Humanities and Social Sciences

Linguistics Program

La Trobe Papers in Linguistics

Volume 9 - 1996- Contents

• Foreword
• Chinese children’s knowledge of folkbiology: An alternative explanation for animism
  
  Ng Bee-Chin
• Relating child syntax to lexical acquisition
  
  Peter Kipka
• Considerations when constructing a semantic differential scale
  Jayne Al-Hindawe
• Gender differences in visual intelligibility
  
  Nicola Daly, John Bench & Hilary Chappell
• Causative constructions in Persian and Azari
  Yavar Dehgani
• Karo Batak: passive, ergative or neither?
  
  Clodagh Norwood
• Suffixaufnahme, or the possessive adjective in Serbian?
  
  Zorana Popovic
• Null referring expressions in a conversational context
  
  Hussein Shokouhi