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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal myths : tales of the Dreamtime, 1999
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Stories involving animals, gathered from Language groups throughout Australia. Gathered from often quite isolated Aboriginal groups throughout Australia and passed down over thousands of years, some of the myths have striking similarities. Aboriginal Myths gives a fascinating glimpse of the wild and entertaining deeds of the mythic beings populating Aboriginal spiritual life. Does not include a glossary.creation stories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal myths, legends and fables, 1999
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Aboriginal myths, legends and fables create a rich wealth of stories from Aboriginal Cultural heritage. The stories tell of the mystical bonds that exist between Aboriginal people, their environment and the spirit life of the Dreamtime. Each story provides the reader with an insight into the fascinating beliefs of one of the oldest living cultures on earth.murray river, myths, legends, fables, baiame, bunjil, rainbow snake, astronomy, creation stories, dreamtime -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal stories of Australia, 1998
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A collection of traditional tales that date back to the beginning of time.word listscreation stories, animals, baime, sun, moon, stars, dreaming -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal tales of Australia, 1998
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Populated by mythical beings, these stories of heros, birds, rivers, lakes and shores have been passed down over generations and today offer a window of understanding into the powerful Aboriginal connection to the land.word listscreation stories, dreamtime -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A W Reed, Aboriginal legends : animal tales, 1999
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Collection of creation stories.creation stories, animals, rainbow snake, eagle-hawk, dreamtime -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Vanda Savill, Dear friends, Lake Condah Mission etc. /? yours truly, 1976
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Hand-written history of Lake Condah Mission, with stories and reminiscences of Aboriginal residents; family histories; extracts from Lake Condah Mission 1915 day book.Illustrations, photographs, diagrams, maps, portraitslake condah, family history, stories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Karen Treanor, The little lost bandicoots, 2011
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A storybook for For primary school age children.Colour illustrationscranbourne royal botanic gardens, juvenile fiction, animals -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Lesley van Moolenbroek, Collected works of Lesley van Moolenbroek, 1984
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A collection of poems.murrie, poetry -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, In other words : souvenir program 2005, 2005
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A program from the "In Other Words" Festival, celebrating poets and translators from around Australia and across the world. Features poetry, essays and songs from Jeanie Bell & Vanessa Fisher, Lou Bennet, Ricardo Idagi, and Bruce Pascoe. Works in English and Language.Black and white photographsvacl, south-east queensland, cherbourg, dungibara, ewamin, garumngar, jiman, inala, tiddas, yorta yorta, mer, murray island, wurundjeri, aunty joy murphy wandin, wathaurong aboriginal cooperative, jeanie bell, vanessa fisher, lou bennett, ricardo idagi, bruce pascoe -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Yilpanha wiya yamathi tjapirnku =? why the goanna and the lizard are no longer friends today : the Dreamtime story of the goanna and the lizard, 2005
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Creation story.word lists, colour illustrations, CD-ROMwangkatha, western australia, dreamtime, storytelling, animals -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Aboriginal words of Australia, 1983
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A collection from other sources. State of origin of words identified, but not Languages. Includes some phrases and The Lord's Prayer (from the Darling River).language reference -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Mark Aronoff et al, What is morphology?, 2005
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...grammar, morphology -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, JM Arthur, Aboriginal English : a cultural study, 1996
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Aboriginal English is the first and most significant dialect of Australian English. The term ?Aboriginal English? refers to the form of English used by Aboriginal people. This English is popularly but inaccurately called a ?pidgin?. Rather than being a Pidgin it is a complete language.aboriginal english, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Barry J. Blake, Australian aboriginal languages : a general introduction, 1981
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Excellent non-technical introduction to the general study and characteristics of Aboriginal languages, including notes on many areas of grammar and culture.Colour photographs, tables, word listsvocabulary, linguistics, language and culture -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Barry J Blake, Case marking in Australian languages, 1977
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Linguistic study using case markings. Glossary.Maps, tableslinguistics, case relations in languages, pama-nyungan languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Tim Bonyhady, Words for country : landscape &? language in Australia, 2002
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Landscape and Language -- Lubra Creek -- The River Runs Backwards -- These Blarsted Hills -- Scarcely Any Water on Its Surface -- Everyone Who Has Ever Done A Tree Sit Always Says That The Tree Talks To You -- The Spirit of the Plains Kangaroo -- The Graveyard of a Century -- So Much for a Name -- Blackfellow Oven Roads -- The Ends of the Earth -- Natural Beauty, Man-Made -- Uluru -- The Outside Country -- It's Only Words.Mapslanguage and landscape, language essays, writing, storytelling -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Australia talks : essays on the sociology of Australian immigrant and Aboriginal languages, 1983
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Australia is becoming a living laboratory for research into socio-linguistic/sociology of languages, offering three main fields; aboriginal languages, local varieties of English and immigrant languages in contact with English.Tableslinguistics, sociolinguistics, immigrants -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Bernard Comrie, SBS SBS atlas of languages : the origin and development of languages throughout the world, 2003
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Over 30 full-colour maps, over 40 of the world?s major languages, language family trees, over 100 stunning full-colour photographs. A full glossary of linguistic terms.Maps, colour illustrations, colour photographslinguistics, maps, atlases -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, H M Cooper, Australian Aboriginal words and their meanings, 1966
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Short book of approximately 3,000 words from South Australian languages. No specific indication of source languages given.word listssouth australia, glossaries -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Vicki Couzens, tyama-teeyt yookapa : interviews from the Meeting Point Project, 2014
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...This book is a collection of stories, reflections and hopes abuot Language revival in Australian Aboriginal communities, extracted from a series of interviews carried out during 2009-2010.B&w photographslanguage revival, interviews, indigenous language victoria, indigenous language nsw, parkes, gumbaynggirr, wiradjuri -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, David Crystal, Language death, 2002
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...David Crystal asks the question ?Why is language death so important??, reviews the reasons for the current crisis and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact.language obsolescence, language endangerment, language and globalisation -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 1, 1886
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...b&w illustrations, word listsedward m curr -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 2, 1886
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...b&w illustrations, word listsedward m curr -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 3, 1887
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...word listsedward m curr -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent, Vol. 3.2, 2004
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...CD ROM - home made, contains scanned images of a few pages. CDROM located in CD ROM case.Word lists, CD-ROM -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, James Dawson, Australian Aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia, 1981
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Comprehensive collection of details from James Dawson and his daughter on the people they met when they first settled in the Western District of Victoria in 1840. Detailed notes were kept on language and customs. He involved himself with the local people and respected their rights and lifestyle. He recorded incidents of their first contact with white people.b&w photographs, word lists, document reproductionswestern district, chaap wuurong, djab wurrung, peek whuurong, peek woorong, kuurn kopan noot, dhauwurd wurrung, birds, reptiles, relationship terms -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, RMW Dixon et al, Australian Aboriginal words in English : their origin and meaning, 1990
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...A detailed study and dictionary of English words that have been borrowed from Australian languages. Entries organised by category and include quotes from relevant sources. Etymologies and source languages given wherever possible.B&w illustrations, maps, word listswords and phrases, linguistics, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, RMW Dixon, Australian languages: their nature and development, 2002
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Very comprehensive technical linguistic introduction to the Australian language family, a follow-up to Dixon?s ?The Languages of Australia? (1980). Numerous maps, isoglosses, tables, comparative grammar, phonology, semantics, etc. 1. The language situation in Australia 2. Modelling the language situation 3. Overview 4. Vocabulary 5. Case and other nominal suffixes 6. Verbs 7. Pronouns 8. Bound pronouns 9. Prefixing and fusion 10. Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes 11. Ergative/?accusative morphological and syntactic profiles 12. Phonology 13. Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas 14. Summary and conclusion.Mapslinguistics, language surveys -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, RMW Dixon, Grammatical categories in Australian languages, 1976
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Various authors, technical linguistic studies of the encoding of particular syntactic functions across many Australian languages. Discussion of ?having? suffix, suffix -ku, syntactic ergativity, and verbal auxiliaries.Mapslinguistics, case relations in languages, pama-nyungan languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, RMW Dixon, Searching for Aboriginal languages : memoirs of a field worker, 1984
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ..."...this book provides a fascinating picture of life in northeast Queensland between 1963 and 1977. It also provides an insight into how linguists work, how they gather their information, and how they interpret it."b&w photographs, colour photographsqueensland, languages, linguists, linguistics, field work, biography, northeast queensland
