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Batchelor, Thomas ORCID: 0000-0003-3981-4565 (2024). The Verb Phrase in Kununurra Kriol: Contact and Change in a Multilingual Community. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

This dissertation investigates the Verb Phrase of Kununurra Kriol, an English-lexified Creole language spoken in Kununurra, Western Australia. Following important sociolinguistic and historic context for the language, four key morphosyntactic features are analysed and discussed in depth. These features in focus include borrowing and code-switching practices, transitivity, passive constructions, and Serial Verb Constructions. I find that continued contact with the substrate traditional language, Miriwoong, has shaped many features of the grammar of Kununurra Kriol. Miriwoong influence is especially manifested in code-switching and borrowing of Miriwoong coverbs, but also has shaped conceptualisations of transitivity in the language. Concurrently, Kununurra Kriol shows independent developments connected to neither substrate nor superstrate, such as the development of passive constructions and Serial Verb Constructions. This dissertation demonstrates Kununurra Kriol to be distinct from other varieties of Australian Kriol, with its own grammatical properties and cultural identity. At the same time, Kununurra Kriol possesses many features held to be in common with Creole languages around the world, providing some validation to the typological category.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Batchelor, Thomas tbat3439@alumni.sydney.edu.au orcid.org/0000-0003-3981-4565 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-732143
Date:	2024
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Englisches Seminar I
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Creole languages, language contact, verb phrase, Australian languages, English creoles, Miriwoong, code-switching, serial verb constructions, Australian Kriol English
Date of oral exam:	6 February 2024
Referee:	Name Academic Title Adone, Dany Prof. Dr. Olawsky, Knut Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/73214