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Name: Felicity Meakins
Institution: University of Queensland
Email: click here to access email
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Gurinji
Language Family(ies): Ngumbin
Postal Address: School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studi
University of Queensland
St Lucia,  QLD
Australia    4072
Selected Publications: (under revision). The development of asymmetrical serial verb constructions in an Australian mixed language. Linguistic Typology

(in prep). Gurindji Kriol. In S. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath and M. Huber (Eds). Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures, vol II: The language surveys. Oxford: OUP.

(in prep). with E. Schultze-Berndt. Kriol. In S. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath and M. Huber (Eds). Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures, vol II: The language surveys. Oxford: OUP.

(in prep). Gurindji Kriol language structure subdatabase. In S. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath and M. Huber (Eds). Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures Online. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library.

(in prep). Mixed languages. In Y. Matras and P. Bakker. Contact languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyer.

(in prep). The importance of understanding language ecologies for language revitalisation. In J. Hobson and S. Poetch (Eds.), Reawakening languages: Theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

(in press). with C. O'Shannessy. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages . [pdf]. In W. McGregor & J-C. Verstraete (Eds.), Lingua (Special Issue on Optional Ergativity).

2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language [pdf]. In J. Barddal & S. Chelliah (Eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2008. Land, language and identity: The socio-political origins of Gurindji Kriol [pdf]. In M. Meyerhoff and N. Nagy. Social Lives in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2008. Unraveling languages: Multilingualism and language contact in Kalkaringi [pdf]. In J. Simpson & G. Wigglesworth (Eds.), Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school. New York: Continuum. pp. 247-64.

2005. with C. O'Shannessy. 'Possessing Variation: Inalienability and age-related factors in the possessive constructions of two Australian mixed languages.' Monash University Linguistics Papers. 4.2: 43-63.

2005. with McConvell, Patrick. Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code- Switching [pdf]. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 25.1.

(under review). Which mix? - code-switching or a mixed language - Gurindji Kriol.
Dissertation Abstract: Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language
Reviewer of: Socioling/Typology: Matras & Bakker (2003) (LL Issue 15.2736)
Deconstructing Creole (LL Issue 20.2373)
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