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Proppe has compiled a list of the issues with the CSG site that he hopes to get fixed and is in communication with Public Policy junior Bobby Dishell, CSG Vice President, to begin work on the site. CHAPTER 9 From Page 1 Currently - according to the release - Detroit is facing $18 billion in debt. A report from Orr in June, the Proposal for Creditors, illustrated Detroit's dwindling economic status over the past few decades, showing that between 2000 and 2012 Detroit's population decreased by 26 percent with unemployment increasing by 12 percent within that time. Both Snyder's press release and the report stated that the hope was to incentivize investment and growth for the city down the line. Orr's plan would spend $1.25 billion over the next 10 years to revamp and restructure the city's main services, police, fire, trash and street lamps. Wednesday, one day before bankruptcy was filed, the General Retirement System of the City of Detroit and the Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit filed a lawsuit with the Ingham County Circuit Court in Lansing against Snyder and Orr. The plaintiffs claim that filing bankruptcy and disrupting the LANGUAGE From Page 2 In order to determine that Warlpiri Rampaku is distinct from its parent languages, O'Shannessy had speakers tell a story from a picture book, or had two people simply talk to each other while she recorded the conversation. She found unique grammatical patterns forming, which is one of the factors that makes Light Warlpiri a language of its own. The pattern for Light Warlpiri involves the use of a mostly Warlpiri sentence with an English or Kriol verb. For example, to ask someone "Where did you go?" in Warlpiri, one would say "Nyarrpara-kurra-npa yanu?" But in Light Warlpiri, one would say "Nyarrpara-kurra yu-m go?" Here, the Light Warlpiri version uses the English word for "go", and "yu-m" translates to the non- future version of "you". But in the Warlpiri version of the same sentence, "yanu" is used for the past tense of "go" and the "you" is expressed as "-npa". Both the lack of a dictionary and city employees' pension funds would violate Article XI, Section 24 of the Michigan Constitution. The article states that pension funds "shall be a contractual obligation thereof which shall not be diminished or impaired thereby." A press release from the Detroit Police and Fire Department Retirement System stated that it was willing to cooperate with Orr but was also legally required to protect pension funds. It asked the court to prevent "taking any action which would contravene the protections of Article IX, Section 24." Orr's order reads that any element that is deemed illegal or unenforceable can be "severable" without completely removing the order. The case was heard by Judge Steven Rhodes in the U.S. Bankruptcy court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The Detroit News reported that Rhodes froze the lawsuits against the city but did not rule yet on whether Detroit is eligible for Chapter 9 and did not rule on the constitutional legality of Snyder filing the city for bankruptcy. State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor), who has spoken out writing system - speakers write in traditional Warlpiri instead - point to the newness of the language. Determining the difference between a language and a dialect is often difficult, but O'Shannessy said it often has to do with political and social criteria. However, she added that if two systems are not mutually intelligible, they aren't considered the same language. O'Shannessy said a person who spoke Warlpiri but not Aboriginal English or Australian English, wouldn't understand Light Warlpiri. However, all Warlpiri speakers in Lajamanu do actually understand Light Warlpiri because they are all multilingual. Light Warlpiri is not mutually intelligible with Aboriginal English or Australian English, so it's not considered simply a different dialect. Linguistics Prof. Sarah Thomason said O'Shannessy's discovery and ability to study a language from its beginning is particularly remarkable. "It's so rare to find something this unusual when you can actually study (its development) in real time," she said. "There aren't that against the minimal requirements needed to implement the Emergency Manager position, said he was frustrated with the way Detroit's finances have been handled in the past. He said other communities around the state have received funding while the government seems less inclined to bail out Detroit. However, Irwin said the magnitude of the city's financial woes is likely too great for an easy fix. City management has far less to blame for the deficit than does the city's diminished population. "They're trying to pay for the pension obligations of the policemen and the firemen that patrolled that city when they had two million people in it," he said. "Imagine if the population of the United States shrunk from 330 million to 110 million; do you think we'd be able to make Social Security payments? Probably not." With the bankruptcy only recently filed, it may be too early to determine the full impact on both Detroit and the University's involvement within the city. University President Mary Sue Coleman said at an event in Detroit on Tuesday that she was not concerned Detroit's many well understood mixed languages." Thomason compared Light Warlpiri to Michif, a language spoken in Canada that combines French and Cree and is often characterized by Cree verbs incorporated into French phrases. "The people who created these things had to know both Cree and French to do it, but if you know French, you wouldn't understand Michif because you wouldn't know the verbs," she said. Similarly, Thomason said, "You can't just wing Light Warlpiri," even if you know the languages it's derived from, because there are structures that don't occur in those languages. "It's very unusual to have the opportunity to see a language develop like this, but there are still many questions as to how it will develop," O'Shannessy said. Given the permission of the Lajamanucommunity,O'Shannessy plans to continue her research indefinitely. With time she said she hopes to analyze how grammatical structures change, if and how new words are developed and whether Light Warlpiri's speakers continue to use the language. bankruptcy would have any impact on the University. "I am really not," she said. "I have tremendous confidence in Kevin Orr ... it is going to be painful to get back, I understand it. But if it gives the city a chance to start over, then we all just have got to make that happen." Craig Regester, associate director of the Semester in Detroit program, said he doubts the economic problems will deter students from becoming or remaining involved in Detroit. Regester said University students would continue to have a role in influencing the city but that he and the students take a "humble approach" to their contribution, crediting the Detroit residents for maintaining the city through years of hardship. "Yeah, they (the students) have something to contribute, absolutely, but they also probably have as much, if not more, to learn and to understand about the world through beingaand working..- (in Detroit) along with so many people who have been doing this for decades in the city," he said. Regester said he also felt that many people don't have a full understanding of the city's strengths and weaknesses, which" contributes to the problem. 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