Austin, Peter. 1981. A Grammar of Diyari, South Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Austin, Peter. 1982. The deictic system of Diyari. In Jurgen Weissenborn & Wolfgang Klein (eds.) Here and there: cross-linguistic studies on deixis and demonstration, 273-284. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Austin, Peter. 1986a. Diyari language postcards and Diyari literacy. Aboriginal History 10, 175-190. Download at: http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin_1986_AH.pdf
Austin, Peter. 1986b. Afghan story. In Luise A. Hercus & Peter Sutton (eds.) This is what happened, 129-132. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Austin, Peter. 1986c. Paradise crossing. Luise A. Hercus & Peter Sutton (eds.) This is what happened, 293-296. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Austin, Peter. 2004. Chapter 136 Diyari (Pama-Nyungan). In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, & Joachim Mugdan (eds.) Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation, 1490-1500. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Austin, Peter K. 2013. A Dictionary of Diyari, South Australia. MS, SOAS, University of London. Download at: http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin_2013_Diyari_Dictionary.pdf
Austin, Peter K. 2014. And still they speak Diyari: the life history of an endangered language. Ethnorema 10, 1-17. Download at: http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin_1986_AH.pdf
Austin, Peter K. 2021. A Grammar of Diyari, South Australia. 2nd edition, version 2.10. MS, SOAS, University of London. Download at: http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin_2021_Diyari_grammar.pdf
Austin, Peter K. 2023. Making 2,180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther. In Eda Dehermi & Christopher Moseley (eds.) Endangered Languages in the 21st Century, 241-257. London: Routledge. Download at: http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin-Ostler.pdf
Austin, Peter, Luise A. Hercus & Phillip Jones. 1988. Ben Murray Parlku-Nguyu-Tangkayiwarna. Aboriginal History 12, 115-188.
Berndt, R.M. 1953. A Day in the Life of a Dieri Man before Alien Contact. Anthropos 48(1/2), 171-201.
Berndt, R.M. and T. Vogelsang. 1941a. Comparative vocabularies of the Ngadjuri and Dieri tribes, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1), 3-10.
Berndt, R.M. and T. Vogelsang. 1941b. The initiation of native-doctors, Dieri tribe, South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 6(4), 369-380.
Gason, Samuel. 1879. The Dieyerie tribe. In J.D. Woods (ed.) The Native Tribes of South Australia, 253-307. Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and Son.
Horne, G. A. and G. Aiston. 1924. Savage Life in Central Australia. London: Macmillan.
Howitt, Alfred W. 1891. The Dieri and kindred tribes of central Australia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20, 30-104.
Howitt, Alfred W. 1996[1904]. The Native Tribes of South-East Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Howitt, Alfred. W. & Otto Siebert. 1904. Legends of the Dieri and other kindred tribes of central Australia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 34, 102-128.
Murray, Ben & Peter Austin. 1981. Afghans and Aborigines: Diyari texts. Aboriginal History 5, 71-79. http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin_1986_AH.pdf
McEntee, J.C. 1998. A Concordance of the Diyari manuscripts of J.G. Reuther, as translated from the original German by Rev. P.A. Scherer. Manuscript.
Planert, W. 1908. Australische forschungen ll Dieri-Grammatik. Zeitschschrift für Ethnologie 40, 686-697.
Reuther. J. G. & Carl Strehlow. 1897. Testamenta marra. Jesuni Christuni ngantjani jaura ninaia karitjimalkana wonti Dieri jaurani. Adelaide: G. Auricht.
Stockigt, Clara. 2016. Pama-Nyungan morphosyntax: lineages of early description. PhD thesis. Adelaide University
Trefry, David. 1970. The phonological word in Dieri. In Donald Laycock (ed.) Linguistic trends in Australia, 65-73. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Trefry, David. 1974. The theory of segmental phonology. PhD thesis. Macquarie University.
For history, placenames, kinship, flora and fauna
Elkin, A. P. 1931. The Dieri kinship system. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 61, 493-497.
Elkin, A. P. 1931-32. The social organization of South Australian tribes. Oceania 2, 44-73.
Elkin, A. P. 1934. Cult-totemism and mythology in northern South Australia. Oceania 51, 171-192.
Elkin, A. P. 1938-39. Kinship in South Australia. Oceania 9, 41-78.
Hercus, Luise A. 2009. Some area names in the far north-east of South Australia. In Harold Koch and Luise Hercus (eds.) Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and re-naming the Australian landscape, 273-285. Canberra: ANU Press.
Hercus, Luise. 2014. One name for one Place – but it is not always so. In Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski (eds.) Indigenous and Minority Placenames: Australian and International Perspectives, 213-224. Canberra: ANU Press.
Hercus, Luise and Vlad Potezny. 1990. Locating Aboriginal sites: a note on J.G. Reuther and the Hillier Map of 1904. Records of the South Australian Museum 24(2), 139-151.
Hercus, Luise A. and Vlad Potezny. 1999. ‘“Finch” versus “Finchwater”: a study of Aboriginal Place-Names in South Australia’, Records of the South Australian Museum 31(2), 165–180.
Jericho, Helen. 1975. Down memory lane. Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House.
Johnston, T. Harvey & John. B. Cleland. 1943a. Native names and uses of plants in the north east corner of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 67(1), 149-173.
Johnston, T. Harvey & John. B. Cleland. 1943b. Aboriginal names and the utilization of fauna in the Eyrean region. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 67(2), 244-311.
Jones, Philip. 2002. Naming the Dead Heart: Hillier’s Map and Reuther’s Gazetteer of 2468 placenames in Northeastern South Australia. In Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson (eds.) The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, 187-200. Canberra: Pandanus Books.
Jones, Philip. 2008. Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
Jones, Philip. 2009. Naming the dead heart: Hillier’s map and Reuther’s gazetteer of 2,468 placenames in north-eastern South Australia. In Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson (eds.) The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, 187-200. Canberra: ANU Press.
Proeve, E. L. & H. F. W. Proeve. 1952. A work of love and sacrifice: the story of the mission among the Dieri tribe at Cooper ‘s Creek. Part 1. Point Pass: Lutheran Mission booklet.
Stevens, Christine. 1994. White man’s dreaming: Killalpaninna Mission, 1866–1915. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
For neighbouring languages
Austin, Peter. 1988. Trill-released stops and language change in central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8(2), 219-245.
Austin, Peter. 1989. Verb compounding in central Australian languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 43-71. Online at http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/LTUWP_verbcomp_2020-09-01.pdf
Austin, Peter. 1990a. Classification of Lake Eyre languages. La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 171-201. Online at http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/LTUWP_classlakeeyre_2020-09-01.pdf
Austin, Peter. 1990b. The last words of Pirlatapa. In Peter Austin, R.M.W. Dixon, Tom Dutton and Isobel White (eds.) Language and history: essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus, 29-48. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-1 16. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/253724/1/PL-C116.29.pdf
Austin, Peter. 1991. The Karangura language. Records of the South Australian Museum 25(2), 129-137. http://www.peterkaustin.com/docs/Austin_1991_RSAM.pdf
Austin, Peter, Robert Ellis & Luise A. Hercus. 1976. ‘Fruit of the eyes’: semantic diffusion in the Lakes languages of South Australia. Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 10, 57-77. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Bowern, Claire. 1998. The Case of Proto-Karnic. BA Honours Thesis. Australian National University.
Bowern, Claire. 2001. Karnic classification revisited. In Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin, Barry Alpher (eds.) Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, 245-261. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Download at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/254026/1/PL-512.245.pdf
Bowern, Claire. 2009. Reassessing Karnic: A reply to Breen (2007). Australian Journal of Linguistics 29, 337-348.
Breen, Gavan. 2007. Reassessing Karnic. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25, 175-199.
Breen, Gavan. 2011. Reassessing Karnic: A Reply to Bowern (2009). Australian Journal of Linguistics 31(1), 137-142.
Breen, Gavan. 2004a. Innamincka Talk: A Grammar of the Innamincka Dialect of Yandruwandha with Notes on Other Dialects. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.