2016. Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages since Colonisation.

Table of contents Acknowledgements List of contributors Maps xii List of figures xiv List of tables xvii Preface xx

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Introduction Carmel O’Shannessy and Felicity Meakins Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective

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II Transfer of form: Structure 1

Nicholas Evans As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages 29

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Ilana Mushin and Janet Watts Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government reserve varieties: 57 The case of Woorie Talk

III Transfer of form: Lexical 3

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Patrick McConvell Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation 89 David Nash Placenames from NSW Pidgin: Bulga, Nyrang

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Greg Dickson Rethinking the substrate languages of Roper Kriol: The case of 145 Marra

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IV Transfer of form: Phonological 6

Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen and Brett Baker The continuum in Kriol: Fact or furphy?

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Carmel O’Shannessy Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology

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V Transfer of function, structure, distribution and semantics 8

Denise Angelo and Eva Schultze-Berndt Beware of ‘bambai’ – soon it may turn apprehensive

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Maïa Ponsonnet Reflexive, reciprocal and emphatic functions in Barunga Kriol

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Sophie Nicholls 10 Grammaticalization and interactional pragmatics: A description of the 333 recognitional determiner det in Roper River Kriol

VI (Further) Development of new structures 11

Felicity Meakins No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix 367

John Mansfield 12 Light verb structure in Murrinh-Patha

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Felicity Meakins and Rob Pensalfini 13 Gender Bender: Superclassing in Jingulu gender marking Index

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