Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Loanword Adaptation: A study of some Australian Aboriginal Languages
Published 2009-08-10This thesis is a case study of some aspects of the adaptation of English words in several Australian Aboriginal languages, including Martu Wangka, Gamilaraay and Warlpiri. I frame my analysis within Smith’s (to appear) ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Moving along the grammaticalisation path: Locative and Allative marking of non-finite clauses and secondary predications in Australian languages
Published 2009-05-19This paper examines three grammaticalised instances of local case-marking in Indigenous languages of northern Central Australia, coded as follows: (AN) Allative expressing object control on NP’s - the use of allative ...Open AccessArticle -
Ngarluma as a W* language
Published 2009-01-27An account of the morpho-syntax of Ngarluma, an Australian language spoken in the Pilbara, is given based on Kenneth Hale's fieldnotes together with Carl von Brandenstein's published texts. The analysis uses the W* framework ...Open AccessArticle -
Prepositions and preverbs in Hellenistic Greek
Published 2008-03-14This thesis traces the history of usage of a group of words (‘P-words’) that were adverbial particles in Proto-Indo-European and became in Greek, as in many other IE languages, both prepositions and verbal prefixes. It ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Longitudinal Study of Ngarrindjeri
Published 2008-02-26This thesis aims to follow the changes that occur in Ngarrindjeri, a language from South Australia, over a period of 130 years. Over this period of time the speakers underwent great social and cultural change, with the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours