Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2004: Recent submissions
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Exclamative Clauses: A Corpus-based Account
Published 2005-10-10This paper aims to complement the accounts of exclamative clauses presented in both the large reference grammars of English (e.g. Quirk et al. 1985; Biber et al. 1999; Huddleston and Pullum 2002), and in the more ...Open AccessConference paper -
Frs. Herman Nekes and Ernest Worms' Dictionary of Australian Languages, Part III of 'Australian Languages' (1953)
Published 2005-10-10Frs. Herman Nekes and Ernest Worms’ monumental Australian languages consists of five parts, of which three are dictionaries. These account for the bulk of the work, some 775 of 1067 pages, the remainder being about two-thirds ...Open AccessConference paper -
Acknowledging Strong Ties between Utterances in Talk: Connections through 'Right' as a Response Token
Published 2005-10-10Right is a response token in English that has been little studied. Its main uses in Australian English (and British English) are different from North American Englishes. The data used for this study was primarily a dietetic ...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 -
The Cross-Linguistic Function of Obligatory 'do'-Periphrasis
Published 2005-10-10The aim of this paper is to give a descriptive account of the range of functions that can be associated with obligatory ‘do’-periphrasis cross-linguistically based on a sample of 80 languages. A preliminary typological ...Open AccessConference paper