Wilkins, David P and David Nash. 2008. 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. * about the 1791 expedition to the Hawkesbury
Wilkins, David P. 2007. 'Same argument structure, different meanings: Learning 'put' and 'look' in Arrernte'. In M. Bowerman and P. Brown (eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Stephen C.
Levinson and David P. Wilkins (eds). 2006. Grammars
of space: explorations in cognitive diversity. New York:
CUP. ISBN 0521855837 0521671787 (pbk.) * with two chapters by the
editors 'The background to the study of the language of space', pp1-23;
'Conclusions: Parameters of variation in the grammar and semantics of
space', pp.512-552
Wilkins, David P. 2006. Towards an Arrernte grammar of space,
pp.24-62 in Stephen C.
Levinson and D.P. Wilkins, Grammars
of space: explorations in cognitive diversity. CUP.
Wilkins, David P. 2004. The verbalization of motion events in
Arrernte, pp.143-157 in Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven (eds.) Relating events in narrative :
typological and contextual perspectives. Mahwah, N.J.:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. * reprinted from 1997
Wilkins, D. 2003. Why pointing with the index finger is not a universal
(in sociocultural and semiotic terms), pp. 171–215 in Pointing : where language, culture, and
cognition meet, edited by Sotaro Kita. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates. 339pp. ISBN 0805840141 (hbk.)
Dronkers, Nina F., Wilkins, David P., Van Valin, Robert D., Redfern,
Brenda and Jaeger, Jeri. 2004. Lesion analysis of the brain areas
involved in language comprehension. Cognition
92,145-177. preprint
Baldo, Juliana. Dronkers, Nina F., Wilkins, David P., Ludy, Carl,
Raskin, Patricia, and Kim, Jiye (re-submitted 2004) 'Is problem solving
dependent on language?' Brain and
Language. preprint
Baldo, Juliana V., Delis, Dean C., Wilkins, David P., and Shimamura,
Arthur P. (2003) 'Is it bigger than a breadbox? : Performance of
patients with prefrontal lesions on a new executive function
test'. Archives of Clinical
Neuropsychology.
Wilkins, David P. 2002. The concept of Place among the Arrernte, in
Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson eds. The Land is a Map: Placenames of
indigenous origin in Australia. Canberra: Pandanus Books.
24-41
Dronkers, N.F., D.P. Wilkins, R.D. Van Valin Jr., J.J. Jaeger, and
B.B. Redfern. 2002. Lesion analysis of the cortical areas involved in
sentence comprehension. Brain and
Language 83,208-210. (Published Abstract)
Baldo, J.V., C. Ludy, D. Wilkins, & N. Dronkers. (2002).
Impaired category but preserved letter fluency in patients with severe
Wernicke's aphasia. Brain and
Language 83,26-28. (Published Abstract).
Wilkins, David P. 2001. 'A cross-cultural investigation of the relations between speech, gesture and brain lateralisation: Is everybody right?' Invited plenary talk, 2001 Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Australian National University, Canberra (September)
Evans, Nicholas & David Wilkins. 2001. The complete person: networking the physical and the social, pp. 493?521 in Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, ed. by Jane Simpson et al. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 512.
Evans, Nicholas & David Wilkins. 2000. In the mind's ear: the semantic extensions of perception verbs in Australian languages. Language 76.3,546-592.
Wilkins, David P. 2000. Chap. 5, Ant, ancestors and medicine: a semantic and pragmatic account of classifier constructions in Arrernte (Central Australia), pp.147-216 in Systems of Nominal Classification (Language, Culture and Cognition, 4) [Back to Basics in Nominal Classification], ed. by Gunter Senft. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521770750 Hardcover (June 2000)
Wilkins, David P. 2000. 'Even with the best of intentions ... : Some Pitfalls in the Fight for Linguistic and Cultural Survival (One view of the Australian Experience)' in As linguas amazônicas hoje / Les langues d'Amazonie aujourd'hui Éd. sci. Francisco Queixalos et O. Renault-Lescure. 2000, Coédition IRD/ISA/MPEG, 432p., 9 cartes h. t. Textes en portugais, espagnol, français et anglais. Museu Goeldi: Belem. * 1996 colloquium
Wilkins, David P. 1999. Spatial deixis in Arrernte Speech and Gesture: On the analysis of a species of composite signal as used by a Central Australian Aboriginal group. Paper 6, pp.31-45 in Proceedings of the Workshop on Deixis, Demonstration and Deictic Belief in Multimedia Contexts, held on occasion of ESSLI XI, ed. by Elisabeth André, Massimo Poesio & Hannes Rieser. Workshop held in the section 'Language and Computation' as part of the 'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information', August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Evans, Nicholas & David Wilkins. 1998. The knowing ear: an Australian test of universal claims about the semantic structure of sensory verbs and their extension into the domain of cognition. Köln: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft. 63pp. (Arbeitspapiere von Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Universität zu Köln (Neue Folge) ; 32)
Wilkins, David P. 1998. (in prep.) Events unfolding in sand: A traditional Aboriginal form of running illustration. 12pp. ms.
Wilkins, D.P. 1998. 'On the subclassification and semantics of motion verbs in Arrernte'. 3rd International Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages. Nijmegen, April.
Wilkins, D.P. 1998. 'Learning 'put' and 'look' in Arrernte'. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability. Nijmegen, June.
Wilkins, David P. 1997. Alternative representations of space: Arrernte narratives in sand and sign, pp.133-162 in Proceedings of the CLS Opening Academic Year '97-'98, ed. by M. Biemans & J.v.d. Weijer. Nijmegen [etc.]: Nijmegen/Tilburg Center for Language Studies.
Pederson, Eric, Eve Danziger, David Wilkins, Stephen Levinson,
Sotaro
Kita & Gunter Senft. 1998. Semantic typology and spatial
conceptualization.
Language
74.3,557-589.
Dronkers, N, Wilkins, D.P, Van Valin, R.D., Redfern, B and Jaeger,
J. (submitted) 'Cortical Areas Underlying the Comprehension. of Grammar'
Higginbotham, D. Jeffery and Wilkins, David P. (to appear) 'Slipping through the timestream: Social issues of time and timing in augmented interactions.' in D. Kovarsky, J. Duchan and M.M. Maxwell eds. Reconstructing Incompetence.
Wilkins, David P. 1997. 'Handsigns and Hyperpolysemy: Exploring the cultural foundations of semantic association'. in D. Tryon and M. Walsh eds. Boundary rider: essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady, 413-444. Pacific Linguistics, C-136 413-444.
Wilkins, David P. 1997. 'The verbalization of motion events in
Arrernte
(Central Australia)' in Eve Clark ed. The Proceedings of the
Twenty-Eighth
Annual Child Language Research Forum, Stanford: CSLI. 295-308 *
reprinted 2004
Wilkins, David P. and Petch, Alison. 1997. 'Glossary of Aboriginal Words in the Gillen-Spencer Correspondence' in.H. Morphy, John Mulvaney and A. Petch, My Dear Spencer. Hyland House: Melbourne. 487-533
de Ruiter, J.P. and Wilkins, D.P. eds. 1997. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Annual Report 17. MPI: Nijmegen
Wilkins, David P. 1997. The secret of the scorpion: Women, Fire and Dangerous Things revisited. Ms.
Wilkins, D. 1997. "Why pointing with the index finger is not a universal (in socio-cultural and semiotic terms)". Workshop on Pointing Gestures. Oud-Turnhout, June. * published 2003
Wilkins, David P. 1996. Four Arrernte manual points. Poster. MPI, Nijmegen.
Wilkins, David P. 1996. Does 'tyerrtye' mean 'person'?: issues in the exploration of meaning, use and word-relations. 6+[2]pp. ca. Aug 1996
Wilkins, David P. 1996. 'Natural Tendencies of Semantic Change and the Search for Cognates' in M. Durie and M. Ross eds. The Comparative Method Reviewed: Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change New York: Oxford University Press. 264-304 * Reviewed by Orin D. Gensler Journal of Linguistics35(1999),579-655.
Van Valin, R.D. Jr. and Wilkins, D.P. 1996. 'The case for "Effector": Case roles, agents and agency revisited' in Masayoshi Shibitani & Sandra A. Thompson eds. Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 289-322
Wilkins, David P. 1996 'Morphology'. in Goebl, Nelde, Stary and Wölck eds. Contact Linguistics : An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, ed. by Hans Goebl, Peter H Nelde, Zdenek Star'y & Wolfgang Wolck. Volume 1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 109-117
Ameka, Felix and Wilkins, David P. 1996. 'Semantics'. in Goebl, Nelde, Stary and Wölck eds. Contact Linguistics : An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 130-138
Wilkins, D.P. 1996. "Even with the best of intentions ... : Some
Pitfalls
in the Fight for Linguistic and Cultural Survival (One view of the
Australian Experience)". Colloquium on Indian Languages of Amazonia
in Science and Societies. Belem, March 26-29, 1996. * published 2000
Wilkins, D.P. 1996. "The Verbalisation of Motion Events in Arrernte (Aranda)". 28th Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, April.
Wilkins, D.P. 1996. "The semantics of artefacts: Why field-linguists
have to take gesture seriously (Part II)". Meeting of Central
Australian
Linguistic Circle. Alice Springs, August.
Wilkins, D.P., & Higginbotham, J. 1996. "The Social Construction
of Language competence: Augmentative Communication
Technologies". American Association for Applied Linguistics. Chicago,
March.
1995, ‘The Best Record’ workshop organised at the MPI Nijmegen.
Wilkins, David P. 1995. 'Expanding the traditional category of deictic elements' Chapter 16, pp.359-386 in Judith F Duchan, Gail A Bruder & Lynne E Hewitt eds. Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective. Lawrence Erlbaum
Wilkins, David P. 1995. Arrernte Handsigns: a brief and incomplete presentation. Video-production by Marc Floris. Hi8 video-recording. MPI, Nijmegen.
Wilkins, David P. 1995?. Turning heads and making points: a case study of the Arrernte deployment of deictic gestures in relation to speech. 10pp. ts.
Evans, Nick & David Wilkins. 1995. The inside story of under: a strange case of regular polysemy in Australian languages. 10pp. handout, 12/4/95, MPI Nijmegen. Cf. s.6.3.1, pp.99-102, of MPI Annual Report 16, ed. by H Hendriks & J McQueen, 1996.
Wilkins, David P. 1995. 'More than just wishful thinking: the survival of Arrernte worldview is historical fact, not romantic fiction.' Oceania Newsletter 15. 8-12
Wilkins, David P. & Deborah Hill. 1995. 'When GO means COME: Questioning the Basicness of Basic Motion Verbs'. Cognitive Linguistics 6.2/3,209-259
Wilkins, David. 1995. What's 'The Point'?: The significance of gestures of orientation in Arrernte. Presented to the Central Australian Linguistics Circle, Alice Springs. 4pp. handout, MPI, Nijmegen.
Wilkins David. P. 1994. An Alternative Perspective on the Relation between 'Arrernte Law' and 'Catholic Law'. Oceania Newsletter 14: 7-9
Harkins, Jean and Wilkins, David P. 1994. 'Mparntwe Arrernte and the Search for Lexical Universals'. in C. Goddard and A. Wierzbicka eds. Semantic and Lexical Universals. Amsterdam: John Benjamins 285-310
Dronkers, N, Wilkins, D.P, Van Valin, R.D., Redfern, B and Jaeger, J. 1994. 'A Reconsideration of the Brain Areas Involved in the Disruption of Morphosyntactic Comprehension'. Brain and Language. 47. 461-463 [a published long abstract]
Wilkins, David P. 1993. Finding your way around is child's play: A Traditional Arrernte 'Space Game'. Poster. Presented conference 'Multiple Worlds: A Conference on Spatial Representations', 29 November to 3 December. Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Wilkins, David P. 1993. 'Linguistic Evidence in Support of A Holistic Approach to Traditional Ecological Knowledge'. in N. Williams and G. Baines eds. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for Sustainable Development. Canberra: CRES 71-93
Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. and Wilkins, David P. 1993. 'Predicting Syntactic Structure from Semantic Representations: remember in English and its equivalents in Mparntwe Arrernte'. in R.D. Van Valin Jr. ed. Advances in Role in Reference Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins 499-534
Wilkins, David P. 1992. 'Interjections as Deictics', Journal of Pragmatics 18. 119-58
Wilkins, David P. 1992. 'Linguistic Research Under Aboriginal Control: A Personal Account of Fieldwork in Central Australia'. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12. 171-200
Wilkins, David P. 1991. 'The Semantics, Pragmatics and Diachronic Development of "Associated Motion" in Mparntwe Arrernte'. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics. 207-257
Wilkins, David P. 1988. 'Switch-Reference in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda): Form, Function, and Problems of Identity' in P. Austin ed. Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages. 141-176. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Shopen, Tim, Nicholas Reid, Glenda Shopen and David Wilkins. 1987. 'Ensuring the Survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages into the 21st Century'. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Vol.10. No. 1. 143-157
Wilkins, David. 1986. 'Particle/Clitics for Criticism and Complaint in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda)'. Journal of Pragmatics. 10. 575-596
Wilkins, David. 1985. Place [in Mparntwe Arrernte]. 25pp. ts.
Wilkins, David. 1984 'Nominal Reduplication in Mparntwe Arrernte'. Language in Central Australia. 1. 16-22
Wilkins, David. 1984. 'How, and how not, to say "and" in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda)'. Language in Central Australia. 2. 23-30
Scott, Carol and Wilkins, David. 1983. 'Cross-Cultural Research for Curriculum Development: a case study of Arrernte Mathematical Concepts'. in S. Shore ed. Diversity in Education in Central Australia. Alice Springs: IAD
Wilkins, David. 1982. 'Catching semantic change in progress'. Meeting of Central Australian Linguistic Circle (CALC). IAD, Alice Springs, 16 October 1982.
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