Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2004: Recent submissions
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Setting the Scene: A Comparative Study of the '-te aru' Construction and the Attributive Passive in Japanese
Published 2005-10-10Broadly speaking, the ‘-te aru’ construction and the ‘attributive passive’ construction in Japanese are both de-transitivized, stative constructions that serve to set the scene for the ongoing discourse. In many cases, the ...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 -
Distinguishing Prosodic Word and Phonological Word in Warlpiri: Prosodic Constituency in Morphologically Complex Words
Published 2005-10-10Observations that the phonological word in Warlpiri does not map onto a single constituent in prosodic structure leads us to posit a three-way distinction between prosodic word (PWd), phonological word (PhonWd) and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Interpersonal Relationships in Japanese and Australian Women's Magazines: A Case Study
Published 2005-10-10Women’s magazines have been a focus of research in various disciplines, and such research has made use of different methodologies as well as taking diverse approaches. This paper analyses texts selected from an Australian ...Open AccessConference paper -
Acoustic Analysis of Maori: Historical Data
Published 2005-10-10We present initial results of an acoustic analysis of the vowel system of a native speaker of Maori, RTH, who was born in 1885. RTH was recorded in 1947 by the Mobile Disc Recording Unit of the New Zealand Broadcasting ...Open AccessConference paper