35.2525, Diss: Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation, Morphology, Syntax, Typology; Christina Ringel: "Rangga ngenandayin, lingbe berranben-nging-ngerri – Possession in Miriwoong, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of north-west Australia"

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Subject: 35.2525, Diss: Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation, Morphology, Syntax, Typology; Christina Ringel: "Rangga ngenandayin, lingbe berranben-nging-ngerri – Possession in Miriwoong, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of north-west Australia"

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Date: 10-Apr-2024
From: Christina Ringel [christina.ringel at posteo.de]
Subject: None

Institution: Universität zu Köln
Program: Englisches Seminar I
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2023

Dissertation Title: Rangga ngenandayin, lingbe berranben-nging-ngerri
– Possession in Miriwoong, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of north-west
Australia

Dissertation URL: https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/71327/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Miriwung (mep)

Dissertation Director(s):

Dissertation Abstract:

In her PhD thesis Christina Ringel shows that factors such as animacy,
semantic criteria and semantic domains, negation and the structural
make-up of the sentence influence Miriwoong speaker’s choice among a
variety of linguistic expressions of possessive relationships.
Following ethnographic information and an analysis of language
attitudes, she describes how she used language games as her main
method to elicit data. Based on a discussion of the cultural concept
of possession, typological predictions and data from neighbouring
languages, she demonstrates that the Miriwoong data complies with some
predictions concerning possessive constructions but not with others:
With Dixon (1980) but contra McGregor (1990), Miriwoong data indicate
that inalienability plays a role: The game data yields correlations
between alienable possession and the Benefactive enclitic (BEN) and
inalienable possession and the Indirect Object enclitic (IO). There is
a tendency for the use of IO with respect to the body-parts and
part-whole domains, but not the kinship domain. This distribution of
marking over domains is in line with claims about Australian languages
(Dixon 1980, Heine 1997) but not Stassen's (2009) typology for
alienable vs. inalienable possession. In the latter, both body part
and kinship relations are analysed as being defined by +Permanent
Contact and -Control, i.e. inalienable possession. Miriwoong speakers
are argued to make use of two out of four attributive possessive
construction types and one out of four predicative verbless nominal
clause types described by McGregor (2004) and Dixon (1980, 2002,
2009): One attributive type (a possessive pronoun indicating the
possessor (PR) and a nominal specifying the possessee (PE)) is used
extensively, another (juxtaposition of PR and PE NPs to express
part-whole relations) is possible. One predicative type (a
have-construction formed by a comitative-marked PE) is used widely,
whereas the other three are not part of Miriwoong grammar.

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