Table of Contents

Detailed contents
Series preface
Abbreviations and conventions
The contributors
Language maps
Australian language families and linguistic classifications
Kado Muir: Foreword
1: Claire Bowern: Introduction
Part I: Background
2: Clara Stockigt: A history of the early description of Australian languages
3: Nicholas Thieberger: Documentation of Australian languages
4: Rachel Nordlinger: Australian languages and syntactic theory
5: Luisa Miceli and Claire Bowern: Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past
6: Clara Stockigt: Nineteenth-century classifications of Australian languages
7: Claire Bowern: How many languages are and were spoken in Australia?
8: John Giacon and Harold Koch: Philological methods for Australian languages
Part II: Structures
A: Phonetics and phonology
9: Marija Tabain: Articulatory and acoustic phonetics
10: Erich R. Round: Segment inventories
11: Erich R. Round: Phonotactics
12: Erich R. Round: Morphophonology: Lenition and assimilation
13: Erich R. Round: Nasal cluster dissimilation
14: Kathleen Jepson and Thomas Ennever: Lexical stress
15: Janet Fletcher: Intonation
16: Barry Alpher: Sound change
B: Morphosyntax
17: Oliver Shoulson: Word classes
18: Dana Louagie: The noun phrase
19: Amalia Skilton: Noun classes
20: Vivien Dunn and Felicity Meakins: Ergativity
21: Jane Simpson: Semantic case
22: Maïa Ponsonnet: Possession
23: Dana Louagie: Demonstratives
24: Alice Gaby and Oliver Shoulson: Pronouns
25: Juhyae Kim: Adjectives and adverbs
26: David Osgarby and Claire Bowern: Complex predication and serialization
27: Harold Koch: Conjugation classes
28: Parker Brody: Agreement morphology
29: Erich R. Round and Xavier Bach: Suppletion
30: Stef Spronck: Valency change and causation
31: Alice Gaby: Reflexives and reciprocals
32: James Bednall: Tense and aspect
33: James Bednall: Modality and mood
34: Josh Phillips: Negation
35: Magda Andrews-Hoke and Parker Brody: Word order
36: Juhyae Kim and Claire Bowern: Questions
37: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Subordination
38: Rachel Hendery: Relative clauses
39: Jessica Denniss: Antipassives
40: Barry Alpher and Claire Bowern: Morphological change
C: Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
41: Margit Bowler and Ivan Kapitonov: Quantification
42: Dorothea Hoffmann: Direction and location
43: Patrick McConvell: Kinship, marriage, and skins
44: Katherine Rosenberg, Jane Simpson, and Claire Bowern: Toponyms
45: Joe Blythe and Ilana Mushin: Discourse and social interaction
46: Francesca Merlan: Narrative
47: Maïa Ponsonnet: Interjections
48: Michael Walsh: Insults and compliments
49: Katherine Rosenberg and Claire Bowern: Language names
Part III: Sociolinguistics and language variation
50: Jennifer Green, Inge Kral, and Sally Treloyn: The verbal arts in Indigenous Australia
51: John Mansfield: Sociolinguistic variation
52: Jennifer Green: Australian Indigenous sign languages
53: John Bradley and Alice Gaby: Gender-based dialects
54: Jill Vaughan: Multilingualism
55: Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Code-switching
56: Denise Angelo: Language contact
57: Greg Dickson: Kriol
58: Carmel O'Shannessy: Young people's varieties
59: Michael Walsh: Restricted respect registers and auxiliary languages
60: Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly, Gillian Wigglesworth, and Rachel Nordlinger: Language input and child-directed speech
Part IV: Language in the Community
61: Rob Amery: Language policy, planning, and standardization
62: Gillian Wigglesworth and Samantha Disbray: Indigenous children's language practices in Australia
63: Catherine Bow: Technology for Australian languages
64: Maryanne Gale: Language revival
65: Rob Amery and Maryanne Gale: Language, land, identity, and well-being
Part V: Structural sketches of languages, subgroups, and families
66: Denise Angelo: Contact language case studies
67: Nicholas Evans and Alexandra Marley: The Gunwinyguan languages
68: Marie-Elaine van Egmond: Anindilyakwa
69: Stef Spronck: Languages of the Kimberley region
70: Margaret Carew and David Felipe Guerrero Beltran: The Maningrida languages
71: K. Eira: Living languages of Victoria
72: Jean-Christophe Verstraete: Lamalamic (Paman)
73: Margaret Sharpe: The Bandialangic languages and dialects
74: Denise Smith-Ali, Sue Hanson, George Hayden, Claire Bowern, Akshay Aitha, Lydia Ding, and Sarah Mihuc: Noongar
75: Sarah Babinski, Luis-Miguel Rojas-Berscia, and Claire Bowern: The Wati (Western Desert) subgroup of Pama-Nyungan
76: Felicity Meakins, Thomas Ennever, David Osgarby, Mitchell Browne, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway: Ngumpin-Yapa languages
77: Doug Marmion: Wajarri
78: Annie Reynolds and Theresa Sainty: The revitalization of the sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages: palawa kani
References
Index

About the Author

Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University