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2008 ALW

2009 Australian Languages Workshop


Program

Some of the presentations have abstracts available

Friday 20 March

Mark Harvey

Prepalatals in Arandic pdf 15Kb

Sophie Nicholls

Episode structure, Contrast and the use of left dislocated NPs in Roper River Kriol pdf 23Kb

Luise Hercus

Sunraysia, 'a small linguistic area'

Michael Walsh

Some neo-Gricean Maxims for Aboriginal Australia pdf 25Kb

Peter Austin

The good, the bad, and the ugly -- recent publications of reference materials for Australian Aboriginal languages

Saturday 21 March

David Nash

Dawes' Laws generalised: cluster reduction in the Sydney Language pdf 96Kb

Patrick McConvell

From Pama to Nyungan: change in Australian kinship terminologies from the north-east to the south-west pdf 106Kb

Harold Koch

Morphological aspects of Australian kinship terminology pdf 10Kb

Margaret Sharpe

From *ni to ye:nka: Can we posit a preconjugational proto-Pama-Nyungan? pdf 10Kb

Nick Evans, Ruth Singer, Michael Dunn, Sean Ulm, Daniel Rosendahl

The Tangkic languages and the linguistic prehistory of  Carpentaria: new developments

Sarah Cutfield

Dalabon demonstratives and emotional deixis

John Giacon

Deictics? Demonstratives in Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay pdf 12Kb

Jane Simpson

Bilingual education in Northern Territory

Sunday 22 March

Rachel Nordlinger

Serialized aspect in Murrinh-Patha

Mary Laughren

Preliminary study of serial verb constructions in Wanyi pdf 77Kb

Robert Mailhammer

Applicative, malefactive, negation: Innovations of the Amurdak verb pdf 16Kb

Marie-elaine Van Egmond

Two types of complex verbs in Anindilyakwa: incorporation of nominals and of coverbs

Ruth Singer

Typologising formulaicity: the conventionalization of verb-argument combinations in Mawng, some nearby Australian languages and elsewhere