Errata

  • p49: In the comment about class preparation: I meant the preparation for the teacher/instructor, not for the student doing homework. That might not be clear.
  • p60: The first ‘rem.pst’ gloss should read ‘rec.pst’ (recent past)
  • p78: Insert full stop before ‘Ethical reasoning’ in table.
  • p83: The capital engma (ŋ) was mysteriously converted to a lowercase one by the typesetter in the last round of corrections. Words beginning with ŋ which begin a sentence should have Ŋ, not ŋ.
  • p85: miannyan in the Bardi is a typo: it should be minnyan. Also, inarli-jjirri is hyphenated in the middle of a morpheme; a more rational hyphenation would have been inarlij-jirri.
  • p88: Section 6.4.3: you can do this using Praat.
  • p92: Section 6.5.2: a new edition of Shopen’s Language Typology and Syntactic Description is out (click here for the complete set of volumes in the new edition)
  • p93: The table should be single-spaced.
  • p100: nhalil in them?’ (add question mark)
  • p113: balgurr should be balgurr.
  • p118: … than one > from one …
  • p120: 40,000 words is very useful
  • p157: If It’s worth…
  • p168: “and child abductions” change to “and Government child abduction”
  • p168: So I thought …
  • p168: and when she hid in a boat … change to “or when she hid in a boat”
  • p180: Respect other’s attempts .. change to “respect others’ attempts”
  • p182: Find out the procedure for appeals if you feel that the rejection was on unreasonable grounds.
  • p247: add language contact, 139 to the index.
  • passim: I’ve occasionally said ‘tape recorder’ in the text, however the advice refers to any recording device.