A sketch of Kalaw Kawaw Ya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23150701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Ford, Kevin C Ford, Dana Ober |
| Year | 1991 |
| Pages | 118-142 |
| Publication date | 1991-07-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Language in Australia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511620881.009 |
| OpenAlex | W1534952889 |
| ISBN | 9780511620881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
Kalaw Kawaw Ya (KKY) is a dialect of the Western Torres Strait language, which is considered to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, the largest of the Australian subgroupings (Dixon 1980). Kala Lagaw Ya, Kala Lagaw Langgus, Yagar Yagar and Mabuiag are other names which have been applied to the Western Torres Strait language or another of its dialects. Speakers have agreed that the language as a whole should be called Kala Lagaw Ya, the ‘Western Island Language’.
Genealogy · Geography · Language family · Linguistics · Sketch · Sociology · Anthropology · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy
Dependencies between Grammatical Systems
Discourse and social interaction
Noun classes
Phonotactics
Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past
Multiple ergatives
Personal pronouns with determining functions in Australian languages
Tense/Aspect Shifting in Kala Lagaw Ya Oral Narratives
Universals of Split Argument Coding and Morphological Neutralization
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
The Status of Determining Elements in Australian Languages
Multiple construction types for nominal expressions in Australian languages
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |