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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal myths : tales of the Dreamtime, 1999
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 Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal myths, legends and fables, 1999
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 Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal stories of Australia, 1998
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 Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal tales of Australia, 1998
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 Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal legends : animal tales, 1999
Collection of creation stories.creation stories, animals, rainbow snake, eagle-hawk, dreamtime -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Vanda Savill, Dear friends, Lake Condah Mission etc. /? yours truly, 1976
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 Languages
Book, Karen Treanor, The little lost bandicoots, 2011
A storybook for For primary school age children.Colour illustrationscranbourne royal botanic gardens, juvenile fiction, animals -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Lesley van Moolenbroek, Collected works of Lesley van Moolenbroek, 1984
A collection of poems.murrie, poetry -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, In other words : souvenir program 2005, 2005
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 Languages
Book, 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
Creation story.word lists, colour illustrations, CD-ROMwangkatha, western australia, dreamtime, storytelling, animals -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aboriginal words of Australia, 1983
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 Languages
Book, Mark Aronoff et al, What is morphology?, 2005
grammar, morphology -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, JM Arthur, Aboriginal English : a cultural study, 1996
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 Languages
Book, Barry J. Blake, Australian aboriginal languages : a general introduction, 1981
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 Languages
Book, Barry J Blake, Case marking in Australian languages, 1977
Linguistic study using case markings. Glossary.Maps, tableslinguistics, case relations in languages, pama-nyungan languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tim Bonyhady, Words for country : landscape &? language in Australia, 2002
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 Languages
Book, Australia talks : essays on the sociology of Australian immigrant and Aboriginal languages, 1983
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 Languages
Book, Bernard Comrie, SBS SBS atlas of languages : the origin and development of languages throughout the world, 2003
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 Languages
Book, Vicki Couzens, tyama-teeyt yookapa : interviews from the Meeting Point Project, 2014
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 Languages
Book, David Crystal, Language death, 2002
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. 3.2, 2004
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, RMW Dixon et al, Australian Aboriginal words in English : their origin and meaning, 1990
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, Grammatical categories in Australian languages, 1976
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 Languages
Book, RMW Dixon, Searching for Aboriginal languages : memoirs of a field worker, 1984
"...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 -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Diana Eades, Aboriginal ways of using English, 2013
Communication of Aboriginal people who speak English as their first main language. Includes overview of Aboriginal ways of speaking English and the implications for both education and the law. Discusses the term 'Aboriginal English'.Glossaryaboriginal english, sociolinguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Peter Muhlhausler et al, Ecological issues in Language revival, 2004
Offers notes in language revival looking at interrelationships and connectedness in all area of language use.ecolinguistics, language and culture, language revival -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, William B McGregor, Encountering Aboriginal languages : studies in the history of Australian linguistics, 2008
"This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning the period from first settlement to the present day. The introduction sets the scene for the book by presenting an overview of the history of histories of research on the languages of Australia , and identifying some of the major issues in Aboriginal linguistic historiography as well as directions for future investigations. Part 1 presents three detailed investigations of the history of work on particular languages and regions.The eight papers of Part 2 study and re-evaluate the contributions of particular individuals, most of who are somewhat marginal or have been marginalised in Aboriginal linguistics. Part 3 consists of six studies specific linguistic topics: sign language research, language revival, pidgins and creoles, fieldwork, Fr. Schmidt's work on personal pronouns, and the discovery that Australia was a multilingual continent. Overall, the volume presents two major challenges to Australianist orthodoxy. First, the papers challenge the typically anachronistic approaches to the history of Aboriginal linguistics, and reveal the need to examine previous research in the context of their times - and the advantages of doing so to contemporary understanding and language documentation. Second, the widespread presumption that the period 1910-1960 represented the 'dark ages' of Aboriginal linguistics, characterised by virtually no linguistic work, is refuted by a number of studies in the present volume."B&w photographs, maps -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Peter K Austin, The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages, 2011
endangered languages, language revival, language research -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Sydney J Endacott, Australian Aboriginal words and place names and their meanings, 1985
Word list with definitions. (Appear to be different printings)B&w photographs, word lists -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Joshua A Fishman, Can threatened languages be saved? reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective, 2001
Investigates 13 languages under threat. Two most improtant questions asked 1) what is the current demographic and functional status of each of the threatened languages 2) what is the best way to understand its future prospects?B&w illustrations, tablesendangered languages, language revival, language research, sociolinguistics