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Selected Publications

Recent Refereed Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

Tent, Jan. (2006). Geographic and Linguistic Reflections on Moent and Dubbelde Ree, two of Australia’s first placenames. Geographical Research (formerly Australian Geographical Studies), Vol. 44, No. 4: 389-402. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/GeogRes.pdf

Peters, Pam, Jan Tent & Trinidad Fernandez (2006). Critical Lexicography. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Euralex International Congress (Torino, September 6th-9th, 2000).

Tent, Jan & Helen Slatyer (2009). Naming Places on the ‘Southland’: European place-naming practices from 1606 to 1803. Australian Historical Studies. Vol. 40, No. 1: 5-31.

Appuhamy, Ranil, Jan Tent & John MacKenzie (2010). Toponymous diseases of Australia. Australian Medical Journal. Vol. 193, No. 11/12.

Tent, Jan & David Blair (2011). Motivations for Naming: The Development of a Toponymic Typology for Australian Placenames. Names: A Journal of Onomastics.

Recent Book Chapters

Tent, Jan (2004). Lexical borrowing in Fiji English. In Jan Tent & Paul Geraghty (eds). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective. pp. 307-330. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Geraghty, Paul & Jan Tent (2004). From lowlands to islands: Dutch loans in Polynesia. In Jan Tent & Paul Geraghty (eds). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective. pp. 99-143. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Tent, Jan & France Mugler (2004). The phonology of Fiji English. In Bernd Kortmann, Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Raj Mesthrie, & Clive Upton (eds). A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 1: Phonology. pp. 193-222. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.

Mugler, France & Jan Tent (2004). The morphology and syntax of Fiji English. In Bernd Kortmann, Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Raj Mesthrie, & Clive Upton (eds). A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax. pp. 229-247. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.

Dictionaries

Contributor of Fiji English slang terms to the 2005 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. London: Routledge.

Geraghty, Paul, France Mugler & Jan Tent. (2006). Macquarie English Dictionary for the Fiji Islands. Sydney: Macquarie Library.

Edited Volumes

Tent, Jan & France Mugler (eds). (1998). SICOL Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics: Vol. I, Language Contact. C-141. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Tent, Jan & Paul Geraghty (eds) (2004). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Recent Non-refereed Publications

Tent, Jan (2006). The importance of bygone placenames. Placenames Australia. March, pp.10-11. http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/March_2006.pdf

Tent, Jan (2006). Dutch place-naming practices, 1606-1756. Placenames Australia. September. pp. 6-8. http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/September_2006.pdf

Tent, Jan & Helen Slatyer (2008). Early European place-naming practices in Australia, Part 1. Placenames Australia. March. pp. 1, 3-4. http://anps.org.au/documents/March_2008.pdf

 Tent, Jan & Helen Slatyer (2008). Early European place-naming practices in Australia, Part 2. Placenames Australia. June. pp. 1, 4-6. http://anps.org.au/documents/June_2008.pdf

Tent, Jan (2009). How did Howqua get its name? Placenames Australia. March. http://anps.org.au/documents/March_2009.pdf

Tent, Jan (2009). The Power of ‘Vril’. Placenames Australia. September. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/Sept_2009.pdf

Tent, Jan (2009). ‘The’ placenames of Australia. Placenames Australia. December. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/Dec_2009.pdf

Tent, Jan (2009). The placename dictionary. Where to from here? Australian Style. December. http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/news/australian_style/v16_no2/australian%20style%2016.2.pdf

Tent, Jan & David Blair (2009). Motivations for naming: A toponymic typology. ANPS Technical Paper, No. 2. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/ANPSTechPaper2.pdf

Tent, Jan (2010). Two unusual names for the Australian continent. Part I. Placenames Australia. March. http://anps.org.au/documents/March_2010.pdf

Geraghty, Paul & Jan Tent. (2010). Two unusual names for the Australian continent. Part II. Placenames Australia. June. http://anps.org.au/documents/June_2010.pdf

Tent, Jan (2010). Australia’s palindromic toponyms. Placenames Australia. September. http://www.anps.org.au/documents/Sept_2010.pdf

Tent, Jan (2011). Know your federal electorate. Placenames Australia. March. (Forthcoming)

Recent Conference Presentations

Tent, Jan (2007). Fiji English and the lexicographical issues in the compilation of the Macquarie Dictionary of English for the Fiji Islands. Paper presented at the 13th  International Symposium on Lexicography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tent, Jan & Helen Slatyer (2007). Naming places on the Southland: European place-naming practices from 1606 to 1803. Paper presented at ‘Trends in Toponymy: Indigenous Identity and Theoretical Developments in Placenames Research’,University of Ballarat, Victoria.

Rieschild, Verna &  Jan Tent (2008). Bilinguality, gender, & religion: Influences on Arabic-heritage Australian youths’ attitudes to their ambient languages and cultures. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 17 – ‘Micro and Macro Connections’, Free University of Amsterdam.

Tent, Jan (2009) Indigenous loanwords in three varieties of Pacific English: An analysis of borrowing patterns and attitudes. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Society for Language Studies, Crowne Plaza Orlando Universal, Orlando, Florida.

Tent, Jan (2009) Issues with the representation of place names with ‘The’ in the Australian Gazetteer. Presented at the annual conference of the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA), Melbourne.

Theresa Winchester-Seeto & Jan Tent (2009), Setting the standard: Developing a standards-based assessment and research development approach for postgraduate coursework dissertation. Presented at Uniserve Science, The University of Sydney.

Tent, Jan (2009) The placename dictionary. Where to from here? Presented at AUSTRALEX 2009, Macquarie University.

Recent Invited Lectures and Talks

Words of Fiji: A History of Wordlists, Glossaries and Dictionaries of the Languages of Fiji. Centre for Lexicography, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, 19 November, 2008.

Issues in Fiji Lexicography. Centre for Lexicography, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, 26 November, 2008.

Developing a typology for Australian placename specifics. Institute of Name Research, University of Copenhagen, 27 November, 2008.

Early European Place-naming in Australia. Institute of Name Research, University of Copenhagen, 28 November, 2008.
Language Use and Attitudes in Fiji. University of Regensburg, 22 January, 2009.

Criterion-based assessment of Master degree dissertations. Assessment Working Party of the Learning and Teaching Committee, Macquarie University, April 2, 2009.

Language Use and Attitudes in Fiji. University of Freiburg, 25 May, 2009.

Language Use and Attitudes in Fij. University of Zürich, 26 May, 2009.

Issues in Australian toponymy. University of Heidelberg, 28 May, 2009.

The Measure of Success. Occasional address at graduation ceremony, University of Heidelberg, 29 May, 2009.

Developing a typology for Australian placename specifics. University of Heidelberg, 1 June, 2009.

Naming Places on the ‘Southland’: European place-naming practices from 1606 to 1803. Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 2 June, 2009.

Where in the world is ‘Ulimaroa’? Or how a Pacific island became the Australian continent. University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 12 March, 2010.