LINGUIST List 20.1401: Lang Documentation/Morphology/Socioling: Meakins: 'Case-...'

LINGUIST List 20.1401

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1. Felicity Meakins, Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language

Message 1: Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language
Date: 27-Mar-2009
From: Felicity Meakins <felicity.meakinsmanchester.ac.uk>
Subject: Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language
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Institution: University of Melbourne Program: Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2007

Author: Felicity Meakins

Dissertation Title: Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language

Dissertation URL: http://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/R/UCJY7C2GNJKBRCQYD4L3DDJ52R89VNIBXM9PT1KLY8G5NTQECY-00351?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=67569&pds_handle=GUEST

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Morphology Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Gurinji (gue) Kriol (rop)
Dissertation Director:
Gillian Wigglesworth Jane H. Simpson Rachel Nordlinger Patrick McConvell
Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis is an investigation of case morphology in a mixed language,Gurindji Kriol. Gurindji Kriol is spoken by the Gurindji people in northernAustralia. It fuses Gurindji, which is a member of the Ngumpin-Yapasubgroup of the Pama-Nyungan family, with Kriol, which is anEnglish-lexifier creole spoken across the north of Australia. GurindjiKriol exhibits a structural split between the NP and VP systems, but islexically quite mixed. Kriol provides much of the verbal grammar includingtense and mood auxiliaries, and transitive, aspect and derivationalmorphology. Most of the NP structure is of Gurindji origin including caseand derivational morphology. Lexically, nominals and verbs are derived fromboth source languages. In form, the various sub-systems of Gurindji Kriolbear a close resemblance to their source languages. However, contact andcompetition between Gurindji and Kriol in the process of the formation ofthe mixed language has altered the function and distribution of thesesystems, including the Gurindji-derived case morphology. The aim of thisthesis is three-fold: (i) to provide the first detailed socio-historicaland grammatical description of Gurindji Kriol (§2 and §A1), (ii) to proposea path by which Gurindji case morphology was incorporated into the GurindjiKriol clause (§3-§5), and (iii) to demonstrate changes in the use of fourcase markers quantitatively (§6-§9).

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