ALS2006 General Sessions: Authors & Abstracts

 

Name

Title of Paper

Allan, Keith

There is no subjunctive in English

Allen, Wendy

Australian Political Discourse: pragmatic analysis of the Federal Election Campaign, 2004

Amouzadeh, Mohammad

The scope of Sentential Negation in Persian (paper is withdrawn)

Andrews, Avery

Tense and semantic composition in NSM

Asano, Yuko

Semantic analysis of 'dubious' expressions in Japanese: kana, daroo ka and janai ka

Ballard, Elaine

The Vocalisation of Coda /l/ in the speech of New Zealand Five Year Olds

Besold, Jutta

A look at orthographic issues in language reclamation in south eastern New South Wales

Black, Paul

Pronominal accretions in languages in Cape York Peninsula

Blythe, Joe

Referential repair and co-construction in Murriny Patha conversational narratives

Bowe, Heather

Issues with the AIATSIS 'AUSTLANG' data base v1.0: a case study from the Upper Murray

Brotchie, Amanda

Once upon a time: Form and Function in Tirax Narratives

Burridge, Kate

Raising gooseflesh: taboo, censoring and the human brain

Calude, Andreea

Clefting in spoken English

Charters, Helen

A minimalist account of indefinite pre-verbal Subjects in Mandarin

Chen, Yupin

Mandarin Speaking Children's Request in Mother-Child Conversations

Collins, Peter

Can and may: monosemy or polysemy?

Coupe, Alec

Typological features of prosody in three Tibeto-Burman languages of Nagaland

Cox, Felicity & Palethorpe, Sallyanne

Some phonetic characteristics of Lebanese Australian English

Fedden, Sebastian

Incipient Grammaticalization of brata 'brother' as a Reciprocal Marker in Tok Pisin

Fellbaum Korpi, Marie

On the notions of topic and topic markers in interlanguage

Gardner, Rod & Mushin, Ilana

Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversational storytelling

Goddard, Cliff

Semantic molecules

Green, Ian

Verbal Classifiers in Marringarr

Guillemin, Diana

The Grammaticalization of the Predicate Marker li in Mauritian Creole

Hajek, J. et al.

A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European Languages: intracultural and intercultural dimensions

Harvey, Mark

Lexical change in pre-colonial Australia

Henderson, John

Comparative Lexical Documentation for Australian Languages

Hendery, Rachel

When discourse elements become relativisation markers

Holtheuer, Carolina

Parental corrections in the acquisition of the Spanish verbs ser and estar

Hughson, Jo-anne

Address in Spanish in an Australian context

Jarkey, Nerida

Cotemporal Serial Verb Constructions in White Hmong

Jonas, Dianne

Experiencer Verb and Structural Case - A Diachronic Perspective

Kato, Akiko

An acoustic analysis of Japanese vowels produced by Australian learners of Japanese

Kelly, Barbara

"Mummy! Ball! Fish!":

Why English-learning children produce nouns earlier than verbs

Kelly, Barbara &

Izon, Meredith

One size doesn't fit all: Research methodologies in a language variation study of Sudanese teens

Koch, Harold

Toward a revised classification of Australian Languages (paper is withdrawn)

Kubo, Kazumi

Clash of viewpoints; Analysis of disagreement on a new use of past tense in Japanese

Loughnane, Robyn

Demonstratives in Oksapmin

Martin Arista, Javier

Old English Agentive Suffixes and the Asymmetry of Morphological Representations

McGregor, William B.

Ergative marking of intransitive subjects in Warrwa (Nyulnyulan, West Kimberley)

Meakins, Felicity

Factors affecting the use of the ergative marker in Gurindji Kriol and

individual speaker constraint rankings

Nguyen, T.A. Thu & Ingram, John

Prosody of tone sandhi in Vietnamese reduplications

Nicholls, Sophie

Discourse function of determiners in Roper River Kriol

One-Soon Her

Linking Agentive Objects in Mandarin Chinese

Peck, Jennifer

Linguistic innovations: The pursuit of cyber-identities

Peters, Pam

Variable patterns of negation in English: medium, register and region

Reid, Nicholas & Green, Ian

Classifier-coverb systems in Western and Southern Daly

Rendle-Short, Johanna

Hostile questions in the political news interview

Rodriguez Louro, Celeste

On the uses and functions of the Preterite and the Present Perfect in contemporary Argentinian River Plate Spanish

Round, Erich

Apical obstruents in pre-proto-Tangkic and the origins of the non-zero absolutive

Schneider, Cindy

The Associative Construction in Abma: A Way of Showing Non-Possession

Stebbins, Tonya

Tense and markedness in Mali Baining

Steele, Julie

Syntactic Shapes

Stirling, Lesley & Barrington, Graham

The Three Little Pigs: oral and written retellings by a child with autism

Strahan, Tania E.

Norwegian long-distance reflexives: Lectal variation and speaker attitudes

Sutton, Peter

Language size variation in Cape York Peninsula

Tavangar, Manoochehr

The Semantics of Three Locative Prepositions in English (paper is withdrawn)

Wales, Lynn

Modal functions of future tenses in French

Wang, Ben Pin-Yun & Lin, Eric Po-Chung

Politically correct language of labelling in Mandarin Chinese: A case study of gay and lesbian lingo

Wong, Bee Eng & Quek, Soh Theng

Acquisition of the English Definite Article by Chinese and Malay ESL Learners

Zhang, Grace & Rue, Yongju

Requesting strategies: a comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

Zuckermann, Ghil'ad

Blorit - Pagans' Mohawk or Sabras' Forelock?: Ideologically Manipulative Secularization of Hebrew Terms in Socialist Zionist Israeli


 

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