Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2004: Recent submissions
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Emphatic Repetition in Spoken Arabic
Published 2006-03-09This paper identifies and explains Arabic emphatic repetition in ethnographic interviews against the general backdrop of an understanding of non-pragmatically motivated repetition in Spoken Arabic. It also considers the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: an Ethnographic Report
Published 2005-10-21Changes in the ‘ecology of languages’ after the independence of Indonesia have resulted in changes in the social, cultural and economic settings. These changes in turn have affected the well-being of indigenous languages ...Open AccessArticle -
New and Traditional Values in Contemporary Russian: Natural Semantic Metalanguage in Cross-Cultural Semantics
Published 2005-10-10Changes in value system of a society can find reflection in the semantic structure of a language. These differences can be studied on the basis of semantic comparison of value words – those that become a source of borrowing ...Open AccessConference paper -
Signalling Plurality in Learner English
Published 2005-10-10Noun plurals in the conversational English of French and Polish adult learners of English have been analysed using descriptive and conceptual approaches. The data was collected over a period of eighteen months, during which ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Case of the Object in Early Estonian and Finnish Texts
Published 2005-10-10The case of the object in Balto-Finnic languages alternates between accusative and partitive. In modern Finnish the accusative case is used more frequently than in Estonian. The present study looks at the usage in older ...Open AccessConference paper