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Author: Peter Bindon
Publisher: Anthropology Department Western Australian Museum
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication assembles several separately published word lists from South-West Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects. It is not a dictionary but a basic word list. Two listings in alphabetical order are provided: one of Aboriginal words and one of an equivalent English word or phrase.
Author: Nick Thieberger
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gives location, variant spelling, classification, linguistic situation, research and bibliographic information for all languages in regions south of Kimberleys; notes on Aboriginal English and Kriol; extensive annotated bibliography; indexes to variant language spellings, and to linguists.
Author: Wilfrid Henry Douglas
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Linguistic divisions of the region; short comparative word list - English - Watjari - Western Desert, Njungar; dialect differences; four major speech forms and their local designations, texts with translations (Njungar, neo-Nyungar, Wetjala, Yeraka); grammatical study, changes to English, kinship terms, traditional places & beings; phonology, morphophonemics, grammatical structure, dictionary.
Author: Wilfrid Henry Douglas
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English-Njungar dictionary added and section on the grammar and syntax of Njungar rewritten; tagmemic approach replaced by a pedagogical one with analysis at sentence, clause, phrase, word and stem levels; see first edition for rest of annotation.
Author: H. Lambers
Publisher: Apollo Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781742585642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A thorough revision and expansion of Pate and Beard's Kwongan--Plant Life of the Sandplain (1984)"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Carl Georg Brandenstein
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →See published version, 1980, for annotation.
Author: William B. McGregor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1134396023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.
Author: Juliette Blevins
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-07-31
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780824823757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.
Author: Ian G. Malcolm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1501503162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regional and social variation, the circumstances of its development, its relationships to other varieties and its foundations in the history, conceptual predispositions and speech use conventions of its speakers. Much recent research on the dialect has been motivated by concern for the implications of its use in educational and legal contexts. The volume includes a review of such research and its implications as well as an annotated bibliography of significant contributions to study of the dialect and a number of sample texts. While Aboriginal English has been the subject of investigation in diverse places for some 60 years there has hitherto been no authoritative text which brings together the findings of this research and its implications. This volume should be of interest to scholars of English dialects as well as to persons interested in deepening their understanding of Indigenous Australian people and ways of providing more adequately for their needs in a society where there is a disconnect between their own dialect and that which prevails generally in the society of which they are a part.
