Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language combining Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) with
varieties of English and/or Kriol that has emerged within approximately the last thirty-five …

Since colonisation, the language ecology of Australia has shifted dramatically to
accommodate English. ¹ Although a number of Aboriginal languages continue to be spoken …

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in
initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English …

The main goal of paper is to show how NSM findings about lexical universals (semantic
primes) can be applied to semantic analysis in little-described languages. It is argued that …

This paper addresses one of the most controversial issues in cultural anthropology: the
conceptual foundations of kinship and the apparent inevitability of ethnocentrism in kinship …

Increasingly, the field of linguistics is highlighting and attending to global patterns of
diminishing linguistic diversity but to a significant extent it remains unclear what the loss of a …

Dalabon, a severely endangered Gunwinyguan non-Pama-Nyungan language of
southwestern Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Demonstratives are attested in the basic …

Abstract Gurindji Kriol and Light Warlpiri are two mixed languages spoken in northern
Australia by Gurindji and Warlpiri people, respectively. Both languages are the outcome of …

Abstract With 20,000 speakers across Northern Australia, Australian Kriol is well known to
exhibit geographic variation but this has never been systematically studied. This article …

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree
of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English …