ALS2006 PROGRAM

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

of the

AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTIC SOCIETY

The ALS conference will be held on the St Lucia Campus of The University of Queensland. The Buildings and Rooms are indicated on the ALS Program: first number indicates the Building, the second number indicates the room. Except for some Plenaries, all sessions will be held in the East Wing of Building 1 (Forgan Smith). Some Plenaries will be held in Building 23 (Abel Smith Lecture Theatre)

DAY

TIME

COMMON TIMES

SESSION A

SESSION

B

SESSION

C

SESSION D

FRIDAY

7 July

8:00-9:00

REGISTRATION: Abel Smith Lecture theatre foyer (23-1)

9:00-9:15

Welcome: Abel Smith Lecture theatre (23-1)

9:15-10:30

Plenary:  Andrew Spencer  Lexical Relatedness in a Paradigm-Based Model of Morphology in Abel Smith lecture theatre (23-1)

10:30-11:00

M/Tea (Cloisters)

1-E215

1-E219

1-E302

Complex Predicates

Workshop

Morphosyntax

Semantics NSM

11:00-11:30

Baker & Harvey

Martin Arista

Asano

11:30-12:00

Foley

Schneider

Goddard

12:00-12:30

McGregor

Andrews

12:30-1:30

LUNCH Cloisters (Heads of Linguistics Programs meeting in 1-E219)

1-E215

1-E356

1-E302

Complex Predicates

Workshop

Australian Languages

English Semantics

1:30-2:00

Rice

Sutton

Calude

2:00-2:30

Nordlinger

Black

Allan

2:30-3:00

Laughren

Meakins

Collins

3:00-3:30

Amberber

McGregor

3:30-4:00

A/Tea Cloisters

1-E215

1-E219

1-E356

1-E302

Complex Predicates

Workshop

Language Change

Child Language

Discourse

4:00-4:30

Spencer

Jonas

Steele

Gardner/

Mushin

4:30-5:00

Svenonius

Hendery

Chen

Blythe

5:00-5:30

Discussion

Guillemin

Holtheuer

Nicholls

5:30-6:00

Discussion

Fedden

Kelly

Brotchie

6:00

Pizza Reception Schonell Pizza Cafe and Holt Room

DAY

TIME

COMMON TIMES

SESSION

A

SESSION

B

SESSION

C

SESSION D

SATURDAY

8 July

8:45-10:00

Plenary: RandyLaPolla:  The How and Why of Syntactic Relations

in Forgan Smith Lecture Theatre 1-E215

1-E215

1-E302

1-E356

1-E303

Grammatical Change Workshop

Lexicon

Papuan Languages

Phonetics

10:00-10:30

Round

Zuckermann

Loughnane

Kato

10:30-11:00

Jonas

Burridge

Stebbins

Ballard

11:00-11:30

M/Tea Cloisters

11:30-12:45

Plenary (shared with ALAA):

Felicity Cox Shape Shift: Australian English Sound Change

in Abel Smith Lecture Theatre (23-1)

12:45-2:00

LUNCH Cloisters (ALS Executive Meeting at Wordsmiths)

1-E215

1-E302

1-E356

1-E303

Grammatical Change Workshop

Complex Predicates

(con't)

Discourse

Phonetics

2:00-2:30

Chor

Jarkey

Rendle-Short

Nguyen & Ingram

2:30-3:00

Ngan

I. Green & N. Reid

W. Allen

Coupe

3:00-3:30

McElvenny

Stirling & Barrington

Cox & Palethorpe

3:30-4:00

A/Tea Cloisters

4:00-6:00

ALS AGM in Room 1-E215

7:15

CONFERENCE DINNER Kapsali (Southbank)

DAY

TIME

COMMON TIMES

SESSION A

SESSION

B

SESSION

C

SESSION

D

SUNDAY

9 July

9:30-10:45

Plenary: Rosalind Thornton  Parameter Setting and Statistical Learning in 23-1 (Abel Smith Lecture Theatre)

10:45-11:00

Clyne Prize Presentation in 23-1 (Abel Smith Lecture Theatre)

11-11:30

M/Tea Cloisters

1-E215

1-E302

1-E356

1-E303

Grammatical Change Workshop

Tense & Mood

Pragmatics

SLA

11:30-12:00

Blythe

Wales

Rue & Zhang

Wong & Quek

12:00-12:30

Mushin& Simpson

Rodriguez Louro

Wang & Lin

Fellbaum Korpi

12:30-1:00

Evans et al

Kubo

Peck

Hughson

1:00-2:00

LUNCH Cloisters

1-E215

1-E302

1-E356

Grammatical Change Workshop

Documentary Linguistics

Chinese Linguistics

2:00-2:30

C. Allen

Bowe

Charters

2:30-3:00

Kelly

Henderson

Her

3:00-3:30

Quinn

Besold

3:30-4:00

A/Tea Cloisters

1-E215

1-E302

1-E356

Grammatical Change Workshop

Socio-linguistic Variation

Australian languages: Historical

4:00-4:30

L. Reid

Strahan

Round

4:30-5:00

Kikusawa

Kelly & Izon

Harvey

5:00-5:30

Pucilowski

Peters

I. Green

5:30-6:00

Rodriguez Louro

Hajek, Schupbach  et al