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Cyclic syllabification and a first cycle rule of vowel-rounding in some dialects of Australian English
Published 1980-03-01A discussion of the realisation of /l/ in Australian English, and of the quality of back vowels preceding the /l/, especially in Cultivated Adelaide English. A technical solution making use of cyclic syllabification is ...Open AccessOther -
Resultatives
Published 1983-01-01This paper looks at the syntactic and semantic conditions in English on resultative attributes, which describe the state of an entity resulting from the action denoted by the main predicate. It is argued that these entities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
An Examination of the Ideologies Underlying Nineteenth Century Scholarly Researches into the Viking Age
Published 1984-01-01This thesis concerns the (more or less) systematic rehabilitation of the Viking Period, which was undertaken by a collection of poets and philologists, scholars and amateurs, from the latter half of the eighteenth century ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
How Warumungu people express new concepts
Published 1985-01-01This article describes strategies used by Warumungu speakers to create new words and ways of expressing new concepts, in the context of multilingual society in which speakers of Indigenous Australian languages view language ...Open AccessArticle -
The speech of Australian adolescents: research data and recordings collected by A.G. Mitchell and Arthur Delbridge in 1959 and 1960
Published 1998This dataset contains research data and recordings of Australian English as spoken by 7736 students at 330 schools across Australia, collected 1959-1960. The recordings were made on reel-to-reel tapes and were used to ...Open AccessDataset -
Seductively Australian : the Australian Tourist Commission's 'imagineering' of a nation, 1967-2000
Published 2000-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Grassroots and Digital Branches in the Age of Transversal Politics
Published 2001-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Redden, G. (2003). "Read the Whole Thing: Journalism, Weblogs and the Re-mediation of the War in Iraq."
Published 2003-01-01The Net’s uses are now diverse, covering many aspects of commerical, public and private life. The idea that it transforms all activities in the same or equivalent ways is no longer tenable. This paper examines a particular ...Open AccessArticle -
Rethinking Plato’s Theory of Art: Aesthetics and the Timaeus
Published 2003-01-01The Timaeus presents a fascinating account of the cosmos. It includes a creation myth that introduces the figure known as the Demiurge who, despite the fact that he is the cause of the sensible world, is reverently attributed ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Spiritual Tourism: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Travel
Published 2004-01-01Tourism and pilgrimage have been said to be closely related1. However, the relationship between tourists and the religions and religious contexts they visit has been neglected. Why tourists travel to places of religious ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Messianic Ideas: Historical Sources, and some Contemporary Expectations of Fulfilment
Published 2004-01-01The aim of this work is to provide basic historical insights into the origins of the messianic myth and its future developments within various world religions (see our Table of contents). Issues of millenarian ideas in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Bible as a ‘pretty good political handbook’: an examination of the way that George W Bush’s evangelical faith has shaped his political agenda
Published 2004-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Men of Faith: Stravinsky, Maritain and the Ideal Christian Artifex
Published 2005-01-01In this paper I explore the relationship and mutual influences between Stravinsky and Maritain. Despite the connections between these two men, and the prominence which Stravinsky at least still holds, scholars have neglected ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Topic and focus in Ngardi
Published 2005-10-21This paper examines the discourse pragmatics of the non- configurational (free word order) Australian language Ngardi. Ngardi is a Ngumbin language spoken by a small number of people east of the Kimberleys. I examine ...Open AccessThesis -
The diachronic evolution of directional constructions in Mandarin
Published 2006-01-01This thesis investigates the diachronic evolution of directional constructions found in Mandarin and other modern varieties of Chinese. What I call directional constructions are usually called 'directional complements' ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Gender and codemixing in Hong Kong
Published 2006-01-01This paper investigates the relationship of gender and codemixing behaviour in Hong Kong. Data were obtained through the use of a questionnaire and a language diary experiment from 10 young women and 10 young men who had ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Grounding the Angels: An Attempt to Harmonise Science and Spiritism in the Celestial Conferences of John Dee
Published 2006-01-01The retrospective catechisation of largely bygone beliefs is a naturally difficult assignment. An even more slavish task attends those philosophies which are not merely antiquated but which belonged, during their time of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Negative Evidence in Linguistics: The case of Wagiman Complex Predicates
Published 2006-01-01In this thesis I will justify the use of negative forms of evidence as a permissible means of analysing grammatical constructions. I do this by presenting a test case, a grammatical construction that is not entirely ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Spatial Reference in Momu
Published 2007-01-01Spatial reference - how we communicate notions such as location, motion and direction - is an important area of current research. Recent studies involving detailed analysis of geographically and typologically diverse ...Open AccessThesis, Honours