Loss and Renewal : Australian Languages Since Colonisation.

Loss and Renewal : Australian Languages Since Colonisation.

Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and...

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Main Author: Meakins, Felicity
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston, UNKNOWN : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.
©2016
Series:Language contact and bilingualism ; 13.
Subjects:
1788-1851
Languages in contact > Australia.
Immigrants > Australia > Language.
English language > Influence on foreign languages.
Australian languages > Social aspects.
Colonization > Social aspects > History.
Multilingualism > Australia.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
Jingulu language C22.
Gurindji language C20.
Marra language N112.
Warlpiri language C15.
Marrku language N45.
Murrinh-Patha language N3.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Australian languages > Social aspects
Colonization
Colonization > Social aspects
English language > Influence on foreign languages
Immigrants > Language
Languages in contact
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Australia > History > 1788-1851.
Australia > Languages > Social aspects.
Australia > Colonization > History.
Australia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; 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 from NSW Pidgin: Bulga, Nyrang ; 5. Rethinking the substrate languages of Roper Kriol: The case of Marra ; IV. Transfer of form: Phonological ; 6 The continuum in Kriol: Fact or furphy?
  • 7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology V. Transfer of function, structure, distribution and semantics ; 8. Beware of 'bambai'
  • soon it may turn 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.

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