De Gruyter, 1991. — 808 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 6). Yir-Yoront/English dictionary, with English index; notes on phonology and orthography, grammatical categories, semantics and taxonomy, kin terms, respect vocabulary, lists of plants, birds with Latin and Yir-Yoront terms.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1990. — 298 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 116). Tamsin Donaldson - Patakirraparaaypuwan in western New South Wales Peter Austin - The last words of Pirlatapa Barry J. Blake - Languages of the Queensland/Northern Territory border: updating the classification J.G. Breen - Stories from Bennie Kerwin...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2010. — 418 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 626). For almost 40 years, Michael Walsh has been working alongside Indigenous people: documenting language, music and other traditional knowledge, acting on behalf of claimants to land in the Northern Territory, and making crucial contributions to the revitalisation of...
Publisher: University of Chicago Date: 1999 Pages: 245 Word Structure in Ngalakgan is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and morphology of an Australian language in 20 years. Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. The morphological structures of Ngalakgan require a two-level analysis: ROOT-level...
The Australian National University and Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), 2019. — 615 p. Cette thèse sur l'anindilyakwa, langue gunwinyguan, fournit une analyse empirique de l'expression temporelle, aspectuelle et modale (TAM) dans une langue peu documentée de l'archipel de Groote Eylandt, au nord-est de la région d'Arnhem en Australie.Les objectifs de la thèse sont à la fois...
University of Melbourne, 2023. — 435 p. This thesis presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of Marri Ngarr, a critically endangered Australian indigenous language traditionally spoken in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. Prior to this research, description of Marri Ngarr was limited to descriptions of only a few aspects of the grammar. The...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976. — xii + 191 p. This study describes the phonology and grammar of MalakMalak, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by a dwindling number of speakers on the Daly River, Western Arnhem Land, about one hundred miles southwest of Darwin. The Introduction outlines the geographical location and linguistic classification...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1998. — x + 177 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 147). The papers in this volume represent an activity that is becoming increasingly common: putting together scattered sources, mainly from the nineteenth century, on various Australian languages, particularly languages of south-eastern...
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1977. — 90 p. Tables. Maps. Distribution of Selected Features. Method. Classification of Australian languages. Pama-Nyungan. Non-Pama-Nyungan. Morphological structure in general. Case marking. Number marking. Class marking. The case marking for the major syntactic relations: a first approximation Distribution of ergative and...
Routledge, 2013. — 240 р. — (RLE Linguistics: World Linguistics) Surveys morphology and syntax of large number of Aboriginal languages; focuses on grammatical relations through case marking, particularly ergative/absolutive distinctions linked to hierarchy of subclasses from pronouns to inanimate nouns marked for accusative case; word order, multi-verb and multi-clause sentences.
Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 2001. — 96 p. Today, Kija is an endangered language spoken in East Kimberley in Western Australia. Like most Kimberley languages it is not actively spoken by children. The majority of Kija speakers are elderly or middle aged. Most young Kija adults and children speak Kriol as their first language as well as varieties of Aboriginal English....
Routledge, 1990. — 187 p. A description of the syntax of the Australian Aboriginal language Pitjantjatjara. This book looks at the relevant categories and constituents in the language and examines the question of whether the constituents exhibit a syntactically basic order. The data shows that word order in a range of constructions is constrained and Heather Bowe argues that...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 1179 p. The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 703 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 249). This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can...
Harvard University, 2004. — 410 p.
Морфология глагола языка пати с исторической точки зрения.
This dissertation is an investigation into the structure of verbal predicates in Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I examine possible synchronic analyses and reconstruct the history of the systems between Proto-Nyulnyulan and the modern attested...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1990. — 178 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 105). This volume contains salvage studies of a number of extinct languages formerly spoken in western Queensland. In two cases I was able to work briefly with the last speaker of the language, and the material thus obtained is supplemented by lists of words...
Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 2024. — xxii + 555 p. This volume is a descriptive analysis of Warlmanpa, a highly endangered language traditionally spoken northwest of the town of Tennant Creek, where most of the remaining speakers now live. This grammatical description is based on language work carried out by community members and linguists since 1952, and is the first published...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — xvi + 277 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 69). The present volume is devoted to the comparative study of the languages spoken in the northern part of the Kimberley Division of western Australia, which, when looked at geographically and linguistically, suggests itself as a possible unit which can...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 214 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 98). Maung is an Australian aboriginal language spoken by the Maung people on the Goulburn Islands, off the north coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Maung is closely related to Iwaidja language which occupies the northwestern corner of the opposite mainland. This is a language that...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1999. — 292 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 92). The aim of the OZBIB project has been to produce a bibliography of published works and theses about Australian indigenous languages. As a basis we used the language entries in Greenway's bibliography, augmented and corrected from bibliographical...
University of Adelaide, 2000. — 554 p. A description of the grammar of Worora, a language from the north west Kimberley region of Western Australia, proceeds along pedagogical lines. Introducing the speakers of Worora and their history and society, and the nature of the land in which they used to live, as well as to the manner and circumstances in which this account came to be...
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. — 519 p.
The Kimberley Arafuran language Worrorra was spoken traditionally on the remote coastline and precipitously beautiful hinterland between the Walcott Inlet and the Prince Regent River. The language described here is that attested by its last full speakers, Patsy Lulpunda, Amy Peters and Daisy Utemorrah. Patsy Lulpunda was a child...
Monash University, 2017. — 507 p. This study is a comprehensive description of the nominal demonstratives in Dalabon, a severely endangered Gunwinyguan non-Pama-Nyungan language of southwestern Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Demonstratives are attested in the basic vocabulary of every language, yet remain heretofore underdescribed in Australian languages. Traditional...
Macquarie University, 2022. — 117 p. This thesis investigates place reference in conversations conducted in Gija; an endangered Australian Aboriginal language from the East Kimberley region, northern Western Australia. Sixty-six minutes of video-recorded multiparty conversation were transcribed and analysed with the aims of investigating how spatial relationships are expressed...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 591 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 10). Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidiñ, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic theory
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 778 p. — (Cambridge Language Surveys). — ISBN 0-511-03783-X; ISBN 0-521-47378-0.
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary...
Allen & Unwin, 2019. — 208 p. When Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay, about 250 distinct languages were spoken across the continent. Yet Australian Indigenous languages actually share many common features. Bob Dixon has been working with elders to research Australian languages for half a century, and he draws on this deep experience to outline the common features. He provides a...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 360 p.
This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidiñ (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders includes further studies on...
Publisher: University of Queensland Publication date: 1984 ISBN: 07022-1933-9 Number of pages: 346 This work describes the travels, adventures, and characters of a linguistics field-worker, mostly in 1960's Australia. Although there is much in this book specific to the work of a linguistics field-worker, it is full of enough interesting tales, characters and recent Australian...
Cambridge University Press, 1980. — 569 p. — (Cambridge Language Surveys). This book is primarily written for an Australian audience - students of linguistics, and also people with little or no training in linguistics who are interested in the nature and structure of Aboriginal Australian languages, their paths of evolution, and their conditions of use. With this group of...
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979. — xviii, 390 p.: 4 maps This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of languages across the...
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983. — xxiv, 531 p. + 5 maps This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1981. — 453 p.
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four...
Lincom Europa, 2011. — 519 p. — (Outstanding grammars from Australia 7). Nakkara (now spelt Na-Kara) is a prefixing language of the non-Pama Nyungan variety spoken in and around the community of Maningrida in the Northern Territory of Australia. Like many coastal communities, the Na-Kara tribal area and language group seem always to have been quite small and Na-Kara is now a...
The Kunwinjku Language Centre, 1998. — viii + 191 p. Kunwinjku and Gun-djeihmi are two variants of the one language spoken by Australian Aboriginal people in the north of Kakadu Park and in the western edge of Arnhem Land. The book is mainly aimed at those trying to learn Kunwinjku because this is the much larger of the two language groups, but most of what applies to Kunwinjku...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — x + 523 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 552/Studies in language change 3). The present volume brings together detailed comparative work on a number of non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia, and is the first book-length study to span this linguistically complex region, containing as it...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 864 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 15). Kayardild is a moribund language of the non Pama-Nyungan, Tangkic family, traditionally spoken by the Kaiadilt people of the Southern Wellesley Islands located at the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria, off the north coast of Australia.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — xxx + 776 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 541). Bininj Gunwok is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by approximately 2,000 people in northern Australia. Like most of the Gunwinyguan languages, it is richly polysynthetic. Verbs have a morphological template with around twelve prefix slots...
Australian National University, 1977. — 110 p. The Garrwa people, also spelt Karawa and Garawa, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the Northern Territory, whose traditional lands extended from east of the McArthur River at Borroloola to Doomadgee and the Nicholson River in Queensland.
Australian National University, 2024. — 386 p. This thesis investigates a number of issues in the syntax and semantics of Pintupi-Luritja, a Western Desert (Pama-Nyungan) language spoken in Central Australia. Languages of the region have long been noted for their non-configurational character, whereby the role of syntax in determining or constraining grammatical phenomena is...
The Australian National University, 2008. — x + 172 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 593). The Mirndi language family is one of the very few discontinuous language families that have been proposed for Australia . This reconstruction shows that there is a sufficient evidentiary basis, according to the canons of standard historical linguistics, to show that the Mirndi languages...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. — 305 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 37). This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 516 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 24). Gaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Australian languages generally show a high degree of structural similarity to one another. Gaagudju conforms to some of the common...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — xii + 209 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 516). — ISBN: 0858834618. This grammar provides a description of Limilngan, a previously undescribed and now extinct language of northern Australia. Australian languages generally show a high degree of structural similarity to one another. Limilngan...
Unpublished, 1989. — 116 p. This sketch grammar is based on 28 hours of taped Kamu language material provided by Mrs Elsie O'Brien. Given the limitations, both of time and presently available language materials, this grammar is not in any sense intended as a complete description of the Kamu language. Rather it a general outline description, which covers the prominent features...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — xiv + 534 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 60). Mara is a highly endangered language spoken in Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. It is a prefixing language with three noun classes (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and a singular-plural-dual distinction. It is characterized by an...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980. — xii + 186 p. The extinct Warndarang language was the northernmost member of the Marran Family spoken along the Gulf of Carpentaria in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. It is characterized by an unusually simplified nominal case system but highly intricate pronominal and demonstrative systems. It is a primarily...
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1984. — XIV, 664 p. Grammar of the Nunggubuyu language, a non-Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1978. — XII, 297 p. Ngandi is a possibly extinct language belonging to a large and diffuse group of non-Pama-Nyungan languages spoken in Australia's Northern Territory. It is closely related to the Nunggubuyu language.
Выходные данные неизвестны. Оцифровка архивных материалов Джеффри Хита (Jeffrey Heath). 6 треков в формате MP3, качество звука 320 кбит/сек. Уникальный материал: оригинальные аудиозаписи, сделанные в 1973-1977 году от носителей языка и фольклорной традиции нунггубуйю в миссии Нумбульвар. Нумерация текстов соответствует принятой в печатном сборнике: /file/2769113/ Список файлов...
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1980. — 557 p. (in Nunggubuyu and English) Аудиозаписи шести текстов из данного сборника: /file/3461778/ These texts were recorded, chiefly at Numbulwar Mission (Northern Territory) in the period 1973 to 1977. As a Research Fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies I was there working on several languages, but...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 77). According to the well-known theory of W. Schmidt (1919a) the Victorian languages represent the oldest stratum of Aboriginal languages and have characteristics that differentiate them from the rest of the Australian languages (the theory is disputed by...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — viii + 346 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 77). Ngankikurungkurr is a member of the Daly Family of languages which is located about 150 miles south and west of Darwin, Northern Territory. The Daly Family extends from the Daly River as far south as the Fitzmaurice River, and comprises nine...
University of Manchester, 2012. — 331 p. The thesis provides an in-depth analysis of motion event descriptions of two Australian indigenous languages. Jaminjung is a highly endangered non Pama-Nyungan language with approximately 50 remaining speakers. Kriol, an English-lexified Creole, is spoken by about 20.000 people in different varieties across northern Australia. While the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — viii + 492 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 54). The material presented in the present survey comprises a phonetic and morphological analysis, some texts and vocabularies. As is to be expected in an investigation of a linguistic area in which many, or most, of the languages are not currently...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 172 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 79). While engaged in recording Aboriginal languages in south-east Queensland, Aborigines from other parts of Queensland were often contacted. To complete the picture in some measure, notes were taken of more or less competent informants, who were not included...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 407 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 89). This is a comprehensive linguistic description of Kunbarlang (Gunbalang), a highly endangered polysynthetic language of northern Australia. Kunbarlang belongs to the non-Pama-Nyungan Gunwinyguan language family and is currently spoken by nearly 40 people. This work draws on elicitations and analysis of narratives...
University of Melbourne, 2019. — 387 p. This thesis is a comprehensive description of Kunbarlang, an Aboriginal language from northern Australia. The description and analysis are based on my original field work, as well as build on the preceding body of work by other scholars. Between 2015 and 2018 I have done field work in Warruwi (South Goulburn Island), Maningrida, and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 408 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 89). This is a comprehensive linguistic description of Kunbarlang (Gunbalang), a highly endangered polysynthetic language of northern Australia. Kunbarlang belongs to the non-Pama-Nyungan Gunwinyguan language family and is currently spoken by nearly 40 people. This work draws on elicitations and analysis of narratives...
University of Melbourne, 2015. — iv + 44 p. Kunbarlang is an Aboriginal Australian language. It belongs to the Gunwinyguan family of the northern Australia. Traditional lands of Kunbarlang people lie on the coast to the east of Maningrida, in central Arnhem Land. Like many Aboriginal languages in Australia, Kunbarlang is endangered, spoken today by approximately 20+ speakers. It...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004. — 312 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 553). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, before he began work on the languages of New Guinea, Stephen Wurm undertook considerable fieldwork on languages of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. His fullest materials were on...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — XV, 507 p.
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of...
Publisher: The Australian National University Date: 2009 Pages: 496 ISBN10: 1921666080 Language: English Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, with considerable reinterpretations of their...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 523 p. — (The World of Linguistics 3). The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and...
University of Newcastle, 2021. — 384 p. There is general agreement in the theoretical literature that the concept of ‘complex predicate’ refers to a multi-headed monoclausal structure, which means that at least two predicational constituents are merged to contribute to the overall predication of the clause. Complex predicates therefore challenge syntactic frameworks which...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 268 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 561). The goal of this work is to describe the changes occurring in the Pitjantjatjara speech of teenagers in Areyonga, a Central Australian community, from both a grammatical and a sociolinguistic point of view. The study is based on data collected in 1994...
Publisher: Lad Press Date: 1996 Format / Quality: MP3 / 90kkps Language: Warlpiri Book A Learner's Guide to Warlpiri: Wangkamirlipa Warlpirilki is built around a course of taped language lessons which were prepared and recorded by Professor Kenneth Hale and Robin Japanangka Granites at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 1976. It is the voice of Robin Japanangka...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 458 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 96). This work is a revision of my PhD thesis submitted to the Australian National University in February 1983. The work 'grew like Topsy', from what was basically a description of the changes in the Tiwi language to a fuller work which includes a more...
Publisher: University of Sidney
Date: 1989
Pages: 567
Anindilyakwa [enintilyakwa] is the language spoken by over 1,000 Warn1nd1lyakwa Aborigines on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory. In the Australian language fami lies, it is placed in the Groote Eylandt Fami 1 у (Oates 1970:15) or the Andilyaugwan Fami 1 у (Wurm 1972:117). As Yallop (1982:40) reports, Anindilyakwa and...
Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. — 389 p.
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 240 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 662). This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency. The analysis is based on a representative sample of 100 languages. Among other points, the results call into...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 868 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 57). The Bardi language is currently spoken by fewer than 10 people. The language is a member of the Nyulnyulan family, a small non-Pama-Nyungan family in northwest Australia. This book is a reference grammar of the language. The 16 chapters include information on phonetics and phonology, nominal and...
Content: K. Warren, art: F Jordan. — Numbulwar: 1975. — 16 p., il. Иллюстрированный букварь языка нунггубуйю, одного из языков семьи гуньвиньгу (не пама-нюнга).
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 314 p. — (Pacific Linguistics, vol. 653). — ISBN: 978-1-5015-1139-4; e-ISBN: (PDF) 978-1-5015-0330-6; ISSN: 1448-8310. This book is a detailed study of morphological and phonological patterns in the Murrinhpatha language of northern Australia, and especially of how these two structural dimensions intersect. It is a study of how words are structured in...
University of New South Wales Press, 2023. — 324 p. Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. — 638 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series). — ISBN: 9027230250
This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia. It covers phonetics and phonology, word phrase and clause structure, and the semantics...
The Australian National University, 2011. — xxxii + 915 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 632). This book provides a detailed description of Nyulnyul, a Nyulnyulan (non-Pama-Nyungan) language traditionally spoken in the vicinity of Beagle Bay, situated towards the northern end of the Dampier Land peninsula, Western Australia. The language is now to all intents and purposes extinct, and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2008. — 540 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 591). This edited volume represents the first booklength study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning the period from first settlement to the present day....
London; New York: Routledge Curzon, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. — xxvi + 371 p. — ISBN: 0-203-43471-4; ISBN: 0-203-33965-7; ISBN: 0–415–30808–9. This book provides a general account of the Australian Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in the Kimberley region of the far north-west of Australia. It describes their vocabularies (words, how they are formed...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2002. — 560 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 25). This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 131 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 600). In this book we attempt to establish the genetic relatedness of a set of some twenty named regional speech varieties of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. We argue that, contrary to recent claims by some scholars, they constitute a...
Lincom Europa, 1993. — 61 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 11). Gunin is spoken by a small number of people presently residing at Kalumburu on the far northern coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a nonPamaNyungan language, belonging to the Worrorran or Northern Kimberley family. Phonologically it is unremarkable for an Australian language, except...
Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1988. — 278 p. — (Pacific linguistics 105). This work is the first of two projected volumes gathering together information on languages spoken within the Kimberley region of north-west Western Australia. It is arranged by language groups, and provides brief general information on each...
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 68 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 88). Nyulnyul, the traditional language of Beagle Bay (towards the northern tip of the Dampier Land peninsular, West Kimberley, Western Australia) and environs, is a moribund state, with a single full speaker, and ten or so part speakers. It is a nonPamaNyungan language, one of approximately a dozen members of...
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 80 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 88). Nyulnyul, the traditional language of Beagle Bay (towards the northern tip of the Dampier Land peninsular, West Kimberley, Western Australia) and environs, is a moribund state, with a single full speaker, and ten or so part speakers. It is a nonPamaNyungan language, one of approximately a dozen members of...
Lincom Europa, 1994. — 65 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 89). Warrwa, traditionally spoken in the Derby region of West Kimberley, Western Australia, is an endangered language, with just two full speakers. It is a non-Pama-Nyungan language, one of approximately a dozen members of the Nyulnyulan family; it belongs to the western branch. Phonologically it is typical of an...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 494 р. — (Language Contact and Bilingualism 13). Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 493 р. — (Language Contact and Bilingualism 13). Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and...
Publisher: Linguistic Topology 14
Publication date: 2010
Number of pages: 38
Gurindji Kriol is a mixed language spoken in northern Australia. It is derived from Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language, and Kriol, an English-lexifier creole language. Despite these clear sources, Gurindji Kriol contains grammatical systems which are not found in Gurindji or Kriol, for example...
Australian National University, Canberra, 1983. — 220 p. — (Pacific Linguistics, Series B, no. 89). This is a grammar, a series of texts, and a vocabulary list of the Ngalakan language, an Arnhem language spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia.
De Gruyter Mouton, 1993. — 644 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 11). — ISBN10 3110129426; ISBN13 978-3110129427. The Wardaman people are a small group of Indigenous Australians living about 200km South-West of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia. They speak the Wardaman language which is said to be a near-extinct Australian Aboriginal language. Perhaps the most famous...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 226 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 30). The Bardi Aboriginal language is spoken by some three hundred and sixty people located primarily at Derby, Sunday Island and Lombadina in the Kimberley division of North-western Australia. It is characterised, as with many Australian Aboriginal languages,...
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — x + 239 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) 104). — ISBN: 978-90-272-0571-1. This book emerged from the annual workshop on Australian languages hosted by the University of Melbourne in 2004. Many of the papers in the volume were presented at the workshop, though some were later additions, and some...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 495 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 637). — ISBN10: 1614513066, 13 978-1614513063 Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa is typologically interesting because of its uncertain status in the Australian language family, its...
Publisher: University of Melbourne
Date: August 1993
Pages: 339
Target language: Wambaya
Source languages: English
Wambaya is a Non-Pama-Nyungan language from the Barkly Tablelands region in the northern central part of the Northern Territory. It is one of a family of languages known as the West Barkly languages which occupy an area of the central Northern Territory very...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1998. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 140). Wambaya is a non-Pama-Nyungan language originally spoken in the Barkly Tablelands region of the Northern Territory, Australia. There are perhaps 8-10 fluent speakers remaining, most of whom live in Tennant Creek and Elliott in the Northern...
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974. — 170 p. Grammar of Tiwi; introduction of the language, its location and speakers; phonology; morphophonology; morphology syntax; myths in the Tiwi language with interlinear glosses and free translation; Tiwi-English and English-Tiwi dictionary, thesaurus. Tiwi is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Tiwi people on...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 282 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 536). This book is intended as a thorough description of the Jingulu language as spoken by the handful of speakers remaining in the Northern Territory during the mid to late 1990s. The description is based on material which I collected during three field trips...
Publisher: University of Western Australia
Publication date: 1992
Number of pages: 631
This dissertation is primarily intended as a thorough description of the Jingulu language of North-Central Australia. The first part describes Jingulu’s phonological, morphological and syntactic structure, illustrating with numerous examples collected by the author in the field in 1995 and...
Hardcover: 488 pages Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company (15 Dec 2014) Language: English Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by some 20 speakers in Arnhem Land, Australia. Dalabon is also known as Dangbon, Ngalkbun (the Jawoyn name), and Buwan (the Rembarrnga name). The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study...
Publisher: SIL Australian Aborigines and Islanders Branch
Publication date: 1988
Number of pages: 44
Five studies of aboriginal language use in Australia's Northern Territory include: (1) "Yanyuwa-A Dying Language" (Jean F. Kirton), which outlines the factors contributing to the demise of the use of Yanyuwa since 1963 and the trend toward use of Kriol; (2) "Kriol in the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 498 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 513). The aim of this book is an introduction to ways of meaning in the language of the Anangu people of Australia's Western Desert, with particular focus on the dialect Pitjantjatjara. The Western Desert language is spoken by about six thousand members of a...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 384 p. This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern Australia. It sets forth arguments for recognizing an intricate syntactic structure that underlies the exuberant distribution of inflectional features throughout the clause, and for an...
Publisher: Yale University
Date: 2009
Pages: 795
Target language: Kayardild
Source languages: English
Kayardild is a moribund language of the non Pama-Nyungan, Tangkic family, traditionally spoken by the Kaiadilt people of the Southern Wellesley Islands located at the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria, off the north coast of Australia. At the time of writing,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 192 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 86). The present account deals with phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and with their functions at and below the level of the single sentence. It is a revised version of the first three chapters of my (1978) University of Chicago Ph.D. Dissertation. The...
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 100 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Australian Languages 1). Since Dixon's 1980 reconstruction of the ergative case suffix in Australian languages very little large scale comparison of the ergative has been carried out. However, as the result of a research project on Comparative Australian Studies (headed by R.M.W. Dixon and affiliated with the Australian...
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972. — 208 p. Alawa, also known as Galawa or Waliburu, is the language spoken in the area including Hodgson Downs, Nutwood Downs, and Tanumbirini stations, south of the Roper River and east of the Stuart Highway, The younger people hardly use the Language except when speaking with their elders, and even the latter now use a Creole...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 546 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 512). Bibliography of Ken Hale and Australian languages - Compiled by David Nash Reminiscences of the trip to Australia 1959-1961 - Sara Whitaker Hale 'Both sides of the bitumen': Ken Hale remembering 1959 - Jennifer Green, ed. The wonders of Arandic phonology...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 286 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 642). The use of grammatical gender in the Australian language Mawng calls into question prevailing ideas about the functions of nominal classification systems. Mawng’s gender system has a strong semantic basis and plays an important role in the construction of meaning in discourse. Gender agreement in verbs is frequently...
Canberra: The Australian National University, 1969. — 72 p. Соммер Б. А. Фонология языка кунджен в синхронии и диахронии (на англ. яз.) The Phonological Phrase. The Phonological Word. The Syllable. The Phoneme. Ilbmbandiy: An Avoidance Language. Text Samples and Phoneme Frequencies: Oykangand and Okunjan. Proto-Paman to Kunjen (Oykangand): A Diachronic Study. Kunjen (Oykangand)...
Publisher: The Australian National University
Date: 1992
Pages: 60
This book examines the interface between language and kinship in the Australian Aboriginal language Kunjen which is spoken in the Cape York region of northern Queensland . The author shows that kinship relations play a major role in determining the kinds of linguistic interactions that are appropriate for...
La Trobe University, 2024. — 543 p. The invasion of Australia was accompanied by an obliteration of the languages traditionally spoken in the southeast of the continent. This destruction was particularly extreme in Victoria, whereby by the 1960s practically no speakers of any traditional language could be found. This is the case for the language that was traditionally spoken in...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1993. — 416 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 124). The Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages south of the Kimberley region aims to provide information on material available in and about the Aboriginal languages of southern Western Australia, outside of the Kimberley region. While Aboriginal...
Unpublished. — 88 p. Pungu Pungu, also called Kandjerramalh, is a dialect closely related to Batjamalh, although there are some grammatical differences. Traditional Pungu Pungu country was on the north bank of the Daly River, south of Batjamalh country. There are no longer any speakers left of Pungu Pungu.
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1970. — x + 121 p. Maranungku (or Marranj) is a highly endangered language spoken in the Daly River area of the Northern Territory of Australia. No previous study has been made of Maranungku, although word lists have been gathered for a number of the members of the Daly Language Family. This description is only an...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1981. — xviii + 322 p. The Daly Language Family is located in northern Australia, roughly one hundred miles south-west of Darwin on and around the Daly River. It consists of nine distinct languages and numerous dialects. The present study updates all previous publications by the present writer on the languages of the Daly...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1997. — 452 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 136). Barry Alpher - Fluctuating final n in noun-stems in Cape York languages Peter Austin - Proto Central New South Wales phonology Paul Black - Lexicostatistics and Australian languages: problems and prospects Gavan Breen - Taps, stops and trills...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 492 p. — (Culture and Language Use 18). This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland,...
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Publication date: 1993-01
Number of pages: 244
ISBN: 0855752416
The initial impetus for this volume arose from a belief that there were many important issues concerned with Aboriginal Australia which were not known to a wide enough audience. Over the last twenty years a tremendous amount of work has been carried out on the languages of...
University of Melbourne, 2013. — 191 p. Traditional Tiwi is a language isolate within the Australian language group, traditionally spoken on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin. This language exhibits the most complex verb structure of any Australian language. Altogether there are 18 distinct verb slots; 14 prefixes and 4 suffixes. They encode subject, object and oblique...
Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1999. — 188 p. — (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics). Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Top End of the Northern Territory. It possesses an unusual open class of words which the author calls "coverbs". Most frequently, coverbs are paired with an inflecting verb from a...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. — 770 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 54). The present volume offers thirteen contributions to Australian linguistics problems of a rather wide, general, high-level or off-the-mainstream nature whose discussion has been large lyout side the scope of the quite numerous publicat ions in Australian...
Mouton, 1972. — 206 p. Arnhem Land Australian languages Cape York Peninsula Dyirbalic Kulinic Mbabaram phonemic Tasmanian languages Western Australia Western Desert language.
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