Language Contact in the Cairns Rainforest Region  

Oleh:

Dixon, R. M. W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 50 no. 3-4 (2008), page 223-246.
Fulltext: 20639004.pdf (2.67MB)

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TheCairns rainforest region constitutes a distinct geographical James Cook University Region in northeast Queensland, Australia, zone and also a small linguistic area. This article focuses on contact between the dialects of two came into the area from the north, and Dyirbal, languages?Yidin, which which entered from thsouth.It also pays attentionto Ja:bugay, Yidin's northerly relative, and Warrgamay, DyirbaFs southerly neighbor. There is discussion of how the languages have influenced each other in terms of demonstratives and related system, pronoun system, initial instance, the rhotic, and contrastivevowel likely direction of diffusion is examined.

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