John Henderson

Dr, BA Monash, PhD W.Aust.

Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education, School of Social Sciences Office

Emailjohn.henderson@uwa.edu.au

The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia

18 Citations
1 h-Index

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Personal profile

Previous positions

I was a lecturer in Linguistics at UWA until 2017. Before my PhD, Iworked as a linguist at the Institute for Aboriginal Development (an Aboriginal community organisation) in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory from 1984-1993.

Current projects

Continuing research on the lexicon and grammar of Eastern and Central Arrernte, including

revised edition of the Eastern/Central Arrernte to English Dictionary
Number-marking in Arandic languages
Structures in Arandic Song
Variation and Change in Arandic

The roles of Linguists, Linguistics and Language Communities in Language Description and Documentation

Industrial relevance

I work with various Indigenous communities and organisations in relation to language continuation, description and documentation. I also undertake research and professional consultancies in the area of Native Title.

Research

• Grammatical description, typological comparison and historical reconstruction of Australian Aboriginal languages, especially those of central Australia and Western Australia.
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Morphology
• Lexicography
• Language Documentation especially in digital form.
• The roles of Linguists, Linguistics and Language Communities in the continuation of endangered languages and in language description and documentation.

Research expertise keywords

Australian Aboriginal languages
Australian English
Dialectology
Grammatical description
Lexicography
Phonetics and phonology

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Research Output

18 Citations
1 h-Index
6 Chapter
5 Edited book/Anthology
5 Book
2 Conference paper
6 More

Assessing Carl Strehlow’s dictionary as linguistic description: Present value and future potential

Henderson, J., Aug 2018, Carl Strehlow’s 1909 Comparative Heritage Dictionary: An Aranda, German, Loritja and Dieri to English Dictionary with Introductory Essays. Kenny, A. (ed.). Canberra: ANU E Press, p. 63-100

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter

Open Access

Genome-wide association and HLA fine-mapping studies identify risk loci and genetic pathways underlying allergic rhinitis

the 23andMe Research Team & AAGC collaborators, 1 Aug 2018, In : Nature Genetics. 50, 8, p. 1072-1080 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

17 Citations (Scopus)

Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)

Estival, D., Bow, C. P., Henderson, J., Kelly, B. F., Laughren, M., Mayer, E., Mollá, D., Mrowa-Hopkins, C., Nordlinger, R., Rieschild, V., Schalley, A. C., Stanley, A. W. & Vaughan, J., 2014, In : Linguistics and Language Compass. 8, 12, p. 659-670

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article