Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language combining Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) with
varieties of English and/or Kriol that has emerged within approximately the last thirty-five …

This chapter provides an overview of phonology and morphology in Australian languages. ¹
Here, my focus is on the (segmental, suprasegmental) form of morphemes, rather than their …

This paper examines the placement of aspect and agreement clitics in Warlpiri. A common
misconception regarding clitic placement in Warlpiri is cleared up: clitic placement does not …

Lexically stipulated suppletive allomorphy, such as that found in inflection class systems,
makes wordforms unpredictable because any one of several exponents may be used to …

Morpheme structure constraints are constraints on the segmental make‐up of the
morphemes of a language. A textbook example of such a constraint is that bnik is an …

In stratal models of grammar, phonology and morphology operate in the lexicon at the stem
level and at the word level, outputting words which are syntactically combined and then …

The present study examines a particular kind of rule blockage–referred to below as 'Derived
Environment Blocking'–which has not been recognized to date in the literature. Derived …

When a new linguistic code emerges and stabilizes, what are the roles of children and
adults in leading and consolidating the changes? This question lies at the intersection of …

The early years of a recently emerged language are observed in the emergence of Light
Warlpiri (O'Shannessy, 2005, 2012, 2013), which systematically combines elements of …

Abstract Dagaare is a Mabia/Gur language spoken in northwestern Ghana and parts of
Burkina Faso. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of …