The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.

Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University

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