Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures xiii
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. List of abbreviations xvii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2. The socio-political origins and setting of Gurindji Kriol 55
8. Chapter 3. The effect of language contact on inflectional morphology 85
9. Chapter 4. Code-switching origins 109
10. Chapter 5. The Transition from code-switching to a mixed language 129
11. Chapter 6. Attributive possessive constructions in Gurindji Kriol 155
12. Chapter 7. Topological relations in Gurindji Kriol 175
13. Chapter 8. Goal constructions in Gurindji Kriol 189
14. Chapter 9. Argument marking in Gurindji Kriol 209
15. Chapter 10. Conclusion 241
16. Appendix 1. 200 word list 259
17. Appendix 2. Consistency in the expression of an event 263
18. Appendix 3. Sample of glossed Gurindji Kriol texts 265
19. Appendix 4. Statistical output 287
20. References 291
21. Index 307