How Warumungu people express new concepts

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dc.contributor.author	Simpson, Jane
dc.date.accessioned	2010-01-14
dc.date.available	2010-01-14
dc.date.issued	1985-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Simpson, Jane. 1985. How Warumungu people express new concepts. Language in Central Australia 4:12-25.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0813-9490
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794
dc.description.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	en
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en
dc.publisher	Journal: Language in Central Australia	en
dc.rights	Other
dc.subject	Warumungu	en
dc.subject	Vocabulary	en
dc.subject	Tennant Creek	en
dc.subject	multilingualism	en
dc.subject	Australian languages	en
dc.title	How Warumungu people express new concepts	en
dc.type	Article	en
usyd.faculty	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Humanities
usyd.department	Department of Linguistics	en