Peter K Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter K Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter K |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3180-0524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages
Applicative constructions are found in a number of the Indigenous languages spoken in Australia, though they do not exist in the majority of languages for which reliable morpho-syntactic data is available.1 Several typological patterns can be found, suggesting a basic division between comitative-locative constructions, and benefactivemalefactive constructions. These are encoded morphologically by prefixation in some languages, and by suffixation …
Language documentation and meta-documentation
The past 15 years has seen the emergence of a new sub-field of linguistics that has been termed ‘language documentation ’ or ‘documentary linguistics ’ (Austin 2010, Himmelmann
Endangered languages
It is widely agreed that at least half of the world's 7000 languages are endangered and no longer being learnt as first languages by children, and that if nothing is done they will disappear within
Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy
This paper is a study of eight postcards written in the Diyari language1 2 by Rebecca Maltilina and addressed to Miss Dorothea Ruediger. As Cane and Gunson argue (this volume), postcards are potentially an important record of Australian history and Australian Aboriginal biogra phy. These postcards are of additional linguistic and socio-linguistic importance in that they represent literature written in an Aboriginal language by an Aboriginal perso…
The earthquake and Halley’s Comet
The transcription and translation of two Jiwarli texts that are eyewitness accounts of Jack Butler recorded in 1985 are presented. They describe an earthquake that occurred in 1906 and the appearance of the Halley's comet in the sky in 1910, which he witnessed as a child
Afghans and Aborigines
Ben Murray, the oldest and most fluent speaker of Diyari, now lives at Marree, South Australia, where he was bom in 1891. His mother was Arabana and his father Afghan. Diyari was formerly spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in the far north of South Australia and currently has fewer than a dozen speakers. Ben Murray's two humorous stories about encounters with Afghans were told in Diyari to Peter Austin, who transcribes and analyses
Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)
The biography of Ben Murray, born in 1891 to an Aboriginal mother and a Baluchistani (Afghan) father in northern South Australia, is presented. Some texts of his recollections, as spoken by him in Arabana-Wangkangurru and Diyari-Thirrari languages are also presented with their English translations
Emu and Brolga, a Kamilaroi myth
The Kamilaroi (or Kamilaraay)2 are an Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied a large tract of country in north-central New South Wales (Tindale 1974, Austin, Williams and Wurm 1980). The Kamilaroi language was spoken in several dialect forms and is closely re lated to Yuwaaliyaay (the Euahlayi of It is more distantly linked to Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa of central New South Wales (Austin et al 1980, Donaldson 1980 -see Map 1)
Three-participant events in the languages of the world
Although one- and two-participant events, as expressed by intransitive and transitive constructions, have been extensively studied from a crosslinguistic perspective, little work has been done on three-participant events and the ways they operate in different languages. Where there is description and analysis it is typically confined to syntactic three-place predicates ignoring functional equivalent constructions in languages where such events ma…
The Yarli languages
Zero Arguments in Jiwarli, Western Australia
Jiwarli is an Australian Aboriginal language that was formerly spoken in the north-west of Western Australia. It shows a high degree of (suffixing) morphological complexity, has a split-ergative case-marking system, and a switch-reference system in dependent clause linkage. Verbs are also strictly subcategorized for transitivity and there are interactions between clause type and case marking. A prevalent feature of Jiwarli discourse is the non-oc…
Zero Arguments in Jiwarli, Western Australia
Jiwarli is an Australian Aboriginal language that was formerly spoken in the north-west of Western Australia. It shows a high degree of (suffixing) morphological complexity, has a split-ergative case-marking system, and a switch-reference system in dependent clause linkage. Verbs are also strictly subcategorized for transitivity and there are interactions between clause type and case marking. A prevalent feature of Jiwarli discourse is the non-oc…
Editors' Preface
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages
Finderlists, Computer-Generated, for Bilingual Dictionaries
This paper discusses keyword finderlists for bilingual dictionaries, focussing on their structure and a system for computer-generating them. We examine the concept of finderlist and discuss techniques for specifying finderlist headwords. We develop a typology of finderlist format and argue for the merits of a particular type. A description is presented of an automated system which transforms dictionary glosses according to a set of associated rul…
Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages
(1988). Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point …
Structural change in language obsolescence
(1986). Structural change in language obsolescence: Some eastern Australian examples. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-230
Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages
Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology
Switch-Reference in Australia
A number of Australian Aboriginal languages have syntactic mechanisms which can be analysed as instances of ‘switch-reference’. These languages have verb suffixes indicating whether or not the subjects of syntactically-related main and subordinate clauses are referentially the same or different. The distribution of switch-reference in various subordinate clause types is examined here, and its formal and functional characteristics are described in…
Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point …
Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages
(1988). Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages
Switch-Reference in Australia
A number of Australian Aboriginal languages have syntactic mechanisms which can be analysed as instances of ‘switch-reference’. These languages have verb suffixes indicating whether or not the subjects of syntactically-related main and subordinate clauses are referentially the same or different. The distribution of switch-reference in various subordinate clause types is examined here, and its formal and functional characteristics are described in…
Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages
Endangered languages
It is widely agreed that at least half of the world's 7000 languages are endangered and no longer being learnt as first languages by children, and that if nothing is done they will disappear within
Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)
The biography of Ben Murray, born in 1891 to an Aboriginal mother and a Baluchistani (Afghan) father in northern South Australia, is presented. Some texts of his recollections, as spoken by him in Arabana-Wangkangurru and Diyari-Thirrari languages are also presented with their English translations
Emu and Brolga, a Kamilaroi myth
The Kamilaroi (or Kamilaraay)2 are an Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied a large tract of country in north-central New South Wales (Tindale 1974, Austin, Williams and Wurm 1980). The Kamilaroi language was spoken in several dialect forms and is closely re lated to Yuwaaliyaay (the Euahlayi of It is more distantly linked to Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa of central New South Wales (Austin et al 1980, Donaldson 1980 -see Map 1)
Three-participant events in the languages of the world
Although one- and two-participant events, as expressed by intransitive and transitive constructions, have been extensively studied from a crosslinguistic perspective, little work has been done on three-participant events and the ways they operate in different languages. Where there is description and analysis it is typically confined to syntactic three-place predicates ignoring functional equivalent constructions in languages where such events ma…
Case marking in Southern Pilbara languages
Proto-Kanyara and proto-Mantharta historical phonology
Switch-Reference in Australia
A number of Australian Aboriginal languages have syntactic mechanisms which can be analysed as instances of ‘switch-reference’. These languages have verb suffixes indicating whether or not the subjects of syntactically-related main and subordinate clauses are referentially the same or different. The distribution of switch-reference in various subordinate clause types is examined here, and its formal and functional characteristics are described in…
Structural change in language obsolescence
(1986). Structural change in language obsolescence: Some eastern Australian examples. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-230
Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages
(1988). Trill‐released stops and language change in central Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 219-245
Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point …
Finderlists, Computer-Generated, for Bilingual Dictionaries
This paper discusses keyword finderlists for bilingual dictionaries, focussing on their structure and a system for computer-generating them. We examine the concept of finderlist and discuss techniques for specifying finderlist headwords. We develop a typology of finderlist format and argue for the merits of a particular type. A description is presented of an automated system which transforms dictionary glosses according to a set of associated rul…
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages
Zero Arguments in Jiwarli, Western Australia
Jiwarli is an Australian Aboriginal language that was formerly spoken in the north-west of Western Australia. It shows a high degree of (suffixing) morphological complexity, has a split-ergative case-marking system, and a switch-reference system in dependent clause linkage. Verbs are also strictly subcategorized for transitivity and there are interactions between clause type and case marking. A prevalent feature of Jiwarli discourse is the non-oc…
Zero Arguments in Jiwarli, Western Australia
Jiwarli is an Australian Aboriginal language that was formerly spoken in the north-west of Western Australia. It shows a high degree of (suffixing) morphological complexity, has a split-ergative case-marking system, and a switch-reference system in dependent clause linkage. Verbs are also strictly subcategorized for transitivity and there are interactions between clause type and case marking. A prevalent feature of Jiwarli discourse is the non-oc…
Editors' Preface
The Yarli languages
Three-participant events in the languages of the world
Although one- and two-participant events, as expressed by intransitive and transitive constructions, have been extensively studied from a crosslinguistic perspective, little work has been done on three-participant events and the ways they operate in different languages. Where there is description and analysis it is typically confined to syntactic three-place predicates ignoring functional equivalent constructions in languages where such events ma…
Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy
This paper is a study of eight postcards written in the Diyari language1 2 by Rebecca Maltilina and addressed to Miss Dorothea Ruediger. As Cane and Gunson argue (this volume), postcards are potentially an important record of Australian history and Australian Aboriginal biogra phy. These postcards are of additional linguistic and socio-linguistic importance in that they represent literature written in an Aboriginal language by an Aboriginal perso…
The earthquake and Halley’s Comet
The transcription and translation of two Jiwarli texts that are eyewitness accounts of Jack Butler recorded in 1985 are presented. They describe an earthquake that occurred in 1906 and the appearance of the Halley's comet in the sky in 1910, which he witnessed as a child
Afghans and Aborigines
Ben Murray, the oldest and most fluent speaker of Diyari, now lives at Marree, South Australia, where he was bom in 1891. His mother was Arabana and his father Afghan. Diyari was formerly spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in the far north of South Australia and currently has fewer than a dozen speakers. Ben Murray's two humorous stories about encounters with Afghans were told in Diyari to Peter Austin, who transcribes and analyses
Ben Murray (Parlku-Nguyu-Thangkayiwarna)
The biography of Ben Murray, born in 1891 to an Aboriginal mother and a Baluchistani (Afghan) father in northern South Australia, is presented. Some texts of his recollections, as spoken by him in Arabana-Wangkangurru and Diyari-Thirrari languages are also presented with their English translations
Emu and Brolga, a Kamilaroi myth
The Kamilaroi (or Kamilaraay)2 are an Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied a large tract of country in north-central New South Wales (Tindale 1974, Austin, Williams and Wurm 1980). The Kamilaroi language was spoken in several dialect forms and is closely re lated to Yuwaaliyaay (the Euahlayi of It is more distantly linked to Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa of central New South Wales (Austin et al 1980, Donaldson 1980 -see Map 1)
Language documentation and meta-documentation
The past 15 years has seen the emergence of a new sub-field of linguistics that has been termed ‘language documentation ’ or ‘documentary linguistics ’ (Austin 2010, Himmelmann
Endangered languages
It is widely agreed that at least half of the world's 7000 languages are endangered and no longer being learnt as first languages by children, and that if nothing is done they will disappear within
Applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages
Applicative constructions are found in a number of the Indigenous languages spoken in Australia, though they do not exist in the majority of languages for which reliable morpho-syntactic data is available.1 Several typological patterns can be found, suggesting a basic division between comitative-locative constructions, and benefactivemalefactive constructions. These are encoded morphologically by prefixation in some languages, and by suffixation …
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