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John Henderson

Dr John Henderson
BA (Monash) PhD (UWA)

Linguistics (M258)
School of Humanities
University of Western Australia
Nedlands WA 6009

+61 8 6488 2870
+61 8 6488 1154 (fax)

John.Henderson@uwa.edu.au

Research Interests

Grammatical description, typological comparison and historical reconstruction of Australian Aboriginal languages, especially those of central Australia and Western Australia; Phonetics and Phonology; Morphology; Lexicography; Language Documentation especially in digital form.

Selected Publications

  • Hartman, D.K. and J. Henderson (eds) 1994, Aboriginal Languages in Education., IAD: Alice Springs.
  • Henderson J. 2002. Review of Gavan Breen "Introductory Dictionary of Western Arrernte", International Journal of Lexicography Vol.15, No.3 (Oxford University Press).
  • Henderson, J and D. Nash. 1997. Culture and Heritage - Indigenous Languages. State of the Environment Technical Paper series (Natural and Cultural Heritage), Department of the Environment: Canberra.
  • Henderson, J. (compiler) 1987, 1989, 1991. Eastern Arrernte Learner's Wordlist. IAD: Alice Springs.
  • Henderson, J. 1994a Aboriginal Languages in Education: A Summary of the Issues. pp. 1-20 of Hartman and Henderson (eds)
  • Henderson, J. 1994b Introduction. pp. 8-44 in Henderson and Dobson 1994a.
  • Henderson, J. 2002a The word in Eastern/Central Arrernte. pp.100-121 of Word: A Cross-linguistic Typology. R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Henderson, J. 2002b Language and Native Title. in Henderson and Nash (eds)
  • Henderson, J. 2002c Linguists and Native Title. in Henderson and Nash (eds)
  • Henderson, J. and D. Nash (eds) 2002. Language in Native Title. Aboriginal Studies Press: Canberra
  • Henderson, J. and V. Dobson (compilers) 1994a. Eastern and Central Arrernte to English Dictionary. IAD: Alice Springs. [Shortlisted for the Stanner Prize awarded by the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.]
  • Henderson, J. and V. Dobson 1994b, Eastern Arrernte. pp. 266-298 in Macquarie Aboriginal Words: A Dictionary of Words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, Macquarie Library: Sydney.
  • Turner, M. M. with J. Henderson. 1994. Arrernte Foods. IAD: Alice Springs. (Re-issued 1996 as Bush Foods: Arrernte foods from Central Australia.)
  • Henderson, J. (ed.) 1986, Arrernte Ayeye - Arrernte Stories. 98p., IAD and Yipirinya School: Alice Springs.

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

  • Henderson, J., A. Gargett, D. Nash, D. Harry. 2003 Interpretation and re-presentation of historical language materials: Laves 1931 Nyungar notes. Paper presented at the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, University of Newcastle.
  • Henderson, J. 2003. Indigenous Language in Australian Education: Localisation and Diversity. Paper presented at the symposium Maintaining minority languages in a transnational world: Australian and European perspectives. UWA.
  • Henderson, J. 2001. Non-referential third person singular pronouns in adverbial phrases in eastern and central Arrernte. in Keith Allan & John Henderson (eds)
  • Henderson, John (ed.) 2000. Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LingWWW/als99/proceedings
  • Keith Allan & John Henderson (eds) 2001. Proceedings of ALS2k, the 2000 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ling/als/als2kproceedings.shtml

Projects under way

  • Dialect Diversity in the Western Desert Language, focussing on lexical and morphological diversity. This project involves data from a very wide range of sources of different types and from different eras. Cross-source and cross-dialect correspondence sets are managed in the database system under development in...
  • Australian Languages Lexical Database, a research database of lexical resources in a range of Australian languages, initially from central and Western Australia. The primary interface is web-based and designed to be multi-user and multi-project and to permit multiple representations of data while respecting various kinds of rights and sensitivities in relation to specific content.
  • Continuing research on the grammar of Eastern and Central Arrernte.
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