Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Syntactic Derivations of Samoan Predicates
Published 2010-01-01This thesis gives a formal syntactic account of Samoan verbal classes. Samoan verbs may be divided into classes based on their observable syntactic behaviour (for example, case assignment, incorporation) or on their semantic ...Open AccessThesis -
The Language of Clinical Empathy
Published 2012-01-01This Honours thesis examines the language of clinical empathy in an attempt to broaden understanding of what constitutes effective communication in medicine. Linguistic theories of appraisal, affiliation and intonation are ...Open AccessThesis -
Knowledge and Multisemiosis in Undergraduate Physics
Published 2010-01-01Physics is arguably the most fundamental of the sciences, yet many students disengage with it at a very early level. This thesis lays the groundwork to understanding why this is the case by using Systemic Functional theory ...Open AccessThesis -
Children's Silences in Mareeba Aboriginal English
Published 2009-11-01This thesis examines the role of silence in conversations between teacher’s aides and 5-6 year old Indigenous Australian children at school. Recent studies of conversation among adult Aboriginal Australians have observed ...Open AccessThesis -
Author Profiling for English and Arabic Emails
Published 2008-01-01This paper reports on some aspects of a research project aimed at automating the analysis of texts for the purpose of author profiling and identification. The Text Attribution Tool (TAT) was developed for the purpose of ...Open AccessArticle