Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Maps

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

I. Introduction

Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective

II. Transfer of form: Structure

1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages

2. Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government reserve varieties: The case of Woorie Talk

III. Transfer of form: Lexical

3. Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation

4. Placenames from NSW Pidgin: Bulga, Nyrang

5. Rethinking the substrate languages of Roper Kriol: The case of Marra

IV. Transfer of form: Phonological

6 The continuum in Kriol: Fact or furphy?

7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology

V. Transfer of function, structure, distribution and semantics

8. Beware of ‘bambai’ – soon it may turn apprehensive

9. Reflexive, reciprocal and emphatic functions in Barunga Kriol

10 Grammaticalization and interactional pragmatics: A description of the recognitional determiner det in Roper River Kriol

VI. (Further) Development of new structures

11. No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix

12. Light verb structure in Murrinh-Patha

13. Gender Bender: Superclassing in Jingulu gender marking

Index