Books - peer reviewed
Priestley, Carol 2020, Koromu (Kesawai): Grammar and Information Structure in a language of New Guinea, Berlin: Pacific Linguistics Series, De Gruyter Mouton.
Morrissey, Michael J, Pickersgill, Richard & Priestley, Carol 1986, Community networks in the western Sydney Regions: Blacktown and Campbelltown, Wollongong: Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong.
Book chapters – peer reviewed
Levisen, Carsten, & Priestley, Carol 2017, Social keywords in postcolonial Melanesian Discourse: Kastom ‘traditional culture’ and tumbuna ‘ancestors’, in Carsten Levisen & Sophia Waters (eds.), Cultural Keywords in Discourse, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 83-106.
Levisen, Carsten, Priestley, Carol, Nicholls, Sophie & Goldshtein, Yonatan 2017, The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives, in Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen & Eeva Sippola (eds.), Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 345-368.
Priestley, Carol 2017, Some key body parts and polysemy: A case study from Koromu (Kesawai), in Zhengdao Ye (ed.), The Semantics of Nouns: People, Places and Things. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 147-179.
Priestley, Carol 2016, The semantics and morphosyntax of tare “hurt/pain” in Koromu (PNG): Verbal and nominal Constructions, in Cliff Goddard & Zhengdao Ye (eds.), “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Benjamins Current Topics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 123-141.
Priestley, Carol 2012, Koromu temporal expressions: Semantic and cultural perspectives, in Luna Filipović & Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Space and Time across Languages and Cultures (Vol. 2) Language, Culture and Cognition, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 143-165.
Priestley, Carol 2008, The semantics of “inalienable possession” in Koromu (PNG), in Goddard, Cliff (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 277-299.
Journal articles – peer reviewed
Govor, Elena, Ballard, Chris, & Priestley, Carol Forthcoming, Makarai: language and trade in first contact encounters in New Guinea, 1871-83, Oceanic Linguistics.
Priestley, Carol 2014, The semantics and morphosyntax of tare ‘hurt/pain’ in Koromu (PNG): Verbal and nominal constructions, (Cliff Goddard & Zhengdao Ye eds.), Language and Culture, 1(2): 253-271.
Priestley, Carol 2013, Social categories, shared experience, reciprocity, and endangered meanings: Examples from Koromu (PNG)’, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 33(3): 257-281.
Priestley, Carol 2002, Insides and emotion in Koromu, in Nick J Enfield & Anna Wierzbicka (eds.), Special Issue The Body in Description of Emotion: Cross-Linguistic Studies, Pragmatics & Cognition, 10(1/2): 243-270.
Conference proceedings – peer reviewed
Priestley, Carol 2012, The expression of potential event modality in the Papuan language of Koromu, in Maia Ponsonnet, Loan Dao & Margit Bowler (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2011 (1-4 Dec 2011), Canberra: ANU Research Repository http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9422, 388-421.
Priestley, Carol 2006, Talking about space in Koromu, a Trans New Guinea language. In Keith Allen (ed.), Selected papers from the 2005 conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, http://www.als.asn.au, 1-19.