Substrate Language Influence in Kriol: The Application of Transfer Constraints to Language Contact in Northern Australia

Jennifer Munro, Jeff Siegel, Brett Baker

Kriol, an English lexified creole language of northern Australia, is the primary language of the Roper River region in the Northern Territory. This thesis examines Roper Kriol for evidence of influence from the Indigenous substrate languages of that region. A method used only twice before in the fie