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O'Keeffe, Isabel, Ruth Singer and Carolyn Coleman 2020 The expression of emotions in Kunbarlang and its neighbours in the multilingual context of western and central Arnhem Land Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 83–138 | Article

This paper explores how emotions are expressed in the endangered Gunwinyguan language Kunbarlang and compares these expressions to those in the neighbouring Gunwinyguan language Bininj Kunwok, and neighbouring languages from other language families, Mawng (Iwaidjan) and Ndjébbana (Maningridan).… read more

Singer, Ruth 2015 Review of Kilarski (2013): Nominal classification: a history of its study from the classical period to the present Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 245–253 | Review

Singer, Ruth 2011 14. Strategies for encoding reciprocity in Mawng Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 233–250 | Article

This chapter provides the first detailed description of the form and use of the three strategies for expressing reciprocity in Mawng, a non-Pama Nyungan language of the Iwaidjan language family (Australia). The only productive strategy is the reciprocal complex construction which has transparently… read more

Singer, Ruth 2010 Creativity in the use of gender agreement in Mawng: How the discourse functions of a gender system can approach those of a classifier system Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 382–416 | Article

The two main types of nominal classification systems in Australian languages — classifiers and genders — are usually easy to distinguish both formally and functionally. However, in the Australian language Mawng, gender agreement carries much of the burden of reference, varies depending on how an… read more

Singer, Ruth 2007 12. Events masquerading as entities: Pseudorelative perception verb complements in Mawng (Australian) and Romance languages Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, Schalley, Andrea C. and Drew Khlentzos (eds.), pp. 267–288 | Article

Singer, Ruth 2005 Review of Haspelmath (2004): Coordinating constructions Functions of Language 12:1, pp. 140–149 | Review