Western Desert languages

• Programme and abstracts
• Source materials
• 4.6 The Western Desert section of the Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal languages South of the Kimberley Region
• a WD Project, including an extensive Bibliography by Laurent DOUSSET
• SIL's Ethnologue list of Australian languages -- search for "Wati" subgroup
• Western Desert lexicography
• Sources used in the 1974 Research Dictionary of the Western Desert Language
• 1989 summary of available vocabularies
• Update to 1989 summary
• Essays on comparative Western Desert
• Brown, Malcolm. [c1976]. Morphological reconstruction of proto-Western Desert. 4th year Honours thesis, Department of Linguistics, SGS, ANU. x+126+pp.
• Evans, Nicholas. [c1981]. Towards a reconstruction of proto-Western Desert, with attempts at higher-level subgrouping. 35pp. ms. Linguistics A12 essay, Department of Linguistics, Arts, ANU, Canberra.
• Bell, Neil R. 1989. The synchronic and diachronic status of the morphological categories expressed by the verb forms of some dialects of the Western Desert language. M.A. subthesis, Dept. of Linguistics, Arts, ANU.
• David Rose. 2001. The Western Desert Code: an Australian Cryptogrammar. Pacific Linguistics 513. Published version of 1998/9 PhD Thesis, Dept. of Semiotics, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney. iv+490 leaves. [abstract]

© 2001 David Nash
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