The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English

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ID11744135
AuthorsHarold Koch (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages437-460
Publication date2011-02-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCreoles Their Substrates And Language Typology (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/tsl.95.25koc
OpenAlexW2206592681
ISBN9789027206763
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This paper examines the influence of the grammar of Australian Aboriginal languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE). CAAE is considered to be a partially anglicised version of a former Central Australian Aboriginal Pidgin (CAAP). This CAAP was one of the local varieties of the general Australian Pidgin (AP) that developed out of New South Wales Pidgin (NSWP), the earliest of the PC varieties that developed in Australia. The paper discusses data from three areas of the grammar of CAAE and compares it with Kaytetye, one of the substrate languages. It shows how two relatively exotic grammatical categories found in Kaytetye (and other Arandic languages – dyadic” in kinship nouns and “Associated Motion” in verbs – were replicated in CAAE using formal material derived from English. The usage of CAAE prepositions, whose forms are from English, is also compared to Kaytetye case functions. We find that the organisation of the semantic “functions” of the cases is replicated in considerable detail in the use of the CAAE prepositions

Art · Creole language · Grammar · Humanities · Linguistics · Noun · Pidgin · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy

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