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My dissertation, Bardi Verb Morphology in Historical Perspective, is not freely available online (because of issues with some of the data in it) but I will send you a link to the url if you email me. My address is my last name @ rice dot edu. It is currently being revised for publication by Mouton de Gruyter as a synchronic grammar of Bardi. The link goes to the long abstract.

In preparation:

    • Sivisa Titan: Texts, Grammar, Vocabulary.
    • Bardi Learner's Guide. [not linked here because we have not yet received permission from the One Arm Point community to do so; email me if you're interested in a copy.]
    • Fourth Edition of An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (OUP, 2008; revision of book by Terry Crowley)
    • (compiler, with the Yan-nhaŋu language team) Yan-nhaŋu – Djambarrpuyŋu – English Dictionary. [ms in progress; for submission to Pacific Linguistics in 2008.]
    • (editor with Linda Lanz and Dave Katten) Learner’s Guide to Bardi. Department of Linguistics, Rice University. [ms completed, copies distributed at One Arm Point community; to be submitted for publication following receipt of community feedback in 2008. Email me if you would like a copy.]
    • A Reference Grammar of Bardi. [Provisionally accepted for publication by Mouton de Gruyter (Mouton Grammar Library)]
    • Bardi: a very unconventional nonconfigurational language. [Discussion of nonconfigurationality and the Pronominal Argument Hypothesis, with special reference to Bardi]
    • Fieldwork and language contact. In Hickey, Raymond (ed) Oxford Handbook of Language Contact. Oxford: Blackwell.
Forthcoming, submitted, etc:
    • "A sketch Grammar of Nhirrpi." To be published in a volume of areal studies on the Cooper Creek area, South-Western Queensland, edited by Luise Hercus and Fiona Powell.
    • Historical change in complex predication. [Introduction to an edited volume on complex predicates in historical perspective.]
    • Western Torres Strait Language Classification and Development (with Barry Alpher and Geoffrey O'Grady). [PDF of paper]
    • A paper on subordination in Nyulnyulan languages. For Rice Biennial symposium, March 27-29 2008. [PDF of paper; comments welcome]
    • Reconstruction of Complex Predicates in Nyulnyulan languages. [PDF of paper; comments welcome]

    2008:

    • Spring Reconstruction Workshop paper: Cladistic Case Studies on Australian Languages [PDF of slides]
    • Linguistic Field Work: A Practical Guide. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • "Naming Bardi places". To be published in the sequel volume to The Land is a Map, edited by Luise Hercus and Harold Koch. For publication in 2008.
    • "Referentiality and agreement in Bardi discourse." [For a refereed book edited by Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin on the relationship between argument structure and discourse in Australian languages.] For publication in 2008.
    • "Calquing and Diachronic Syntax." In Gisella Ferarresi and Maria Goldbach (eds), Handbook of Syntactic Reconstruction. For publication in 2008 by John Benjamins.
    • "History of research on Bardi and Jawi." To be published in a volume of studies on the history of Australian languages, edited by William McGregor, to be published in 2008 by Pacific Linguistics.

    2007:

    • Ethics in fieldwork; Talk given at the University of Sydney [Handout]
    • Fieldwork challenges [Handout]
    • Nimanburru language [Handout] -- Draft, work on this language is at an early stage. Please contact me before quoting anything from this handout.
    • LSA Summer Institute Course on the historical linguistics of Australian languages [Handouts: zip archive of pdfs]
    • Review of TshwaneLex dictionary software. Language documentation and conservation 1
    • Australian models of language spread. ICHL, Montréal. [Slides]
    • Bardi ilma. ALS/ILC, Adelaide. (Not available online because of cultural concerns; please email me if you'd like a copy.)
    • The Western Torres Strait Language and its Relation to Pama-Nyungan. [Slides] superceded by forthcoming article above.
    • On Eels, Dolphins and Echidnas: Nyulnyulan Prehistory through the Reconstruction of Flora and Fauna. In Nussbaum, Alan (ed) Verba Docenti: Studies in historical and Indo-European linguistics, presented to Jay H. Jasanoff by students, colleagues, and friends.Beechstave, pp 39-53. [PDF]
    • Review of Language Classification by Numbers (McMahon and McMahon). [PDF]

    2006:

    • Tense Categorization in North-East Arnhem Land. LSA, Albuquerque. [Handout]
    • Linguist/Community relations in Northern Australia. (with the Yan-nhangu language team). [Handout to the poster]
    • Yan-nhaŋu Learner's Guide (Not released here because of pending permission from Yan-nhaŋu community members; please email me if you're interested in a copy.)

    2005:

2004:
    • "The origins of tense-based case marking in Pitta-Pitta and Wangkajutjuru." Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol 24 [This paper has now appeared and is no longer available here.]
    • Review of Crowley, T. Serial Verbs in Oceanic. [Linguistlist review]
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