Ergative case marking in Warlpiri
This data set documents the use of ergative case marking in the narratives of native speakers of Lajamanu Warlpiri (8 children, 13 adults) describing events in picture books.
data(warlpiri)
A data frame with 347 observations on the following 9 variables.
Speakera factor with speakers as levels.
Sentencea factor with sentence as levels.
AgeGroupa factor with levels adult and child.
CaseMarkinga factor with levels ergative and
other.
WordOrdera factor with levels subInitial (subject
initial) and subNotInitial (subject not initial).
AnimacyOfSubjecta factor with levels animate
and inanimate.
OvertnessOfObjecta factor with levels notOvert
and overt.
AnimacyOfObjecta factor with levels animate
and inanimate.
Texta factor with levels texta,
textb and textc.
O'Shannessy, C. (2006) Language contact and child bilingual acquisition: Learning a mixed language and Warlpiri in northern Australia, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, Australia.
## Not run: data(warlpiri) require(lme4) require(lmerTest) require(optimx) warlpiri.lmer = glmer(CaseMarking ~ WordOrder * AgeGroup + AnimacyOfSubject + (1|Text) + (1|Speaker), control=glmerControl(optimizer="optimx",optCtrl=list(method="nlminb")), family = "binomial", data = warlpiri) summary(warlpiri.lmer) ## End(Not run)
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