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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Case-Marking in Contact
Subtitle: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol
Written By: Felicity Meakins
URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/cll.39
Series Title: Creole Language Library 39
Description:

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.

Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Creole Studies

Versions:
Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027284679
Prices: Europe EURO 105.00
U.S. $ 158.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027252616
Prices: U.K. £ 105.00
U.S. $ 158.00
Europe EURO 111.30