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Pensalfini, Rob and Felicity Meakins. 2019. Gender Lender: Noun Borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in Northern Australia. Journal of language contact 12 (2) : 440–478.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bi-directional borrowing | bilingualism | grammatical gender | language contact | noun borrowing

Language as a subject

Mudburra

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This article examines bi-directional borrowing of nouns between two unrelated Australian languages with a long history of contact: Mudburra, a language with no grammatical gender, and Jingulu, which has four genders and super-classing.