Melbourne LIP

Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub (LIP) is a monthly gathering of language activists and linguists sponsored by the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity. All are welcome. Visit RNLD's Facebook group for details of the next LIP.

You can also catch up on LIP discussions by reading Lauren Gawne or Ruth Singer's recaps of LIP sessions on the Endangered Languages and Cultures blog. Links can be found below next to the relevant month.

Contact LIP organiser Ruth Singer if you have any questions rsinger@unimelb.edu.au.

2017 LIP Topics

June 13 2017	Are Australia’s Community Languages worth studying?
May 10 2017	Typologist or not? At the interface of language description and typology
April 5 2017	Why researching languages in the family is complicated and how it can be the most entertaining thing
March 1 2017	Promoting language diversity in the field - Recap here

2016 LIP Topics

November 29 2016	Storytelling and Language Revitalisation
November 8 2016	Including children in language documentation and revitalization
August 2016	Ethics in linguistic fieldwork
July 2016	The challenge that language variation poses to language description - Recap here
June 2016	Social Media and Language Documentation - Recap here
May 2016	Promoting linguistic tools and data to other disciplines
April 2016	Writing a corpus-based grammar of a previously undescribed language
March 2016	Guiding language consultants’ individual projects: Negotiating organizational issues in the field - Recap here

2015 LIP Topics

December 2015	Linguistics Trivia Night
November 2015	Here to help? – balancing research aims and community-oriented efforts in the field
October 2015	Lexical and grammatical meaning, and grammaticalisation
September 2015	'New mathematical methods' in linguistics constitute the greatest intellectual fraud in the discipline since Chomsky
July 2015	Language in education in multilingual contexts: beyond 'mother tongue' education - Recap here
June 2015	Translation in language documentation and revitalisation - Recap here
May 2015	Literacy in the field: how do the communities we work with use vernacular literacy? - Recap here
April 2015	Elicitation methods - Recap here
March 2015	Has the study of Australian languages been at the expense of work on Australian English variation? - Recap here
February 2015	Grammar writing - Recap here

2014 LIP Topics

December 2014	Linguistics Trivia night
October 2014	Issues in the documentation of newer language varieties - Recap here
September 2014	Descriptive linguistics and the variety of data types
July 2014	Sharing the load? Problems with the 'lone depositor' model for the archiving of materials in endangered language archives - Recap here
June 2014	Crowd sourcing and endangered language documentation projects - Recap here
April 2014	Children in language documentation
March 2014	Open access and intimate fieldwork - Recap here
February 2014	Supporting community researchers in the field

2013 LIP Topics

December 2013	Recording cultural events - Recap here
October 2013	Getting our message across to the media: how to raise awareness about endangered languages
August 2013	LIP/Puliima crossover event - Getting the message across: talking to the media about Indigenous languages
August 2013	Reclaiming indigenous languages through linguistics
July 2013	Useful and interesting websites and apps about endangered languages - Recap here
June 2013	Useful software for language documentation work
May 2013	Special interdisciplinary LIP - Fieldwork across disciplines: what can we learn from each other?
May 2013	Models of community engagement in language documentation - Recap here
April 2013	Things you can do with outputs from language documentation projects - part 2 - Recap here
March 2013	Things you can do with outputs from language documentation projects - Recap here

2012 LIP Topics

November 2012	Urban fieldwork - Recap here
October 2012	Researching child language in the field - Recap here
September 2012	Crowd-sourcing in Language Documentation - Recap here
August 2012	The distinction between language documentation and language description - Recap here
July 2012	Zombie linguistics
June 2012	Technology: friend or foe? - Recap here
May 2012	More than just being there? The place of participant observation in linguistic fieldwork - Recap here
April 2012	Social Variation and Language Documentation - Recap here
March 2012	Best and worst practice in Language Documentation - Recap here
February 2012	Social Variation and Language Documentation

2011 LIP Topics

December 2011	Setting up your own Linguistics in the Pub
November 2011	Documenting child language - Recap here
October 2011	Linguistics in the media - Recap here
September 2011	Using video in language documentation
August 2011	Open access and its implications for linguistic research
July 2011	Philology in Language Documentation and Description
June 2011	Ethnobiology in Language Documentation
May 2011	Language standardisation, literacy and language endangerment
April 2011	Elicitation techniques and fieldwork stimuli: show and tell
March 2011	Visual art and language documentation

2010 LIP Topics

December 2010	Language endangerment and contact languages
November 2010	The benefits of collaboration between linguists and musicologists
October 2010	Informed Consent
September 2010	Dictionaries and language documentation
August 2010	InField: how can this format of integrated training work in other locations?
July 2010	No LIP this month. RNLD is going on the road to InField 2010
June 2010	How can we support language maintenance and revitalisation activities?
May 2010	What should a good descriptive grammar include?
April 2010	RCLT draft fieldwork manual
March 2010	Addressing the ground of language endangerment (Eira 2007)
February 2010	Mother Language Day events
January 2010	Is there really that much difference between language documentation and language description?

2009 LIP Topics

November 2009

The role of SIL in language documentation

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