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dc.contributor.authorSimpson, Jane
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-14
dc.date.available2010-01-14
dc.date.issued1985-01-01
dc.identifier.citationSimpson, Jane. 1985. How Warumungu people express new concepts. Language in Central Australia 4:12-25.en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0813-9490
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794
dc.description.abstractThis 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/containeden_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherJournal: Language in Central Australiaen_AU
dc.subjectWarumunguen_AU
dc.subjectVocabularyen_AU
dc.subjectTennant Creeken_AU
dc.subjectmultilingualismen_AU
dc.subjectAustralian languagesen_AU
dc.titleHow Warumungu people express new conceptsen_AU
dc.typeArticleen_AU
usyd.departmentDepartment of Linguisticsen_AU


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