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David P. Wilkins (1958–2025) – selected papers
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David P. Wilkins, BA(Hons), PhD (ANU)  ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-323   Scopus Author ID: 7103415912

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Patents

4 patents 1996–2001 https://patents.justia.com/inventor/david-parker-wilkins

Papers

Susan Poetsch and David Wilkins. 2025. Arrernte children’s linguistic construction of motion events: Exploring the use of Associated Motion. pp.731-776, Chapter 22, in 'Section 5: Language acquisition' in Projecting voices: Studies in language and linguistics in honour of Jane Simpson, edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, James Gray and Denise Angelo. Asia-Pacific Linguistics series of ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/PV.2025.22

Gale, Mary-Anne, Angela Giles, Jane Simpson, Rob Amery and David P. Wilkins. 2022. What women want: Teaching and learning pronouns in Ngarrindjeri. Australian Journal of Linguistics 41.4,477-502  https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2022.2027867  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/311040

Gale, Mary-Anne, Rob Amery, Jane Simpson and David P. Wilkins. 2021. Bound, free and in between: A review of pronouns in Ngarrindjeri in the world as it was. Australian Journal of Linguistics 41.3,314–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2021.1967875  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/292053

Nash, David & David P. Wilkins. 2020. Where we part from NSM: understanding Warlpiri yangka and the Warlpiri expression of part-hood. Chapter 24, pages 461–489 in Meaning, life and culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka, edited by Helen Bromhead & Zhengdao Ye. ANU Press. ISBN (print): 9781760463922 ISBN (online): 9781760463939  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/219187  DOI:0.22459/MLC.2020.24 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/219187  http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n7194/pdf/ch24.pdf

Meagher, Gabrielle & David P. Wilkins. 2018. Private Interests and Problem Frames in Social Policy Reform: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analytical Study. CADAAD Journal: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines  10.2,1–29  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/195717

Wilkins, David P. 2018. The demonstrative questionnaire: "THIS" and "THAT" in comparative perspective, pp.43–71 in Demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective, ed. by Stephen C. Levinson, Sarah Cutfield, Michael J. Dunn, N.J. Enfield and Sérgio Meira. Language, culture and cognition 14. CUP. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/186922

Fenech, Marianne & David P. Wilkins. 2018. The representation of the national quality framework in the Australian print media: silences and slants in the mediatisation of early childhood education policy. Journal of Education Policy 34,748–770. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/187300

Fenech, Marianne & David P. Wilkins. 2017. Representations of childcare in the Australian print media: An exploratory corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The Australian Educational Researcher 44,61–190.  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/247788

Wilkins, David P. 2016. Alternative representations of space: Arrernte narratives in sand and sign, pp.253-282 in The Visual Narrative Reader, edited by Neil Cohen. London: Bloomsbury. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bgOrCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA253&ots=PmbiYBLrJQ&pg=PA253#v=onepage&q&f=false * republished from 1997

Green, Jennifer & David P. Wilkins. 2015. Arandic alternate sign language(s), pp.843–869 in Sign languages of the world: A comparative handbook, ed. by J. Jepsen et al. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262955

Meagher, Gabrielle & David P. Wilkins. 2014. What Tony Abbott talks about when he talks about ‘welfare’. Australian Review of Public Affairs October 2014 http://australianreview.net/digest/2014/10/meagher_wilkins.html

Green, Jennifer & David P. Wilkins. 2014. With or without speech: Arandic sign language from central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 34.2,234–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2014.887407  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/71256

Meagher, G. & D. Wilkins. 2012. How interests shape problem formulation in elder care reform: An Australian case study using corpus linguistics methods. Paper presented at the conference of Research Committee 19 of the International Sociological Association, Oslo, Norway.

Baldo, Juliana V., Sophie Schwartz, David P. Wilkins and Nina F. Dronkers. 2010. Double dissociation of letter and category fluency following left frontal and temporal lobe lesions. Aphasiology 24.12,1593-1604. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2010.489260

Blackstone, Sarah W. & David P. Wilkins. 2009. Exploring the Importance of Emotional Competence in Children With Complex Communication Needs. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication 18.3, 78-87.  https://doi.org/10.1044/aac18.3.78

Wilkins, David P & 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. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/35984 * about the 1791 expedition to the Hawkesbury

Soto, Gloria, Elizabeth Hartmann and David P. Wilkins. 2007. Exploring the elements of narrative that emerge in the interactions between an 8-year-old child who uses an AAC device and her teacher. Augmentative and alternative communication  22.4,231-41  DOI:10.1080/07434610500431777 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6670057_Exploring_the_Elements_of_Narrative_that_emerge_in_the_Interactions_between_an_8-Year-Old_Child_who_uses_an_AAC_Device_and_her_teacher

Wilkins, David P. 2007. 'Same argument structure, different meanings: Learning 'put' and 'look' in Arrernte', pp.149–174, chapter 7 In Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability edited by Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.  2008 New York, London: Taylor and Frances. * from 1996

Blackstone, S.W., M.B. Williams and D.P. Wilkins. March, 2007. Key principles underlying research and practice in AAC. Augmentative and Alternative Communication  23.3,191–203. * presented at CSUN’s 21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference. Los Angeles, CA, 2006

Blackstone, Sarah W., Michael B. Williams and David P. Wilkins. 2006. Key Principles in AAC. Augmentative Communication News 18.1(April),1-4. http://www.augcominc.com/newsletters/index.cfm/newsletter_44.pdf

Levinson, Stephen C. & David P. Wilkins (eds). 2006. Grammars of space: explorations in cognitive diversity. Language, culture and cognition 6. New York: CUP. ISBN 0521855837 0521671787 (pbk) * with chapters by the editors 'The background to the study of the language of space', pp1-23; 'Patterns in the data: towards a semantic typology of spatial description', pp.512-552; Appendices, pp.553–575.

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. 2006. [Review of] Adam Kendon (2004). Gesture: Visible action as utterance. Gesture 6.1,119-144.

Higginbotham, D. Jeffery & David P. Wilkins. 2006. The short story of Frametalker: An interactive AAC device. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication 15.1,18-22 . DOI:10.1044/aac15.1.18 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225183706_The_Short_Story_of_Frametalker_An_Interactive_AAC_Device

Baldoa, Juliana V., Nina F. Dronkers, David Wilkins, Carl Ludy, Patricia Raskina, Jiye Kima. 2005. 'Is problem solving dependent on language?' Brain and Language 92.3 (March 2005), 240–250. preprint * DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.06.103

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.) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781410607744-12/pointing-index-finger-universal-sociocultural-semiotic-terms-david-wilkins

Dronkers, Nina F, David P Wilkins, Robert D Van Valin Jr, Brenda B Redfern, and Jeri J Jaeger. 2004. Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension. Cognition 92.1-2,145-177. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2003.11.002  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15037129/

Wilkins, David P. 2004. Inner language: One linguist's perspective. Contributions to 'Interior dialogues and AAC'. Augmentative Communication News 16.4(December),1-6,8. http://www.augcominc.com/newsletters/index.cfm/newsletter_12.pdf

Baldo, Juliana V, Dean C Delis, David P Wilkins and Arthur P Shimamura. 2003. Is it bigger than a breadbox? Performance of patients with prefrontal lesions on a new executive function test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 19.3,407-19.  doi:10.1016/S0887-6177(03)00074-X  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15033225/

Wilkins, David P. 2002. The concept of Place among the Arrernte, pp.24-41 in Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson eds. The Land is a Map: Placenames of indigenous origin in Australia. Canberra: Pandanus Books.  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/234720

Dronkers, Nina, 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 83.1,208-210. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295990081_Lesion_analysis_of_the_cortical_areas_involved_in_sentence_comprehension

Baldo, J.V., C. Ludy, D. Wilkins and N. Dronkers. 2002. Impaired category but preserved letter fluency in patients with severe Wernicke's aphasia. Brain and Language 83.1,26-28.  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295990161_Impaired_category_but_preserved_letter_fluency_in_patients_with_severe_Wernicke%27s_aphasia

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. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/254047

Evans, Nicholas & David Wilkins. 2000. In the mind's ear: the semantic extensions of perception verbs in Australian languages. Language 76.3,546-592. http://www.jstor.org/stable/417135  https://dspace-test.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/733713636

Wilkins, David P. 2000. Chap. 5, Ants, 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)' pp.61–83 in As linguas amazônicas hoje = Les langues d'Amazonie aujourd'hui = The Amazonian languages today. 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. * https://acervo.socioambiental.org/acervo/documentos/even-best-intentions-some-pitfalls-fight-linguistic-and-cultural-survival-view as presented at 1996 colloquium

Higginbotham, D. Jeffery & David P. Wilkins. 1999. Slipping through the timestream: Social issues of time and timing in augmented interactions, pp.49-82 in Constructing (in)competence: disabling evaluations in clinical and social interaction, edited by Dana Kovarsky, Judith F. Duchan, Madeline M. Maxwell. Psychology Press / Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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.

Wilkins, D. 1999. A questionnaire on motion lexicalisation and motion description, pp.96-115 in Manual for the 1999 Field Season ed. by D. Wilkins. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.3002706  https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3002706_3/component/file_3002708/content

Wilkins, David, David Nash and Jane Simpson. 1998. Questionnaire on Motion in Australian Languages (modified) by David Nash and David Wilkins https://www.academia.edu/34097298/Questionnaire_on_Motion_in_Australian_Languages_modified_ https://www0.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/motion/questionnaire.rtf * superseded by Wilkins 1999

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) * see Evans & Wilkins 2000

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.* published 2007

Pederson, Eric, Eve Danziger, David Wilkins, Stephen Levinson, Sotaro Kita and Gunter Senft. 1998. Semantic typology and spatial conceptualization. Language 74.3,557-589.

Ruiter, J.-P. d. & D. Wilkins. 1998. The synchronization of gesture and speech in Dutch and Arrernte, Colloque Orage '98, 9–11 December 1998. (not in Oralité et gestualité: Communication multimodale, interaction, ed. by Santi, Guaïtella, Cavé, and Konopczynski. Paris, Montréal: L'Harmattan (2000) https://play.google.com/store/books/details/ORALIT%C3%89_ET_GESTUALIT%C3%89_Communication_multimodale_in?id=YYFtQ4w3b0QC )

Wilkins, David P. 1997. Handsigns and hyperpolysemy: Exploring the cultural foundations of semantic association, pp.413-444 in D. Tryon and M. Walsh eds. Boundary rider: essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. Pacific Linguistics C-136  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/253900

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, April 1996. Stanford: CSLI. 295-308 * reprinted 2004

Wilkins, David P. & Alison Petch. 1997. Glossary of Aboriginal words in the Gillen-Spencer correspondence,pp.487–533 in.H. Morphy, John Mulvaney and A. Petch, My Dear Spencer. Hyland House: Melbourne.

de Ruiter, J.P. & D.P. Wilkins. 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.9+[3]pp.

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. 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. * reprinted 2016

Dronkers, N.F , D.P Wilkins, R Van Valin Jr., B Redfern, J Jaeger. 1996. Cortical areas underlying the comprehension of grammar. Working Papers from the Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders 1.1 (1996)

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. Presented to the Central Australian Linguistics Circle, Alice Springs, 24 August 1996

Wilkins, David P. 1996. Natural tendencies of semantic change and the search for cognates, pp. 264-304 in The Comparative Method reviewed: Regularity and irregularity in language change edited by M. Durie and M. Ross. New York: Oxford University Press. * reviewed by Orin D. Gensler Journal of Linguistics 35(1999),579-655 * from 1993 Working Paper

Van Valin, R.D. Jr. & D.P. Wilkins 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, pp.109–117 in 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 

Ameka, Felix & David P. Wilkins. 1996. Semantics, pp.130-138 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 

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. & J. Higginbotham. 1996. The Social Construction of Language competence: Augmentative Communication Technologies. American Association for Applied Linguistics. Chicago, March 23-26.

Evans, Nick & David Wilkins. 1996. 'Inside' and 'down' in Australian languages. §6.3.1, pp.99-102 in Annual Report 1995 ed. by Henriëtte Hendriks & James McQueen. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. https://www.mpi.nl/publications/item2307467/max-planck-institute-psycholinguistics-annual-report-nr16-1995 * 'The inside story of under: a strange case of regular polysemy in Australian languages' 10pp. handout, 12/4/1995, MPI Nijmegen.

Wilkins, David (organiser). 1995, ‘The Best Record’ workshop, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, MPI Nijmegen.

Wilkins, David P. 1995. Expanding the traditional category of deictic elements: interjections as deictics, Chapter 16, pp.359-386 in Judith F Duchan, Gail A Bruder & Lynne E Hewitt eds. Deixis in narrative: A cognitive science perspective. Hilldale, NJ / Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum * abridged and edited from Wilkins 1992

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.

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.  doi:10.1515/cogl.1995.6.2-3.209  https://www.mpi.nl/publications/item1706365/when-go-means-come-questioning-basicness-basic-motion-verbs

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 & David P. Wilkins. 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. 47.1, 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, pp.71–93 in Nancy M Williams and Graham Baines eds. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for Sustainable Development. Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), ANU. https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24576316 * workshop at the Australian National University 18-29 April 1988

Wilkins, David P. 1993. From part to person: natural tendencies of semantic change and the search for cognates. Working Paper No. 23, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group (CARG) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI), Nijmegen. * see 1996 * from 1981

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. & David P. Wilkins. 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

Evans, Nick & David Wilkins. 1992. Polysemy and semantic change in Australian languages. [course] !st Australian Linguistics Institute (ALI)., June–July 1992, University of Sydney. * Course precis, syllabus and bibliography

Wilkins, David P. 1992. Interjections as deictics. Journal of Pragmatics 18,119-58. * abridged and edited as Wilkins 1995

Wilkins, David P. 1992. Linguistic research under Aboriginal control: A personal account of fieldwork in central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12. 171-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268609208599475

Wilkins, David P. 1992. "Associated motion" in Mparntwe Arrernte. 7+1 leaves.  Paper presented at Space in language and interaction in Aboriginal Australia (convenors : John Haviland, Stephen Levinson) at workshop held during the inaugural Australian Linguistic Institute July 1992 * AIATSIS call number p WIL

Wilkins, David P. 1991. The Semantics, pragmatics and diachronic development of "Associated Motion" in Mparntwe Arrernte. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 1,207-257

Wilkins, David [1990?]. Keeping track: insights into Arrernte (Aranda) conceptions and expressions of space. 8pp.

Wilkins, David P. 1989. Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda) : studies in the structure and semantics of grammar. xxx+621 leaves. PhD thesis, Linguistics, SGS, Australian National University. * http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9908 ANU Library catalogue record

Wilkins, David P. 1988. Switch-reference in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda): Form, function, and problems of identity, pp.141–176 in Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages ed. by P. Austin. 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 10.1,143-157

Wilkins, David. 1986. Particle/Clitics for criticism and complaint in Mparntwe Arrernte (Aranda). Journal of Pragmatics. 10. 575-596

Heffernan, Margaret & David Wilkins.1986. Language maintenance at Yipirinya School. Language in Aboriginal Australia 2,7-8 * AIATSIS  Abstract: "Extract from ABC Radio programme Background Briefing where replies to interview in Arrernte translated by David Wilkins; stresses importance of teaching children their own language to maintain language"

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 & David Wilkins. 1983. Cross-Cultural Research for curriculum development: a case study of Arrernte mathematical concepts, pp.3–15 in Sue Shore ed. Diversity in education in central Australia. Alice Springs: IAD Press.

Wilkins, David. 1982. A research policy for central Australia : rough draft. 'Produced in consultation with the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of Alice Springs' 10 leaves. * AIATSIS call number PMS 3838 * published as the Appendix in Wilkins 1992:189-199

Wilkins, David. 1982. Catching semantic change in progress. Meeting of Central Australian Linguistic Circle (CALC). IAD, Alice Springs, 16 October 1982.

Wilkins, David. 1981. Towards a Theory of Semantic Change.  BA Honours subthesis, Linguistics, SGS, ANU. * see 1993, 1996


https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Wilkins7 : 38 publications listed at 30 Jan 2016

Papers once available at https://anu-au.academia.edu/DavidWilkins : 24 at 30 Jan 2016:

Ethnography of pointing questionnaire version 2
Questionnaire on Motion in Australian Languages (modified) By David Nash and David Wilkins
Exploring the Importance of Emotional Competence in Children With Complex Communication Needs By David Wilkins and Sarah Blackstone
Adam Kendon (2004). Gesture: Visible action as utterance
When ˝go˝ means ˝come˝: Questioning the basicness of basic motion verbs
Exploring the elements of narrative that emerge in the interactions between an 8-year-old child who uses an AAC device and her teacher By David Wilkins and Elizabeth Hartmann
Key principles underlying research and practice in AAC
The background to the study of the language of space
Patterns in the data: towards a semantic typology of spatial description
Double dissociation of letter and category fluency following left frontal and temporal lobe lesions
The case for “effector”: Case roles, agents, and agency revisited
Grammars of Space
Anatomical Correlates of Sentence Comprehension and Verbal Working Memory in Neurodegenerative Disease By David Wilkins and Nina Dronkers
Twelve tips for effective international clinical placements
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization By Eve Danziger and David Wilkins
Role of frontal versus temporal cortex in verbal fluency as revealed by voxel-based lesion symptom mapping
Role of the precentral gyrus of the insula in complex articulation
Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension
The neural basis of surface dyslexia in semantic dementia
Is problem solving dependent on language?
Clinical and anatomical correlates of apraxia of speech
Linguistic research under aboriginal control: A personal account of fieldwork in central Australia
Is it bigger than a breadbox? Performance of patients with prefrontal lesions on a new executive function test


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