List of References: Ling 425/525: The Languages of Australia

Claire Bowern
This list is a list of useful books and articles on various aspects of Australian languages. Its (obviously)
organized by general subject area. This is the short version of the bibliography.

General, and collections of papers

(Useful for browsing)

Carrington, Lois, and Geraldine Triffitt, ed. 1999. OZBIB: A linguistic bibliography of Aboriginal Australia
and the Torres Strait Islands. D-92. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Austin, Peter, R.M.W. Dixon, Tom Dutton, and Isobel White, ed. 1990. Language and History: Essays
in honour of Luise A. Hercus, volume C-116. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Austin, Peter, et al., ed. 1988. Papers in Australian linguistics, volume 17 of A-71 . Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics
Bowern, Claire, and Harold Koch, ed. 2004. Australian languages: Classification and the comparative
method . Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Dixon, R.M.W., ed. 1976. Grammatical categories in Australian languages: Proceedings of the 1974 AIAS
conference. Canberra: AIAS
Dixon, R.M.W.. 1980. The languages of Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Dixon, R.M.W., and Barry Blake, ed. 1979. Handbook of Australian languages, volume 1. Canberra: ANU
Press
Dixon, R.M.W., and Barry Blake, ed. 1981. Handbook of Australian languages, volume 2. Canberra: ANU
Press
Dixon, R.M.W., and Barry Blake, ed. 1983a. Handbook of Australian languages, volume 3. Canberra:
ANU Press
Dixon, RMW, and Barry Blake, ed. 1983b. The handbook of australian languages, vol. 4: The aboriginal
languages of melbourne and other grammatical sketches. Melbourne: Oxford University Press
Dixon, R.M.W., and Barry Blake, ed. 2000. Handbook of Australian languages, volume 5. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Durie, M., and M Ross, ed. 1996. The comparative method reviewed; regularity and irregularity in language
change. New York: Oxford University Press
Evans, Nicholas, ed. 2004. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies
of the continents most linguistically complex region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
McConvell, Patrick, and Nicholas Evans. 1997. Archaeology and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in global
perspective. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
OGrady, G.N., and D.T. Tryon, ed. 1990. Studies in comparative Pama-Nyungan, volume C-111. Pacific
Linguistics

 Simpson, Jane, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin, and Barry Alpher, ed. 2001. Forty years on:
Ken Hale and Australian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Wurm, Stephen A.. 1972. Languages of Australia and Tasmania. the Hague: Mouton de Gruyter
Yallop, Colin. 1982. Australian aboriginal languges. Andre Deutsch

Phonetics/Phonology
Breen, Gavan. 1997. Taps, stops and trills. In Tryon and Walsh (1997), 7193
Breen, Gavan, and Rob Pensalfini. 1999. Arrernte, a language with no syllable onsets. Linguistic Inquiry
30:125
Fabricius, Anne. 1998. A comparative survey of reduplication in Australian Languages, volume 3 of Lincom
Studies in Australian Languages. M
unchen: Lincom Europa
Hercus, Luise Anna. 1972. The prestopped nasal and lateral consonants of Arabana-Wanganguru. Anthropological Linguistics 14:293305
McGregor, William B.. 1988. On the status of the feature rhotic in some languages of the north-west
of Australia. In Aboriginal linguistics 1 , ed. Nicholas Evans and Steve Johnson, 166187. Armidale:
University of New England

Morphology and Pronouns

Dixon, R.M.W., ed. 1976. Grammatical categories in Australian languages: Proceedings of the 1974 AIAS
conference. Canberra: AIAS
Dench, Alan. 1994. The historical development of pronoun paradigms in the Pilbara region of Western
Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 14:155191
Dench, Alan, and Nicholas Evans. 1988. Multiple case-marking in Australian languages. Australian Journal
of Linguistics 8:147
McGregor, William B.. 1989. Greenberg on the first person inclusive dual: evidence from some Australian
languages. Studies in Language 13:437451

Syntax
Austin, Peter. 1981b. Switch-reference in Australia. Language 57:309334
Austin, Peter. 1988. Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages, volume 15 of Typological
Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Bowern, Claire. to appear . Agreement and referentiality in Bardi discourse. In in a volume on discourse
and argument structure, ed. Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin, 20pp. ms, Cambridge
Dench, Alan. 1982. The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of
Western Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 2:4359
Dench, Alan, and Nicholas Evans. 1988. Multiple case-marking in Australian languages. Australian Journal
of Linguistics 8:147
Dixon, R.M.W.. 1994. Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Hale, Kenneth L.. 1970. The passive and ergative in language change: the Australian case. In Wurm and
Laycock (1970), 757781

 Hale, Kenneth L.. 1976. The adjoined relative clause in Australia. In Dixon (1976), 78105
Hale, Kenneth L.. 1992. Word order in two free word order languages. volume 22 of Typological Studies
in Language, 6382. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
McGregor, William B.. 1994. Complex sentences in Nyulnyul. Functions of Language 1:2566
McGregor, William B.. 2000. Reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Nyulnyulan languages. In Reciprocals: forms and functions, ed. Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci S. Curl, 85122. John Benjamins
McGregor, William B.. 2002. Verb classification in Australian languages, volume 25 of Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
Nordlinger, Rachel. 1997. Constructive case: Evidenc from Australian languages. Sydney: CSLI Publications
Schultze-Berndt, Eva. 2000. Simple and complex verbs in Jaminjung. a study in event categorisation. PhD
thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Wilson, Stephen. 1999. Coverbs and complex predicates in Wagiman. CSLI Publications, Cambridge
University Press

Historical

5.1

Classifications

OGrady, Geoffrey N., C. F. Voegelin, and F. M. Voegelin. 1966a. Languages of the world: Indo-Pacific
fascicle 6. Anthropological Linguistics 8:1199
OGrady, Geoffrey N., Stephen A. Wurm, and Kenneth L. Hale. 1966b. Map of Aboriginal languages of
Australia. Victoria, Canada: Department of Linguistics, UVic

5.2

General

Aikhenvald, Alexandra, and R.M.W. Dixon, ed. 2001. Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance: Problems
in comparative linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Alpher, Barry. 2004. Pama-Nyungan: Phonological reconstruction and status as a phylogenetic group.
In Australian languages: Classification and the comparative method , ed. Claire Bowern and Harold Koch,
chapter 5, 105142. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Alpher, Barry, and David Nash. 1999. Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia. Australian
Journal of Linguistics 19:556
Black, Paul. 1997. Lexicostatistics and Australian languages. In Tryon and Walsh (1997), 5169
Blake, Barry. 1990. The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages. In Baldi (1990),
43550
Dench, Alan. 2001. Descent and diffusion: the complexity of the Pilbara situation. In Aikhenvald and
Dixon (2001), chapter 5, 105133
Dixon, R.M.W.. 1990. Summary report: linguistic reconstruction and change in the Australian language
family. In Baldi (1990), 393401
Dixon, R.M.W.. 1997. The rise and fall of languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Dixon, R.M.W.. 2001. The Australian linguistic area. In Aikhenvald and Dixon (2001), chapter 4, 64104
Dixon, R.M.W.. 2002. Australian languages: their nature and development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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 Evans, Nicholas. 1990. Without this child - some regularities of semantic change in the Australian linguistic
area. In Austin et al. (1990), 137155
Heath, Jeffrey. 1981. A case of intensive lexical diffusion: Arnhem Land, Australia. Language 57:335367
Heath, Jeffrey. 1997. Lost wax: Abrupt replacement of key morphemes in Australian agreement complexes.
Diachronica 14:197232
Koch, Harold. 1996. Reconstruction in morphology. In Durie and Ross (1996), chapter 8, 218263
Koch, Harold. 1997a. Comparative linguistics and Australian prehistory. In McConvell and Evans (1997),
chapter 3, 2743
Koch, Harold. 1997b. Pama-Nyungan reflexes in the Arandic Languages. In Tryon and Walsh (1997),
271302
Koch, Harold. 2004. A methodological history of Australian linguistic chassification. In Australian languages: classification and the comparative method , ed. Claire Bowern and Harold Koch, volume 249 of
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, chapter 2, 1766. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
McConvell, Patrick. 1996. Backtracking to Babel: The chronology of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 31:125144

Language planning, language death

Amery, Rob. 2000. Warrabarna Kaurna! reclaiming an Australian language. Lisse, Netherlands: Swets
and Zeitlinger publishers
Evans, Nicholas. 2001. The last speaker is dead; long live the last speaker. In Linguistic fieldwork , ed.
Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff, chapter 12, 25081. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Song Language, culture, etc

Dixon, R.M.W.. 1996. Origin legends and linguistic relationships. Oceania 67:127139
Hercus, Luise A., and Peter Sutton, ed. 1986. This is what happened: Historical narratives of aborigines.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Publications
Moyle, Alice. c. 1970. Songs from the Kimberleys: companion booklet for a 12-inch lp disc. AIAS cat no.
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Reference grammars
Austin, Peter. 1981a. A grammar of Diyari, South Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Blake, Barry. 1979. a Kalkatungu grammar , volume B57. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Blevins, Juliette. 2001. Nhanda. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Coate, Howard H. J.. 1970. A grammar of Ngarinjin, Western Australia, volume 25/10 of Australian
Aboriginal Studies. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Dench, Alan. 1994? Martuthunira: a language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, volume ??
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics (also available as electronic version from author)
Dixon, R.M.W.. 1972. The Dyirbal language of North Queensland , volume 9 of Cambridge Studies in
Linguistics. London: Cambridge University Press
Dixon, R.M.W.. 1977. A grammar of yidiny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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 Donaldson, Tamsin. 1980. Ngiyambaa: the language of the Wangaaybuwan. Cambridge studies in linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Evans, Nicholas. 1995. A grammar of Kayardild, with historical-comparative notes on Tangkic. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter
Harvey, Mark. 2002. A grammar of Kaakudju. the Hague: Mouton
Heath, Jeffrey. 1984. A functional grammar of Nunggubuyu. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal
Studies
Heath, Jeffrey. 1986. Basic materials in Ngandi . Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Hercus, Luise Anna. 1986. The baagandji language. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Hercus, Luise Anna. 1994. A grammar of the Arabana-Wangkangurru language. Lake Eyre Basin, South
Australia, volume C-128. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics
Hudson, Joyce. 1978. The core of Walmatjari grammar . Canberra: AIAS
McGregor, William B.. 1990. A functional grammar of Gooniyandi . Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Metcalfe, Christopher Douglas. 1975. Bardi verb morphology. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics B30
Nash, David. 1986. Topics in Warlpiri grammar . Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. New York:
Garland Publishing Inc
OGrady, Geoffrey N.. 1964. Nyangumarta grammar , volume 9 of Oceania Linguistic Monographs. Sydney:
University of Sydney
Rumsey, Alan. 1982. An intra-sentence grammar of Ungarinjin, north-western Australia. B86. Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics
Simpson, Jane. 1991. Warlpiri morphosyntax: A lexicalist approach. Dortrecht: Kluwer academic publishers
Stokes, Bronwyn. 1982. A description of the Nyigina language of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra