Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations
Published 2010-02-03Individuals may write themselves, their communities and their friendships into being on social network sites (Sundén 2003) (boyd 2008). That is, they write themselves into being by providing information about themselves ...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 Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu
Published 2010-01-14Whitesands 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, Honours -
Non-predicating adjectives: a semantic account
Published 2010-01-14This 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, 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