Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [196-] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
60 boxes, 1 parcel.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Elwyn Flint completed honours in Modern Languages and Literature in 1927, and was appointed as a reader in his department, before becoming a priest in 1938. He was an army chaplain and intelligence officer before being discharged in 1946. He was appointed as a junior lecturer at the University of Queensland and eventually senior lecturer in 1958. Flint's intense interest in language variation led him to record the variety of languages spoken in Queensland and parts of Asia and Indonesia. He published the results of his research.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, [196-]
Collection alternatively titled as: Elwyn Flint Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection comprises written documents collected by Flint mostly as part of a long term research project in the 1960s, known as the Queensland Speech Survey, during which Flint recorded traditional Aboriginal languages. This collection also documents the Yuulngu (Gupapuyngu) language. Other parts of the collection include journal articles of languages, correspondence with field-linguists and staff from academic institutions, Indonesian material, and documentation of the English spoken by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Australian and regional pidgins, "migrants" and "mother-tongue" people from different ages, regions or socio-economic groups.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access except for some restrictions to tapes in Box 42, and folders 26-28 of Box 3 fragile and have been preserved on CD shelved with box.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- Australian Language
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Pavlidou, Theodossia (2014). Constructing collectivity : 'we' across languages and contexts. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
Pensalfini, Robert J., & Turpin, Myfany, 1972-, & Guillemin, Diana, (2014). Language description informed by theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
Wafer, James William, 1948- & Turpin, Myfany, 1972- (2017). Recirculating songs : revitalising the singing practices of Indigenous Australia (first). Hunter Press, Hamilton, NSW
Notes area
Note
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this collection may contain voices, images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.
Note
The compilation of the PDF finding aid was financed by an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Small Grant No. L96/5117 (1996) to Mary Laughren and by funding made available in 1996 to Jeanie Bell from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation of Languages through the Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture, Rochedale Qld.
Alternative identifier(s)
Libraries Australia ID
OCLC Number
Access points
Subject access points
- Aboriginal Australians -- Languages
- English language -- Dialects -- Australia
- Kuku Nyungkul language Y90
- Kuku Yalanji language Y78
- Wakka Wakka language E28
- Aboriginal Australians
- Wakka Wakka people E28
- Yolngu people N230
- Gupapuyngu people Y90
- Kuku Nyungkul people Y90
- Kuku Yalanji people Y78
- Guugu Yimithirr people Y82
- Girramay people Y127
- Yolngu Matha language N230
- Gupapuyngu language N122.1
- Girramay language Y127
- Wakawaka language
- Gupapuyngu language N122.1
- Kuku-Yalanji language
- Yolngu languages
- Guugu Yimithirr language Y82
Place access points
Name access points
- Queensland Speech Survey (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 6-Dec-2022. Revised, SJB, 22-Nov-2022.
Revised, Linda Justo, 22-Jul-2021. Revised, AM, 09-Mar-2020. Revised, AM, 19-Aug-2019. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.