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 -
Second Position Clitic Phenomena in North-Central Australia: Some Pragmatic Considerations
Published 2005-10-10Second position phenomena in North-central Australia: some pragmatic considerations. This paper presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the discourse-pragmatics of second position clitic attachment in seven languages ...Open AccessConference paper -
Reflexive - Middle and Reciprocal - Middle Continua in Romanian
Published 2005-10-10In Romanian, the middle marker se is employed to encode five distinct situation types: reflexive, reciprocal, (medio-)passive, inchoative and impersonal. The principal aim of the present research is to identify the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Processing Grammatical Functions of Mandarin Locative Structures
Published 2005-10-10Pienemann (1989) argues that transfer of information from a Verb to its Subject, is more demanding than transfer within Nominal phrases because the former combines information from separate ‘iterations’ of conceptual ...Open AccessConference paper