Created <September 1998
Last changed 17 March 2001

References about Mudburra language 
or references in linguistics works -- 
published and unpublished

Ordered by year, and alphabetically by author within each year.

Send additions and corrections to the compiler, David Nash.


1934
Stanner, WEH. 1934 notebooks. Deposited at AIATSIS.
1952?
Capell, A. n.d. Mudburra, typed by EM Bolt, submitted by Chadwick 5/6/68 for checking. In Capell papers AIATSIS MS 4075 Box 2 Folder 8; also comparative/analysis Box 3 Folder 1; also with Nyininy, Djaru, Ngarinyman in Capell papers AIATSIS MS 4075 Box 4 Folder 4
1952
Capell, A. 1952. The Wailbri through their own eyes. Oceania 23.2,110-132. [p.112: brief comparative vocabulary in six languages]
1978
Chadwick, Neil. 1978. Markers of ergative and transitive function: some Australian examples. Working Papers in Language & Linguistics 7,1-7.
1979
Stanner, W.E.H. 1979. Report on field work in north central and north Australia 1934-5. 102pp. ts. Microfiche No. 1. ISBN 0855750936 Canberra: AIAS. [includes Warlmanpa vocabulary, ngurlu]
1981
Nash, David. (ed.) 1981. Sourcebook for Central Australian Languages. Compiled by Kathy Menning. Pilot edition, November. Alice Springs: I.A.D. Machine-readable version deposited at ASEDA, AIATSIS, including vocabularies in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
1981
Nash, David & Jane Simpson. 1981. "No-name" in central Australia, pp. 165-77 in Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior , ed. by Carrie S. Masek et al. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
1982
Heath, Jeffrey, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey (eds.) 1982. Languages of Kinship in Aboriginal Australia. Oceania Linguistic Monographs No. 24. Sydney: Oceania (University of Sydney).
1984
Glasgow, David. 1984. Report on survey of the central Northern Territory, pp.113-152 in Language Survey, ed. by J. Hudson & N. Pym. Work Papers of SIL-AAB Series B Volume 11. June 1984. xi+167pp. Darwin: Summer Institute of Linguistics Australian Aborigines Branch. ISBN 0 86892 312 5
1986
Chadwick, Neil. 1984. Reasons for language decline in the east central Northern Territory, Australia. Working Papers in Language & Linguistics 18 (December 1984) [published 1986?], 1-37.
1990
Hendrie, Timothy R. 1990. Initial apicals in Nuclear Pama-Nyungan, pp.15-77 in Studies in Comparative Pama-Nyungan, ed. by D. Tryon & G.N. O'Grady. Pacific Linguistics C-111. xxii+279pp.
1990
Nash, David. 1990. Patrilects of the Warumungu and Warlmanpa and their neighbours, pp.209-220 in Language and History: Essays in honour of Luise Hercus, ed. by Peter Austin, R.M.W. Dixon, Tom Dutton and Isobel White. Pacific Linguistics C-116. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPacS, ANU.
1990
Whitehead, Oscar.1990. Which way is up? A preliminary comparative study of compass point direction terms in Australian languages. Honours thesis, University of Melbourne, December 1990. v+98+xi pp.
1991
Murgatroyd, Warren. 1991. Djaperi. A prestige item in Aboriginal exchange. BA(Hons) thesis, Dept Anthropology, Northern Territory University (?)
1992
Nash, David. 1992. An Australian kinship affix *-rti. Memorial volume for Steve Johnson, ed. by Nicholas Evans & Cliff Goddard. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12.1,123-144.
1996
Nash, David. 1996. Pronominal clitic variation in the Yapa languages: some historical speculations, in Studies in Kimberley Languages in Honour of Howard Coate, ed. by William McGregor. München: Lincom Europa. c350pp. ISBN 3 89586 054 9
1997
Nash, David. 1997. Comparative flora terminology of the central Northern Territory. Chapter 12, pp.187-206 in Archaeology and Linguistics. Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective., edited by Patrick McConvell & Nicholas Evans. Melbourne: Oxford UP. [Grew out of a conference, 8-12 July 1991, NTU, Darwin]
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