Language and culture in Aboriginal Australia / edited by Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop.

Includes bibliographies.

Languages and their status in Aboriginal Australia / Michael Walsh -- The structure of Australian Aboriginal languages / Colin Yallop -- Language contact in early colonial New South Wales 1788 to 1791 / Jakelin Troy -- Tasmanian Aboriginal language: old and new identities / Terry Crowley -- Bundjalung: teaching a disappearing language / Margaret Sharpe -- Language and culture: socialisation in a Warlpiri community / Edith Bavin -- Out-of-the-ordinary ways of using a language / Barry Alpher -- Classifying the world in an Aboriginal language / Michael Walsh -- Making dictionaries / Jane Simpson -- Losing and gaining a language: the story of Kriol in the Northern Territory / John Harris -- Kriol: the creation of a written language and a tool of colonisation / Mari Rhydwen -- The language of oppression: the Bolden case, Victoria 1845 / Michael Christie -- Language and the law: white Australia v Nancy / Diana Eades -- Language and territoriality in Aboriginal Australia / Alan Rumsey -- New uses for old languages / Paul Black.

Papers which answer recurring questions on language and culture in Aboriginal Australia separately annotated.

In English, with some words in Warlpiri.