Aboriginal words in Australian English

2009 Nash, David, 'The Wombat Trail', posted on Transient Languages & Cultures on 16 January

2009 Dixon, R.M.W., 'Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries: Response to Nash', International Journal of Lexicography (22), 179-88.

2009 Nash, David, 'Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries: A Reaction', International Journal of Lexicography (22), 189-90.

2008 Dixon, R.M.W., 'Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries: A History', International Journal of Lexicography (21), 129-52.

2008 Nash, David, 'Sydney Language -mb- ~ -m- and Dingo', posted on Transient Languages & Cultures on 14 November

2008 Nash, David, 'An "Unsaleable Bent Stick", Boomerangs and Yardsticks', posted on Transient Languages & Cultures on 6 October

2007 Leitner, G., 'The Aboriginal Contribution to Australia's Language Habitat', in G. Leitner & I.G. Malcolm (eds), The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages, Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 197-236.

2007 Leitner, G. ‘The Aboriginal Contribution to Australia’s Language Habitat’, in G. Leitner et al., The Habitat of Australia’s Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present and Future, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 197–235.

2006 Dixon, R.M.W., Bruce Moore, W.S. Ramson & Mandy Thomas, Australian Aboriginal Words in English: their origin and meaning, 2nd edn, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

2001 Moore, Bruce, ‘Australian English and Indigenous Voices’, in David Blair & Peter Collins (eds), English in Australia, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 133-49.

1998 Leitner, Gerhard & Inke Sieloff, 'Aboriginal words and concepts in Australian English', World Englishes, 17:2, 153-69.

1990 Dixon, R.M.W., W.S. Ramson & Mandy Thomas, Australian Aboriginal Words in English: their origin and meaning, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

1988 Knight, Anne, ‘South Australian Aboriginal Words Surviving in Australian English’, in T.L. Burton & Jill Burton (eds), Lexicographical and Linguistic Studies: essays in honour of G.W. Turner, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 151–62.

1964 Ramson, W.S., The Currency of Aboriginal Words in Australian English, Sydney: Australian Language Research Centre, Occasional Paper 3.

1964 Ramson, W.S., ‘Aboriginal words in early Australian English’, Southerly, 24, 50–60.

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