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Sections 1 and 4 of this article were co-authored; sections 3.9 and 3.10 were written by Sutton; the remainder of the paper was written by Koch. We acknowledge kind permission by Nicholas Evans and Pacific Linguistics, and Peter Hiscock to reproduce figures 1 and 2, respectively, and very helpful comments on the paper by two anonymous JL reviewers and

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Central Australian Aboriginal English includes features derived from an earlier Australian Pidgin English, mixed with aspects of colloquial English, and in addition shows the influence of the indigenous languages of Central Australia. This paper explores the way grammatical distinctions of one particular indigenous language, Kaytetye, are reflected in the Aboriginal English of speakers whose first language is Kaytetye. It is claimed that, although the forms are from English, their grammatical uses are determined to some extent by the morphosyntactic categories of Kaytetye. Topics explored include: personal pronouns, a kinship marker, prepositions, and the verbal category of "associated motion".