This bibliography lists all the published and unpublished written material on Gascoyne-Ashburton languages, together with a short description of the contents. Abbreviations used are:
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Alexander, W.B. 1920. Aboriginal names of the animals of the Lyons River district. Journal of Royal Society of Western Australia, 6(1):37-40. [Warriyangka vocabulary -- 60 words for birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. The source is "full-blooded aboriginals from the district where the Lyons River flows into the Gascoyne ... in the employ of Mr Rutherford, who has a station in that locality."] Anonymous. 1904. Onslow district -- trees, bushes, and grasses; method of counting. Science of Man 6(12):184-5. [Thalanyji vocabulary of 185 items, arranged semantically. Identical to anonymous nd. except for typographical errors.] Anonymous. nd. Native vocabulary -- Onslow district. Typescript, 3pp. Perth, Battye library. [Seems to be original of Anonymous 1904; differences in spelling probably due to errors in publication.] Austin, P. 1978a. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 1. Manuscript, 78pp. [GALP reference PAN1, Carnarvon 2-10 May 1978. Tharrkari and Purduna.] Austin, P. 1978b. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 2. Manuscript, 56pp. [GALP reference PAN2, Carnarvon 2-10 May 1978. Payungu, Thalanyji and Purduna.] Austin, P. 1978c. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 3A. Manuscript, 126pp. [GALP reference PAN3A, Carnarvon 5-12 May 1978. Purduna, Thalanyji, Payungu, Warriyangka, Tharrkari.] Austin, P. 1978d. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 3B. Manuscript, 32pp. [GALP reference PAN3B, Carnarvon 6-8 May 1978. Tharrkari.] Austin, P. 1978e. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 4. Manuscript, 148pp. [GALP reference PAN4, Carnarvon 9-18 August 1978. Yingkarta, Payungu, Thalanyji, Purduna, Tharrkari.] Austin, P. 1978f. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 5. Manuscript, 135pp. [GALP reference PAN5, Carnarvon 18 August 1978, Carnarvon and Onslow 19-26 November 1978. Thalanyji, Payungu, Yingkarta, Jiwarli, Jurruru.] Austin, P. 1978g. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 6. Manuscript, 6pp. [GALP reference PAN6, Carnarvon 26 November 1978. Payungu.] Austin, P. 1979a. A wordlist of the Kanyara languages. Typescript, 24pp. [Comparative vocabularies in Payungu, Thalanyji and Purduna arranged in semantic fields.] Austin, P. 1979b. A wordlist of the Mantharta languages. Manuscript, 29pp. [Comparative vocabularies in Tharrkari, Warriyangka, Jiwarli, Thiin and Jurruru arranged in semantic fields.] Austin, P. 1979c. Notes on the Djiwarli language. Typescript, 30pp. [Draft grammatical outline based on data collected in 1978.] Austin, P. l980. Notes on the grammar of Djiwarli, Western Australia. Typescript, 65pp. [Revision of 1979 draft grammar.] Austin, P. 1981a. Dhargari, Western Australia: a preliminary grammar. Typescript, 17pp. [Descriptive grammar based on Klokeid 1969 plus Austin's 1978 data.] Austin, P. 1981b. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 7. Manuscript, 194pp. [GALP reference PAN7, Carnarvon and Onslow 1-13 November 1981. Purduna, Thalanyji, Payungu, Yingkarta, Jiwarli, Thiin.] Austin, P. 1981c. Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology. Lingua 54.295-333. [Discusses genetic classification of two subgroups. Demonstrates Purduna and Tharrkari phonological changes. Presents several hundred reconstructions.] Austin, P. 1981d. Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1(2).211-26. [Argues that case marking is determined by complex interaction of phrase and clause syntax.] Austin, P. 1982a. An introductory grammar of Tharrkari, Western Australia. Typescript, 37pp. [Revision of 1981 draft grammar.] Austin, P. 1982b. Jiwarli dictionary (preliminary version). Typescript, 24pp. Austin, P. 1982c. Southern Pilbara phonology revisited. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference, Sydney. Manuscript, 15pp. [Argues for alternative account of Purduna and Tharrkari phonological changes based on synchronic variation in Jiwarli.] Austin, P. 1983a. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 8. Manuscript, 37pp. [GALP reference PAN8, Carnarvon 2-8 November 1983. Jiwarli, Payungu, Thalanyji, Mirniny.] Austin, P. 1983b. Classification of Southern Pilbara languages. Paper presented at Pacific Science Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand. Typescript, 13pp. [Revised classification based on morphology and phonological developments. Several hundred additional reconstructions included.] Austin, P. 1983c. Southern Pilbara dictionaries. In P. Austin (ed.), Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 15: Australian Aboriginal Lexicography. 1-17. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics A66. [Outlines research on computerised dictionary project.] Austin, P. 1984a. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 9. Manuscript, 153pp. [GALP reference PAN9, Onslow 14-25 May 1984. Jiwarli.] Austin, P. 1984b. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 9A. Manuscript, 114pp. [GALP reference PAN9A, Onslow 14-25 May 1984. Jiwarli texts copied from Notebook 9 and supplied with morpheme by morpheme gloss plus free gloss.] Austin, P. 1984c. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 11. Manuscript, 72pp. [GALP reference PAN11, Carnarvon 6-14 December 1984. Payungu, Thalanyji.] Austin, P. 1984d. An introductory dictionary of Thalanyji, Typescript, 15pp. [Alphabetical wordlist Thalanyji to English (including grammatical categories). Uses voiced symbols medially.] Austin, P. 1984e. An introductory dictionary of Payungu. Typescript, 30pp. [Alphabetical wordlist Payungu to English (including grammatical categories). Uses voiced symbols medially.] Austin, P. 1985a. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 12. Manuscript, 94pp. [GALP reference PAN12, Carnarvon and Onslow 11-19 May 1985. Thalanyji, Jiwarli.] Austin, P. 1985b. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 13. Manuscript, 88pp. [GALP reference PAN13, Carnarvon and Onslow 20-22 May 1985. Jiwarli, Thalanyji, Payungu. Transcription of tapes SP42, SP43, Jack Butler speaking Jiwarli recorded by Alan Dench, July 1985, transcribed by Peter Austin, 19 August 1985. Transcription of tape SP37, Jack Butler speaking Jiwarli recorded by Alan Dench, 1 July 1982, transcribed by Peter Austin 18 October 1985.] Austin, P. 1985c. Southern Pilbara fieldnotes -- Notebook 14. Manuscript, 14pp. [GALP reference PAN14. Continuation of transcription of tape SP37.] Austin, P. 1985d. Classification of Southern Pilbara languages. Typescript, 28pp. [Revision of 1983 conference paper.] Austin, P. 1985e. A reference grammar of Jiwarli, Western Australia. Computer printout, 45pp. [Draft grammar used in lectures for Linguistics II/III AB. Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Phonology, Chapter 3 Morphology, Chapter 4 Nominal Morphology, Chapter 5 Verb Morphology.] Austin, P. 1985f. Inflection and derivation in Australian languages. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Brisbane. Manuscript, 10pp. [Argues that traditional distinction does not apply unproblematically to certain languages.] Austin, P. 1985g. Annotations and corrections to Proto-Kanyara and Proto-Mantharta historical phonology. Typescript, 3pp. [Annotations and corrections to 1981 Lingua paper.] Austin, P. 1985h. Cases and clauses in Jiwarli, Western Australia. Paper presented at University of California, Los Angeles. Manuscript, 23pp. [Description of interaction between case marking and clause type.] Austin, P. 1985i. Case-marking in Jiwarli, Western Australia. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America annual conference, Seattle, Washington. Manuscript, 9pp. [Summary of Cases and clauses in Jiwarli, Western Australia.] Austin, P. 1986a. Database report I: entries to English. Computer printout, 777pp. [Comparative list of words in languages from Gascoyne-Ashburton region plus Ngamini, Guwamu, Gamilaraay.] Austin, P. 1986b. Database report II: English to entries. Computer printout, 513pp. Austin, P. 1986c. Database report: item report for all languages sorted by ascending entry. Computer printout, 361pp. Austin, P. 1986d. Southern Pilbara phonology. Manuscript, 15pp. [Discussion of phonological characteristics including stopping of laterals. Includes acoustic data and spectrographs.] Austin, P. 1986e. Kanyara languages: glossed sentences and texts. Computer printout, 86pp. [Glossed material from fieldnotes and unpublished sources.] Austin, P. 1986f. Mantharta languages: glossed sentences and texts. Computer printout, 143pp. [Glossed material from fieldnotes and unpublished sources.] Austin, P. 1986g. Jiwarli concordance listing. Computer printout, 97pp. [Concordance of all Jiwarli material.] Austin, P. 1986h. Jiwarli concordance index. Computer printout, 72pp. [Index of all Jiwarli material.] Austin, P. 1986i. Ngayarta comparative listing. Computer printout, 384pp. [Comparative word list English to language for Panyjima, Martuthunira and Jurruru.] Austin, P. 1986j. Comparative list of Pilbara languages. Computer printout, 696pp. [Comparative wordlist English to language for Panyjima, Martuthunira, Jurruru, Jiwarli, Warriyangka, Thiin, Tharrkari, Payungu, Purduna, Thalanyji, Yingkarta.] Austin, P. 1986k. Project report 1: place-names. Typescript, 10pp. [Listing of place names plus map references on 1:250,000 NATMAPs.] Austin, P. 1986l. Project report 2: personal histories. Typescript, 4pp. [Outline biographies of language consultants.] Austin, P. 1986m. Project report 3: genealogies. Typescript, 5pp. [Genealogy diagrams produced by MacDraw program.] Austin, P. 1987a. A learner's dictionary of Payungu, Western Australia. Typescript, 23pp. [Elementary dictionary arranged by semantic fields, written in practical orthography. Introduction includes place names, map, notes on spelling. Prepared for year 9 Aboriginal Studies Course, Carnarvon Senior High School.] Austin, P. 1987b. A learner's reference dictionary of Payungu. Typescript, 84pp. [Payungu-English and English-Payungu dictionary arranged alphabetically. Written in practical orthography. Introduction includes place names, map, description of dictionary format, notes on spelling. Prepared for year 9 Aboriginal Studies Course, Carnarvon Senior High School.] Austin, P. 1987c. Payungu kujuru: Payungu stories. Typescript, 12pp. [Six stories in Payungu with English translations, morpheme by morpheme glosses and explanatory notes. Introduction covers language location, map, and spelling. Prepared for year 9 Aboriginal Studies Course, Carnarvon Senior High School.] Austin, P. 1987d. Payungu Wanggara: Let's talk Payungu. Typescript, 14pp. [Payungu language lessons (one to three), including exercises and answers. Introduction covers language location, map, and spelling. Prepared for year 9 Aboriginal Studies Course, Carnarvon Senior High School.] Austin, P. 1987e. Project report 6: spelling of language names. Typescript, 19pp. [List all spellings for language names found in the literature on Gascoyne-Ashburton languages, sorted by spelling and by language.] Austin, P. 1987f. A reference grammar of the Mantharta languages, Western Australia. Typescript, 50pp. Austin, P. 1987g. Word order and clause combining in Gascoyne-Ashburton languages. In DeLancy, S. & Tomlin, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Third Pacific Languages Conference. 1-12. Eugene: University of Oregon. [Discusses the interaction of word order case and switch-reference showing how grammatical devices enable word order freedom.] Austin, P. 1987h. Cases and clauses in Jiwarli, Western Australia. Typescript, 36pp. [Discusses case-marking and complex sentence constructions in terms of a theory of case proposed by Michael Silverstein.] Austin, P. 1988. Word order in a free word order language -- the case of Jiwarli. Typescript 20pp. [Discusses pragmatic factors influencing word order in texts.] Austin, P. & Nathan, D. 1987. Computer-generated finderlists for bilingual dictionaries. Typescript, 15pp. [Describes algorithm for automatically generating English finderlists for a bilingual dictionary.] Austin, P., Nathan, D. & Webb, G.I. 1987. Dictionaries and concordances: application of a database model. Typescript, 10pp. [Describes application of a network database model to dictionary making, using data from Gascoyne-Ashburton languages.]
Bates, D.M. 1914. Social organisation of some Western Australian tribes. Report of Australian Association for the Advancement of Sciences 14:387-400. Bates, D.M. 1985. The native tribes of Western Australia. Edited by Isobel White. Canberra: National Library of Australia. [Names and locations of Gascoyne-Ashburton languages on pages 56-7, 62-3.] Bates, D.M. n.d. Native vocabularies -- Roebourne, Gascoyne, Ashburton, De Grey. Typescript. [Daisy Bates papers XII, 2D ANL MS 365 Box 48-51. Details are: 1. Native vocabulary XII, 2D, 4a: native vocabulary compiled by Talainji and Boordoona (Boodana) people. 2. Native vocabulary XII, 2D, 4b: native vocabulary compiled by Gunmaguru and Bulgara (Talainji). 3. Native vocabulary XII, 2D, 5: native vocabulary compiled by Nyimbaija of Medhering, Lyons River. 4. Native vocabulary XII, 2D, 7: native vocabulary compiled by Edward Cornally (white man) of Wandajee, Gascoyne and Minilya, Carnarvon Magisterial District. 5. Native vocabulary XII, 2D, 8: vocabulary of the Gascoyne and Ashburton districts, taken from Notebook 3a. Medhering, Lyons, Mirdalbirdee, m. Paljeri, speaking Warreeanga country. 6. Native vocabulary XII, 2D, 12: compiled from vocabularies submitted by T. Carter, Point Cloates; J.H.T. Monger Weeda Station, Gascoyne; Edward Cornally, Wandajee Station (Gascoyne and Ashburton); T.L. Richardson, Gascoyne; Rev E.R. Gribble, Gascoyne River.] Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1965a. Report on fieldwork northwest Western Australia 15th June-15th July 1965. Typescript. [AIAS reference pMS 2141.] Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1965b. General report on linguistic fieldwork: results 1964 and to date, plans, progress and problems of publication. Typescript. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1966c. Report on fieldwork northwest Western Australia 1st-29th September 1966. Typescript. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1967a. The language situation in the Pilbara: past and present. Papers in Australian linguistics No. 2, 1-20a. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics Series A No. 11. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1967b. Interim report to AIAS 17 July -- 10 October 1967. Typescript. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1968a. Interim report to AIAS 1968 No. 1 (July-August). Typescript. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1968b. Interim report to AIAS 1968 No. 2 (September-December). Typescript. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1969. Report on fieldwork 1969. Typescript. Brandenstein, C.G. von. [1964-]1969. The diaries of Carl Georg von Brandenstein. Manuscript, 1616pp. [Fieldnotes including words and sentences.] Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1974. Tjururu. Typescript, 57pp. [Contents: introduction, informants, texts 1-7, linguistic symbols, suffix inventory, vocabulary.] Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1982. GTS: 88 grammar text sheets exemplifying grammatical, lexical and phraseological diversities as well as links of 25 Aboriginal languages from Western Australia. Typescript, 90pp. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1983a. Pinikurra phrases and words. Typescript, 3pp. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1983b. Tjururu phrases and words. Typescript, 23pp. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1983c. Tjururu text material. Typescript, 23pp. Brandenstein, C.G. von. 1983d. Warriyarngka phrases and words. Typescript, 1p. Butler, J. & Austin, P. 1984. Jiwarli stories. Typescript, 50pp. [Jiwarli stories with English translations for each sentence (no interlinear glosses).] Butler, J. & Austin, P. 1985. Jiwarli texts. Computer printout, 60pp. [Jiwarli texts with interlinear glosses and English translations.] Butler, J. & Austin, P. 1986. Earthquake and Halley's comet: two Jiwarli texts. Aboriginal History 10:79-88.
Carter, T. 1903-4. Birds occurring in the region of the North-West Cape. The Emu 3(1).30-38, 3(2).89-96, 3(3).171-77, 3(4).207-13. [List of identified birds. "I have added the aboriginal district names for the birds as far as I can recollect them" (p.31). Thirty two Aboriginal bird names given; most appear to be Thalanyji.] Connelly, J.F. 1932. Distribution of tribes in Western Australia. Mankind 1(5).101. Davidson, D.S. 1928-32. Comparative vocabularies of nineteen Western Australian languages. Manuscript. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. [AIAS reference MS1097.] Dench, A. 1979. A first outline of the Yingkarta language. Manuscript, 58pp. [Essay written for Linguistics A12, Department of Linguistics (Arts) ANU. Sketch grammar based on data collected in 1978.] Dench, A. 1983. Reconstruction of the pronoun paradigms of Pilbara languages. Typescript. Canberra: Australian National University. Dench, A. 1984. Pilbara demonstrative reconstructions. Typescript, 19pp. Canberra: Australian National University. [Proposed reconstructions of demonstratives in Ngayarta, Kanyara and Mantharta languages.] Dench, A. 1985a. Introduction to Inggarda. Typescript, 12pp. [Introduction prepared for East Carnarvon Primary School, includes introduction to the language situation, problems associated with teaching Inggarda, how to spell Inggarda words, some aspects of the grammar of Inggarda, a selected wordlist.] Dench, A. 1985b. A grammar of Yingkarta. Typescript, 28pp. [Sketch grammar, includes discussion of the language and its speakers, phonology and morphology.] Dench, A. 1986. Martuthunira kinship revisited. Typescript, 23pp. [Discusses inconsistencies between Radcliffe-Brown's and Scheffler's accounts.] Dench, A. 1987a. Kinship and collective activity in the Ngayarta languages of Northwest Western Australia. Language in Society 16.321-339. [Discusses collective and reciprocal suffixes, relating them to initiation ritual contexts of collective activity.] Dench, A. 1987b. Complex sentences in Martuthunira. In Austin, P. (ed.) Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages, 97-139. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Includes comparisons between Martuthunira and Thalanyji.] Dench, A. 1987c. Martuthunira: a language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. PhD thesis, ANU. [Includes mention of Kanyara and Mantharta languages.] Douglas, W.H. 1981. Watjarri. In Dixon, R.M.W. & Blake, B.J. (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages Vol. 2. 197-272. Canberra: Australian National University Press. [Sketch grammar of Wajarri, includes wordlist.]
Fink, R.A. 1955-7. Fieldnote books. Manuscript. [AIAS reference 8737 (MS 46) Book D Wadjeri word and phrase book. Book H. Carnarvon notes -- includes songs in some languages relevant to GALP.] Gifford, E.F. 1886. No. 11 -- From north-west cape to thirty miles south of the Gascoyne River. The Kakarakala tribe. In E.M. Curr The Australian Race, 302-5. Melbourne: Government Printer. [IAAS reference 0022. Vocabulary list of 113 words in Yingkarta. "1877, the year in which the territory of this tribe was first occupied by the whites, the Kakarakala numbered, and still number, about 2,000 souls."] Gribble, E.R. 1903. Aboriginal dialects -- Gascoigne River, W. Australia. Science of Man 6:56. ["words of the Ingarrah tribe". Yingkarta vocabulary of 70 items.] Hale, K.L. 1960. Payungu vocabulary. Manuscript, 8pp. [Approximately 60 words. In possession of Hale, carbon copy in possession of G.N. O'Grady.] Klokeid, T.J. 1967a. Thargari fieldnotes -- Book 1. Manuscript, 191pp. [AIAS reference 7865 (Ms 259). GALP reference TKN1.] Klokeid, T.J. 1967b. Thargari fieldnotes -- Book 2. Manuscript, 42pp. [AIAS reference 4874 (pMs 933 Envelope 1). GALP reference TKN2.] Klokeid, T.J. 1967c. Thargari fieldnotes -- Book 3. Manuscript, 32pp. [AIAS reference 4874 (pMs 933 Envelope 3). GALP reference TKN3.] Klokeid, T.J. 1967d. Thargari notes -- Book AB. Manuscript, 117pp. [GALP reference TYKN4. Includes drafts of Klokeid's honours thesis (published 1969).] Klokeid, T.J. 1967e. Burduna vocabulary. Manuscript, 22pp. [Vocabulary on G.N. O'Grady's standard form, 1,000 words (many missing). GALP reference TKV1.] Klokeid, T.J. 1969. Thargari phonology and morphology. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. [GALP reference TKB.]
O'Grady, A. 1979. Bayungu dictionary. Typescript, 79pp. [Payungu-English dictionary compiled from G.N. O'Grady's fieldnotes. In possession of author.] O'Grady, G.N. 1957-58. Material on suffixing languages of Western Australia. Manuscript. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. [AIAS reference MS 320. GALP reference OGNO. Contents: vocabularies from questionnaires; O'Grady vocabularies; Dalandji, Dargari, Buduna, Bajunu sentence materials.] O'Grady, G.N. 1959. Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia. BA Thesis, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney. 187pp. [AIAS reference 7127 (MS 639), IAAS reference 0087.] O'Grady, G.N. 1966. Proto-Ngayarta phonology. Oceanic Linguistics 5.71-130. [Includes cognates in Kanyara and Mantharta languages.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967a. Notebook 1 (Transcriptions from tape of Bayungu, Wariyangka and Targari). Manuscript, 34pp. [AIAS reference 4876 (pMs 1348). GALP reference OGN1.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967b. Notebook 2. Manuscript, 40pp. [AIAS reference 4875 (pMs 1349). GALP reference OGN2.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967c. Notebook 3. Manuscript, 13pp. [AIAS reference 4893 (pMs 1347). GALP reference OGN3.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967d. Notebook 7. Manuscript, 34pp. [GALP reference OGN7.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967e. Notebook 8. Manuscript, 56pp. [GALP reference OGN8.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967f. Port Augusta and Carnarvon vocabularies -- Curruru. Manuscript, 8pp. [Vocabulary list of 300 items, recorded from Bob Williams. GALP reference OGV1.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967g. Port Augusta and Carnarvon vocabularies -- Warienga. Manuscript, 28pp. [Vocabulary list of 700 items, recorded from Alec Eagles. GALP reference OGV2.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967h. Port Augusta and Carnarvon vocabularies -- Thiinma. Manuscript, 13pp. [Vocabulary list of 300 items, recorded from Donald Eagles. GALP reference OGV3.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967i. Port Augusta and Carnarvon vocabularies -- Bayungu. Manuscript, 52pp. [Vocabulary list of 1,300 items, recorded from Daisy Maia. GALP reference OGV4.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967j. Port Augusta and Carnarvon vocabularies -- Talandji. Manuscript, 3pp. [Vocabulary list of 75 items, recorded from Dougal Ard. GALP reference OGV5.] O'Grady, G.N. 1967k. Proto-Kanyara reconstructions. Cardfile. [Comparative vocabulary slips, approximately 150, in possession of author.] O'Grady, G.N., Voegelin C.F. & Voegelin, F.M. 1966. Indo-Pacific fascile six. Anthropological linguistics 8(2). [Yingkarta pp114-118, Payungu p108, Pinikura p103, Thalanyji p103-7, Tharrkari p111-2.] Oldfield, Augustus. 1865. On the Aborigines of Australia. Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, 3:215-298. [Mentions "Angaardie tribe to the north-east" of the Wajari, probably Yingkarta.] Paterson, A. 1957a. Burdura wordlist. Manuscript. [Wordlist of 108 items requested by G.N. O'Grady and completed at Yanrey station. In possession of G.N. O'Grady.]
Paterson, A. 1957b. Warienga wordlist. Manuscript. [Wordlist of 108 items requested by G.N. O'Grady and completed at Yanrey station with the assistance of Alec Eagles. In possession of G.N. O'Grady.] Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1910-12. Notebooks and vocabularies. Manuscript. Sydney: Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. nd.a. North-west division short vocabulary. Typescript. [AIAS reference MS 995(3). Vocabulary in Palyku, Ngarluma, Jurruru, Thalanyji, Nyamal, Pinikura, Payungu.] Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. nd.b. Local groups card file. Manuscript. University of Sydney. [File of 150 cards held in Radcliffe-Brown papers, University of Sydney Archives.] Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1912. Distribution of native tribes in part of Western Australia. Man 12.75. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1913. Three tribes of Western Australia. Journal of Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 43.143-94. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1930-31. The social organization of Australian Tribes. Oceania 1:34-63, 206-246, 322-341, 426-456. [Gascoyne-Ashburton tribes on pp211-215.] Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1952. Structure and function in primitive society. London: Cohen and West. Richardson, T.L. 1900. Western Australian native words. Science of Man Vol. 3 no. 6. [Vocabulary of 38 words, apparently Wajarri. IAAS reference 0006. "aboriginal words as spoken on the Gascoyne River, Western Australia, which I have obtained from a friend of mine resident there for the last seven years". "Wadgaree, Piedong, and Ingra dialects".]
Serventy, D.L. & Whittell, H.M. 1976. Birds of Western Australia. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press. [Gives Aboriginal language bird names from early sources.] Tindale, N.B. 1953a. Anthropological Field Notes on the UCLA-UA Anthropological Expedition N.W. Australia, Vol. III. Manuscript. [Mentions Globe Hill Jack, Thalanyji speaker on pp 473, 523, 527, 657.] Tindale, N.B. 1953b. Anthropological Field Notes on the UCLA-UA Anthropological Expedition N.W. Australia. Vol. IV: Vocabularies and Social Frameworks. Manuscript. [Vocabulary 124 in Thalanyji recorded from Globe Hill Jack 17 June 1953. Social Framework for Thalanyji Tribe -- Globe Hill Jack (from Tindale's journal p. 473, page R15.] Tindale, N.B. 1957. Talandji wordlist. Manuscript. [Wordlist of 108 items requested by G.N. O'Grady. Approximately half completed. In possession of G.N. O'Grady.] Tindale, N.B. 1966. Journal of a Trip to Western Australia in search of Tribal Data. Manuscript. [Carnarvon research on pp 70-99.] Webb, G.I. 1986. Free gloss manipulation programs for the Multi-Dict multilingual dictionary. Computer printout, 19pp. [Description of sentence entry, glossing and concordance computer programs for Gascoyne-Ashburton languages project, La Trobe University.] Wordick, F.J.F. 1982. The Yindjibarndi language. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics Series C No. 71. [Mentions Gascoyne-Ashburton languages; some cognates given in vocabulary list.] Yabaroo [Cameron, A.S.] 1899. Aborigines of north-west Australia. Perth. [Contains Thalanyji vocabulary.]
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