2008. (with David P. Wilkins) The European ‘discovery’ of a multilingual Australia: the linguistic and ethnographic successes of a failed expedition, pp.485–507, Chapter 18, in The history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, edited by William McGregor. Pacific Linguistics 591. * on 1791 expedition to the Hawkesbury

2007. Beetaloo BILL Jangari. Australian dictionary of biography. Volume 17 (1981-1990 A-K)

2006. Comment, pp.54-55, on 'Reassessing Australia’s linguistic prehistory' by Mark Clendon, Current Anthropology 47.1(February 2006), 39-61.
corrigendum: bottom of p.54, end of 2nd para: as submitted, it read "...Sapir's principle points to southeastern Australia, or (roughly) the Barkly Tableland."

2005. Kenneth Hale, pp.432-5 in Volume A-L, Encyclopedia of linguistics, ed. by Philipp Strazny. New York, Abingdon: Fitzroy Dearborn / Routledge Reference (Taylor and Francis). 2 volumes. ISBN: 1-57958-391-1(set) 1-57958-450-0 (v.1)

2003. Authenticity in toponymy, pp.36-40 in Maintaining the links: Language, identity and the land, ed. by Joe Blythe & R. McKenna Brown. Proceedings of the Seventh FEL Conference. Broome. Western Australia. 22-24 September. Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages. ISBN 0-9538248-5-3
corrigenda:
p.37b: add "it" in "the form of the name still signals that it is of Aboriginal origin"; add ":1" to now read "Coolgane has been applied to name a 1:100 000 map sheet"
update
The NT Department of Lands has superseded Coolgane with Coolgarie.

2002 (appeared March 2003). [review of] Scott Cane, Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People. (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002). Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002/2.97-100. * errata and and addenda (not published in AAS)

2002. Mary Alice WARD (1896-1972), pp.490-1 in Australian dictionary of biography. Volume 16 (1940-1980 Pik-Z), edited by John Ritchie and Diane Langmore. Melbourne University Press. * launch: Adelaide, 12 November 2002

2002. Proving country, prospecting for places: re-visiting Karlantijpa country, pp.164-9 in Planning for Country. Cross-cultural approaches to decision-making on Aboriginal lands, ed. by Fiona Walsh and Paul Mitchell. Alice Springs: Jukurrpa Books (IAD Press). ix+203pp. ISBN 1864650370 © Central Land Council * launch 28 August, Alice Springs

2002 (with John Henderson, eds) Language in Native Title.Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press. * Papers presented to the Linguistic Issues in Native Title Claims workshop, Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference, University of WA, Saturday 2 October 1999.

2002. Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia, pp.205-30 in Language in Native Title, ed. by John Henderson & David Nash. Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press. * data analysed further in (a) April and Robert McMahon. 2005. Language classification by numbers, OUP, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927902-9; and (b) pp.68-70 in their 'Keeping contact in the family: approaches to language classification and contact-induced change' in Yaron Matras, A.M.S. McMahon, and N. Vincent. Linguistic areas : convergence in historical and typological perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan * McMahons 2005 reviewed by Claire Bowern. 2007. Linguistic Typology 11.2,434-8; includes discussion of treatment of Nash 2002 pp.437-8

2002. Ken Hale 1934-2001 [obituary] GLOT International, Vol. 5 No. 9/10, November/December 2001, pages 339-340. [PDF, with permission]

Contributer to the web database of Hypocoristics of Place-names in Australian English.

2001. Kenneth Locke Hale. [obituary] Australian Aboriginal Studies 2001/2,84-86. * PDF

2001. American's work spoke to Warlpiri. [Ken Hale obituary] Australian 'Time and Tide', 4 December 2001, page 12.

2001. Bibliography of Ken Hale and Australian languages, pp.1-18 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.

2001 (with Geoff O’Grady). Hale and O’Grady’s 1960 SA and WA vocabularies, pp.231-7 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.

2001 (with Jane Simpson, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin & Barry Alpher, eds)  Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.

1998 (appeared 2000) (submitted March 1996) [book note] Son of Jimmy, by Jack Gibbs, 1995. Aboriginal History 22,268.
erratum: The book title is not The Son of Jimmy

1999. Photograph 'Karrku' reproduced in Dussart (1999:209) in Art from the land : dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal art, edited by Howard Morphy & Margo Smith Boles.

1999. (with Barry Alpher). Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia. AJL 19.1(April),5-56. [Abstract] [Supplementary material, including Errata] * 1984 draft listed below

1998. Indigenous Languages component (esp. pp.19-20,77-86) of State of the Environment: Environmental Indicators for national state of environment reporting - Natural and Cultural Heritage, by M Pearson, D Johnston, J Lennon, I McBryde, D Marshall, D Nash & B Wellington. State of Environment (Environmental Indicator Reports), Environment Australia, Department of the Environment, Canberra. ISBN 0 642 54528 6 of the series 0 642 54526 X.
* Incorporates "Developing indicators for natural and cultural heritage: indigenous languages" presented to Second International workshop on Australian Aboriginal languages, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Saturday 20 December 1997.

1998. Yinapaka return, pp.317-9 in Take power like this old man here: an anthology of writings celebrating twenty years of land rights in Central Australia, 1977-1997, edited by Alexis Wright for the Central Land Council. ISBN 1 86465 005 2. Alice Springs: Jukurrpa Books, IAD Press.
addendum: The photograph (p.317) was taken by David Alexander at Yankirrikirlangu, 16 June 1986.

1997 (appeared May 1998) (with John Henderson). Culture and Heritage: Indigenous Languages. [Abstract] State of Environment Report Technical Paper Series (Culture and Heritage). Canberra: Environment Australia, part of the Department of Environment. 38pp. ISBN 0-642-25292-0
pdf file (view with Adobe Acrobat)
corrigenda:
in abbreviations, p.35: under ARC, correct spelling of "Australian"
in references, p.37: under Hobson 1984, swap title of paper and name of journal; under Lanham, in title change spelling to "Kaltukatjara"

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. ISBN 0-19-553728-9, 0-19-550670-7(pbk) * grew out of a conference, 8-12 July 1991, NTU, Darwin

1997. (with Ken Hale). Lardil and Damin Phonotactics, pp.247-259 in Boundary Rider. Essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady, ed. by Darrell Tryon & Michael Walsh. Pacific Linguistics C-136. ISBN 0-85883-440-2

1997. Finderlist to Ken Hale's Linngithigh vocabulary, pp.235-246 In Boundary Rider. Essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. [studies in the lexicology and comparative linguistics of Australian languages] ed. by Darrell Tryon & Michael Walsh. Pacific Linguistics C-136. ISBN 0-85883-440-2
corrigenda:

• in the "Practical Orthography" table p210, "tr" and "ndr" should be in the apico-alveolar, not the lamino-dental column
• entry laebinthae p221: "kyigh" should be "kiyigh" per entry for that form p220
• entry animondr p213: should be "elat" (elative) rather than "allat"ive, per Grammar in OGVV

1997. (as part of Ngakulmungan Kangka Leman team) Lardil Dictionary. Gununa: Mornington Shire Council. ISBN 0646290525

1997. (with Maggie Brady & Stephen J. Kunitz) WHO's definition? Australian Aborigines, conceptualisations of health, and the World Health Organization, pp.272-290 in Migrants, Minorities and Health. Historical and contemporary studies, edited by Lara Marks & Michael Worboys. (Studies in the Social History of Medicine). London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11213-3

1997 [dated 1995]. (with Kevin Keeffe) Review of: Encyclopædia of Aboriginal Australia CD-ROM. Aboriginal History 19.2,206-9. ISSN 0314-8769

1994. Photographs in Encyclopædia of Aboriginal Australia, illustrating Transport, Beetaloo Bill Jangari

1996. Donald Jupurrula Graham, pp.128-130; Mijanu (Long Tommy), pp.225-7 in Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3. Edited by David Carment & Helen J Wilson. Darwin: NTU Press. ISBN 0-949070-92-0 * appeared February 1997
corrigenda: p226a: Brown (q.v.) (not brown), realtes (not relates)

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

1996. Pronominal clitic variation in the Yapa languages: some historical speculations, pp.117-138 in Studies in Kimberley Languages in Honour of Howard Coate, ed. by William McGregor. München: Lincom Europa. ix+332pp. ISBN 3 89586 054 9
corrigenda: In Table 4 (p.121), the footnote superscripts in the '2' row should all be 4 (and not 5 and 6); and delete the superscript 6 in the '12' row.
pronominals excerpted (Word file); 1995 preprint (PDF)

1996. [comments, North Central Australia], pp.104-6 in Country. Aboriginal boundaries and land ownership in Australia by Peter Sutton. (Aboriginal History monograph 3.) Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc. 201pp. 29 cm. ISBN 0731521463

1993 [1994]. Gerhardt Laves. [Obituary.] Australian Aboriginal Studies 1/1993,101-2.

1993. (with Peter Sutton & Petronella Morel) Muckaty Land Claim. Darwin: Northern Land Council.

1992. An Australian kinship affix *-rti. [Abstract] Memorial volume for Steve Johnson, ed. by Nicholas Evans & Cliff Goddard. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12.1,123-144.
corrigendum: p.136, last line: change 'us' to 'me'
addendum: Warlpiri -rdi was one of the "singular marker of kinship terms" noted by G.N. O'Grady (1959:109)  (Significance of the circumcision boundary in Western Australia, BA thesis, University of Sydney.)

1992. Hot and cold over clockwise, pp.291-297 in The language game: papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock, ed. by T.E. Dutton, M.D. Ross & D.T. Tryon. Pacific Linguistics C-110. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPacS, ANU.

1992. Beetaloo Bill Jangari, pp.12-14, in Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2. Darwin: NTU Press.

1992. [one of the 'Aboriginal Place-Name Consultants' to] The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places compiled and written by Richard & Barbara Appleton. Melbourne: CUP.

1991. (with JPM Long) Review of: Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography. Volume One: To 1945. Aboriginal History 15.2,192-195.

1991. [Warlpiri fire management], p.12 in Management of Spinifex Deserts for Nature Conservation, ed. by David Pearson. Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Department of Conservation and Land Management, Como, WA, 11-13 July 1990. Occasional Paper 1/91, May 1991. x+49pp. ISSN 1031-4865 Como, WA: Department of CALM.

1990. Wakirti Warlpiri. A short dictionary of Eastern Warlpiri with grammatical notes. Kunayungku, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge. Original compiled by Jane Simpson and Warlpiri women. Draft 5: May 1990 xv+61pp. prepared by David Nash. Photocopied and distributed.

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: Linguistics, RSPacS, ANU.

1989. Donald Jupurrula Graham. [Obituary.] Australian Aboriginal Studies 1/1989, 68-69.

1989. (with Jane Simpson) AIAS archive of machine-readable files of Australian languages: the National Lexicography Project. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1/1989, 57-59.

1986. Lexicography. Section 3.14 [pp.180-3] in Science and Technology for Aboriginal Development, ed. by Barney D. Foran & Bruce W. Walker. (Project Report No. 3) Alice Springs: CSIRO and Centre for Appropriate Technology. ISBN 0 643 04129 X (CSIRO) ISBN 0 9590953 1 4 (CAT) Proceedings of TAGAL workshop, Alice Springs, 8-10 October 1985. * case study of the semantics of bush in Australian and Aboriginal English * scanned as PDF

1986. Motor vehicles in central Australian Aboriginal society: some preliminary notes. Section 3.17 [2 pages] in Science and Technology for Aboriginal Development, ed. by Barney D. Foran & Bruce W. Walker. (Project Report No. 3) Alice Springs: CSIRO and Centre for Appropriate Technology. ISBN 0 643 04129 X (CSIRO) ISBN 0 9590953 1 4 (CAT) Proceedings of TAGAL workshop, Alice Springs, 8-10 October 1985.

1986. Topics in Warlpiri grammar. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. [Copyright 1985]. ISBN 0-8240-5435-0 263pp. New York, London: Garland Publishing Inc. * slightly corrected version of 1980 dissertation, and additional bibliography
corrigenda:
p.65, under vowel chart: change “vowels” to “vowel”
p.162, line 2: change “alternation” to “alternative”
p.165, line 1: insert “the” before “extreme”
p.205, line 9: insert “as if it” before “were”
p.217, last sentence before §7.3.1: change to “This suffix assigns a predicate both to the subject and object of a verb”.

1985. (with †P. Patrick Jangala). Warlpiri dictionary update. Language in Central Australia 3,23-4.

1985. The Warumungu's reserves 1892-1962: a case study in dispossession. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1984/1,2-16.

1984. Linguistics and land rights in the Northern Territory, pp.34-46 in Further Applications of Linguistics to Aboriginal Contexts, ed. by Graham R. McKay & Bruce A. Sommer. Occasional Papers No. 8. 133pp. Melbourne: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.

1983. (with Mary Laughren). Warlpiri Dictionary Project: Aims, method, organization and problems of definition, pp.109-133 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 15: Australian Aboriginal Lexicography, ed. by Peter Austin. Pacific Linguistics A-66.

1983. TESL and Warlpiri Children. N.T. Bilingual Education Newsletter No. 1,6-24; 2,47. * a contrast of Warlpiri and English sound systems

1982. Aboriginal knowledge of the aeroplane 'Kookaburra'. Aboriginal History 6.1,61-73.

1982. Review of Carl Georg von Brandenstein: Ngadjumaja. An Aboriginal Language of South-East Western Australia. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, 48, 1980. Australian Journal of Linguistics 2.2,270-6.

1982. Warlpiri preverbs and verb roots, pp.165-216 in Work Papers of SIL-AAB, Series A Volume 6 in Memory of Lothar Jagst, ed. by Stephen M. Swartz. Berrimah, N.T.: SIL-AAB. * PDF (1.41MB) * July 1981 preprint (in defunct DEC runoff format)

1982. An etymological note on Warlpiri kurdungurlu, pp.141-59 in Languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia, ed. by Jeffrey Heath, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey. Oceania Linguistic Monographs No. 24. Sydney: University of Sydney.

1982. Review notice of R.M.W. Dixon: The Languages of Australia (CUP 1980). Hemisphere 26.4 (January/February),234-5.

1982. The outstation movement: the long road back. Central Australian Land Rights News 15,16. Outstation update. 16, Spring 1982,14.

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

1981. Prospects for Warumungu literacy. Institute for Aboriginal Development, October 1981. Abridged version published in Aboriginal Languages Association Newsletter No. 3, May 1982:9-10.

1981. (ed.) 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. * bibliographies are included in Austlang, an AIATSIS project

1981. (with Jane Simpson). "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.

1980. A Traditional Land Claim by the Warlmanpa, Warlpiri, Mudbura and Warumungu Traditional Owners. Alice Springs: Central Land Council.

1979. Warlpiri vowel assimilations, pp.12-24 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 1. Papers on Syllable Structure, Metrical Structure and Harmony Processes, ed. by Ken Safir. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. * superseded by a chapter of dissertation

1979. Foreigners in their own land: Aborigines in court. Legal Service Bulletin 4.3,105-7.

1979. Yidiny Stress: A Metrical Account. CUNYForum 7/8(Spring),112-30. (Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society held at City University of New York, November 1978.)  PDF, 5.2MB

2008. SplitsTree: a user report. Presented to Workshop on Australian Languages, ANU Kioloa Coastal Campus, 28-30 March 2008 * abstract * handout * case study: Ngumbin-Yapa simple verbs

2007. Language stakes. Hypothetical Panel member, Indigenous Languages Conference, University of Adelaide, 6:30–9pm 26 September 2007

2007. The national language [policy] situation and legislation. WA State Language Centre Conference, Wangka Maya, South Hedland, 20-23 May 2007 * see also http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/policy.html

2007. Where do Warlpiri simple verbs come from? Presented to Pearl Beach Workshop on Australian Languages, University of Sydney, 16-18 March 2007. * abstract

2007. Wiradjuri placenames. 1 hour presentation (with worksheet) to 'Local Language Link-up: Wiradjuri Sharing Workshop', convened by NSW Board of Studies and NSW Department of Education and Training. Coventry Room, Parkes Library, Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th March 2007.

2006. Language identification: the case of Palyku and Nyiyaparli (east Pilbara). Presented to Pearl Beach Workshop on Australian Languages, University of Sydney, 18 March 2006; and to WA State Language Conference, Wangka Maya, South Hedland, June 2007

2005. Stanner and the Warumungu 1934. Presented 25 November 2005 to symposium WEH Stanner: anthropologist & public intellectual, Coombs Lecture Theatre; Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University, Canberra.

2005. Little names: -dool in northern NSW. Presented 1 October 2005 to Australian Placenames of Indigenous Origin conference, hosted by the Australian National Placenames Survey. Geosciences Australia, Canberra.

2005. Vehicle terms. Presented 26 May 2005 to Cruising Country symposium, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University, Canberra. * earlier version 'Vehicle loan words' presented 19 March 2005 to Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages, 18-20 March 2005. University of Sydney, Crommelin Field Station, Pearl Beach, NSW.

2003. (with John Henderson, Andrew Gargett, and Denham Harry (UWA)). Interpretation and re-presentation of historical language materials: Laves' 1931 Nyungar notes. Presented to the Australian Linguistic Society annual meeting, University of Newcastle, 27 September 2003. [abstract]

2002. Endangered languages. Invited lecture in course Language Planning, Linguistics, Arts, ANU. 23 October.

2001. (with David Wilkins). Warlpiri terminology for colour. Invited paper presented 7 December 2001 to 'Art of Seeing and the Seeing of Art' conference, RSBS ANU and National Gallery of Australia.

1999. A Better Record. Presented to a "Symposium Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: an active approach", La Trobe University, 29-30 November 1999.

(in prep.) Ethnocartography: understanding central Australian geographic literacy.
Draft 21/5/1998, 28pp. Presented to Space seminar, 22 April 1998, Language and Cognition Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 4pp. handout.
Draft 2/10/1998, 30pp. Presented to Australian Anthropological Society annual conference, 2 October 1998, Canberra.
[abstract

1998. Motion lexicalisation: Warlpiri and Warlmanpa. Presented to a Motion Workshop at the Third International Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages, 28-29 April 1998, MPI, Nijmegen; and to the Grammatical Models Group, Faculty of Arts, Tilburg University (Grammaticamodellen, Faculteit der Letteren, Katholieke Universiteit Brabant), 6 May 1998. * Abstract; 5pp. handout.

(in prep.) Patterns in grog terminology in Australian languages. [abstract]
Work-in-progress presented to International workshop on Australian Aboriginal languages, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Saturday 31 May 1997; at the Central Australian Linguistics Circle (CALC), Alice Springs, 27 June 1997; and at the Top End Linguistic Circle (TELC), Katherine, 5 July 1997
Most data published in an appendix to The grog book: strengthening indigenous community action on alcohol by Maggie Brady. Canberra: Dept. of Health and Family Services, 1998. ISBN 0642367299.  Selected data in 2nd edition 2005, pp.8-9.

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

(with JPM Long) Diary -- Walker Bros Prospecting Expedition 1913. Edited and annotated.

1996. Draft Mudburra sketch grammar.

1996. Cardinal direction terminology in Western Desert (Wati) languages. Presented to the Australian Linguistic Institute workshop Wednesday 10 July 1996 'Where did the Western Desert Language come from?'. Pre-circulated draft pp.102-124 in Reading Brick ([iii]+347pp.)

1996. (with Jane Simpson) Internal reduplication in languages of the north central Northern Territory. 5pp. handout. Presented to Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Canberra, 6 July 1996.

1995. Layardil language study: history and prospects. 4pp. briefing notes.

1995. CA Flora conceptualisations. Presented to the Central Australian Linguistic Circle, IAD, Alice Springs, 1 July.

1995. A few men in good seasons. Presented to The Australian Frontiers Conference, 20-22 April 1995, Longreach, organised by the Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland.

1995. (with John Henderson). State of Environment Report: Culture and Heritage Indigenous Languages. Report for Australian Heritage Commission, Culture and Heritage Focus Group. 39pp. January 1995. * see Henderson & Nash 1997

1994. Warlpiri suffix /-kanjayi/ 'how far?'. Presented to meeting of Australianist comparativists, Stanwell Tops, 1-2/10/1994. 5pp. handout.

1993. Way-finding in Australia's deserts by the Warlpiri and their neighbours. Presented to Cultural Organisation of Space session of Multiple Worlds: A Conference on Spatial Representations, 29 November - 3 December, hosted by the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

1993. Pintupi plant terms. 5pp., draft 28/8/1993. Deposited at AIATSIS.

1992. (with David Wilkins). The European Discovery of a Multilingual Australia: The Linguistic Successes of a Failed Expedition. Revised 2005.

1991. Semantic domains for lexica of Australian languages. Presented to Australex session, Thursday 3 October, in Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, Duchesne College, University of Queensland.

1991. A week is a long time with Xavier Herbert. 24pp. ts.  AIATSIS Library PMS 4931.

1990. Travellers and toponymy in the west central Northern Territory. Seminar, AIATSIS, April 1990.

1990. (with LA Hercus, HJ Koch & JH Simpson). High vowel phonotactics in central Australian languages. [abstract] Presented at the annual meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Macquarie University, 27 September 1990. 5pp. handout.

1989. Olive Pink's Warlpiri vocabulary, keyboarded from her ms. file slips ca.1934. Approx. 700 items. Machine-readable data files, and printout. AIATSIS Library PMS 4637.

1989. (with Jane Simpson). AIAS National Lexicography Project. Final Report. Canberra. 14+[36]pp., 8 appendices. Photocopied. AIATSIS Library PMS 4646.

1987. The Phonology of Demiin  (Lardil, Gulf of Carpentaria). Presented to Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Canberra. * published 1997 (with Ken Hale) as 'Lardil and Damin Phonotactics'

1986. Warlpiri Preverb Semantics. University of Auckland, weekly seminar, 27 March.

1985. Ethnodialectology in west central NT. Presented to Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Brisbane, August. * published 1990 as 'Patrilects...'

1985. Proof of Evidence. Submission (Exhibit 176) in the Warumungu land claim hearing on behalf of the claimants. July 1985.

1984. Pronouns & reference in central N.T. languages. 2pp. handout. Presented to the annual meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, August 1984, Alice Springs. * Conference abstract: "A continuing study of the Australian languages of the west-central N.T. has revealed regional features especially of vocabulary and morphology.  In the context of presenting some of these, a comparison of anaphora (especially independent pronominal and deictic terms) in these languages (Warlpiri, Warlmanpa, Warumungu, Mudbura) will be made."

1984-. Reports, with colour slides, VHS video recordings (1987-), documenting travel in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa country west of Tennant Creek. Deposited at AIATSIS.

1984. Contribution about central NT in 'Field reports of the introduction of new media to remote Aboriginal communities', ANZAAS Pre-conference workshop, convened by Eric Michaels. Sunday 13 May 1984, AIAS.

1984. Prospects for Warlpiri country between Lajamanu and Warrego. 23pp., map. 27 June 1984. Deposited at AIAS Library MS 3953. Update, 6 October 1985. 10pp.

1984. Yuendumu Land Trust. January 1984. 52pp. Confidential report to Central Land Council.

1984. (with David Wilkins). English form - Aboriginal semantics: semantic change in a contact situation. Paper given to CAALG (Central Australian Adult Literacy Group), Alice Springs, 25 May 1984.

1984. (with Barry Alpher). 1984. Lexical replacement and cognate equilibrium in Australia. June 1982 draft version, in Pre-circulation papers: Papers presented to the annual meetings Australian Linguistics Society, August 1984, Alice Springs, pp.17-44. * AIATSIS Library Ms 2008 * revised version published AJL 1999

1984. Mudbura Vocabulary based on P. McConvell's Mudbura notes 1974-76. [Alphabetical, and by semantic domain.] Machine-readable data files, and printout. 22 November 1984. Deposited at AIAS Library.

1983. Four computer-generated lists, done at Warlpiri Literature Production Centre (Yuendumu, NT), and deposited at AIAS Library:

• Place names in the 1977-78 Warlpiri claim material. 10 l. pMs 3798
• Warlpiri terms in M. Meggitt Desert People. 8 l. pMs 3799
• Index to Warlpiri terms in Munn, 1973 : [Walbiri iconography] 7 l. pMs 3800
• [Modern Warlpiri spellings in] M. Terry. 1 l. pMs 3801.

1981. "Eskimo and Warlpiri without pre-affixal syntax", presented to Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Canberra, August.

1981. (with Jane Simpson). "Ngarluma is not split-ergative", presented to Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Canberra.

1981. Alyawarra: a growing language. 2 November 1981. [i]+6+[1]pp. typescript. 22 copies distributed. IAD, October 1981.

1981. (with Mary Laughren) 1981. Closed kinship systems and kin-reference: the Warlpiri case. Presented to Australian Anthropological Society, Canberra, 25-28 August 1981. * published in Laughren 1982

1981. Preliminary Vocabulary of the Warlmanpa Language. 64pp., M.I.T., May, revised December l979, June 1981. AIAS Library. Revised as machine-readable data files. Deposited at AIAS Library.

1980. "Complex verbs in Warlpiri", presented to the Linguistic Society of Australia, August 27.

1980. Topics in Warlpiri Grammar. MIT dissertation. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15974 at MIT DSpace * available from MITWPL * abstract at UMI * corrigenda available on request, most incorporated in the corrected version published 1986

1978. Flora terms in the Warlpiri, Warlmanpa, and Warumungu languages. iii+16pp., Tennant Creek, August 1978. Deposited at AIAS Library, pMs 2817. * revised 1984 as a machine-readable database, with Kaytej and Alyawarre added * 1996 printed version of Warlpiri, Warlmanpa, and Warumungu extract

1977. "Stress in some Australian languages -- a metrical account" / "Metrical theory of stress: some Australian cases", presented to the Linguistic Society of Australia, Sat 27 August, University of Melbourne. 2pp. abstract in conference programme in LSAus Newsletter

1976. A survey of ergativity in linguistics. 22pp. MIT mimeo.

1974. The comitative affix in Wiradhuri. ANU Linguistics (Arts) term paper.  AIAS Library, pMs 3688. * supporting map

1972. Formations of finite soluble groups. iii+57pp. B.A. Honours sub-thesis, Mathematics, Australian National University Department of Pure Mathematics, ANU.