Copyright © Clair Hill, 2018. All rights reserved. Cover: Sunset landscape view in my country, Silas Hobson (Kuuku Ya’u/Wuthathi), 2016. Lockhart River Art Centre, Catalogue Number: 16-365 Person reference and interaction in Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u narrative Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen en KU Leuven op gezag van de rector magnificus prof. dr. J.H.J.M. van Krieken, volgens besluit van het college van decanen en ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor in Taalkunde aan de KU Leuven op gezag van de rector prof. dr. L. Sels in het openbaar te verdedigen op woensdag 19 december 2018 om 14.30 uur precies door Clair Elanor Buckland Hill geboren op 30 december 1978 te Lismore, Australië Promotoren Prof. dr. Stephen C. Levinson Prof. dr. Jean-Christophe Verstraete (KU Leuven, België) Manuscriptcommissie Prof. dr. Helen de Hoop Prof. dr. William McGregor (Aarhus Universitet, Denemarken) Prof. dr. Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester, Verenigd Koninkrijk) Prof.dr. Birgit Hellwig (Universität Köln, Duitsland) Prof. dr. Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven, België) Outline Detailed table of contents ........................................................................................................... v Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................... xi List of figures and images ........................................................................................................ xv List of tables ........................................................................................................................... xvii List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................ xix Transcription conventions ....................................................................................................... xxi PART I INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1 Prologue The context: “We give story” ........................................................................... 3 Chapter 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 9 PART II REPERTOIRES .................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 2 Narratives of the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u ..................................................... 39 Chapter 3 Person reference repertoire ............................................................................. 87 Chapter 4 The noun phrase............................................................................................ 119 PART III REFERENCE ...................................................................................................... 161 Chapter 5 Initial person mentions ................................................................................. 163 Chapter 6 Subsequent person mentions ........................................................................ 249 Chapter 7 Narrative organisation and person mention .................................................. 315 PART IV CONCLUSION ................................................................................................... 361 Chapter 8 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 363 Detailed table of contents _Toc529799690 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................... xi List of figures and images ........................................................................................................ xv List of tables ........................................................................................................................... xvii List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................ xix Transcription conventions ....................................................................................................... xxi PART I INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1 Prologue The context: “We give story” .......................................................................... 3 Chapter 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 9 1.1 Narrative ..................................................................................................................... 10 1.1.1 Narrative research in the Australian Aboriginal context ......................................... 10 1.1.2 Narratives and interaction ....................................................................................... 12 1.2 Person reference ......................................................................................................... 14 1.2.1 Person reference in the Australian Aboriginal context ........................................... 14 1.2.2 Person reference and interaction ............................................................................. 16 1.3 Organisation of this study .......................................................................................... 18 1.4 The Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u language ............................................................................ 19 1.4.1 Sketch of Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u ................................................................................ 20 1.4.2 Classical sociolinguistics ........................................................................................ 24 1.4.3 Contemporary sociolinguistics ................................................................................ 25 1.5 Ethnographic and historical context ........................................................................... 26 1.5.1 People and contact history....................................................................................... 26 1.5.2 Previous linguistic and ethnographic work ............................................................. 29 1.6 Data and methods ....................................................................................................... 31 1.6.1 Fieldwork ................................................................................................................ 31 1.6.2 Language consultants .............................................................................................. 32 1.6.3 Methods ................................................................................................................... 34 PART II REPERTOIRES .................................................................................................... 37 Chapter 2 Narratives of the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u ..................................................... 39 2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 39 2.2 Collaboration in narration .......................................................................................... 40 2.2.1 Multi-party narration as the default strategy ........................................................... 40 vi Detailed table of contents 2.2.2 Epistemic access versus epistemic rights ................................................................ 46 2.3 Narrator roles.............................................................................................................. 52 2.4 Narrative genres ......................................................................................................... 59 2.4.1 Before time narrative ............................................................................................... 61 2.4.2 Ngaachi narrative .................................................................................................... 64 2.4.3 Custom way narrative .............................................................................................. 65 2.4.3 Lawalawa ‘comedic’ narrative ................................................................................ 66 2.5 The circumstances of narration .................................................................................. 67 2.5.1 The participants ....................................................................................................... 67 2.5.2 The sessions and the launching of narration ........................................................... 70 2.6 The corpus .................................................................................................................. 78 2.6.1 The broad corpus ..................................................................................................... 78 2.6.2 Focused corpus ........................................................................................................ 83 2.6.3 Older narratives ....................................................................................................... 85 2.7 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 85 Chapter 3 Person reference repertoire ............................................................................. 87 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 87 3.2 Lexical resources