Loss and Renewal : : Australian Languages Since Colonisation /

Loss and Renewal : : Australian Languages Since Colonisation / / ed. by Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy.

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Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Angelo, Denise,
Baker, Brett,
Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke,
Dickson, Greg,
Evans, Nicholas,
Mansfield, John Basil,
McConvell, Patrick,
Meakins, Felicity,
Mushin, Ilana,
Nash, David,
Nicholls, Sophie,
O’Shannessy, Carmel,
Pensalfini, Rob,
Ponsonnet, Maïa,
Schultze-Berndt, Eva,
Watts, Janet,
HerausgeberIn:
Meakins, Felicity,
O'Shannessy, Carmel,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXXIII, 460 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of contents
  • List of contributors
  • Maps
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction
  • Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective
  • II. Transfer of form: Structure
  • 1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages
  • 2. Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government Reserve varieties: The case of Woorie Talk
  • III. Transfer of form: Lexical
  • 3. Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation
  • 4. Placenames evidence for NSW Pidgin
  • 5. Rethinking the substrates of Roper River Kriol: The case of Marra
  • IV. Transfer of form: Phonological
  • 6. Fact or furphy? The continuum in Kriol
  • 7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology
  • V. Transfer of function, structure, distribution and semantics
  • 8. Beware bambai – lest it be apprehensive
  • 9. Reflexive, reciprocal and emphatic functions in Barunga Kriol
  • 10 Grammaticalization and interactional pragmatics: A description of the recognitional determiner det in Roper River Kriol
  • VI. (Further) Development of new structures
  • 11. No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix
  • 12. Borrowed verbs and the expansion of light verb phrases in Murrinhpatha
  • 13. Gender bender: Superclassing in Jingulu gender marking
  • Index

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