TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meakins,Felicity
TI  - Case-marking in contact: the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol 
T2  - Creole language library
SN  - 9789027284679
AV  - PM7875.K74 M43 2011eb
U1  - 499/.15 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Pub. Co.
KW  - Kriol language
KW  - Case
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Gurindji language
KW  - Code switching (Linguistics)
KW  - Changement de code (Linguistique)
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - Oceanic & Australian Languages
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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