HS SoSe16: Kriol
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The following links have been collected by Elisabeth Wolf.
Overview
- Map: Languages in Australia (Kriol is marked light blue in North): http://www.ausil.org.au/
- Recent online article on Kriol as ``the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia´´: http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-largest-language-spoken-exclusively-in-australia-kriol-56286
- Schultze-Berndt, Eva & Meakins, Felicity & Angelo, Denise. 2013. Kriol. In Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.), The survey of pidgin and creole languages. Vol. I: English-based and Dutch-based languages, 241-251. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
online: https://www.academia.edu/6532767/2013._Kriol
Text samples
- Making Soap on a Cattle Farm: http://apics-online.info/contributions/25
- Excerpt from Kriol Bible: Genesis 1: http://aboriginalbibles.org.au/Kriol/Conc/root.htm
- Version of the same passage in Metropolitan English (NIV) Bible: Genesis 1: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=NIV
Definite articles in Kriol
Definite articles in Kriol: http://apics-online.info/valuesets/25-28
Note on definiteness in Kriol
Examples in diagnostic contexts
- Unique Context:
- […] God bin kadimat det lait brom det dakbala.
- ‘God separated the light from the darkness‘ (Kriol Bible 2010-2011)
- Generic Context:
- Im lib la keib, det larrpburniny.
- ‘It lives in caves, the wallaby.’ (Nicholls 2006)
- Anaphoric Context:
- Larram samting jidan blanga kadimat det woda […] God bin meigim det ting […]
- ‘ “Let there be something to separate water from water” […] So God made [it]’ (Kriol Bible 2010-2011)
- Situational Context:
- Im smemlin thet bif.
- ‘He smells the meat.’ (Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt)
- Predicative Context:
- Mi thad des pesin bin gaji fish ba alabat.
- ‘I was the first person who caught a fish for everyone._ (Angelo et al. 1998b)
- No expression of definiteness (where definite article would be used in English)
- Wal jad lilboi imin reken frog bin likimbat feis en pulumbat heya.
- ‘Well that little boy said/thought that the frog licked his face and pulled his hair.’ (Galmur & Willika 1996)
- with proper name:
- Imin givit thet K[atharina] langa mai bratha.
- ‘He gave K[atharina] to my brother (in marriage).’ (Fieldwork Mark Harvey)
References
Angelo, Denise & Raymond, Barbara, & Raymond, Oliver. 1998. In: Angelo, Denise, Barbara Raymond & Oliver Raymond: Reintaim ('Raintime'). Conversation recorded in Katherine, 04/03/1998. Manuscript.
Galmurr, Judy & Willika, Carl. 1996. Hanting longwei. Barunga: Barunga Press.
Harvey, Mark. Fieldwork. n.d. Conducted 1996, mainly working on Ngaliwurru and Nungali.
Kriol Bible Translation 2010-2011 Wycliffe Bible Translators-Australia http://aboriginalbibles.org.au/Kriol/Conc/root.htm (Accessed 10 May 2016)
Nicholls, Sopie. 2006. The discourse function of det: A determiner in Roper River Kriol. Paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society, Brisbane, July 7th, 2006.
Schultze-Berndt, Eva, and Denise Angelo. 2013. Kriol structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/25, Accessed on 2016-05-23.)
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