RN90_006

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  • Name : RN90_006
  • Title : Elicitation
  • Date : 1990-06-01
  • descriptions
    • Description : Elicitation 60min Side B after 25min tape was stretched so not digitised June 1990 Original tape is held at Melbourne University by Rachel Nordlinger. Tape digitised by Felicity Meakins July 2008.
  • Location
    • Continent : Australia
    • Country : Australia
    • Region : Victoria River District
    • Address : Pigeon Hole
  • Project
    • Name : DOBES-VRD
    • Title : Jaminjungan and Eastern Ngumpin - A documentation of the linguistic and cultural knowledge of speakers in a multilingual setting in the Victoria River District, Northern Australia
    • Id : Jaminjungan and Eastern Ngumpin
    • Contact
      • Name : Eva Schultze-Berndt
      • Address : Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
      • Email : eva.schultze-berndt@manchester.ac.uk
      • Organisation : University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
    • descriptions
      • Description : This project is funded by the Endangered Languages Programme (DOBES) of the VW Foundation for a period of three years (August 2005-July 2008). The aim of the project is a documentation of the linguistic and cultural knowledge of the remaining speakers of several language varieties belonging to two language groups. The Jaminjungan group consists of Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru (which are closely related) as well as Nungali (now no longer spoken). Languages of the Eastern Ngumpin group are Gurindji, Ngarinyman, Bilinarra, and Mudburra, as well as a mixed language, Gurindji Kriol. These varieties (and in addition English and Kriol, an English-lexified creole), constitute part of a single network of multilingual communicative practice in the region, since their speakers have been in close contact for a long time, and since they now share the same settlements distributed throughout the Victoria River District. One aim of the project therefore is to carefully document variation. The lexical databases are set up to facilitate cross-referencing between the different varieties, for example to identify borrowings and translation equivalents. Focal areas for the text collection are topics such as significant sites, knowledge about plants and animals, and oral history, which are likely to be of particular interest to the speakers and their descendants as well as to linguists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists, and historians. Two PhD students within the projects focus on the topics of Jaminjung prosody (Candide Simard) and spatial expressions in Ngarinyman (Kristina Henschke), respectively. The project was administered by the University of Graz from August 2005 to March 2007, and by the University of Manchester from April 2007 to July 2008. It is conducted in collaboration with the Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal Language Centre based in Katherine (N.T.), and includes community members as trainees and co-investigators. The members of the core project team are: Eva Schultze-Berndt (Manchester; project director; Jaminjungan languages and some Ngarinyman), Patrick McConvell (Canberra; Principal Investigator; Ngumpin languages and Gurindji Kriol; anthropology); Felicity Meakins (Melbourne/Manchester; Postdoctoral Fellow; Ngumpin languages and Gurindji Kriol), Kristina Henschke (Graz, PhD student, Ngarinyman); Candide Simard (Manchester, PhD student, Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru). The core project team is supported by Glenn Wightman (Darwin) as ethnobiologist and Alan Marett and Linda Barwick (Sydney) as ethnomusicologists, by Erika Charola (Paris) as a linguistic consultant working on Gurindji, as well as by Nikolaus Himmelmann (Bochum) as and Mark Harvey (Newcastle) as cooperation partners.
  • Keys
    • Key : 60:00
  • Content
    • Genre : Discourse
    • SubGenre : Procedural
    • Task : Unspecified
    • Modalities : speech
    • Subject : Unspecified
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : interactive
      • PlanningType : semi-spontaneous
      • Involvement : non-elicited
      • SocialContext : Private
      • EventStructure : Monologue
      • Channel : Face to Face
    • Content_Languages
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:nbj
        • Name : Bilinarra
        • Dominant : Unspecified
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : BIlinarra is a suffixing Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the north-west of Australia, particularly in Kalkaringi and Dagaragu. It is a member of the Ngumbin subgroup of languages which includes Ngarinyman, Gurindji, Malngin, Nyininy, Mudburra, Jaru and Warlmatjarri. Bilinarra is an endangered language, with only 2 full speaker remaining in 2003. Gurindji Kriol is the language transmitted to the new generation at present. Phonologically, BIlinarra is a fairly typical Pama-Nyungan language. It contains stops and nasals which have five corresponding places of articulation (bilabial, apico-alveolar, retroflex, palatal and velar), three laterals (apico-alveolar, retroflex, palatal), two rhotics (trill/flap and retroflex continuant), two semivowels (bilabial and palatal) and three vowels (a, i, u). Combinations of semivowels and vowels produce diphthong-like sounds. Like most Pama-Nyungan languages, Bilinarra is notable because it contains no fricatives or a voicing contrast between stops. Stress is word initial, and syllables pattern CV, CVC or CVCC. Bilinarra is a dependent marking language. Word order is relatively free, though constrained by discourse functions. The verb phrase is made up of a free coverb and an inflecting verb which contains information about tense, mood, modality. 2nd position bound pronouns also cross reference subjects and objects for person and number. The noun phrase may contain nominals, demonstratives and free pronouns. Case marking for nouns is ergatively patterned, and generally other elements in the noun phrase must agree with noun's case.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:rop
        • Name : Kriol
        • Dominant : Unspecified
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Kriol is a creole language based on English vocabulary but with its own grammar. It is used as a lingua franca and often as the primary language of Indigenous Australians throughout a large area in Northern Australia, from the Kimberleys in Eastern Western Australia to Western Queensland.
    • Keys
      • Key : 15:49
    • descriptions
      • Description : We started on the highway near Spice Creek collecting bush tea (pujtilip). Then we went to the other side of the highway looking for 'tirnung' which is the sap of bloodwood 'jartpurru' tree. We couldn't find any. We headed back to Kalkaringi and got some 'lawa' and 'yirrijkaji' from the side of the highway near the first bridge. Afterwards we got some firewood from the side of the Daguragu road in two places.
  • Actors
    • Actor
      • Role : Consultant
      • Name : Jangari
      • FullName : Anzac Munganyi
      • Code : AM
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup : Bilinarra
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : non-literate
      • Anonymized : true
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 60
      • Contact
        • Name : Anne Pollack
        • Address : Pigeon Hole School, PMB10, Katherine NT 0851 AUSTRALIA
        • Organisation : Pigeon Hole School
      • Keys
        • Key : Jangari
      • descriptions
        • Description : AM is the brother of HW.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : He speaks fluent Bilinarra monolingually. He also speaks Kriol, and code-switches between these languages in conversation.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:rop
          • Name : Kriol
          • MotherTongue : Unspecified
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Kriol is a creole language based on English vocabulary but with its own grammar. It is used as a lingua franca and often as the primary language of Indigenous Australians throughout a large area in Northern Australia, from the Kimberleys in Eastern Western Australia to Western Queensland.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:nbj
          • Name : Bilinarra
          • MotherTongue : Unspecified
          • PrimaryLanguage : Unspecified
          • descriptions
            • Description : BIlinarra is a suffixing Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the north-west of Australia, particularly in Kalkaringi and Dagaragu. It is a member of the Ngumbin subgroup of languages which includes Ngarinyman, Gurindji, Malngin, Nyininy, Mudburra, Jaru and Warlmatjarri. Bilinarra is an endangered language, with only 2 full speaker remaining in 2003. Gurindji Kriol is the language transmitted to the new generation at present. Phonologically, BIlinarra is a fairly typical Pama-Nyungan language. It contains stops and nasals which have five corresponding places of articulation (bilabial, apico-alveolar, retroflex, palatal and velar), three laterals (apico-alveolar, retroflex, palatal), two rhotics (trill/flap and retroflex continuant), two semivowels (bilabial and palatal) and three vowels (a, i, u). Combinations of semivowels and vowels produce diphthong-like sounds. Like most Pama-Nyungan languages, Bilinarra is notable because it contains no fricatives or a voicing contrast between stops. Stress is word initial, and syllables pattern CV, CVC or CVCC. Bilinarra is a dependent marking language. Word order is relatively free, though constrained by discourse functions. The verb phrase is made up of a free coverb and an inflecting verb which contains information about tense, mood, modality. 2nd position bound pronouns also cross reference subjects and objects for person and number. The noun phrase may contain nominals, demonstratives and free pronouns. Case marking for nouns is ergatively patterned, and generally other elements in the noun phrase must agree with noun's case.
    • Actor
      • Role : Researcher
      • Name : Rachel
      • FullName : Rachel Nordlinger
      • Code : RN
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup : Australian
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : University employment
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • EstimatedAge : Unspecified
      • Contact
        • Name : Rachel Nordlinger
        • Address : Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne VIC 3010 AUSTRALIA
        • Email : racheln@unimelb.edu.au
        • Organisation : University of Melbourne
      • descriptions
        • Description : RN worked at Pigeon Hole in 1990. The Bilinarra sketch grammar is a result of this work. She has since worked on Wambaya.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : RN's native language is English.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:eng
          • Name : English
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
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