Australian Languages Workshop 2010

11-14 March 2010

The ninth annual Workshop on Australian Languages was hosted by the School of Language Studies, Australian National University (ANU) and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Workshop abstracts:

Austin, Peter. Meta-Documentary linguistics.

Eira, Christina. How many languages again? Different views of language identity and ways of thinking about them.

Hendery , Rachel. Mama and Papa in Australian Languages.

Horrack, Kate. External possession in Wubuy.

Koch , Harold. Etymologies of some Australian kinterms.

Laughren, Mary. Warlpiri type languages and accusative case?

McConvell, Patrick. Lexical comparison and language dynamics in the Kimberley.

Senge,  Chikako. Ecology of the endangered dialect, Wanyjirra between Gurindji, Jaru and Kriol.

Singer, Rush. The ubiquitous -(a)pa: interaction between host type, word order and intonation in the use of a Mawng discourse particle.

Walsh, Michael. Voices from the North.

Hot Topic (by Michael Walsh). The place of Indigenous languages in a National Curriculum for Languages.