Publications and Presentations
		Home > Resume
Language: ENG ELL EPO JBO TLH LAT

Information Technology

Journal Articles

• Massart, M., Shulman, E., Nicholas, N., Ward, N., Bergeron, F. 2010. Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX. D-Lib Magazine 16.11/12. doi:10.1045/november2010-massart
• Nicholas, N., Ward, N. & Blinco, K. 2010. Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers. Ariadne 62.
• Androulakis, S., Buckle, A.M., Atkinson, I., Groenewegen, D., Nicholas, N., Treloar, A., Beitz, A. 2009. ARCHER—e-Research Tools for Research Data Management. The International Journal of Digital Curation 1.4 22-33. (PDF)
• Rehak, D., Nicholas, N. & Ward, N. 2009. Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations. D-Lib Magazine 15.11/12. doi:10.1045/november2009-rehak
• Nicholas, N., Ward, N. & Blinco, K. 2009. A Policy Checklist for Enabling Persistence of Identifiers. D-Lib Magazine 15.1/2. doi:10.1045/january2009-nicholas . Czech translation: Cubr, L., Hutař, J., Melichar, M. (tr.) 2009. Kontrolní seznam pro strategii zajištěni perzistence identifikátorů. Knihovna 20.2. 54-62

Conference Papers

• Atkinson, I., Buckle, A.M., Groenewegen, D., Nicholas, N., Treloar, A., Beitz, A. 2008. ARCHER – An Enabler of Research Data Management. eScience '08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on e-Science. Indianapolis: IEEE. 246-252.

Reports and Presentations

• Macnamara, D. & Nicholas, N. 2011. Accessing VET Learner Attainment Data: An investigation to enable learner-facilitated electronic access to their VET learner attainment data. Australian Flexible Learning Framework. March. (PDF, DOC)
• Australian National Data Service. 2011. Sandbox Demonstration: Generic, Services (RIF-CS 1.0.1). (Vimeo)
• Australian National Data Service. 2011. Metadata Stores Solutions Guide, Storage Guide.
• Australian National Data Service. 2010. Content Providers Guide: Services.
• Nicholas, N. 2010. Identify My Data: Persistent Identifiers and DOIs (PDF, Vimeo). ANDS Data Capture Briefing. Melbourne, September 2.
• Nicholas, N. 2010. Panel on Social Media and Alternative Technologies (Position paper with Nigel Ward, 19.7 MB MP3). ADL Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit. Alexandria (Va.), April 13.
• Ward, N. & Nicholas, N. 2010. Benefits of Machine Readable Curricula. February.
• Nicholas, N. & ONeill, O. 2010. Interoperability and Standards: Current Trends (2.25 MB PPT). Webinar presented by USQ-Link Affiliates and SunGard. 9 February.
• Australian National Data Service. 2009. Persistent Identifiers Guides: Awareness Level, Working Level, Expert Level.
• Nicholas, N. 2009. Schemas for Representing Researcher Identity: Comparison of EAC (2004 version) and ISO 2146. 4 December.
• Bennett, S. & Nicholas, N. 2009. Modelling Generic Infrastructure with Modular e-Framework. Presentation at eResearch Australasia, 12 November. (presentations with text commentary available: 1.8 MB PDF, 1.4 MB PPT)
• Link Affiliates. 2008. Learner Identity Management Framework (LIMF): Options for making the Student Data Transfer Note an electronic process. Report for AICTEC (Australian Information & Communications Technology in Education Committee). December.
• Nicholas, N. 2008. Integrating Persistent Identifiers into Repository Workflows. Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories Clever Collections Workshop, Melbourne, 28 November.
• Nicholas, N. 2008. Introduction to XRI: eXtensible Resource Identifier. (741 KB PDF). IDEA 2008, Melbourne, 12 November.
• Nicholas, N. 2008. Building Identifiers into Data Management Plans. e-Research Australasia Conference Poster presentation. Melbourne, 29 September.
• Nicholas, N. 2008. Open approaches to persistence: A report on the PILIN project. Sydney Linux Users Group, 25 July.
• Nicholas, N. 2008. Identifying Researchers: Some Formal Considerations. Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, 5 June.

Blog Posts

• Linking Research & Learning Technologies Through Standards: Link Affiliates group blog. Posts.
• Interoppo Research: personal IT blog.

Linguistics

(See also Presentations | Non-Academic)

Asterisked items not peer-reviewed.

Books

• Nicholas, N. & Baloglou, G. 2003. An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary. (Records of Western Civilization) New York: Columbia University Press. 557 pp. ISBN: 0-231-12760-X (cloth), 0-231-12761-8 (paperback).

Journal Articles

• Nicholas, N. & Hajek, J. 2015. The effect of Italo-Romance contact on the Greek cluster vɣ in Corsica and the implications for sound change in Italiot Greek in Southern Italy. Word 61. 2-11.
• Mees, B. & Nicholas, N. 2012. Greek Curses and the Celtic Underworld. Studia Celtica 46. 23-38.
  
• Nicholas, N. 2011. The apocope of /s/ in Greco-Corsican. Mediterranean Language Review 18. 1-24. *
  
• Nicholas, N. & Joseph, B. 2009. Verbal Dvandvas in Modern Greek. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 57. 171-185. * [Abstract]
• Hajek, J. & Nicholas, N. 2008. Dummy Pronoun Insertion After Conditional 'If' in Greco-Corsican. Transactions of the Philological Society 106. 414-431. [Abstract]
• Nicholas, N. 2008. The Passive Future Subjunctive in Byzantine texts. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 101. 89-131.
• Nicholas, N. 2007. The Greek cluster /vɣ/ in Southern Italy. Glotta 83. 192-221.
• Nicholas, N. 2006a. Negotiating a Greco-Corsican Identity. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 24. 91-133. [PDF]
• Nicholas, N. 2005a. A History of the Greek Colony of Corsica. Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 31. 33-78.
• Nicholas, N. 2005b. pu-based Greek Rude Negators. Journal of Greek Linguistics 6. 103-150.
• Hajek, J. & Nicholas, N. 2004. The Rise and Fall of Modern Greek in Australia’s Universities: What Can a Quantitative Analysis Tell Us? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 3. 195-209.
• Nicholas, N. 2004a. Η γεωγραφική ιστορία του «ίντα 'ν' που» [The geographical history of inda 'n' pu "what it is that"]. Ελληνικά [Hellenika] 54. 311-343.
• Nicholas, N. 2004b. Η ετυμολόγηση του ίντα [The etymological derivation of inda "what"]. Κρητολογικά Γράμματα [Kretologika Grammata] 19. 189-202.* [PDF]
• Nicholas, N., Debski, R. & Lagerberg, R. 2004. Skryba: An Online Orthography Teaching Tool for Learners from Bilingual Backgrounds. Computer Assisted Language Learning 17. 441-458.
• Nicholas, N. 2003-04. An Albanism in Greek, and how it isn't quite one: με το που. Mediterranean Language Review 15. 87-128.
• Nicholas, N. 2002. Folk Functionalism in Planned Language: The Long-Distance Reflexive vo'a in Lojban. Journal of Universal Language 3:1. 133-167. [PDF]
• Nicholas, N. 1999a [2001]. A Conundrum of Cats: Pards and their Relatives in Byzantium. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 40. 253-298. (PDF)
• Estival, D. & Nicholas, N. 1999. TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French Text. Computers and the Humanities 33:1/2. 155-174.
• Nicholas, N. 1998a. To aper and o opios: Untangling Mediaeval Relativisation. In Joseph, B.D., Horrocks, G.C. & Philippaki-Warburton, I. (eds), Themes in Greek Linguistics II. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 159) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 283-323.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

• Nicholas, N. 2006b. How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative. In Burke, J. et al. (eds), Byzantine Narrative: Papers in Honour of Roger Scott. (Byzantina Australiensia 16) Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. 182-192.
• Norrby, C., Debski, R. & Nicholas, N. 2004. Saving small languages -- Swedish goes online. In Wigglesworth, G. (ed.), Proceedings of the Making Our Difference Conference. School of Languages, University of Melbourne, 2003. Melbourne: University of Melbourne. 194-208.
• Nicholas, N. 2001. A Survey of Modern Greek Dialectal Complementation. In Ralli, A., Joseph, B.D. & Janse, M. (eds), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. Patras: University of Patras. 193-206.* [PDF]
• Nicholas, N. 1999b. The Diatopy of Modern Greek what-expressions. Melbourne Papers in Linguistics 18. 53-72. [Reworked as Nicholas 2004a]
• Nicholas, N. 1997a. To aper: A Mediaeval Italiot Relativiser. In Drachman, G., Malikouti-Drachman, A., Fykias, J. & Klidi, C. (eds), Greek Linguistics '95: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Greek Linguistics. 2 vols. Graz: W. Neugebauer. II:749-758.* [PDF]
• Nicholas, N. 1996a. Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlanguage in the Pacific. Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on 'Future Issues for Multilingual Text Processing', Cairns, Australia, 27 August 1996. 31-39.*
• Nicholas, N. 1996b. The diachrony of Modern Greek complementiser pos: A Non-Monotonic Linguistic Change. University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics 16. 195-222.
• Nicholas, N. 1995a. Parameters for an Ontology of Rhetorical Structure Theory. University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics 15. 77-93. [PDF]

Edited

• Eira, C., Jukes, A. & Nicholas, N. (eds) 1996. Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 16. Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
• Bowden, J., Fletcher, J. & Nicholas, N. (eds) 1995. Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 15. Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
• Hajek, J. & Nicholas, N. (eds) 1994. Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 14. Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
• Editor, Dhumbadji! Journal for the History of Language. 1997-1998.
• Editor, History of Language. 1998-2000.

Reviews

• Nicholas, N. 2000. Review of Drettas, G., Aspects Pontiques. Word 51. 438-443.
• Nicholas, N. 1999c. Review of Charpentier, L., Le mystère basque. History of Language 5. 23-30.
• Nicholas, N. 1999d. Review of Friedrich, P., Proto-Indo-European Syntax. History of Language 5. 35-39.
• Nicholas, N. 1998b. Review of Walter, H., L'Aventure des Langues en Occident. Dhumbadji! 4. 82-85.
• Nicholas, N. 1998c. Review of Harris, A. & Campbell, L., Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. History of Language 4. 141-146.
• Nicholas, N. 1998d. Review of Jucker, A. (ed.), Historical Pragmatics. Diachronica 15. 165-170.
• Nicholas, N. 1998e. Review of Niehoff-Panagiotidis, J., Koine und Diglossie. Diachronica 15. 379-383.
• Nicholas, N. 1997b. Review of Philippaki-Warburton, I., Nicolaidis, K. & Sifianou, M., Themes in Greek Linguistics. (Review article.) Dhumbadji! 3. 87-101. [PDF]
• Nicholas, N. 1997c. Review of Norwich, J. J., Byzantium: The Decline and the Fall. Dhumbadji! 3. 136-138. Reprinted in Kirk, N. & Sidwell, P. (eds), Professing Koernerian Linguistics: A Selection of Papers and Reviews presented in honour of Professor E.F.K. Koerner. (AHL Studies in the Science & History of Language 1) Melbourne: Association for the History of Language. 80-83.
• Nicholas, N. 1997d. Review of Haase, M., Die Grammatikalisierung von Höflichkeit. Word 48. 124-130.
• Nicholas, N. 1997e. Review of Lord, C., Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions. Word 48. 453-459.
• Nicholas, N. & Sidwell, P. 1997. Review of Keller, R., On Language Change: The Invisible Hand in Language. Dhumbadji! 3. 124-128. Reprinted in Kirk, N. & Sidwell, P. (eds), Professing Koernerian Linguistics: A Selection of Papers and Reviews presented in honour of Professor E.F.K. Koerner. (AHL Studies in the Science & History of Language 1) Melbourne: Association for the History of Language. 109-114.
• Nicholas, N. 1996c. Review of Gutknecht, C. & Rölle, L. J., Translating by Factors. Dhumbadji! 3. 37-41.
• Nicholas, N. 1995b. Review of McMahon, A., Understanding Language Change. Dhumbadji! 2:2. 45-48. Reprinted in Kirk, N. & Sidwell, P. (eds), Professing Koernerian Linguistics: A Selection of Papers and Reviews presented in honour of Professor E.F.K. Koerner. (AHL Studies in the Science & History of Language 1) Melbourne: Association for the History of Language. 105-108.
• Nicholas, N. 1995c. Review of Zymberi, I., Colloquial Albanian. Dhumbadji! 2:2. 48-50.

Reports, Notes & Varia

• Ingria, R. 2005. Grammatical formatives in a generative lexical theory: The case of Modern Greek και. Journal of Greek Linguistics 6. 61-101. [edited] *
• Nicholas, N. 2005c. Byzantine Musical Notation. Unicode Technical Note #20. Unicode Consortium. http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn20/ *
• Hanks, P. (ed.) 2003. Dictionary of American Family Names. 3 vols. New York: Oxford University Press. [Contributor for Greek surnames] *
• Nicholas, N. & Parent, R. 2000. TLG Beta Code Manual. Published on Thesaurus Linguae Graecae website. [PDF]
• Nicholas, N. 1998f. A History of the Association for Historical Linguistics. In Kirk, N. & Sidwell, P. (eds), Professing Koernerian Linguistics: A Selection of Papers and Reviews presented in honour of Professor E.F.K. Koerner. (AHL Studies in the Science & History of Language 1) Melbourne: Association for the History of Language. 1-9. *
• Nicholas, N. 1997f. 'e' qun Del: Topic, Focus, and Copula in Klingon. HolQeD: The Journal of the Klingon Language Institute 6:2. 10-16.
• Nicholas, N. 1996d. Klingon Colours. HolQeD: The Journal of the Klingon Language Institute 5:2. 7-9.
• Nicholas, N. 1996e. Non-Monotonicity in Linguistic Innovation: An Instance from Mediaeval Greek. Dhumbadji! 2:4. 14-15. *
• Nicholas, N. & Sidwell, P. 1996. Conference Report: Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (13-18 Aug. 1995) Part Two; Interview with April McMahon & Kimberley Parsons. Dhumbadji! 2:4. 16-22. *
• Nicholas, N. & Sidwell, P. 1995. Conference Report: Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (13-18 Aug. 1995); Interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Dhumbadji! 2:3. 19-26. *

Unpublished

• Nicholas, N. 1999e. The story of pu: The grammaticalisation in space and time of a Modern Greek complementiser. PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne.
• Nicholas, N. 1994. Problems in the Application of Rhetorical Structure Theory to Text Generation. MEngSc thesis, The University of Melbourne. [PDF]

Blog Posts

• Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος [Hellenisteukontos]: Personal blog on Greek linguistics, ancient and modern (in English).

Presentations

• 'The deletion of final /s/ in Mani and Corsica'. Second International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Mytilene, Greece, October 2004. [PDF]
• 'How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative'. Fourteenth Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, August 2004.
• 'How Greek were the Greeks of Corsica?' Departmental Seminar, Department of French Italian & Spanish Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, August 2004. [PDF]
• 'What Did The Quadrupeds Know And When Did They Know It: The Education of a Byzantine Bestiarist'. European Studies Research Seminar, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, September 2002. [PDF]
• (with George Baloglou) 'Humor or Dissent? Two Late Byzantine Animal Epics'. Twenty-Sixth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge (Ma.), October 2000.
• 'A Survey of Modern Greek Dialectal Complementation'. First International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, University of Patras, Patras, October 2000. [PDF]
• 'Anti-factive imprecatives in Modern Greek: Pragmatics against Persistence'. Fourteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics: Workshop on Historical Pragmatics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 1999. [PDF]
• 'Against a metaphoricist account of grammaticalisation: the diatopic evidence of Modern Greek pu'. Departmental Seminar, Department of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne, October 1998. [PDF]
• 'The Diatopy of Modern Greek Cleft 'what'-expressions'. Seventh Postgraduate Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, September 1998.
• (with Dominique Estival) 'TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French Text.'
  • (presented by Dominique Estival) Text Encoding Initiative Tenth Anniversary User Conference, Brown University, Providence (Rhode Island), November 1997.
  • (presented by Nick Nicholas) Australian Natural Language Postgraduate Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, January 1998.
• 'The Contribution of Euboea to Western Civilisation'. 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Euboean Association of Melbourne, Melbourne, October 1997.
• 'No Facting Way:' Anti-Factive Modern Greek Exclamatory Clauses'. Sixth Postgraduate Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, August 1997. [PDF]
• 'The Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Reevaluating a Late Byzantine Bestiary'.
  • Australian Association for Byzantine Studies Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, April 1997.
  • Second University of Melbourne School of Languages Postgraduate Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, April 1997.
• 'Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlanguage in the Pacific'.
  • Microsoft Research Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney, October 1996.
  • Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on 'Future Issues for Multilingual Text Processing', Cairns, August 1996.
• 'The Catastrophe-Tale of Khamlet: Issues in Translating Shakespeare into Klingon'. Linguistics Intercampus Postgraduate Society Seminar Series, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, August 1996.
• 'The Diachrony of Modern Greek Complementiser pos'. Fifth Postgraduate Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, May 1996. [PDF]
• 'Relativisation in Mediaeval Italiot Greek Legal Documents'. Second International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, September 1995.
• 'Parameters for an Ontology of Rhetorical Structure Theory'.
  • Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, August 1995.
  • XEROX NLP Laboratories, Grenoble (France), August 1995.
  • Fourth Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, May 1995.
• Presentation on Bernard Comrie's attempts to correlate formal linguistic and real-world markedness. Issues Seminar series, Department of Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, May 1995.
• Presentation on the PELUDO Text Generation System. Natural Language Processing series, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Software Research, Sydney, February 1995.
• Presentation on the Klingon language and linguistics. Journal Club series, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Software Research, Syndey, February 1995.
• (with Marija Tabain) Presentation on Peter Ladefoged et al.'s acoustic phonetic modelling of vowel production in American English using Task Dynamics. Issues Seminar series, Department of Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, September 1994.

Non-Academic

• Nicholas, N. & Cowan, J.C. (eds) 2003. What is Lojban? / .i la lojban. mo. Fairfax (Va.): Logical Language Group. 174+iii pp. ISBN: 0-9660283-1-7.
• Shakespeare. W. 2001. paghmo' tIn mIS. Tr. Nicholas, N. [Translation of Much Ado About Nothing into Klingon.] Flourtown (Pa.): Klingon Language Institute. 199+xii pp. ISBN: 1-58715-501-X.
• Shakespeare, W. 2000. The Klingon Hamlet. Tr. Nicholas, N. & Strader, A. [Translation of Hamlet into Klingon; revised.] New York: Pocket Books. 219+xvi pp. ISBN: 0-671-03578-9.
• Shakespeare, W. 1996. Qo'noS ta'puq, Hamlet lotlut. Tr. Nicholas, N. & Strader, A. [Translation of Hamlet into Klingon.] Flourtown (Pa.): Klingon Language Institute. 212+xvi pp. ISBN: 0-9644345-1-2.
• See also
  • Klingon Page
  • Lojban Page