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As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages

Evans, Nicholas

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Marrku, now close to extinct, is the language of Croker Island in the Northern Territory. Existing classifications of Australian languages have assigned Marrku to the same family as Iwaidja, Mawng and Amurdak in what is most commonly knows as the Iwaidjan family (Schmidt 1919, O'Grady et al. 1866, Evans 2000, Dixon 2002). In fact the level of shared cognacy between Marrku and other languages of this putative family is quite low, so that what has appeared to be the best evidence for genetic...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2016
Type: Book chapter
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/261307
Book Title: Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation
DOI: 10.1515/9781614518792
Access Rights: Open Access

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