LING2025 and LING7125
Semester 1 2005
Study of an Australian language

Bibliography

I. Works on Guugu Yimidhirr:

(*indicates inclusion in Course Readers)

Published material:
*Curr, Edward M. 1886. The Australian Race: its origins, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent. Vol. 2, 389-393.

*Roth, Walter E. 1901. The Structure of the Koko-Yimidir Language. With assistance of GH Schwarz and W Poland. Bulletin No. 2. North Queensland Ethnology (facsimile edition published in 1984 as W.E. Roth, The Queensland Aborigines Vol. II, compiled by Barrie Reynolds. Victorian Park, W.A.:Hesperian Press) [DU274.R64]

*Haviland, John. 1979. Guugu Yimidhirr. In R.M.W. Dixon & B.J. Blake (eds) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol. 1, 26-180. Canberra: ANU Press (simultaneously published by John Benjamins, Amsterdam). [PL7001 .H34]

*Haviland, John. 1979. Guugu Yimidhirr brother-in-law language. In T. Shopen (ed) Language in Society Vol.8, 365-393. Cambridge, Mass. : Winthrop Publishers. [ANTH2150.21 and P106 .L318]

Haviland, John. 1885. The life history of a speech community: Guugu Yimidhirr at Hopeville. In Aboriginal History Vol.9(2), 171-204. [ANTH2150.28 and DU120.H5]

Haviland, John. 1993. Anchoring, iconicity, and orientation in Guugu Yimithirr pointing gestures. In Journal of linguistic anthropology, Vol.3 (1) 3-45. [ANTH2150.94 and P35 .J68]

Haviland, John. 1997. Owners versus Bubu Gujin: land rights and getting the language right in Guugu Yimithirr country. Journal of linguistic anthropology Vol. 6(2), 145-160. [ANTH2150.93 and P35 .J68]

*Haviland, John. 1998. Guugu Yimithirr cardinal directions, in Ethos Vol. 26 (1), 25-47. [ANTH2150.97 and GN270 .E85]

Haviland, John. 1999. [with Roger Hart ; illustrations by Tulo Gordon] Old man Fog and the last Aborigines of Barrow Point Bathurst, N.S.W. : Crawford House Press. [DU280.B36 H375]

Unpublished material:
*Flint, Elwyn. 1964. Guugu Yimidhirr Fieldnotes and recordings.

Haviland, John. 1986. I got my own word: languages, identity and autobiography in the behavioural sciences. Unpublished Paper (27 Pages). [ANTH2150.16]

Further documentation:

  • Search on the AIATSIS catalogue for more documentation of Guugu Yimidhirr people and language.

  • Search on the UQ Library catalogue for "Yimidhirr" or "Haviland J" or using a place name in Guugu Yimidhirr country as a Key Word. There's a good collection of articles by John Haviland in the High Use Area under the code for Anthropology course ANTH2150.

    II. Publications on most closely related languages
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    III. General Texts about Australian languages
    Austin, Peter. 1996. Australia. The Atlas of Languages, 110-125. London: Quarto Publishing plc. [P106 .L67]

    Blake, B. 1987. Australian Aboriginal Grammar. London: Croom Helm. [PL7003 B54]

    Blake, B. 1979. Case Marking in Australian Languages. L23. Canberra: AIAS. [DU120.A1A835 No23]

    Blake, B. 1991. Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction. Second Edition. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. [PL7001.B58]

    Dixon, R.M.W. 1980. The languages of Australia. Cambridge: CUP. [PL7001.D5]

    Dixon, R.M.W. 2002. Australian languages : their nature and development Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press.

    Nathan, D. (ed) 1996. Australia's Indigenous Languages. Adelaide: Wakefield Press for the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia. (Comes with CD) [PL7001 .A85]

    O'Grady G.N., C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1966. Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Six. Anthropological Linguistics 8/2. [P1.A62]

    Yallop, Colin. 1982. Australian Aboriginal Languages. London: Andre Deutsch. [PL7001.Y3]

    IV. General Anthropological studies and ethnologies of Australian Aboriginal people.
    Berndt R.M. & Berndt C.H. 1992, The World of the First Australians. Aboriginal Traditional Life: Past and Present. London: Angus & Robertson, [1964].

    Berndt R.M. & Berndt C.H. 1989. The Speaking Land. Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia. Ringwood (Australia): Penguin Books.

    Berndt R.M. & Tonkinson R. (eds.) 1988. Social anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Studies: a contemporary overview. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

    Edwards W.H. (ed). 1990.Traditional Aboriginal Society. Melbourne: Macmillan, [1987].

    Elkin, A. P. 1979. The Australian Aborigines. London ; Sydney : Angus & Robertson, [revised edition]. [DU120.A1 E44 1979]

    Hiatt L.R. (ed.) 1978, Australian Aboriginal concepts, Canberra, New Jersey: AIAS, Humanities Press.

    Tindale N.B. 1974. Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, Berkeley: University of California Press, and Canberra: Australian National University Press. [DU120.A1 T62 1974] (Contains an excellent map)

    V. Anthropological studies related to Guugu Yimidhirr Region
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