Case-marking in contact : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol / Felicity Meakins.
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 thei...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2011.
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| Series: | Creole language library ;
v. 39. |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 311 pages) : map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284679 9027284679 1283280477 9781283280471 |