Warumungu (Australian – Pama‐Nyungan)

Bibliographic Data

ID23251958
AuthorsJane Simpson (0000-0001-5071-4077, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages707-736
Publication date2017-09-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Handbook of Morphology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405166348.ch32
OpenAlexW3032551185
ISBN9781405166348
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Warumungu is a language spoken by a few hundred people in the central part of the Northern Territory of Australia around Tennant Creek. The speakers have suffered greatly from the invasion of their country and their dispossession. Through some successful land claims, they have regained some of this country, and many continue to work to overcome the tragic effects of the invasion on their families, health, culture and language. The language is undergoing rapid change (as are many surviving Australian languages), and the morphology used by younger speakers differs greatly from that used by older speakers. The analysis here is based largely on analysis of older speakers’ speech as in Hale and Heath.

Geography · Linguistics · Spoken language · Work (physics) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Engineering · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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