TY - JOUR
T1 - Doubled up all over again
T2 - Borrowing, sound change and reduplication in Iwaidja
AU - Evans, Nicholas
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - This article examines the interactions between reduplication, sound change, and borrowing, as played out in the Iwaidja language of Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, in Northern Australia, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Iwaidjan family. While Iwaidja traditionally makes use of (various types of) right-reduplication, contact with two other left-reduplicating languages-one Australian (Bininj Gun-wok) and one Austronesian (Makassarese)-has led to the introduction of several (non-productive) left-reduplicating patterns. At the same time as these new patterns have been entering the language, the cumulative effect of sweeping sound changes within Iwaidja has complicated the transparency of reduplicative outputs. This has left the language with an extremely varied and complicated set of reduplication types, for some of which the analysis is no longer synchronically recoverable by children.
AB - This article examines the interactions between reduplication, sound change, and borrowing, as played out in the Iwaidja language of Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, in Northern Australia, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Iwaidjan family. While Iwaidja traditionally makes use of (various types of) right-reduplication, contact with two other left-reduplicating languages-one Australian (Bininj Gun-wok) and one Austronesian (Makassarese)-has led to the introduction of several (non-productive) left-reduplicating patterns. At the same time as these new patterns have been entering the language, the cumulative effect of sweeping sound changes within Iwaidja has complicated the transparency of reduplicative outputs. This has left the language with an extremely varied and complicated set of reduplication types, for some of which the analysis is no longer synchronically recoverable by children.
KW - Australian languages
KW - Directionality
KW - Iwaidja
KW - Language contact
KW - Makassarese
KW - Reanalysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72749103406&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11525-009-9139-4
DO - 10.1007/s11525-009-9139-4
M3 - Article
SN - 1871-5621
VL - 19
SP - 159
EP - 176
JO - Morphology
JF - Morphology
IS - 2
ER -