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. 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 has recently completed the Ngan'gi Dictionary, covering both these languages, with the help of Patricia Marrfurra 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 particularly interested in systems of nominal and verbal classification, and has co-edited a book on nominal classification in Australian languages.
His other recent projects include ongoing fieldwork on Southern Daly languages of Northern Australia; language maintenance in NSW; and work on endangered song-language traditions of Wadeye (with Allan Marett, Linda Barwick, Michael Walsh, Joe Blythe and Lys Ford).
Nick also has long-term interests in contemporary and classical Japanese language, Auslan, Indonesian, and historical and comparative Aboriginal linguistics. 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.
Nick is the degree coordinator of UNE's highly successful Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics) and 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, enhanced podcasting and web-based assessment.
Publications
2008 Reid, Nicholas. Ngan'gi Dictionary. Australian Linguistics Press: Armidale.
2005 Reid, Nicholas. "Aboriginal Languages". Microsoft. Encarta Encyclopedia, World English Edition.
2005 Reid, Nicholas. "Languages of the World: Ngan'gityemerri". The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics II. Oxford: Elsevier.
2005 Reid, Nicholas and Ian Green. "Murrinh-Patha and the Daly Languages". In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol 2. ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.
2005 Barwick, L., Marett, A., Walsh, M., Reid, N., & Ford, L. Communities of interest: issues in establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT. Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.
2004 Reid, Nicholas and Ian Green. Murrinh Patha and the Daly Languages. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
2004 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).
1997 Reid, Nicholas. Class and Classifier in Ngan'gityemerri. In Reid, Nicholas & Mark Harvey. eds. Noun Classification in Australian Languages. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
1997 Reid, Nicholas & Mark Harvey. eds, Noun Classification in Australian Languages. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
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.
- In 2000 he was awarded UNE's Vice-Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching, in recognition of his online and other multimedia material development.
- 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.