This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of
Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up …

The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames.
These names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their …

This paper explores the interface between language planning and language revival, based
on current efforts to reclaim and reintroduce Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains …

This work is chiefly concerned with the semantics of linguistic categories including tense,
modality and negation and the relationships between them. In particular, how do they …

This paper discusses contact languages used in the colony of South Australia up until about
1850. The jargon English probably derived in the first place from South Seas Jargon and the …

This paper is based on an oral presentation given on 12 June 2004 at the 11th Annual
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference, held at the University of California, Berkeley …

This paper traces the investigative tours of British Quakers in the Southern oceans" travelling
under concern" in the 1830s, who sought to witness the treatment of those violently …

In the case of Kaurna, the original language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia, the
demographic profile and movements of people have great explanatory power for …

Following the invasion, or colonisation as some prefer to call it, Indigenous Australia has
been characterised by plummeting populations, largely as a result of introduced diseases …

The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought
with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on …