Loss and renewal : Australian languages since colonisation / / edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467592003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5015-0103-8; 1-61451-879-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (493 p.)
• Collana: Language Contact and Bilingualism ; ; 13
• Disciplina: 409.94
• Soggetti: Languages in contact - Australia; Immigrants - Australia - Language; English language - Influence on foreign languages; Australian languages - Influence on foreign languages; Australian languages - Languages - Social aspects; Colonization - Social aspects - History; Multilingualism - Australia; Sociolinguistics; Electronic books.; Australia History 1788-1851; Australia Languages Social aspects; Australia Colonization History
• 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: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Maps -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective -- 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 -- 3. Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation -- 4. Place names evidence for NSW Pidgin -- 5. Rethinking the substrates of Roper River Kriol: The case of ; Marra -- 6. Fact or furphy? The continuum in Kriol -- 7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology -- 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 -- 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: Super classing in Jingulu gender marking -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.