Australian Languages Workshop 2008
Program as on 19 March
(All meals, except for dinner on Friday, and morning/afternoon teas on the program are covered by a food kitty)
Friday 28 March
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Time |
Name of Presenter |
Title of Talk |
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2:00 -2:40 |
James McElevenny (Univ. of Sydney) |
The Kaurna pronouncing dictionary |
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2:40-3:20 |
Albert Burgman (Wangka Maya PALC) |
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3:20-3:40 |
See below |
Poster presentation |
| 3:40-4:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 4:10-4:30 |
David Nash (ANU/AIATSIS) |
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| 4:30-5:10 |
Robert Mailhammer (Univ. of Munich) |
Synchronic and diachronic aspects of verbal object representation in Amurdak |
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| 7.00 | Dinner |
Saturday 29 March
| 9:00-9:40 |
Ruth Singer (Univ. of Melbourne) |
Is gender simply a property of nouns? Some evidence from Mawng that it is not. |
| 9:40-10:20 |
Brett Baker (UNE) & Rachel Nordlinger (Univ. of Melbourne) |
Noun-Adj compounds as incorporated classifier constructions in Gunwinyguan languages |
| 10:20-11:00 |
Marie-elaine Van Egmond (Univ. of Sydney) |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:30-12:10 |
Meiki Elizabeth Apted (Univ. of Melbourne) |
On Injalarrku spirit song language |
| 12:10-12:50 |
Sally Dixon (Wangka Maya PALC) |
The Juwaliny language: issues with working on closely related languages in the Great Sandy Desert |
| 12:50-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:40 |
Eleonora Deak (Wangka Maya PALC) |
The Occurrence and Distribution of Long Vowels in Pilbara languages |
| 2:40-3:20 |
Kristine Rickard (La Trobe Univ.) |
The role of English in modern Arrernte Intonation and Prosody |
| 3:20-4:00 |
Bruce Birch (Univ. of Melbourne) |
An emergent view of the word in Iwaidja |
| 4:00-6:00 | Excursion | |
| 7:00 | Dinner |
Sunday 30 March
| 9:00-9:40 |
Mary Laughren (Univ. of Queensland) |
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| 9:40-10:20 |
Harold Koch (ANU) |
Toward the reconstruction of Australian kinship systems: Philological and etymological issues from southeastern languages | |
| 10:20-11:00 |
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:30-12:10 |
Rachel Nordlinger (Univ. of Melbourne) |
Morpheme ordering in Murrinh-Patha:Or why Murrinh-Patha is not an Athapaskan language |
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| 12:10-12:50 |
Joe Blythe (Univ. of Sydney) |
Principles of referencial design in Murryn Patha conversation |
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| 12:50-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 | Clean up |
John Giacon (ANU), Demonstratives etc in Yuwaalaraay
Alex Blaszak (VACL), Victorian languages: Old texts to new texts - A case study in Boonwurrung
Christina Eira (VACL), Linguistics in plain languages - A rationale
Georgia Curran (ANU), Travelling from Warlpiri country into Anmatyerr country: examples of song texts from a Warlpiri initiation song cycle
Jutta Besold (ANU), On texts collected on the south coast around 1870s