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Title:Pear Story
FM09_a118
The documentation of Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language
Contributor (consultant):Amanda
Contributor (researcher):Nangari
Coverage:Australia
Date:2009-06-04
Description:The Pear Story is a 6-minute film developed in 1975 by Wallace Chafe (University of California). It was designed to elicit language samples from around the world. The film is about a man harvesting pears which are stolen by a boy on a bike. The boy has some other adventures with other children, before the farmer discovers that his pears are missing. The 'Pear Stories' film has sound effects, but no words. Here it is played without sound and speakers describe it as it plays. We are sitting at the Intervention donger at Daguragu.
This project is funded by the Hans Rausling Endangered Language Program (ELDP) for a period of two years (2008-2010). The aim of the project is to produce a Gurindji Kriol grammar and dictionary as well as a set of annotated sound-linked texts. This project has also involved the continuing documentation of Gurindji (dictionary and texts), as one of Gurindji Kriol's source languages. Gurindji Kriol (GK) is an endangered mixed language (ML) spoken in Australia. It fuses Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan), with Kriol (English-lexifier) to create a unique system. GK is an important language to younger Gurindji people, entailing both modern and traditional Aboriginal ideologies. It is also significant linguistically, displaying a rarely observed mixed structure. GK provides a unique opportunity to document a ML. MLs often represent a prolonged stage of language change which precedes language shift. Thus the existence of MLs often goes by unobserved. In the case of GK, documentation is urgently required, with Kriol finding increasing currency with Gurindji teenagers. The project was administered by the University of Manchester from October 2008 to November 2009, and by the University of Queensland from December 2009 to October 2010. 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 principal investigator of the project is: Felicity Meakins (Manchester/UQ). It has also benefited from input from Erika Charola (consultant linguist) and Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester). http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=159
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.
FM worked at Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Coroporation (Katherine Regional Aboriginal Language Centre) between 2001-04. She started researching Gurindji Kriol in 2004. She works on Gurindji, Gurindji Kriol and Bilinarra.
AV is one of the main Gurindji Kriol consultants. She lives at Daguragu.
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-chat
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-B7CE-5
Publisher:Felicity Meakins
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester
Subject:Discourse
Procedural
Unspecified
Gurinji language
Gurindji Kriol
Kriol language
Gurindji
Subject (ISO639):gue
rop
Type:audio

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Citation: Nangari (researcher); Amanda (consultant). 2009-06-04. Felicity Meakins.
Terms: area_Pacific country_AU iso639_gue iso639_rop

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Country: Australia
Area: Pacific


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