Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
United States Exploring Expedition United States Exploring Expedition Horatio Emmons Hale Ethnography of Australian Aborigines; investigation of languages; comparative word list (33 items) of 9 languages of N.S.W.; phonology of Australian languages; comparative grammars of Awabakal (calle… OL1505871W
Australian Sign Language (Auslan) Australian Sign Language (Auslan) Trevor Johnston This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of the structure of … OL15179760W
Australian sign language (Auslan) Australian sign language (Auslan) Trevor Johnston A text on the linguistics of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). It starts with a brief intro into language and linguistics, then the social context of Auslan, the history of Auslan and other sign lan… OL16959857W
Encountering Aboriginal languages Encountering Aboriginal languages William McGregor This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning… OL18960752W
Innamincka talk Innamincka talk Gavan Breen Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on t… OL3821892W
Australian Languages Australian Languages R. M. W. Dixon 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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Profe… OL8006235W