School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Women, Work and 'Civilised' White Australia: Assessing Responses to Women in Factory and Sweated Labour
Published 2008-01-01The thesis deals with a moment in 1911 when there was an intense interest in women undertaking allegedly ‘problematic; factory and sweated labour. The thesis analyses these responses and illustrates that they were informed ...Open AccessThesis -
Contesting Corporal Punishment: Abolitionism, Transportation and the British Imperial Project
Published 2008-01-01Between the 1820s and the 1840s, anti-slavery ideas shaped debate about the treatment of convicts in the Australian penal colonies. This thesis investigates the impact of abolitionism on one key aspect of convict life: the ...Open AccessThesis -
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 Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu
Published 2009Whitesands is an under-described language of southern Vanuatu, and this thesis presents Whitesands-specific data based on primary in-situ field research. The thesis addresses the distinction of noun and verb word classes ...Open AccessThesis -
Non-predicating adjectives: a semantic account
Published 2009This thesis provides a semantic account of non-predication in the adjectives of English. Particular attention is paid to adjectives that are only non-predicating when they modify certain types of nouns; both agentive nouns ...Open AccessThesis