Nicholas Reid

After 28 years at UNE, Nick retired in March 2019, but remains in an active Adjunct role as a researcher and supervisor of higher degree students.

Nick’s main linguistic specialisation has been the study of Australian Aboriginal languages of the Daly River region (NT). He has published grammars, dictionaries, and text collections, of the two languages, Ngan'gikurunggurr and Ngan'giwumirri, and is currently involved in developing teaching resources for those languages for the Ngan’gi Schools Network.His descriptive work has fuelled other research interests, primarily within the areas of morphological and syntactic typology, language description, historical linguistics and ethnomusicology. He is particularly interested in systems of nominal and verbal classification, and has co-edited a book on nominal classification in Australian languages.  In addition to ongoing documentary linguistic projects in the Daly River region, Nick takes active interest in the maintenance and revival of Aboriginal languages in NSW, and the phonetics of Australian English. He is currently engaged in collaborative research with Patrick Nunn looking at the use of scientifically derived sea level rise chronologies as a way of dating Aboriginal oral traditions about coastal inundation around the Australian coastline.At UNE Nick was a pioneer and driver of online teaching from 1997. He has developed extensive multimedia teaching resources, and was an early adopter of online audio and video delivery, enhanced podcasting and web-based assessment. He was one of the founders of UNE's highly successful online Master of Applied Linguistics degree, and served as the coordinator of that degree for many years.