Case-Marking in Contact

The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol

Felicity Meakins | University of Queensland

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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 the result of pervasive code-switching practices. Although Gurindji Kriol bears some resemblance to both of its source languages, it uses the forms from these languages to function within a unique system. This book focuses on one structural aspect of Gurindji Kriol, case morphology, which is from Gurindji, but functions in ways that differ from its source.

[Creole Language Library, 39] 2011. xxi, 311 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 September 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.39

Table of Contents

List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv

Acknowledgements | pp. xv–xvi

List of abbreviations | pp. xvii–xxii

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–54

Chapter 2. The socio-political origins and setting of Gurindji Kriol | pp. 55–84

Chapter 3. The effect of language contact on inflectional morphology | pp. 85–108

Chapter 4. Code-switching origins: The source of case-marking in Gurindji Kriol | pp. 109–128

Chapter 5. The Transition from code-switching to a mixed language | pp. 129–154

Chapter 6. Attributive possessive constructions in Gurindji Kriol | pp. 155–174

Chapter 7. Topological relations in Gurindji Kriol | pp. 175–188

Chapter 8. Goal constructions in Gurindji Kriol | pp. 189–208

Chapter 9. Argument marking in Gurindji Kriol | pp. 209–240

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Contact and competition between Gurindji case marking and Kriol functional equivalents | pp. 241–258

Appendix 1. 200 word list | pp. 259–262

Appendix 2. Consistency in the expression of an event | pp. 263–264

Appendix 3. Sample of glossed Gurindji Kriol texts | pp. 265–286

Appendix 4. Statistical output | pp. 287–290

Index | pp. 307–312

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