Felicity Meakins

List of John Benjamins publications for which Felicity Meakins plays a role.

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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Meakins, Felicity 2023 Quantifying the language dynamics of bilingual communitiesEpistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 76–82 | Commentary
Sloan, Bodean, Felicity Meakins and Cassandra Algy 2022 Intergenerational changes in Gurindji Kriol: Comparing apparent-time and real-time dataAsia-Pacific Language Variation 8:1, pp. 1–31 | Article
This paper explores intergenerational changes in Gurindji Kriol, in order to determine whether differences between adults and children are the result of an abrupt generational shift or an extended acquisition process. We analyse the production of Gurindji in the speech of five age groups of… read more
Dunn, Vivien, Felicity Meakins and Cassandra Algy 2021 Acquisition or shift? Interpreting variation in Gurindji children’s expression of spatial relationsVariation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 105–131 | Chapter
This chapter examines the spatial description system employed by Gurindji children in Kalkaringi (Northern Territory, Australia) to describe ternary relations in small-scale space. While Gurindji is the traditional language of Kalkaringi, a new variety, Gurindji Kriol, has developed as a result… read more
Bos, Jackie van den, Felicity Meakins and Cassandra Algy 2017 Searching for “Agent Zero”: The origins of a relative case systemLanguage Ecology 1:1, pp. 4–24 | Article
Gurindji Kriol, a mixed language spoken in northern Australia, combines a Kriol VP with a Gurindji NP, including case suffixes (Meakins 2011a). The Gurindji-derived case suffixes have undergone a number of changes in Gurindji Kriol, for example the ergative suffix -ngku/-tu now marks nominative… read more
This is the first quantitative study of bound pronoun variation in an Australian language. Bound pronouns in Gurindji and Bilinarra (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan) are obligatory for first and second persons, categorically absent for the third person minimal, and used 73% of the time to… read more
Meakins, Felicity 2014 Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixingLanguage Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 283–316 | Article
Generativists have argued that nominals in non-configurational languages such as Warlpiri do not have the status of arguments. This paper provides new evidence for this claim from an unlikely source: code-switching between Kriol, an English-based creole, and Gurindji, a Ngumpin-Yapa language… read more
Gurindji Kriol is a contact variety spoken in northern Australia which has been identified as a mixed language. Yet its status as an autonomous language system must be questioned for three reasons — (i) it continues to be spoken alongside its source languages, Gurindji and Kriol, (ii) it has a… read more
Gurindji Kriol is a mixed language spoken in northern Australia. It is derived from Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language, and Kriol, an English-lexifier creole language. Gurindji Kriol has adopted the argument marking systems from both source languages; case marking, specifically the ergative marker,… read more
Empirical evidence for the sociolinguistic origins of mixed languages has often proven elusive due to the paucity of historical material on the linguistic and political situation at the point of their genesis. Gurindji Kriol is a mixed language spoken by Gurindji people in northern Australia. The… read more