Papers
Publications
Hughes, B., D. Penton, S. Bird, C. Bow, G. Wigglesworth, P. McConvell and J. Simpson. 2004. Management of metadata in linguistic fieldwork - Experience from ACLA . Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation . European Language Resources Association: Paris. pp 193-196.
McConvell, Patrick and Felicity Meakins. (2005). Gurindji Kriol: A mixed language emerges from code-switching. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25.1: 9-30.
O'Shannessy, Carmel. (2005). Light Warlpiri: A new language. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25.1: 31-57.
Meakins Felicity and Carmel O'Shannessy. (2005) Possessing variation: Age and inalienability related variables in the possessive contructions of two Australian mixed languages. Monash University Working Papers in Linguistics. 4.2: 43-64.
Disbray, Samantha and Jane Simpson. (2005) The expression of possession in Wumpurrarni English, Tennant Creek. Monash University Working Papers in Linguistics. 4.2: 65-86.
McConvell, Patrick. (2005) Language contact interaction and possessive variation. Monash University Working Papers in Linguistics. 4.2: 87-105.
Conference Papers
Disbray, Samantha and Gillian Wigglesworth. "Emergent literacy practices in pre-school age indigenous children in Tennant Creek". Paper given at the Australian Linguistics Society Conference (Sydney, Australia 13-15 July 2004) and the Australia Applied Linguistics Association Conference (Adelaide 15-17 July 2004).
Meakins, Felicity and Carmel O'Shannessy. "Shifting functions of ergative case-marking in Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol". Paper given at the Australian Linguistics Society Conference (Sydney, Australia 13-15 July 2004).
McConvell, Patrick, Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. "Emergent Possessive Constructions in Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol". Paper given at the Language Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties Symposium (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 3-4 Sept 2004).
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Simpson, Jane and Samantha Disbray. "Evolving Ways of Expressing Possession in the Tennant Creek Area". Paper given at the Language Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties Symposium (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 3-4 Sept 2004).
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Disbray, Samantha, Patrick McConvell, Felicity Meakins, Karin Moses, Carmel O'Shannessy, Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth. Language Acquisition by Aboriginal Children and Educational Implications. Paper given at AIATSIS. (Canberra, Australia 18 Oct 2004).
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McConvell, Patrick and Felicity Meakins. The Animacy dimension in the reshaping of ergative case marking in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language. Paper given at Pionier Colloquium on Animacy. (Radboud University, Holland 19-20 May 2005)
McConvell, Patrick, Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Kriol and mixed languages in Australia: constraining substrate and superstrate explanations of emergent structures. Paper given at Creoles Conference. (MPI Leipzig, Germany 3-5 June 2005)
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Disbray, Samantha. Language Mixing and Language Maintenance: Story telling strategies among Aboriginal caregivers. Paper given at IASCL Congress (Berlin 25-29 July 2005)
Wigglesworth, Gillian and Samantha Disbray. A Longitudinal Study of Language Acquisition in Australian Aboriginal Children in Three Communities. Paper given at Imagining Childhood: Children, Culture and Community. (CDU, Alice Springs 20-22 Sept 2005)
McConvell, Patrick and Jane Simpson. The transitive marker -im in Australian Indigenous English, creoles and hybrid languages: variation and change. Paper given at Blackwood by the Beach (Pearl Beach, Sydney 17-19 March 2006)
Disbray, Samantha. The expression of location in Wumpurrarni English. Paper given at Blackwood by the Beach (Pearl Beach, Sydney 17-19 March 2006)
O'Shannessy, Carmel and Felicity Meakins. Comprehending Ergative Marking and Word Order in Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol. Paper given at Blackwood by the Beach (Pearl Beach, Sydney 17-19 March 2006)
Book Reviews
Meakins, Felicity. Review of: Matras, Yaron and Peter Bakker. 2003.The Mixed Language Debate. Linguist List. 29 Sept. 2004.