Case-marking in contact : the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol /
"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, an...
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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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The socio-political origins and setting of Gurindji Kriol
- The effect of language contact on inflectional morphology
- Code-switching origins: The source of case-marking in Gurindji Kriol
- The Transition from code-switching to a mixed language
- Attributive possessive constructions in Gurindji Kriol
- Topological relations in Gurindji Kriol
- Goal constructions in Gurindji Kriol
- Argument marking in Gurindji Kriol
- Conclusion: Contact and competition between Gurindji case marking and Kriol functional equivalents.