Barry Alpher: review article

Link goes to TOC of journal (vol 34/5:807-810) Review article by Barry Alpher regarding RMW Dixon’s Australian Languages: their nature and development.

Barry Blake – Languages of the South-Eastern mainland of Australia

link under recent publications on Kulin.

ALS 2004: Christina Pentland and Mary Laughren

Distinguishing Prosodic Word and Phonological Word in Warlpiri: Prosodic Constituency in Morphologically Complex Words

ALS 2004: Bill McGregor

Frs. Herman Nekes and Ernest Worms’ Dictionary of Australian languages, Part III of ‘Australian Languages’ (1953)

ALS 2004: Brett Baker

The Domain of Phonological Processes.

Book Reviews – AJL 25/2

Second review concerns Aboriginal English, Kriol and Indigenous languages; third review is of the Gamilaraay dictionary.

Word Order Pragmatics and Narrative Functions in Garrwa

by Ilana Mushin, University of Sydney.
Link goes to abstract on Ingenta’s site, a university subscription is required to view full content.

ODIN – The Online Database of Interlinear Text

Includes Warlpiri, Yingkarta and other Aboriginal languages.

RNLD: Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity

(from their home page)

Networking practitioners working to record,
retrieve & reintroduce endangered languages.

This site will be developed to share skills on methods for working with endangered languages between language maintenance practitioners in the region broadly bounded by Australia, Indonesia, East Timor and Melanesia, including:

* documentation
* recording
* data management and archiving
* transcribing
* digitising
* training

Practical advice and links will also address techniques for retrieving linguistic information from archival sources and for programs to revive and reintroduce languages.

Awaye on anniversary of hand-back of Uluru

Has interviews with Anangu people in Pitjantjatjara/Yaanykuntjatjara.