Loss and Renewal - Australian Languages Since Colonisation

Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021
by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages

Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.

About the author

Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland, Australia; Carmel O'Shannessy, University of Michigan, USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: Felicit Meakins (Editor), Felicity Meakins (Editor), O'Shannessy (Editor), O'Shannessy (Editor), Carmel O'Shannessy (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781614518877
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-887-7
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 36 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 875 g
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingualism; Language Contact and Bilingual; ISSN; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB], 13
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures