Chapter 1: In the first chapter I present a brief overview of the Nakkara language and its speakers. We look firstly at the linguistic type and point out that Nakkara belongs to the Non-Pama Nyungan family of Australian languages. Some of the salient features of the language are pointed out and comparisons drawn with other languages in the area. Alternative names used to refer to this language are listed, followed by descriptions of the traditional land estates of Nakkara speakers. The

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... of the chapter provides a backdrop for the language description by outlining relations with traditional neighbours, involvement with ceremony, arts and crafts, recent history and the language and its speakers today. Chapter 2: This chapter describes the phonology of Nakkara and includes phonemic analysis, stress patterns, phonotactics and word structure, phonological and morphological rules and orthographic representation. The most detailed area of analysis in this chapter is the interpretation of an audible stop contrast in the language. Stop length is introduced as a significant phonetic factor in the phonemic interpetation of Nakkara sounds. Chapter 3: This chapter is entitled Morphological Preliminaries. It gives a typological profile of the language and introduces most of the technical terms used in the morphological analysis of Nakkara. The parts of speech (or word classes) used in this description are also introduced here, as well as the morpho-syntactic notions of core, outer-core and peripheral levels. Chapter 4: The morphology of Nakkara is extensive and is therefore divided into three separate chapters. In this chapter we examine nominal morphology in general, looking firstly at independent pronoun morphology^ then at pronominal affixes. Lastly the morphological functions of non-pronominal affixes and postpositions are introduced. Chapter 5: This and the following chapter deal with the morphology of verbal structures in the language. In chapter five the verb-complex (VC) is defined and the morphological compone [...]