OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-B8FA-2

Metadata
Title:		Man and tree game
		FM09_a107
		The documentation of Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language
Contributor (consultant):		Nanaku
Contributor (researcher):		Nangari
Coverage:		Australia
Date:		2009-06-02
Description:		Man and tree game. This resource was created by the MPI to elicit directionals. It is played as a director-matcher game with the director holding a board with the man and tree pictures in front of her. She then describes a picture to the matcher who has a set of loose identical cards. The matcher hears an utterance and matches it to the appropriate picture. The aim of this paradigm is to prevent speakers from using demonstratives and gestures. She uses cardinal directions. She is facing south and describes the pictures on her own. We are sitting at Bow Hill along the Mt Samford Rd.
		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.
		Violet was born at the old Wavehill station (Jinparrak). Her mother and father worked on the station, milking cows and cutting wood. She grew up there with her two sisters and worked on the station herself when she was older. On the weekends her and her family had time to gather traditional foods and hunt. They also held wajarra (corroborree), yawulyu and jarrarta (women's ceremony). She met her husband, Donald, at the station. In 1966, Vincent Lingiari initiated a workers’ strike to protest against the poor conditions of their employment and ultimately recover control of their traditional lands. The Gurindji campaign went on for nine years and resulted in the first successful land claim by an Aboriginal group, which in turn generated further energy for the broader land rights movement. Violet was one of the members of the walk-off group. Her and her husband went to live at Daguragu where they had seven children including Judith, Michelle, Sherina, Timothy, Wally and Rodrick and another child who has passed away. Violet's husband passed away at Daguragu and she moved to Kalkaringi where she lives today. Violet is highly respected by the community for her knowledge of traditional Gurindji culture. She makes a number of artefacts including kawarla (coolamons), yukurrukurru (singing sticks), kurturu (nullanullas) and kilkilpkaji (clapsticks). She makes coolamons and singing sticks from the ngimpija or kulunjurru tree (Gyrocarpus americanus) which has a soft, light wood. The nullanullas are made from the lumpung tree (Tephrosia procera) and pawulyji tree (Lophostemon grandiflorus) which grow straight and hard. Violet paints her Ngarlu (Sugarbag) Dreaming. This Dreaming comes from her kaku (father's father) and is located at Swan Yard near Limbunya.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-chat
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-B8FA-2
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
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-B8FA-2
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		Nangari (researcher); Nanaku (consultant). 2009-06-02. Felicity Meakins.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_AU iso639_gue iso639_rop
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Australia
Area:		Pacific