24/12/2025
ALS Newsletter #3 2025
Season’s greetings from the ALS Executive Committee! We wish all ALS members and friends a joyful festive season and a prosperous New Year!
News from ALS
2025 Rodney Huddleston Prize announced
In its eighth year of being presented, the annual Rodney Huddleston Prize is awarded to the best paper published in the previous year of the Australian Journal of Linguistics as judged by the members of the Australian Linguistics Society.
The $1,000 cash prize is generously funded by Taylor and Francis, the publishers of AJL, and is named after AJL’s first editor, Rodney Huddleston, who edited the journal from 1979-1985.
The winner of the vote for the 2025 Rodney Huddleston Prize is:
‘The Jimmie Barker corpus: A Muruwari man’s documentation of Aboriginal languages, history and culture between 1968 and 1972’ by Alison L. Mount, Jimmie Barker, Roy Barker Jr, Cassandra Sedran-Price, Michael Higgins, Lorina L. Barker, Barton Staggs & Jane Simpson. Australian Journal of Linguistics 44(23), 10-126.
Congratulations to the winning author team!
This Year’s Talkley Award Goes To…
The Language on the Move Podcast
Edited and produced by Ingrid Piller (University of Hamburg/MQ) and Brynn Quick (MQ).
Additional hosts include Tazin Abdullah (MQ), Agnes Bodis (MQ), Alexandra Grey (UTS), Loy Lising (MQ), Emily Pacheco (MQ), Yixi (Isabella) Qiu (Tongji University), Laura Smith-Khan (UNE), and Hanna Torsh (MQ).
Congratuations to the team!
Research Support Portfolio: Brett Baker’s Short Report
The ALS Research Grants scheme offers grants of up to $5,000 for research in any area of linguistics, and funds approximately five projects per year. 2025 recipients: Stacey Sherwood (WSU), Mae Carroll (UMelb), Josh Dahmen (ANU), Celeste Rodriguez-Louro (UWA), Rolf Hotz (USyd)
The Jalwang Scholarship supports linguists to give back to the community by converting some of their research into materials of benefit to the language community. 2025 recipient: Callum Clayton-Dixon (Kyūna Wangana Aboriginal Corporation).
The Gerhardt Laves Scholarship contributes to fieldwork expenses for postgraduate student researchers in Indigenous languages of Australia or its immediate region. 2025 recipient: Kira Davey (ANU).
The Susan Kaldor Scholarship supports ALS student members to attend an international summer school or institute. 2025 recipient was Keira Mullan from ANU (but this scholarship was not taken up).
The Michael Clyne Prize (awarded jointly with the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia) is awarded for the most outstanding postgraduate research thesis in immigrant bilingualism and language contact. 2025 recipient: Meron Reda (UQ) for 'Refugee Youth and Multilingual Lives in Australia'
The Barb Kelly Prize is awarded for the most outstanding postgraduate research thesis in any area of linguistics. 2025 recipient: Peter Nyhuis (UMelb) for 'Lexical representation in Wubuy'
The Publication Support Grants provide support for publication costs, with a priority given to open access costs. 2025 recipients: Prashneel Goundar (UNE) and Joshua Penney (Macquarie).
The Indigenous Conference Attendance Support scheme assists Indigenous presenters to attend the ALS annual conference. 2025: no applications
The Student Conference Attendance Support scheme assists ALS student presenters to attend the ALS conference. 2025 recipients: since there were no applications for the Indigenous Conference Attendance Support scheme, we awarded two scholarships this year: Yuchen Li and Shubo Li, both of ANU.
PD Portfolio: Top Highlights
Mentoring: The mentoring scheme was revived in 2025 after a hiatus, and nine mentees were paired with mentors. Thanks to all participants in the scheme, and to those who have signed up as potential mentors - the pool was also expanded significantly this year. You can learn more or sign up here. Note that putting your name down as a mentor does not involve any time commitment in advance - we will always check your availability before pairing you with anyone.
Accreditation: Now in its third year, the accreditation scheme is running smoothly with 18 newly accredited linguists in 2025 - congratulations all! We also launched the professional pathway to accreditation, which is equivalent to the existing education pathway, acknowledging the diverse ways of becoming a linguist and doing linguistics. You can read more here, and view some additional information about the professional pathway here. This pathway will eventually be connected to a more fine-grained skills passport; planning for this has been underway in 2025 and will be a focus next year. Many thanks to the professional pathway/skills passport working group—Emma Browne, Sally Dixon, Lauren Gawne, Rob Mailhammer, and Tula Wynyard—and thanks also to Judith Bishop, Charlee Horni, Gari Tudor-Smith and members of the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Advisory Committee for their input.
If you have any feedback, thoughts or ideas for new initiatives, feel free to reach out: sasha.wilmoth@unimelb.edu.au
Snapshots from ALS Conference 2025
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News from the University of New England (UNE)
AWARDS
Adjunct Professor Diana Eades is the 2025 inaugural recipient of the Social Impact Award, recently established by the International Pragmatics Association, to honour "a colleague who has used pragmatic methods or insights in work with non-academic communities, including public or private organizations, to raise awareness of communicative patterns and/or combat charlatanism regarding such patterns, in ways that achieve greater social justice)." See https://pragmatics.international/page/2025SocImpAw for more information.
Diana holding the award (a small arty piece of engraved metal), with Prof Jef Verschueren, Secretary General of the International Pragmatics Association
Also, in December 2025, Dr Prashneel Goundar achieved the status of Fellow (FHEA) by Advance HE (UK) in recognition of attainment against the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting in higher education.
Cindy Schneider
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News from Charles Darwin University (CDU)
Conference Hosting
CDU Linguistics hosted the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Conference, 17-19 November, at the CDU Danala Campus. CDU welcomed more than 130 delegates from 23 countries to the event, which included special themed sessions, workshops, and panel discussions. This year’s conference theme, “Language and the Interface of Mono-/Multi-/Translingual Mindsets,” invited delegates to reflect on how considerations of language and working within a multilingual community are fundamental aspects of contemporary society. Read more about the event here.
ALAA Conference Organising Committee Chair Nicola Rolls welcomes delegates to the 2025 ALAA Conference (Image: https://alaa.net.au/)
ARC success
James Bednall was awarded an ARC DECRA Fellowship, DE260101529 Designing peacemaking programs with First Nations languages and communities (2026-2029, AUD$521,822.00), with additional contributions from CDU of a Rainmaker Co-Investment Grant (AUD$213,185.84) and 1 PhD domestic scholarship. The DECRA project will examine mediation, negotiation and peacemaking processes in First Nations communities, and the language practices that underpin them. Read more about the project here.
Recent promotions
James Bednall has been promoted to Level C Senior Lecturer.
Awni Etaywe has been promoted to Level C Senior Lecturer.
James Bednall
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News from Macquarie University
Student achievements
Congratulations to Sindy Gizeth Peña Roncancio (Macquarie Master of Conference Interpreting student), who was awarded second place in the prestigious CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d'Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes) Short Video Contest 2025. This year's theme showcased the irreplaceable role of human translators and interpreters in the era of artificial intelligence.
Congratulations to Derek Ma (Macquarie Master of Applied Linguistics and TESOL student) who was selected to represent Macquarie University at the Stephen FitzGerald Scholars Program in Canberra, organised by National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFACR) 澳中基金会 and the ANU Australian Studies Institute.
Congratulations to Faranak Jalali, Thi Minh Nguyet Dang, Phuong Thu Tran, Natalia Ovdina and Fenghua Xian (Macquarie Master of Applied Linguistics and TESOL students) who presented their work to English Australia's Assessment Special Interest Group, critically evaluating the validity of assessment tasks such as annotated bibliographies, academic presentations, and research essays in the age of Generative AI. This was part of the Assessment Placement Project coordinated by Dr Agi Bodis in APPL8240 (Language Testing and Evaluation), and the MQ Academy is interested in helping them to turn their findings into practical resources for the University.
Finally, each semester our TESOL students coordinate and lead online English conversation sessions in collaboration with Mahidol University in Bangkok. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to practise their teaching and leadership skills and build connections. For their outstanding performance, we congratulate this semester's coordinators, Kateryna Radmanovich and Phuong Thu Tran, who have been invited to take part in Mahidol University's two-week Sawasdee Thailand Program in June 2026 free of charge.
Warmest Congratulations to you all!
Macquarie University at ALS2025
At the Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (ALS2025), held at Griffith University, there was a strong representation of Macquarie’s Department of Linguistics, with a variety of presentations from all areas of linguistics. Some of us took the opportunity to pose for a photo.
From left to right: Mitchell Browne, Felicity Cox, Hanna Torsh, Elise Tobin, Conor Clements,, Joshua Penney, Mike Proctor and Joe Blythe
Besides the numerous presentations, Mitchell Brown (along with Mark Harvey Jane Simpson and Rob Mailhammer) contributed to the masterclass Complex predicates and complex verbal constructions. Also, at the conference Prof James Walker launched the recent monograph The making of multi-unit turns: a spring-loaded door, authored by Rod Gardner (UQ), Joe Blythe (MQ) Ilana Mushin (UQ), Lesley Stirling (UoM), Josua Dahmen (MQ), Caroline de Dear (MQ) and Francesco Possemato (RUG) while Mitchell Brown launched the Ngardi to English Dictionary by Tom Ennever, Marie Mudgedell, Tjama Napanangka, and Lee Cataldi.
Mitch Browne continues to serve the ALS as Deputy Chair of the Program Committee while Iain Giblin and Mike Proctor serve as Area Chairs (Morphology/Syntax and Phonetics/Phonology, respectively). Joe Blythe continues to serve in the ALS executive as Vice President (Conferences).
Grants
Members of the Department of Linguistics were recently awarded two ARC Discovery Projects.
- Scott Barnes; Joe Blythe; Shimako Iwasaki; Minna Laakso; Rein Ove Sikveland; Francesco Possemato; Mark Dingemanse: Deciphering the effects of self-repair on human language and communication. $495,302.
- Anina Rich; Alexandra Woolgar; Sriram Boothalingam: Attention under threat: Maintaining attention in a noisy, cluttered world. $768,109.
Recent promotions
In the recent round of promotions Dr Claire Layfield was promoted to Level B. Dr Agnes Bodis and Dr Kelly Miles were promoted to Level C. Congratulations Claire, Agnes and Kelly.
Joe Blythe, Peter Roger and Mike Proctor
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News from Griffith University
ALS2025 at Griffith’s Gold Coast campus (December 2-5) was a huge success! Big shout out to everyone who attended, to the excellent plenary speakers, workshop and theme session leaders, ALS Program Committee, local organising committee (captained by Gerry Docherty), and to Griffith’s splendid team of student volunteers. And thank you, Gold Coast weather!!
Honours thesis completions 2025
Isabella Schulz, Honours 1st Class, recipient of University Medal. Title: “Exploring the Translation of Finnish Folkloric Words in Juhani Karila’s ‘Fishing for the Little Pike’, A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach”. Supervisors: Dr Matthew Callaghan and Prof Cliff Goddard
Hoang Thao Nguyen Luong, Honours 1st Class, recipient of University Medal. Title: “What are the grammatical functions of the prefixes la-, le-, ki-, kili-, kile- in Bipi (Austronesian, PNG)”?. Supervisors: Prof Cliff Goddard and Dr Samantha Rarrick
Cliff Goddard
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News from Western Sydney University
HDR news
Sarah Al Zahrani (PhD, revisions accepted), Arabic and English in the Language Ecology of non-Arab Foreign Workers and Saudi Native Speakers in Saudi Arabia (Supervisors: Hannah Sarvasy, Rachel Hendery, Paola Escudero Neyra)
Jane Chanell (PhD, approved to graduate), A study of Lexical derivation in Mandarin Chinese (Supervisors: Rob Mailhammer, Stacey Hamilton)
Mahasta Zare (PhdD, approved to graduate), The Cross-Cultural Adaptation Experience of Persian Speakers in Australia,awaiting graduation (Supervisors: Mustapha Taibi, Rob Mailhammer)
Jenny Yu (PhD, graduated 2025), The role of prosody in syntactic disambiguation (Supervisors: Laurence Bruggeman, Rob Mailhammer)
Rob Mailhammer
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News from RMIT
As part of the 2025 Congress of CHASS (Council for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences), the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) held a one-day conference at The University of Melbourne on 24 November that brought together scholars of sociolinguistics, translation, language education, and pedagogy, as well as other related fields. RMIT was well represented.
Dr Erika González García (Translating & Interpreting) participated in a panel discussion on linguistic diversity in Australia, and Dr Jing Qi (Chinese program) was part of the panel on language acquisition.
L-R: Jing Qi, Guosheng Chen, Edoardo Brunetti, Christine Munn, Kerry Mullan, Erika González García, Hiroko Ohashi
Congratulations to our language students, Jackson Johnson and Joshua Lori, who have each received the prestigious Australian Asian Association Language Award in recognition of their outstanding achievements in Chinese and Japanese studies, respectively. Congratulations to their lecturers in both the Chinese and Japanese teams, Junling Yang from Chinese Studies and Hiroko Ohashi from Japanese Studies, whose guidance and support have been instrumental to their students’ success.
L-R: (second and third positions) Joshua Lori, Jackson Johnson
Exploring Language Education in an AI-Driven Future
On 17 November, the Language, Culture and International Education (LCIE) Research Group hosted “Language Education and Mediation in the Age of AI”, a vibrant hybrid panel bringing together six experts across Languages, Translation & Interpreting, Computing Technologies, and industry partner SoftBank Corp. The discussion offered sharp insights into how AI is reshaping language education and mediation, while highlighting RMIT’s strengths in interdisciplinary collaboration, industry engagement, and the LCIE team’s outstanding collective effort.
L-R: Maki Yoshida, Hiroko Ohashi, Guosheng Chen, Gillian Darcy, Ana María Ducasse, Maho Fukuno, Jinda Ni, Jing Qi, Chantal Crozet, Glenda Mejía, Julian Lee.
Kerry Mullan
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News from La Trobe University
Happy summer from La Trobe University!
Dr Hoa Do was awarded a PhD for her thesis "Language Use, Attitudes and Maintenance in the Vietnamese Community in Australia", supervised by James Walker.
Lauren Gawne has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Lauren Gawne
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University of Melbourne
(SOME) UNIMELB AWARDS
Nick Thieberger received a 2025 Mander Jones commendation from the Australian Society of Archivists for the article: Nick Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson , Amanda Harris , Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe , and Jane Simpson . 2024. “The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records”, Archives and Manuscripts 51(2) pp. 23-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.37683/asa.v51.10971
He was also awarded, on behalf of the PARADISEC team, the 2025 Open Scholarship Award (sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute) at the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) conference in Canberra on December 2nd.
(SOME) UNIMELB PROMOTIONS
· Brett Baker has been promoted to Professor Level E as of January 1 2026
· Giuseppe d’Orazzi has been promoted to Senior Lecturer Level C
· Beatrice Venturi and Yizhou Wang have been promoted to Lecturer Level B
(SOME) UNIBELB HONOURS AND GRAD DIP (ADV) THESIS SUBMISSIONS
- Adam Dempsey, 'Tense, mood and aspect marking in Ngunese.' Supervisor: Nicholas Thieberger
- Cristina De Simone, 'Existential and relational clauses in Australian languages: A typological perspective.' Supervisor: Sasha Wilmoth
- Daniel Weber, 'Embodied metaphor in Murrinhpatha.' Supervisor: Rachel Nordlinger
- Hamish Monckton, 'Positional and accentual effects on the production of the Marquesan glottal stop.' Supervisor: Janet Fletcher
- Huynh Nguyen (Emily) Le, 'Fun or Fatigue: Exploring Student Boredom in Technology-Enhanced Learning Activities in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Classrooms' Supervisors: Giuseppe D' Orazzi and Haeun Kim
- Jacob Newbegin, 'New approaches for computational language processing research in prefixing and polysynthetic languages.' Supervisors: Brett Baker and Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen
- Samuel Daniel (GDA), 'The discourse particles of colloquial Singapore English.' Supervisors: Maria Karidakis and and Giuseppe D'Orazzi
(SOME) UNIMELB MASTERS THESIS SUBMISSIONS
- Jason Chen-Chieh, Hung Communicating test information in the context of high-stakes English proficiency tests for university admission: Insights from test-takers and admissions staff. Supervised by: Ute Knoch, Sally O'Hagen
- Nisa Quilaman Reyta, Is there an ‘international school accent’?: An investigation into English language practices and accent influences among Macau international school students. Supervised by: Debbie Loakes
- Rae Yue, Call me by my name: Identity, agency, and English naming practices among Chinese students in Australia. Supervised by: Beatrice Venturi, Riccardo Amorati
- Royyan Dharma, Managing disalignment in Indonesian and English: An investigation into L1 transfer in L2 interactional competence. Supervised by: Carsten Roever
- Shuhan Chen, The acquisition of atomic mass nouns in L2 English: Comparing deductive and inductive grammar learning. Supervised by: Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Yizhou Wang
- Yue Su, Investigating GenAI-assisted peer dynamic assessment of ESL learners’ IELTS writing and Perezhivanie. Supervised by: Lu Yu, Carrie Peng, Helen Fraser
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News from the Australian National University (ANU)
Congratulations to Anna Wierzbicka, who has been honoured by ScholarGPS as a 2025 Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime in the field of Social Sciences, in recognition of her exceptional productivity, noteworthy impact and quality of scholar work in the top 0.05% of scholars in the field worldwide.
Congratulations to the following Honours, Masters’ and PhD students who have completed their theses recently:
Honours
- Alexandra Pitt: “A quantitative investigation of demonstrative and topic marker form variation in Matukar Panau” (Supervisor Danielle Barth)
- Isabelle Arnaud: “A comparative study of the prepositional gerund in the history of French, Spanish and Italian” (Supervisor: Manuel Delicado Cantero)
- Jessica Cupit: “Culture in Australian mental health podcasts: a semantically-enhanced discourse study” (Supervisor: Zhengdao Ye)
- Teddy Shillam: “To bung on an Aussie sort of thing: Local Attachment and Regionality in Australian English spoken in Grafton” (Supervisor: Catherine Travis)
Masters
- Josie Grundy: “Exploring place-based variation in Australian English: Realisations of word-medial intervocalic /t/” (Supervisor: Catherine Travis, Ksenia Gnevsheva)
- Laura Regan: “Organisation of the Simple Verb in Coastal and Inland NSW Aboriginal Languages” (Supervisors: Denise Angelo & Carmel O’Shannessy)
- Siti Ntou: ‘Exploring motion event typology in Bahasa Indonesia through human and machine translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (Supervisor: Zhengdao Ye)
- Yidan Zhang: “‘Your father, a natural beauty’: How humour in social media critiques gender inequality embedded in Mandarin conversations. Supervisor: Carmel O’Shannessy
PhDs
- Charbel El-Khaissi: “A Corpus Linguistic Study in Syriac Definiteness and Change in the Noun Phrase”. Supervised by Manuel Delicado Cantero (CoP), Cynthia Allen, Joshua Brown and Na'ama Pat-El.
- Emma Rao: “The Semantics of Landscape Terms in Chinese: An NSM Approached”. Supervised by Zhengdao Ye (CoP), Helen Bromhead and Danielle Barthe.
- Ruri Ueda: Interactive Effects of Perception and Production Training on L2 Phonetic Acquisition. Supervised by Solène Inceoglu
Continuing Gamilaraay Course
The ANU course, Continuing Gamilaraay (ANU), was held on Gamilaraay Country for the first time in November 2025. The intensive 3-week course was taught in-person and online by Michael Higgins in Gunnedah and Quirindi, at the offices of the Winanga-Li Child and Family Centre. Students had previously completed an introductory course.
Anna’s book launch
Anna Wierzbicka’s new book The Nicene Creed in Minimal English: Why Christianity Needs Universal Human Concepts was published by Palgrave MacMillan to coincide with the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea, 325 AD. It was launched at ANU on 7 November by Dr Mark Durie (Melbourne School of Theology), with further endorsements by Prof Cliff Goddard (Griffith U), A/Prof Deborah Hill (U Canberra) and Fr Paul Nulley (St. Christopher’s Cathedral). The launch was organized by Dr Zhengdao Ye, with support from Dr Wendi Xue and Ms Liuhuan Qin.
The Nicene Creed is a defining statement of Christian belief. Its 12 articles are a highly compressed distillation of early Christian thinking and key concepts. Anna’s book seeks to “unpack” these core tenets by means of “Basic Human”, the shared conceptual language of all people (as she argues), expressed here through “Minimal English”.
Wayan Arka and Zhengdao Ye
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Jawun Research Institute (Central Queensland University)
Staff news
Prof Alexandra Aikhenvald was reappointed as Oxford English Dictionary (OED) consultant (South American Indian languages) for another five years. She was appointed to the board of the NGO ‘Village Rights International’ (VRI), headed by Benjamin Goodman and John Lechner, a non-profit organization that supports legal education, advocacy, and language rights for rural indigenous communities in Panama and Brazilian Amazonia. She has been appointed member of the European Research Council Panel SH4 ‘The human mind and its complexity’ for 2025-2026. Her public lecture at the Faculty of the Humanitiers at the Universidade de Macao (15 October 2025) was featured in https://worldofculturetimes.com/article/874231025-um-macao-humanities-forum-discusses-how-language-reflects-the-world
The Tariana school Enu Irine Idakine (Children of Blood of Thunder) in Iauaretê (Amazonas, Brazil) with Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald as the consultant in linguistics has received a boost in funding and support, thanks to John Lechner, a language activist (due to visit the location in January). A selection of teaching materials for the Tariana language is available at https://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/research/ensino-tariana
Mr Wenqi Li, a PhD scholar, Shenzhen University (Shenzhen, Guangdong, PRC) has been appointed as a a Visiting Research Student to undertake research activities in the Jawun Research Institute from 30/01/2026 to 29/01/2027, under the supervision of Professors Alexandra Aikhenvald and R M W Dixon, to work on his PhD ‘Relative clauses in Yunnan minority languages’
Associate Professor Michael Walsh (U Sydney) has been reappointed as Adjunct Professor at Jawun Research Institute (Guwal Language, Culture, and Wellbeing research cluster).
The following publications were launched at a special event on 3 November 2025, by Professor Yvonne Cadet-James, the Director of the Jawun Research Centre, and Professor Adrian Miller, Vice-President (Indigenous) of CQU, at the Jawun Research Institute (10-11 am).
The anatomy of avoidance: A Full Study of Jainguy, the Dyirbal ‘Mother-in-Law Language’, Berlin: DeGruyter/Brill; 2025, by R. M. W. Dixon
A Guide to Gender and Classifiers, Oxford University Press, 2025, by Alexandra Y. Aikenvald
Language in Strange and Familiar Places: Linguistic Research in Uncharted Territories, Berlin: DeGruyter/Brill; 2025,
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenval, Anne Storch and Viveka Velupillai
The event featured participation of members of Jirrbal Nation, Professor Adrian Miller (co-convenor of the Research Cluster) and Stanley Lenoy.
Professor Adrian Miller, DVC Indigenous engagement (CQU), a proud member of the Jirrbal nation, speaking at the book launch.
Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald
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AIATSIS Centre for Australian Languages (ACAL)
The AIATSIS Centre for Australian Languages (ACAL) has enjoyed an immensely successful year. Highlights include:
- Successful delivery of the fifth Paper & Talk, which included 14 participants from 5 language groups: Adnyamathanha, Bundjalung, Muruwari, Taungurung, and Ngarigo / Ngarigu. Participants described the workshop as a “wonderful experience”. That they “learnt so much about their language” and that “delving into the past helped bring light and added richness to our language and culture”. We look forward to delivering Paper & Talk again in 2026.
Figure 1: Participants, Living Languages and ACAL Staff on the last day of the 2025 Paper & Talk, October 2025.
A merry Christmas and a happy new year from everyone in ACAL!
Alexandra Marley
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About ALS
The Australian Linguistic Society is the national organization for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. Further information about the Society is available by clicking here.
The ALS Newsletter is issued three times per year, in March, July and October. Information for the Newsletter should be sent to the Editor, Zhengdao Ye by the end of the first week of March, July or October. There is a list of people who are automatically advised that it is time to contribute material; if you wish to be added to that list, send Zhengdao an email (zhengdao.ye@anu.edu.au).
Membership of ALS includes free subscription to the Australian Journal of Linguistics, which publishes four issues per year. Members are entitled to present papers at the annual conference. ALS membership is handled through the ALS website https://als.asn.au/Membership/JoinMember.
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