Karen Sullivan
Dr Karen Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, a fun and accessible introduction to metaphor combinations with numerous examples from Australian politicians, and has written two other books and numerous papers. Her research examines figurative language, word meanings, and how meanings change over time.
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Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar »
Authored by: Karen Sullivan, Glenda Harward-Nalder
Publication date: March 2024
Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka ‘work’ comes from the Yagara verb yaga ‘to work’. However, no fluent native speakers of Yagara remain. The current volume compares the written records of Yagara to facilitate revitalisation of the spoken language.
Part 1: Grammar introduces the Yagara sources…