The primary reference is Nash 1981's vocabulary with grammatical preface.  A lot of items have just a passing reference to Warlmanpa.

See also is a partially complementary list of non-linguistic references, and of films and video recordings.

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1934

Stanner, WEH. 1934 notebooks. Deposited at AIATSIS.

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Capell, A. early 1950s? Warlmanpa field notes, Banka Banka etc. To be deposited at AIATSIS.

1952

Capell, A. 1952. The Wailbri through their own eyes. Oceania 23.2,110-132. * p.112: brief comparative vocabulary in six languages * reprinted in Capell 1962

1959

Hale, Kenneth L. n.d. Warlmanpa (Warnmanpa), and Eastern Warlpiri. Jack Walker. Warrabri. Vocabulary, sentences. 3pp. Short text. * tape Nos A4547-8a

1960

Hale, Kenneth L. 1960. Warlmanpa transcription. Elliott. Lofty [Japaljarri] (Powell Crk.) 27pp. [interspersed with Mutpurra]. AIAS tape no. A 4555.

1962

Capell, A. 1962. Waljbiri grammar, pp.15-50 in Some Linguistic Types in Australia. Handbook of Australian Languages, Part II. Oceania Linguistic Monographs No. 7. Sydney: University of Sydney. * reprints Capell 1952

1963

West, Lamont. 1963. A terminal report outlining the research problem, procedure of investigation and results to date in the study of Australian Aboriginal sign language. [Sydney] various pagings , maps; tbls. * AIATSIS Call number: MS 2456/1 (Item 3) * Brief mention of West's records of spoken Warlmanpa in his:

Exhibit 1 - Map showing sign language and details of distribution of data collected by other workers;
Exhibit 4 - Spoken language - map shows groups from which material was elicited, list of languages by area;

1966

Hale, Kenneth L. 1966. Warlmanpa transcription. Donald Spencer [Graham] Tyupurrula. Tennant Creek. late 1966. 57+13pp. / 71, 3 l.  * Elicited using Warlpiri and Warumungu * AIATSIS MS 1293  AIAS tape LA 505b-506b, 4548

1973

Hale, Kenneth L. 1973. Person marking in Walbiri, pp.308-344 in A Festschrift for Morris Halle, ed. by Stephen R. Anderson & Paul Kiparsky. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.

1978

Nash, David. 1978. Flora terms in the Warlpiri, Warlmanpa, and Warumungu languages. iii+16pp. ts. Tennant Creek, August 1978. [Updated as machine-readable database file, with Alyawarr and Kaytej added. Work in progress.]

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

Austin, Peter. 1981. Switch-reference in Australia. Language 57,309-34. * compares many languages including Warlmanpa

1981

Nash, David. 1981. Preliminary Vocabulary of the Warlmanpa Language. 64pp., M.I.T., May, revised December l979 (1979 introduction), June 1981. [with grammatical preface, and Capell text] Photocopied and distributed. AIAS Library. Revised as machine-readable data files. Deposited at ASEDA, AIATSIS.

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).

1982

Nash, David. 1982. An etymological note on Warlpiri kurdungurlu. Heath et al., eds. 1982:141-159.

1982

Nash, David. 1982. Warlpiri preverbs and verb roots, pp.165-216 in Papers in Warlpiri grammar: in memory of Lothar Jagst, ed. by Stephen Swartz. Work Papers of SIL-AAB, Series A Volume 6. Berrimah, N.T.: SIL-AAB. June 1982. [lists Warlmanpa verb roots]

1983

Hale, Kenneth. 1983. A lexicographic study of some Australian languages: project description, pp.71-107 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 15: Australian Aboriginal Lexicography , ed. by Peter Austin. Pacific Linguistics A-66.

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 (of the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology) 18 (December 1984) [published 1986?], 1-27 [37?].

AIATSIS Library annotation: When Aboriginal stockmen worked on cattle stations in their territories, their language and traditional way of life survived; where tribes mixed, Kriol developed; now with shifts to towns following mechanization of pastoral industry, English dominates; young people, educated in English, lose traditional language; Mudburra, Yanyuwa, Warumungu, Warlpiri, Alyawarra, Gurindji, Jingulu, Garawa still used; Wambaya, Warlmanpa, Alawa declined 1966-1984; Wagaya, Gudanji, Binbinga, Waanyi declined

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

Watts, Lisa (comp.).1990. Aboriginal languages and communities of the Northern Territory. Produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA). 154 leaves. * AIATSIS Library MS 2861

AIATSIS Library annotation: Listing of languages and communities in the Northern Territory; includes addresses, approximate locations and population numbers of communities and attached outstations

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

Fishman, Joshua A. 1992. Prospects for Reversing Language Shift (RLS) in Australia: evidence from its Aboriginal and immigrant languages. Vox 6,48-62. Reprinted from his Reversing Language Shift: theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages (Clevedon ; Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1991) [mentions Warlmanpa, Warumungu]

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.

1994

Noyer, Rolf. 1994. Mobile affixes in Huave: optimality and morphological wellformedness, pp.67-82 in Proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by E Duncan, D Farkas & P Spaelti. Stanford: CSLI. * comments on Western Desert and Warlmanpa clitics

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

1996

(submitted 1994) Warlmanpa lost and found, in Can Aboriginal and Islander languages survive?, ed. by P. McConvell & R. Amery. (unpublished book) Adobe Acrobat version of paper

1997

Nash, David. 1997. Warlmanpa grammar, in Language Tutorial, Spring meeting of the Language Association of Great Britain (LGB), Edinburgh, 6-9 April.

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

1998

Kruse, Pierre D. 1998. Cambrian Palaeontology of the Eastern Wiso and Western Georgina Basins. Northern Territory Geological Survey. Report 9. Darwin. iv+68pp.

Includes type record of three fossils with species name derived from Warlmanpa:

Eospencia wita
Karathele kurtuju
Heliconella kumpu
Bemella wiri

1999

Harvey, Mark. 1999. Place names and land-language associations in the western Top End. Australian Journal of Linguistics 19.2,161-195. * page 169 discusses place name Manuwangu

2002

Riemer, Nick. 2002. Verbal polysemy and the vocabulary of percussion and impact in central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 22.1(April),45-96. * WLM in Table 1 (p.67), Rable 2 (p.75), Table 3 (p.81), Table 4 (p.85)

2006-07

Karnta Karntalu Panangu Wirlinyi. Tennant Creek: Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Corporation. $22.00 * "Karnta Karntalu Panangu Wirlinyi is a children's story of four women who go hunting. It is 8 pages long and comes with a CD that includes an audio pdf of the story told in both Warlmanpa and English."

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