Dr Nick Reid
Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BA (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Contact
| Email: | nreid@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 144 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3400 (or +61 2 6773 3400 overseas) |
Nick Reid is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. His main linguistic specialisation is the study of Australian Aboriginal languages of the Daly River region (NT). He has written a grammar of the two Daly River (NT) languages, Ngan'gikurunggurr and Ngen'giwumirri, and is currently preparing a dictionary of these languages for publication, with the help of Patricia MacTaggart.
His descriptive work has fuelled other research interests, primarily within the areas of morphological and syntactic typology, language description and universal grammar. He is currently interested in systems of nominal and verbal classification, and has co-edited a book on nominal classification in Australian languages. His other interests include contemporary and classical Japanese language, Auslan, Indonesian, and historical and comparative Aboriginal linguistics.
In addition to a range of topics in the Linguistics introductory unit, Nick teaches Morphology and Syntax, Australian English, Typology and Universals, Aboriginal Linguistics, Aboriginal Languages Today, Japanese Linguistics, and contributes to a unit on Race and Racism.
Nick is actively involved in course development and teaching in the external mode. He has developed extensive multimedia teaching resources, including online units and CD ROM-based resources for teaching phonetics. At UNE he has been an early adopter of online audio and video delivery, and of web-based assessments.
Areas for postgraduate supervision: language description; Aboriginal linguistics; morphological and syntactic typology; sign languages and comparative linguistics. Other topics in linguistics can, of course, be negotiated.
Publications
2000 Phonetics: an Interactive Introduction. CD ROM Program. Teaching and Learning Centre, University of New England. ISBN 1 86389 609 0
2002 Reid, N. and C. McLoughlin. Designing online quiz questions to assess a range of cognitive skills. In P. Barker and S. Rebelsky eds. Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (1267 - 1272). Denver: AACE. ISBN 1-880094-45-2
2002 Reid, N. Sit right down the back: serialized posture verbs in Ngan'gityemerri and other Northern Australian languages. In Newman, J. ed. The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
2004 Reid, N and I. Green. Murrinh Patha and the Daly Languages. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
2003 Reid, N. Phrasal Verb to Synthetic Verb: recorded morphosyntactic change in Ngan'gityemerri. In Evans, N. ed, The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continents most linguistically complex region. Pacific Linguistics: Canberra. (28 pages).
2002 Reid, N. Applied philology: creating placenames in Armidale city. In Simpson, J. and F. Hodges eds. The Land is a Map: placenames of Indigenous origin in Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
2002 Reid, N. 'Ken Hale would just love this': finding the 31st Ngan'gityemerri finite verb. In Simpson, J. and Nash, D. and Laughren, M. and Austin, A. and Alpher, B. eds. Forty Years On: Ken Hale and Australian Languages. Pacific Linguistics: Canberra.
2000 Reid, N. Complex Verb Collocations in Ngan'gityemerri: a non-derivational mechanism for encoding valency alternations. In Dixon, R.M.W. and A. Aikenvald eds Changing Valency: case studies in transitivity Studies in Language Series. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (37 pages).
Awards
Nick's active role in the uptake and application of multimedia and online technologies to teaching and learning has been recognised through many significant awards and reviews, including;
- In 2006 he received a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. The Carrick citation reads: “For leadership in online education in Linguistics and applied linguistic generally, and for developing innovative and inspirational online resources for teaching about Australia’s Indigenous languages”.
- In 2000 he was awarded UNE's Vice-Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching, in recognition of his online and other multimedia material development. The VC’s citation reads in part: “Dr Reid’s enthusiasm for monitoring and improving his teaching has also lead to the development of online materials which are generating interest among his students and colleagues. His use of a problem-based approach in the presentation of the curriculum is highly successful in generating student interest and promoting an engaged learning style that encourages higher order thinking”.
- In 2000 Nick's CD Phonetics: An Interactive Introduction was awarded the prize for the Best CD-ROM Project: Exemplary Use of Electronic Technologies in Teaching and Learning in Tertiary Education by ASCILITE in 2000, and was short-listed for the Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing.