A sample of works on Ngalakgan and related languages.
Francesca Merlan. 1983. Ngalakan Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Jeffrey Heath. 1984. A Functional Grammar of Nunggubuyu. Canberra: AIAS. [For a long time this (with the companion text and dictionary volumes) was reputedly the most extensive documentation of a non-major European or Asian language.]
Nicholas Evans. 1999. 'Why argument affixes in polysynthetic languages are not pronouns: evidence from Bininj Gun-wok.' STUF 52, 3/4:255-281.
Nicholas Evans (ed.). 2004. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Nicholas Evans. 2003. Bininj Gun-wok: a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. (2 volumes.) Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid. 1997. Nominal classification in Aboriginal Australia. Amsterdam/Philapdelphia: John Benjamins.
Toni Borowsky and Mark Harvey. 1997. 'Vowel-length in Warray and weight identity.' Phonology 14:161-175.
R.M.W. Dixon. 1980. The Languages of Australia. CUP.
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The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies is a government-funded body which funds research into ATSI culture.
David Nash maintains an excellent page on ATSI research here.
The OT Archive has downloadable current papers in this theory.
The Linguistic Data Consortium
Those interested in computer-based lexicography tools and the issues involved in creating dictionaries of indigenous languages can look at a paper on this topic (by myself and Chris Manning) here.
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