Resume

• 2002

  Warlpiri

  Light Warlpiri

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Linguistics

  University of Sydney

• Dr Carmel O'Shannessy

  2013 Erica Beck: The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Discrimination by 5-7 Year Old Children Qualifying Research Papers (QRP) (equivalent to a Masters Thesis) 2016 Ariana Bancu: Contact-induced variaion in Viscri Saxon verb...

  Dr Carmel O'Shannessy

  Qualitative Research

  Teaching

  Statistics

  Sociolinguistics

  University Teaching

  Quantitative Research

  Science

  Academic Writing

  Bilingualism

  Research

  Linguistics

  Spanish

  Language contact

  Higher Education

  Lecturing

  Psycholinguistics

  Intercultural Communication

  Curriculum Design

  The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri

  a new Australian mixed language.

  LightWarlpiri

  a new Australian mixed language combiningWarlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) with varieties\nof English and/or Kriol that has emerged within approximately the last thirty-five years

  \nshows radical restructuring of the verbal auxiliary system

  including modal categories that differ\nfrom those in the source languages. The structure of Light Warlpiri overall is that of a mixed language

  \nin that most verbs and some verbal morphology are drawn from English and/or Kriol

  and\nmost nominal morphology is from Warlpiri. Nouns are drawn from both Warlpiri-lexicon and\nEnglish-lexicon sources. The restructuring of the auxiliary system draws selectively on elements\nfrom Warlpiri and several varieties and styles of English and/or Kriol

  combined in such a way as\nto produce novel constructions. It may be that when multiple sources provide input to a rapidly\nemerging new system

  innovative categories are likely to appear.

  The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri

  a new Australian mixed language.

  Light Warlpiri is a new mixed language

  in northern Australia. It combines elements of Warlpiri and varieties of English in systematic ways. It also has some radical innovations not usually seen in this type of language. In addition the ways in which the languages combine is unusual.

  Research assistants in Lajamanu community.

  O'Shannessy

  O'Shannessy

  University of Michigan

  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

  Northern Territory Department of Education

  The Australian National University

  Canberra

  Australia

  Carmel O’Shannessy is a Lecturer in the School of Literature

  Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University

  having moved there from the University of Michigan

  where she had been since 2007. She completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Sydney (Australia) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands) in 2007

  with documentation of the genesis and development of Light Warlpiri

  a new Australian mixed language. Within the areas of language contact and change and language acquisition

  she documents children’s bilingual acquisition and maintenance of Light Warlpiri and Warlpiri. She is especially interested in the roles of children and adults in contact-induced language change. She also documents traditional Warlpiri songs. She has been involved with languages in remote Indigenous communities in Australia since 1996

  in the areas of bilingual education and her current research.

  Lecturer

  The Australian National University

  Supported Warlpiri teachers to teach Warlpiri

  and all teachers in the Warlpiri-English two-way learning program in the school. Included curriculum development and teaching methodology

  resource development

  community involvement

  integrating Warlpiri and English cultural practices in education.

  Northern Territory Department of Education

  Assistant Professor

  Research Light Warlpiri and the complex linguistic situation in Lajamanu community

  Australia. Teach bilingualism

  sociolinguistics

  language contact

  language acquisition

  field methods and language documentation.

  University of Michigan

  PhD Student

  Research children's bilingual acquisition of Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri in Australia.

  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics