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 …

Palgrave Studies in Pacific History emphasizes the importance of histories of connection
and interaction, with titles underscoring local cases with transnational reach. In dialogue …

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 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 …

The single most important step forward in the study of Aboriginal languages of the southwest
of South Australia was the fieldwork carried out by Geoffrey 0'Grady and Ken Hale from 1957 …

Contemporary contact languages used by Indigenous people in Australia share many words
and grammatical features and structures. I trace the development of contact varieties in …

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 …

Palaeoecological records, documented historical records and remnant vegetation were
investigated in order to construct a multi-scaled history of vegetation pattern and change in …

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 …

Kaurna, the language indigenous to the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, is being
reclaimed from nineteenth-century written historical sources. There are no sound recordings …