Alan Dench

Dench, Alan 2007 Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 223–237 | Article

Dench, Alan 2003 From purposive/future to present: Shifting temporal categories in the Pilbara languages of north west Western Australia Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 87–103 | Article

Dench, Alan 2000 Comparative Reconstitution Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 57 ff. | Article

Dench, Alan 1998 Pidgin Ngarluma: An Indigenous Contact Language in North Western Australia Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13:1, pp. 1–61 | Article

This paper discusses evidence of an early pidgin in use amongst Aboriginal people of the north west coast of Western Australia. The crucial evidence comes from an Italian manuscript describing the rescue, by local Aborigines, of two castaways wrecked on North West Cape in 1875. The data reveals… read more

Dench, Alan 1988 Complex Sentences in Martuthunira Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages, Austin, Peter (ed.), pp. 97 ff. | Article

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