Case-marking in contact [[electronic resource] ] : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol / / Felicity Meakins
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Meakins Felicity
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| Titolo: |
Case-marking in contact [[electronic resource] ] : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol / / Felicity Meakins
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 499/.15 |
| Soggetto topico: | Kriol language - Case |
| Kriol language - Morphology | |
| Gurindji language - Case | |
| Gurindji language - Morphology | |
| Code switching (Linguistics) | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Case-marking in contact |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28047-7 |
| 9786613280473 | |
| 90-272-8467-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825868003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Creole language library ; ; v. 39.