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Title: How Warumungu people express new concepts
Authors: Simpson, Jane
Linguistics
Keywords: Warumungu
Vocabulary
Tennant Creek
multilingualism
Australian languages
Issue Date: 1985
Publisher: Journal: Language in Central Australia
Citation: Simpson, Jane. 1985. How Warumungu people express new concepts. Language in Central Australia 4:12-25.
Abstract: This article describes strategies used by Warumungu speakers to create new words and ways of expressing new concepts, in the context of multilingual society in which speakers of Indigenous Australian languages view language as a property. The strategies include borrowing, onomatopoeia, compounding, derivation, extension of existing words, including polysemous extensions such as actual/potential and container/contained
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794
ISSN: 0813-9490
Department/Unit/Centre: Linguistics
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