1980     invited speaker, International Conference of Bascologists, Vitoria (Spain)books

 

see excerpts from reviews of these works

 

a. on Songhay language family (West Africa)

 

 

2005a

Tondi Songway Kiini (montane Songhay, Mali): Reference grammar and TSK-English-French Dictionary. CSLI [distributed by University of Chicago Press]. Pp. 440.

 

1999

Grammar of Koyraboro Senni (Songhay of Gao). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Pp. xv, 402.

 

1998a

A Grammar of Koyra Chiini, the Songhay of Timbuktu. (Mouton Grammar Series.) the Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. xv, 453.

 

1998b

Texts in Koyra Chiini, Songhay of Timbuktu, Mali. (Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen, 5.) Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Pp. viii, 389. [facing English translations; includes material from Timbuktu, Niafunke, and Djenne]

 

1998c

Texts in Koroboro Senni, Songhay of Gao, Mali. (Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen, 6.) Cologne: Rüdiger Koeppe Verlag. Pp. viii, 283. [facing English translations; includes material from Gao and Bamba]

 

1998d-f

Dictionnaire Songhay-Anglais-Francais – Songhay-English-French Dictionary.  Paris: l’Harmattan

 

 

vol 1: Koyra Chiini. Pp. 264

 

 

vol. 2: Djenne Chiini. Pp. 202

 

 

vol. 3: Koroboro Senni. Pp. 344.

 

b. on Maghrebi Arabic (see also “on language-contact phenomena,” below)

 

 

2004

Hassaniya Arabic (Mali) - French - English Dictionary. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. xviii, 338.

 

2003

Hassaniya Arabic (Mali) Poetic and Ethnographic Texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 207.

 

2002

Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic. London: Curzon. Pp. 559 including some 100 pp. of maps.

 

1987

Ablaut and Ambiguity: Phonology of a Moroccan Arabic Dialect. Albany: State University of New York Press. Pp. 355.

 

c. on Tuareg (Berber) languages

 

 

2006

Tamashek (Mali) - English - French Dictionary. Paris : Karthala. Pp. 843.

 

2005b

Tamashek Texts from Timbuktu and Kidal. [Berber Linguistics Series.] Cologne: Koeppe Verlag. Pp. xi, 164.

 

2005c

Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali). (Mouton Grammar Series.) the Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 745.

 

d. on Dogon language family (West Africa)

 

in press A grammar of Jamsay. (Mouton Grammar Library). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 750

 

e. on Australian Aboriginal Languages

 

 

1984

Functional Grammar of Nunggubuyu. Canberra: AIAS. Pp. 664.

 

1982

Nunggubuyu Dictionary. Canberra: AIAS. Pp. 399, 10 maps.

 

1981

Basic Materials in Mara: Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics C‑60. Canberra: Australian National University. Pp. 522.

 

1980a

Dhuwal (Arnhem Land) Texts on Kinship and Other Subjects, with Grammatical Sketch and Dictionary. Oceania Linguistic Monographs, 23. Sydney: Univ. of Sydney. Pp. 241.

 

1980b

Nunggubuyu Myths and Ethnographic Texts. Canberra: AIAS. Pp. 556.

 

1980c

Basic Materials in Warndarang: Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics, C‑60. Canberra: Australian National University.

 

1980d

Basic Materials in Ritharngu: Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics B‑62. Canberra: Australian National University. Pp. 249.

 

1978a

Ngandi Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary. Canberra: AIAS. Pp. 297.

 

abbreviation: AIAS = Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies

 

f. on language-contact phenomena

 

 

1989

From Code‑Switching to Borrowing: A Case Study of Moroccan Arabic. (Library of Arabic Linguistics, 9.) London and New York: Kegan Paul International. Pp. 328.

 

1978b

Linguistic Diffusion in Arnhem Land. Canberra: AIAS. Pp. 146.

 

co-edited book

 

 

1982

J. Heath, F. Merlan, and A. Rumsey, eds. Languages of Kinship in Aboriginal Australia. Oceania Linguistic Monographs, 24. Sydney: Univ. of Sydney.

 

reviews of these books

 

  2004 reviewed in Zeitschrift fuer arabische Linguistik.
  2003 reviewed in Anthropological Linguistics 48:302-3 (2006), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65:218-9 (2006)

 

2002

reviewed in International Journal of Applied Linguistics 13:152-7 (2003); Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 24(2):190-95 (2003)

 

1999

reviewed in Language 77:183-4 (2001)

 

1998a

reviewed in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 22:108-13; Bull. Soc. Ling. de Paris 94:307-10 (1999); Language 76:495-6 (2000).

 

1998b

reviewed in Language 76:739-40 (2000)

 

1998d-f

reviewed in Anthropological Linguistics 42:289-90; Language 76:496-7 (2000).

 

1989

reviewed in Arabica 40:267-78 (1993); British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 18:132-4 (1991); Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 54:165-166 (1991); Journal of Islamic Studies (Jul. '91), 249-250; American Anthropologist 93:510-511 (1991); Modern Language Journal (summer 1991); Studia Orientalia [Helsinki] 67:191-195 (1991); Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 12:195-7 (1990-91); Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris (1991), 248-53; MESA [=Middle East Studies Association] Bulletin 27:286-287 (1993); Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16:518-523 (1993); Bibliotheca Orientalis (Leiden) 54(1/2):250-52 (1997).

 

1987

reviewed in Language 65:820‑23 (1989); Journal of Linguistics 25:272‑73 (1989); Journal of the American Oriental Society 109:134‑35 (1989); Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 80:257-258 (1990); Modern Language Journal c. 1990; Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris (1991).

 

1980b,1982,1984

review article in Language 62: 654‑663 (1986); reviewed in Australian Journal of Linguistics 5: 304‑310 (1985); American Anthropologist 88: 191-92 (1986)

 

1980b

reviewed in Australian Journal of Linguistics 2:121‑128 (1982).

 

1978a,b

reviewed in Language 58:435‑40 (1982).

 

(ed.) 1982

reviewed in American Anthropologist 86:149-50 (1984)

 

 

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