Difference between revisions of "Warlpiri"
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*The AuSIL also contains links to four papers by Stephen Swartz (1982), regarding Warlpiri clauses, propositional particles, verb roots, and verbal clauses, in photocopied PDF form [http://ausil.org/Dictionary/Warlpiri/aboutwarlpiri.htm] No license is necessary to download it. | *The AuSIL also contains links to four papers by Stephen Swartz (1982), regarding Warlpiri clauses, propositional particles, verb roots, and verbal clauses, in photocopied PDF form [http://ausil.org/Dictionary/Warlpiri/aboutwarlpiri.htm] No license is necessary to download it. | ||
*Jane Simpson is a researcher at the Australian National University who has published many papers on Warlpiri, including her PhD thesis "Aspects of Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax" [https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15468] No license is necessary to download it. | *Jane Simpson is a researcher at the Australian National University who has published many papers on Warlpiri, including her PhD thesis "Aspects of Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax" [https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15468] No license is necessary to download it. | ||
| + | *Jane Simpson's book ''Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax'' (1991) is available in McCabe: [https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b2064178] | ||
===Corpora=== | ===Corpora=== | ||
*Sample paragraph of Warlpiri from Omniglot Encyclopedia, including the English translation. This website also includes a listing of the vowels and consonants in Warlpiri and their pronunciations. No license necessary. [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/warlpiri.htm] | *Sample paragraph of Warlpiri from Omniglot Encyclopedia, including the English translation. This website also includes a listing of the vowels and consonants in Warlpiri and their pronunciations. No license necessary. [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/warlpiri.htm] | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 23 January 2017
Here I will document the resources for Warlpiri.
Kinds of resources to investigate:
- computational resources (spell checkers, orthography converters, speech recognition software),
- dictionaries/phrasebooks/glossaries (multilingual and monolingual, online and paper),
- grammatical descriptions (theoretical and pædagogical),
- scientific works (papers, books, websites), and
- corpora (any collection of authentic text, linguistically annotated or not)
Contents
Resources
Your task is to find any resources possible, categorise them appropriately, provide a short description, list licenses, and work to obtain any resources that are not immediately available that would appear to be useful.
Computational Resources
Dictionaries/Phrasebooks
- The AuSIL (Australian Society for Indigenous Languages) has an interactive Warlpiri-English dictionary [1] that includes a Warlpiri lexicon and English to Warlpiri translations. It appears to be free to download, yet download is not available on the current server.
- The Glosbe Dictionary contains 55 phrases translated in English and Warlpiri. The phrases contain usage examples, and anyone can edit their translations [2]. Note about licenses: "Some of data we present is licensed with CC-BY-SA, some is FDL, some comes with custom license. Data source is always indicated next to data if it is needed due to the license." [3] There is also a free API that can be used [4].
Grammatical Descriptions
- The Omniglot encyclopedia includes a short grammatical description of Warlpiri: [5] No license necessary.
- The AuSIL has a description of Warlpiri, including its sounds and abbreviations:[6] No license necessary.
Scientific Works
- The AuSIL also contains links to four papers by Stephen Swartz (1982), regarding Warlpiri clauses, propositional particles, verb roots, and verbal clauses, in photocopied PDF form [7] No license is necessary to download it.
- Jane Simpson is a researcher at the Australian National University who has published many papers on Warlpiri, including her PhD thesis "Aspects of Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax" [8] No license is necessary to download it.
- Jane Simpson's book Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax (1991) is available in McCabe: [9]
Corpora
- Sample paragraph of Warlpiri from Omniglot Encyclopedia, including the English translation. This website also includes a listing of the vowels and consonants in Warlpiri and their pronunciations. No license necessary. [10]
- New testament in Warlpiri, available in other translations including English. No license necessary. [11]
Other
- David Nash has compiled a list of Warlpiri references, dictionaries, and literature: [12]
