Nicholas Thieberger


Nicholas Thieberger is an Australian linguist and an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He helped to establish the PARADISEC archive in 2003 and currently serves as its Director. Thieberger is also the Editor of Language Documentation & Conservation, an academic journal which focuses on language documentation and conservation.
Thieberger received his PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2004 for his work on the grammar of South Efate. He is best known for his research on Indigenous Australian languages, on the South Efate language of Vanuatu, and for his work in language documentation. He established Wangka Maya the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in the late 1980s, ASEDA, the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive, in the early 1990s, and co-founded the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity.

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