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Note: Includes bibliographical references , 1. Introduction , 2. Michael Walsh : a personal reflection , 3. Place and property at Yintjingga/Port Stewart under Aboriginal Law and Queensland Law , 4. Linguistic identities in the eastern Western Desert : the Tindale evidence , Juwaliny : dialectal variation and ethnolinguistic identity in the Great Sandy Desert , 6. Who were the 'Yukul'? and who are they now? , 7. Colonisation and Aboriginal concepts of land tenure in the Darwin region , 8. Aboriginal languages and social groups in the Canberra region : interpreting the historical documentation , 9. The Kuringgai puzzle : languages and dialects on the NSW Mid Coast , 10. Dawes' Law generalised : cluster simplification in the coastal dialect of the Sydney language , 11. Space, time and environment in Kala Lagaw Ya , 12. Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations , 13. Laughter is the best medicine : roles for prosody in a Murriny Patha conversational narrative , 14. Collaborative narration and cross-speaker repetition in Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u , 15. Co-narration of a Koko-Bera story : giants in Cape York Peninsula , 16. A tale of many tongues : documenting polyglot narrative in north Australian oral traditions , 17. Trading in terms : linguistic affiliation in Arandic songs and alternative registers , 18. Social identity and recurrent themes in the Djanba repertory , 19. Encounters with genre : apprehending cultural frontiers , 20. Language disguise in OT : reversing and truncating , 21. Sense individualism and syntactic optionality , 22. Maintaining languages, maintaining identities : what bilingual education offers

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index