Margaret Sharpe

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  1. Perhaps the best illustration of the value of Aboriginal English is Barnabas Roberts' story, given to Margaret Sharpe in 1967...Roberts' Roper Creole/English testimony of violent contact between Aborigines and whites, and Sharpe's Alawa translation of a related incident are placed back-to-back. Even the translator admits that the Aboriginal English is "fuller than the Alawa version (in translation) in some respects" Hercus and Sutton p.63. It certainly is." (Headon 1988, p. 37)

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Margaret Sharpe
Partner Isidore Dyen
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Alma mater University of Queensland (PhD)