Language Contact and Language Change in the Sepik Region of New Guinea: The Case of Yalaku
Yalaku is one of the smallest members of the Ndu language family of the Sepik region of New Guinea. Spoken in a hilly area off the Sepik river, Yalaku has been in intensive contact with the unrelated Kwoma for several generations. Comparison between Yalak
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Dynamics of Language Changes Looking Within and Across Languages
Dynamics of Language Changes
Keith Allan Editor
Dynamics of Language Changes Looking Within and Across Languages
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Editor Keith Allan Monash University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-15-6429-1 ISBN 978-981-15-6430-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7
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Dedication
The authors of Dynamics of Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languages are all colleagues, friends and, in a couple of cases, ex-students of Kate Burridge FAHA, Prof. of Linguistics at Monash University to whom this work is dedicated.
Fig. 1 Kate Burridge in 19911
Kate completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia and travelled to the University of London where, in 1983, she was awarded her Ph.D. on syntactic change in Medieval Dutch. She taught at the Polytechnic of Central London before joining the Department of Linguistics at La Trobe University in 1984. In 2003 she took up the Chair of Linguistics in what is now the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.
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For many years Kate has been a regular presenter of language segments on Australia’s ABC Radio. For its six seasons (2006–2011) she appeared weekly as the linguistic expert on ABC TV’s lifestyle program ‘Can We Help?’ Kate is an excellent communicator, familiar to the general public (including schoolkids) as well as to the academic community. Through her consistently high level of community engagemen
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