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Case-marking in contact : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol / Felicity Meakins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meakins, Felicity.
- Series:
- Creole language library ; v. 39.
- Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kriol language--Case.
- Kriol language.
- Kriol language--Morphology.
- Gurindji language--Case.
- Gurindji language.
- Gurindji language--Morphology.
- Code switching (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and their social and structural features. This book aims to advance our understanding of how mixed languages evolve by introducing a substantial corpus from a newly-described mixed language, Gurindji Kriol. Gurindji Kriol is spoken by the Gurindji people who live at Kalkaringi in northern Australia and is t
- Contents:
- Case-Marking in Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2.The socio-political origins and setting of Gurindji Kriol; Chapter 3.The effect of language contact on inflectional morphology; Chapter 4.Code-switching origins; Chapter 5.The Transition from code-switching to a mixed language; Chapter 6.Attributive possessive constructions in Gurindji Kriol; Chapter 7.Topological relations in Gurindji Kriol; Chapter 8.Goal constructions in Gurindji Kriol
- Chapter 9.Argument marking in Gurindji KriolChapter 10.Conclusion; Appendix 1. 200 word list; Appendix 2. Consistency in the expression of an event; Appendix 3. Sample of glossed Gurindji Kriol texts; Appendix 4. Statistical output; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613280473
- 9781283280471
- 1283280477
- 9789027284679
- 9027284679
- OCLC:
- 753480179
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