Clair Hill

List of John Benjamins publications in which Clair Hill is involved.

Title

Person Reference and Interaction in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Narrative

Clair Hill

This book presents an account of the lively multiparty storytelling practices of the Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u storytellers describe their narrative style as "we all talk one time", with multiple narrators taking turns or co-producing turns,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 26] 2026. xxi, 338 pp. + index | open access

Articles

Hill, Clair 2016 Expression of the interpersonal connection between narrators and characters in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytelling Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’, Stirling, Lesley, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas (eds.), pp. 257–285 | Article

This article analyses the selection of person reference expressions in narratives in Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis takes the principle of topic-fittedness, one of a set of design principles proposed to account for the interactional… read more

Hill, Clair 2010 Review of Mushin & Baker (2008): Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 215–225 | Review