Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

Edited by Keith Allan

The ALS2005 Conference took place September 28-30, 2005 and was hosted by the Linguistics Program, Monash University. The Conference organizers were Professor Kate Burridge and Ms Colleen Pickett. Keith Allan hereby acknowledges help from Kate Burridge, for instance handling the reviewing of his own paper.

Excluding the plenary, the papers published herewith were all peer reviewed as full papers and meet DEST specifications. A majority of papers were reviewed by academics at universities overseas (see list of reviewers below).

Papers from these proceedings should be referenced as:

Author(s)-of-paper. 2006. Title-of-paper. In Keith Allan (ed), Selected papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Note that there is no overall page numbering system for the proceedings as a whole: page numbering begins at 1 in each paper. Copyright resides with the author(s) of the paper.

These proceedings were published in this final form on 1 September 2006.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9802815-0-7
ISBN-10: 0-9802815-0-4

Plenary

• Lake Corangamite
  Bruce Pascoe, Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
   

Other papers

• On linking fragments of discourse to the conceptual metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY
  Ludmilla A'Beckett
   
• Raddoppiamento sintattico and prosodic phonology: A re-evaluation
  Matthew Absalom & John Hajek
   
• Interpreting Apollonius Dyscolus on mood and psuchichē diathesis
  Keith Allan
   
• Semantic composition for NSM, using LFG+glue
  Avery D. Andrews
   
• Cognitive models in Spanish metalinguistic phraseology
  Mónica Aznárez
   
• Equilibrium theory applied to Top End Australian languages
  Paul Black
   
• Issues to think about before and after working on indigenous language projects in remote areas
  Josephine Caffery
   
• The social responsibility and impact of the linguist/applied linguist in Australia
  Michael Clyne
   
• Will, shall, be going to, and want to: The modals and semi-modals of prediction and volition in Modern English
  Peter C. Collins
   
• Switch-reference in a dying language: The case of Menggwa Dla
  Hilário de Sousa
   
• The influence of German on the lexicon of Palauan and Kosraean
  Stefan Engelberg
   
• Russian praise words molodec and umnica: A semantic and cultural analysis
  Anna Gladkova
   
• Underlying tonal representation of Kagoshima Japanese accentual contrast
  Shunichi Ishihara
   
• On the question of topics in topic prominent interlanguage
  Marie Fellbaum Korpi
   
• Gender, class and language preference: A case study in Yogyakarta
  Yacinta K. Kurniasih
   
• The role of animacy and definiteness in the clitic-DP nexus
  Mary Laughren & Susana Eisenchlas
   
• The undergoer in passive clauses in Estonian and Finnish
  Aet Lees
   
• The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation
  Jean Mulder & Sandra A. Thompson
   
• Dialects and varieties in a situation of language endangerment
  Simon Musgrave
   
• Ethical challenges in documentary linguistics
  Simon Musgrave & Nick Thieberger
   
• The Ndebele spelling system: A missing link between phonology and orthography
  Finex Ndhlovu
   
• An NSM approach to the meaning of tear and its Japanese equivalents
  Asako Otomo & Akiko Torii
   
• A genitive form of the noun in Aguaruna
  Simon Overall
   
• "Allegations" and "controversy": Are the Americans invading our intonational space?
  Jenny Price
   
• Talking about space in Koromu, a Trans New Guinea language
  Carol Priestley
   
• Expression of information structure in Mawng: Intonation and focus
  Ruth Singer
   
• Beer, doona, books and blankets: Contrasting reflexives and pronouns in locative PPs in Australian English
  Tania E. Strahan
   
• Accomodating language difference: A collaborative approach to justice in the Koori Court of Victoria
  Natalie Stroud
   
• The personing of neutral inclusivity: Tracing the spread of person compounds in occupational naming
  Joanne Winter & Anne Pauwels
   
• Non-native grammars: L2 representation of English locational and directional prepositions
  Bee Eng Wong & Sharon Yee Ling Chong
   

Referees

The editor would like to acknowledge the work of the following people who agreed to act as referees:

Alexandra Aikhenvald
Allan Ramsay
Anna Kibort
Anna Margetts
Anna Siewierska
Anna Szabolcsi
Anthony Backhouse
Ash Asudeh
Barbara Horvath
Barry Blake
Bernard Comrie
Bill Palmer
Birgit Hellwig
Catherine Travis
Cliff Goddard
Cynthia Allen
David Oshima
Deborah Schiffrin
Diana Eades
Ellen Prince
Foong Ha Yap
Frantisek Lichtenberk
Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Leech
Harold Koch
Heather Bowe
Helen Marriott
Ignacio Roca
James Miller
Jane Sunderland
Janet Fletcher
Janet Holmes
John Charles Smith
Jonathan Charteris-Black
Julie Bradshaw
Junko Mori
Kate Burridge
Keith Allan
Laurie Bauer
Lesley Stirling
Lila Gleitman
Lyle Campbell
Manfred Krug
Margaret Florey
Maria Cristina Cuervo
Marianne Mithun
Mark Harvey
Mark Johnson
Mary Ruth Wise
Matthew Dryer
Miltiadis Kokkonidis
Monica Ward
Nicholas Evans
Nikolaus Himmelmann
Olga Zayts
Paul Newman
Pedro Chamizo Domínguez
Peter Collins
Peter Peterson
Pieter Muysken
Rachel Giora
D. Robert Ladd
Sandra Kipp
Sarah Liszka
Simon Musgrave
Stephanie Pourcel
Stephen Levinson
Stephen Morey
Stephen Muecke
Tim Clausner
Virve-Anneli Vihman
William Foley