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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457548403321

Autore

Meakins Felicity

Titolo

Case-marking in contact [[electronic resource] ] : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol / / Felicity Meakins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-28047-7

9786613280473

90-272-8467-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 39

Disciplina

499/.15

Soggetti

Kriol language - Case

Kriol language - Morphology

Gurindji language - Case

Gurindji language - Morphology

Code switching (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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