Case-marking in contact : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol / Felicity Meakins.

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Meakins, Felicity

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online resource

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9789027284679
9027284679
1283280477
9781283280471

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: E-marking in contact.DDC classification:

499/.15 23

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PM7875.K74 M43 2011eb

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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.

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.

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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.

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