EM>Searching for Aboriginal
Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker</EM>, Chicago UP 1989; <EM>The Languages of
Australia</EM>, Cambridge UP, and</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> the
<EM>Handbook of Australian Languages: Grammatical Sketches of Bunuba, Ndjebbana
and Jugu Nganhcara</EM> (Oxford University Press 2000) as well
as <I>Dyirbal Song Poetry: The Oral Literature of an Australian Rainforest
People</I>, (Queensland University) Saint Lucia 1996 with Grace Koch. Prolific
guy!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good luck with your documentary! Why have you
chosen these two languages, may I ask?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julia</DIV></FONT>
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<A title=ruggues@yahoo.com href="mailto:ruggues@yahoo.com">Roger Sogues</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au
href="mailto:endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au">endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 02, 2002 10:59
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: ELL: asking for
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<P>Claire,
<P> Thanks for the help. I apreciate
it so much. The thing is that if I have to call from Barcelona to Australia, I
will spend lots of money and I would prefer to have a written contact first.
But however, thanks for the ideas. What I would really like to ask you, if you
do work with aborigeous languages on Australia, is if you belive that the
situation of those languages, the Dyirbal and the Guugu Yimithirr, is a
reflex of the linguisitic situation in Australia, or if you know about the
linguisitic situation, which is you opinion about it. I know that answer could
mean almos writing a book, but I'm quite interested in rhe opinion
of anyone who knows something about that situation. So thanks again for
everything, and I'll keep you informed about the project.</P>
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<P>Roger.</P>
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