﻿From prefixes to suffixes

Harvey, Mark; Green, Ian; Nordlinger, Rachel

doi:10.1075/dia.23.2.04har

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“…We are also assuming a single contact event, but again this is speculative. In any case, the contact event occurred long after the development of gender suffixes from the encliticisation and reduction of prefixed demonstratives to nominals (Harvey et al, 2006). 2 Jingili is the name of the people and Jingulu is the name of the language.…”

Section: Noun Borrowing Between Mudburra and Jingulumentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Lender: Noun Borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in Northern Australia

Pensalfini

Meakins

2019

J. Lang. Contact

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This paper explores borrowing of nouns between two unrelated Australian languages with a long history of contact: Mudburra, a language with no grammatical gender, and Jingulu, which has four genders and super-classing. Unusually, this case involves extensive borrowing in both directions, resulting in the languages sharing 65% of their nouns. This bi-directional borrowing of nouns allows us to simultaneously examine the behaviour of gender where (i) nouns from a language with no gender have transferred into a language with a gender system, and (ii) nouns from a language with gender have transferred into a language with no gender system. Previous work in this area has been interested in the how nouns are categorised in scenario (i) (Deuchar et al., 2014; Jake et al., 2002; Liceras et al., 2008; Parafita Couto et al., 2015; Poplack et al., 1982), and whether there is any evidence for the development of a gender system in the recipient language in scenario (ii) (Aikhenvald, 2003; Corbett, 1991; Heath, 1978; Matras and Sakel, 2007; Seifart, 2012; Stolz, 2009; Stolz, 2012). We show that Mudburra nouns borrowed into Jingulu are assigned gender on the basis of their semantics, with gender superclassing effects and morpho-phonological massaging. Some of the borrowings into Mudburra, on the other hand, demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of Jingulu morpho-syntax which speaks to a high degree of bilingualism between Mudburra and Jingulu over an extended period.

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Section: Noun Borrowing Between Mudburra and Jingulumentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Lender: Noun Borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in Northern Australia

Pensalfini

Meakins

2019

J. Lang. Contact

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“…Jingulu is a heavily inflecting language with many phonological and grammatical features that will likely be of great interest to typologists. However, the exact nature of this relationship remains unclear and there are many respects in which the position of Jingulu within the Australian context still constitutes somewhat of a puzzle (see Green &Harvey et al 2006 for some discussion). Since then, stemming largely from an important paper by Neil Chadwick (1984), Jingulu has been shown to be related to the Mirndi group of languages, including the Jaminjungan languages of the north-west of the Northern Territory (e.g., Schultze-Berndt 2000) and the Barkly languages such as Wambaya (Nordlinger 1998), Gudanji, and Ngarnka.…”

Section: Reviewed By Rachel Nordlinger University Of Melbournementioning

confidence: 99%