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ALS Conference2009 - List of accepted abstracts
Co-hosted by RCLT and the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University
Below is the list of abstracts accepted for presentation at the conference. Click on the title to view the full abstract in pdf.
The list is sorted alphabetically, by (first) author surname.
Al-Gahtani, Saad. The relationship between pragmatic transfer and second language proficiency.
Amery, Rob. Beyond form: Incorporating language functions in language description
Andrews, Avery D. ‘Grammatical’ vs. ‘Lexical’ Meaning Constructors for Glue Semantics
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko. A study of Japanese epistemic modality: The meaning of no da
Ballard, Elaine & Charters, Helen. How long is a vowel? A first look at quantitative vowels in the vowel system of four year old Samoan speaking children.
Barwick, Linda & Walsh, Michael. About Murriny Patha song
Billington, Rosemary. Location, Location, Location: Regional characteristics and national patterns of change in the vowels of Melbourne adolescents.
Boynton, Jessica. Perceptions of historical language norms and policies: Wangkatha and the Mt Margaret Mission.
Bradley, David. Language endangerment and resilience thinking.
Cameron, Denise. Willingness to communicate (WTC) as a key factor in second language acquisition.
Čašule, Ilija. The Indo-European origin of the Burushaski demonstrative system.
Chan, Cecilia Yuet Hung. Cross-linguistic variation in phonology: Phonological variation of syllable-initial /n/ in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Charters, Helen. Samoan ergatives: Analysis and acquisition.
Cutfield, Sarah. Dislocation and word order in Dalabon.
Cutfield, Sarah. A strategic vision for the AIATSIS Language Program.
De Busser, Rik. The semantics of space in Takivatan Bunun.
Delves, Kerrie & Stirling, Lesley. Studying repair in adult-child interactions: Lessons from conversations with typically developing children and high functioning children with autism.
Donohue, Mark; Musgrave, Simon & Whiting, Bronwen. Methodological explorations in historical linguistics: Typological feature analysis does not replicate phylogeny.
Eira, Christina & Couzens, Vicki. Parameters for a typology for revival languages.
El-Hankari, Abdel. The syntactic shift of Berber: From VSO to topic-initial
Ellison, T. Mark & Miceli, Luisa. Less-than-chance similarity and language differentiation.
Facundes, Sidi. Productive compounding as a path for the historical development of noun classification systems.
Flannery, Greg. Pronoun borrowing and 'open' address systems - A broad typological distinction.
Gawne, Lauren & Kelly, Barbara. Gesture categorisation: Understanding speaker perceptions.
Goddard, Cliff. Furniture, Vegetables, Weapons: The semantics and grammar of functional macro-categories.
Guillemin, Diana. A shift in noun denotation triggers a new determiner system: The case of Mauritian Creole.
Harvey, Mark. Prepalatals in Arandic.
He, Xinyuan. Wildlife naming system in Southern Pumi.
Henderson, John. Variation and change in Arandic reduplicative constructions.
Her, One-Soon. A suppresionist approach to argument-function mismatches.
Iwashita, Mami & Ishihara, Shunichi. The subject and the verb in Japanese passive constructions.
Jarkey, Nerida. Raising semantic transitivity with serial verb constructions in Hmong.
Jendraschek, Gerd. Mood and modality in the Basque auxiliary: Semantic redundancy, divergent change, fossilization.
Johnson, Rebekah. A discourse analytic look at how adult children negotiate identity with their parents.
Kawakatsu, Manabu. Speaker change after the kedo-form implication for the status of the kedo-form in Japanese syntax-for-conversation.
Kelly, Barbara; Nordlinger, Rachel & Wigglesworth, Gillian. Indigenous perspectives on the vitality of Murrinh-Patha.
Koch, Harold. On the classification of South-Eastern Australian languages.
Kumar, Abishek. The system of social locus and its grammaticalization.
Lasagabaster, David & Hajek, John. Saving Basque? An analysis of the evolution of Basque knowledge, transmission and use from 1996 to 2006.
Lee, Terry Ting-Wu. The DP structure in Isbukun Bunun.
Lees, Aet. Non-finite verbs in Balto-Finnic.
Loakes, Deborah; Fletcher, Janet & Hajek, John. Perception of a merger: The case of prelateral /e/ and /æ/ in Melbourne and Victoria.
Loughnane, Robyn. Personal and factual semantics across languages.
Mailhammer, Robert. A preliminary overview of the verb in Amurdak and other Iwaidjan languages.
Manns, Howard. What the mass media reveals about intra-speaker variation: The case of Java.
Margetts, Anna. Clause combining and serialization in an oceanic language of Papua New Guinea.
McKay, Graham. Relational processes and verbless clauses in Rembarrnga.
Mertyris, Dionysios. Phonological processes in West Kara.
Morey, Stephen. Tangsa - A dialect network in North East India.
Musgrave, Simon & Hajek, John. Sudanese languages in Australia: Linguistic demography and language maintenance.
Mushin, Ilana. Evidential strategies in Garrwa.
Nash, Joshua. Toponymy in Kangaroo Island: Folk toponymy and offshore fishing ground names.
Nordlinger, Rachel. Agreement puzzles in Murrinh-Patha.
O'Neill, Gerard. Indexicality, and address terms and phrases of Australian Arabic youth in friendship groups.
Parton, Katharine. Ready to play: Musician action as social interaction.
Radhakrishnan, Mahesh. The role of traditional singing performance in unplanned language maintenance.
Roberts, Michael. Doctors, Teachers, Lawyers: Exploring the semantics of human social categories.
Saclot, Maureen. On lexical aspect distinction of the actor focus and object focus verbs.
Schneider, Cindy. Why field linguists should pay more attention to Applied Linguistic research.
Schultze-Berndt, Eva. When non-finite verbs are not verbs. The role of parts of speech systems in a typology of finiteness.
Sciubba, Maria Eleonora. How transcription may influence analysis: The case of silences.
Shibasaki, Reijirou. Grammaticalization of unexpectedness as a typological issue: With special focus on the languages of Japan.
Singer, Ruth. Formulaicity and productivity in verb-argument interactions: The role of gender agreement in Mawng verbs.
Starks, Donna & Massam, Diane. One post-predicate yes-no question particle in Niuean: Where did it come from and why does it occur where it does?
Stebbins, Tonya & Van Der Mark, Sheena. The linguistic prehistory of the Eastern Bismarcks, Papua New Guinea.
Tadmor, Uri & Haspelmath, Martin. The typology of lexical borrowing.
Teo, Amos Benjamin. Possessive constructions in Sumi.
Teo, Amos Benjamin. A phonological analysis of tone in Sumi.
Walkley, Amelia & Simpson, Jane. Writing friendship into being: wall-to-wall conversations on Facebook.
Walsh, Michael. 'Linguistic social work' and the 'hopeless cause': The role of linguists in 'dealing with' endangered languages.
Waters, Sophia. Semantics of French discourse particles Quoi and Ben.
Weber, Natalie. Is Marrngu a subgroup?
Wright, Jennifer L. Reconstruction of Proto-Qiang.
Yang, Cathryn. Tone change in Northern Lalo.
Yoong, David Soon Chye. Standard English and Singlish: The clash of language values in contemporary Singapore.
Convenor: Overall, Simon
Title: Languages in Peru
This workshop focuses on the languages of Peru, a country known for its great linguistic diversity. Peru has three very different geographic zones: costa (the dry Pacific coast), sierra (Andean highlands) and selva (Amazon basin), and all three zones are represented in the workshop. Four of the papers describe aspects of Amazonian languages, from three distinct language families: Overall on Aguaruna (Jivaroan); Hanson on Yine (Arawak); Zariquiey on Cashibo–Cacataibo (Panoan) and Valenzuela on Shipibo–Konibo (Panoan). Pineda’s contribution is on derivational negation in Quechua, the largest Andean language family. Mayer’s paper takes us to the coastal zone, describing the historical development of clitics in the Spanish spoken in Lima.
In addition to the new research to be presented in the talks, we expect that valuable insights will come out of discussion between the participants. In particular, the focused geographic scope will allow fruitful discussion around issues in language contact and typology of indigenous languages of Peru.
Convenor: Travis, Catherine & Rodriguez Louro, Celeste
Title: Grammaticalization and variation in Romance languages
This workshop addresses the issue of grammaticization and variation in Romance languages. Drawing on naturally occurring corpora of written and spoken language, including contemporary and historical data, we consider how speakers deal with syntactic variability and the role such variability plays in long-term language change. Three different languages and five distinct varieties are included, namely European and Brazilian Portuguese, Peruvian and Argentinean (River Plate) Spanish, and Middle French. Through examining variation in different varieties of closely related languages we are able to better understand the diverse nature of the processes involved in syntactic change, and present here an overview of some such processes.
All papers emphasize the importance of corpus-based analyses in documenting language variation and change, but each does this in a distinct way. Several different syntactic forms are considered, including conditional clauses, determiners, clitic and object pronouns and the present perfect. The theoretical grounding of the workshop is primarily in functional approaches (including Grammaticization Theory by Mortelmans and Ritz & Caudal, Interactional Grammar by Lopes and Variationist theory by Rodríguez Louro and Travis & Silveira), but formal approaches that are able to tackle variability are also included (Lexical Functional Grammar by Mayer). In order to identify the patterning of the syntactic features under consideration, the authors take into account semantic and pragmatic factors that emerge in the data studied, and in some analyses, this proves to be the primary explaining factor (e.g. for Middle French ledit in Mortelmans’paper, for the Portuguese conditionals in Lopes’ work, for the Peruvian Spanish clitics studied by Mayer, and for the French perfect in Ritz & Caudal’s study). Other studies find the syntactic patterning as evidenced in co-occurring features in the linguistic environment to better capture the variation observed (e.g. in the Variationist studies presented by Rodríguez Louro and Travis & Silveira).
The overarching goal of the workshop is to outline the current issues being addressed in grammaticization and variation in Romance linguistics, to synthesize the findings across diverse domains, and to identify further research questions that need to be considered.
Convenor: Van Der Mark, Sheena
Title: Fieldwork and linguistics
The experiences we have in the field have a profound impact on the outcomes of our research, academically, personally and for the communities involved. This workshop is an opportunity to explore some of the issues associated with fieldwork and its repercussions in a professional forum. The first paper, Fieldwork and Your Wellbeing (S. Van Der Mark, S. Morey and T. Stebbins), discusses newly established practices within the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology with respect managing fieldwork in terms of risk management, safety, and personal well-being (including both professional and personal relationships). In the second paper, Bringing Fieldwork Home (C. Eira), the author discusses how fieldwork is inseparable from directions for both linguistics and life itself – that fieldwork is not something that is 'outside over there', whether or not your fieldwork site is far away. In the final paper, Fieldwork by the Community (G. Woods and M. Carew) the authors discuss a community-based approach to language documentation – examining effectiveness of combining elders, youth, media and art practices with respect to cultural knowledge preservation and language documentation. This workshop aims to bring non-linguistic aspects of fieldwork into the academic domain, and facilitate discussion about linguists and fieldwork.
Fellbaum Korpi, Marie. Linearisation: The nexus of information and definiteness structures.
Fletcher, Janet & Loakes, Deborah. High rise, low rise: A perceptual study of tune variation in Australian English.
Fletcher, Jeannie. Workplace structures that foster collegiality: A case study of one organization's knowledge enabling social context.
Gale, Mary-Anne. The Ngarrindjeri dictionary project.
Ishihara, Shunichi. A collocation analysis of topic change utterances in multi-party meeting conversations.
Mandowen, Willy E. The function of particle BE in Biak language.
Ross, Belinda. Prosodic phrases in Dalabon.
Rudloff, Maria. Does knowledge shape perception? - Personal experience and medical terminology.
Stanley, Rael. Group identification in an online community.
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