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2009 ALW

2008 Australian Languages Workshop


Program

Some of the presentations have abstracts available

Friday 28 March  

James McElvenny

(Univ. of Sydney)

The Kaurna pronouncing dictionary  

Albert Burgman

(Wangka Maya PALC)

Fields and field entries in Toolbox pdf 46Kb

David Nash

(ANU/AIATSIS)

SplitsTree: a user report pdf 13Kb

Robert Mailhammer

(Univ. of Munich)

Synchronic and diachronic aspects of verbal object representation in Amurdak pdf 17Kb

Saturday 29 March

Ruth Singer

(Univ. of Melbourne)

Is gender simply a property of nouns? Some evidence from Mawng that it is not pdf 12Kb

Brett Baker (UNE) &

Rachel Nordlinger (Univ. of Melbourne)

Noun-Adj compounds as incorporated classifier constructions in Gunwinyguan languages pdf 47Kb

Marie-elaine Van Egmond

(Univ. of Sydney)

Classifiers in Anindilyakwa pdf 7Kb

John Giacon

(ANU)

Demonstratives etc in Yuwaalaraay

Sally Dixon

(Wangka Maya PALC)

The Juwaliny language: issues with working on closely related languages in the Great Sandy Desert pdf 59Kb

Eleonora Deak

(Wangka Maya PALC)

The Occurrence and Distribution of Long Vowels in Pilbara languages pdf 10Kb

Kristine Rickard

(La Trobe Univ.)

The role of English in modern Arrernte Intonation and Prosody pdf 16Kb

Bruce Birch

(Univ. of Melbourne)

An emergent view of the word in Iwaidja

Sunday 30 March

Mary Laughren

(Univ. of Queensland)

Prehistoric relations between Warluwarric and Nyungic: comparing first and second person pronoun paradigms pdf 49Kb

Harold Koch

(ANU)

Toward the reconstruction of Australian kinship systems: Philological and etymological issues from southeastern languages pdf 10Kb

Patrick McConvell

(AIATSIS)

Wider cognates of south-eastern Pama-Nyungan Grandparental terms and the patterns of semantic and sound change pdf 12Kb

Rachel Nordlinger

(Univ. of Melbourne)

Morpheme ordering in Murrinh-Patha:Or why Murrinh-Patha is not an Athapaskan language pdf 12Kb

Joe Blythe

(Univ. of Sydney)

Principles of referencial design in Murryn Patha conversation

Poster presentations

Alex Blaszak (VACL)

Victorian languages: Old texts to new texts - A case study in Boonwurrung pdf 11Kb

Christina Eira (VACL)

Linguistics in plain languages - A rationale pdf 11Kb

Georgia Curran (ANU)

Travelling from Warlpiri country into Anmatyerr country: examples of song texts from a Warlpiri initiation song cycle pdf 11Kb

Jutta Besold (ANU)

Something on one or two of the texts collected on the south coast around 1870s