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Navigating language maintenance challenges with health professionals: Reflections from Spanish speaking families in Australia Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Suzanne Grasso
Parents often worry children will lose their heritage language when their spoken language develops and they transition to majority language environments. With a growing population of Spanish speake...
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The Eastman transcripts: A case study calling Australian linguists to action against legal misconceptions about language in forensic evidence Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Helen Fraser
This paper presents a new case study examining the use of police transcripts to assist the court in understanding poor-quality forensic audio admitted as evidence in criminal trials. The 1995 trial...
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COVID-19 and vaccine health promotion resources in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Maria Karidakis, Giuseppe D’Orazzi, John Hajek
Risk communication during a public health crisis necessitates the provision of accessible, timely and accurate health information to the public. The aim of this research project was to explore the ...
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COVID-19 discourse in linguistic landscape: Linguistic and semiotic analysis of directive signs Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Saya Ike, Yaeko Hori
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the way people communicate and convey information, particularly in public spaces. This paper investigates the use of language and signs in COVID-19-...
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Apologizing in Kodhi Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Charbel El-Khaissi
This preliminary study investigates apology strategies in Kodhi, an Austronesian language spoken in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia. To understand how Kodhi speakers formulate conceptions of apology, seve...
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Conceptualization of “happy-like” feelings in Japanese and its relevance to a semantic typology of emotion concepts Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Hiromichi Sakaba
Emotions play a crucial role in human lives, often influencing behaviour. Among others, the feeling expressed by the word happy in English has received particular attention. If, on the one hand, th...
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A typological study on the syntactic variations of counterfactual clauses Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Qian Yong, Haoran Ma
This paper differs from previous studies that focused on counterfactual markings by establishing a typological classification of counterfactuals (CFs) based on syntactic variations. By taking this ...
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A quantitative study of the polysemy of Mandarin Chinese perception verb kàn ‘look/see’ Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Shuqiong Wu, Yue Ou
This study presents a quantitative study of the polysemy of the Chinese perception verb kàn ‘look/see’ by using a corpus-based behavioural profile approach. The analysis yields the following findin...
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Towards an interactional grammar of interjections: Expressing compassion in four Australian languages Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Ilana Mushin, Joe Blythe, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner, Francesco Possemato, Lesley Stirling
Words classified as ‘interjections’ tend to be treated in descriptive grammars as outside of morphosyntax, too contextually bound to warrant a systematic description of their syntagmatic relations....
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Uncovering ergative use in Murrinhpatha: Evidence from experimental data Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Rachel Nordlinger, Evan Kidd
ABSTRACT Murrinhpatha, a non-Pama-Nyungan language from the Daly region of the Northern Territory of Australia, has an extant ergative case marker that has been reported to be very rare in use. In this paper we report on the use of ergative marking in an experimental study of sentence production. Forty-six adult L1 speakers of Murrinhpatha were asked to describe a series of unrelated bivalent scenes
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Conceptualizations of gratitude: A comparative analysis of English and Persian dissertation acknowledgements written by Persian authors Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Ali Dabbagh, Mohammad R. Hashemi
The present study applies a cultural conceptualizations framework within the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Linguistics to the analysis of gratitude in dissertation acknowledgements (DAs), as ...
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Australian English speakers’ attitudes to fricated coda /t/ Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Timothy Shea, Andy Gibson, Anita Szakay, Felicity Cox
ABSTRACT The fricated allophone of coda /t/ is a variant in which full occlusion of the alveolar stop is not achieved, resulting in the consonant instead being produced via frication. Fricated /t/ is attested in several varieties of English from the British Isles and Southern Hemisphere. While awareness of the variant can be found in Australian popular culture, it has been the focus of few sociophonetic
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Cross-referencing of non-subject arguments in Pama-Nyungan languages Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Thomas Ennever, Mitchell Browne
ABSTRACT About one third of the Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia employ pronominal cross-referencing, yet systematic typological patterns of non-subject argument registration remain unexamined. We analyze this variation from two perspectives by surveying 22 Pama-Nyungan languages. Firstly, we survey which kinds of case-marked arguments can be cross-referenced by these pronominal systems. From this
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The Kaytetye segmental inventory Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Mark Harvey, Nay San, Michael Proctor, Forrest Panther, Myfany Turpin
ABSTRACT There are three phonological hypotheses on the Kaytetye segmental inventory. Hypothesis 1 proposes 30 segments: four monophthongs, one diphthong and 25 consonants. Hypothesis 2 proposes 54 segments: two monophthongs and 52 consonants. Hypothesis 3 proposes 55 segments: three monophthongs and 52 consonants. The choice between these three hypotheses has significant implications for models of
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“These findings are very astonishing”: Hyping of disciplinary research in 3MT presentations and thesis abstracts Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Feng (Kevin) Jiang, Xuyan Qiu
ABSTRACT The changing landscape of scientific communication raises new academic contexts in which research postgraduate students are exposed to diversified forms of interaction and a less predictable audience. Against this backdrop Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations have emerged, although we have not yet developed sufficient knowledge about how students present their research work to diverse audiences
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Toward a typology of tonogenesis: Revising the model Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Gwendolyn Hyslop
ABSTRACT The birth of tone, or tonogenesis, has been an area of research for over a century, yet we are still unable to predict how and when a language will acquire tone. This article compiles a typology by researching tonogenesis from 40 different languages across a range of families. Each tonogenetic event within these languages is coded for syntagmatic position, manner and laryngeal setting of the
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Tensions in talking about disasters: Habitual versus climate-informed – The case of bushfire vocabulary in Australia Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Helen Bromhead
ABSTRACT Disasters occasion ways of speaking and writing in the societies in which they take place. Now, due to climate change, events such as wildfires, floods and heatwaves are becoming more severe and more frequent. Therefore, the climate crisis poses a challenge, not only materially, but discursively. Habitual vocabulary may no longer be appropriate, and there is a pull between these turns of phrase
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‘A very pleasant, safe, and effectual medicine’: The serial comma in the history of English Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Javier Calle-Martín, Miriam Criado-Peña
ABSTRACT The present paper traces the historical development of the serial comma in the history of English until its eventual decline over the course of the twentieth century. The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) refers to the existence of a pause immediately before the conjunctions and/or (and sometimes nor) in a series of three or more elements in a clause. Although
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It’s been a while since I’ve been to church: The use of the Present Perfect after the conjunction since Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Patrick Duffley, Gabrielle Morin
ABSTRACT Previous research on the Present Perfect suggests that the latter is acceptable in since-clauses only if the situation expressed by the subordinate clause extends in time up until the present, as in Tony has been happy since he has been taking Prozac, i.e. if the Present Perfect in the since-clause is a Universal Perfect whose predication is true at all subintervals in the time-interval delimited
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Tradition and innovation: Using sign language in a Gurindji community in Northern Australia Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Jennifer Green, Felicity Meakins, Cassandra Algy
ABSTRACT In the Gurindji community of Kalkaringi in Northern Australia the shared practices of everyday communication employed by both hearing and deaf members of the community include conventionalized manual actions from the lexicon of Indigenous sign as well as some recent visual practices derived from contact with both written English and with Auslan. We consider some dimensions of these multimodal
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When past meets future in Persian: A construction grammar approach to futurity Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 S. Hamzeh Mousavi
ABSTRACT In Persian, two of the verbal constructions used for expressing futurity – the Past Simple and the Future Simple – are built around the past form of the main verb. This paper seeks to demystify this connection between the past and the future by investigating how these past forms contribute to the expression of futurity and setting this within an overall analysis of the future constructions
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Argumentality and the distribution of nominalizers in Lhasa Tibetan Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jie Cheng, Lingling Chen
ABSTRACT The relationship between the distribution of nominalizers in Lhasa Tibetan and the argument/adjunct property of relevant syntactic elements is approached from a generative perspective. The distribution of nominalizers in Lhasa Tibetan demonstrates a regular pattern. Some nominalizers are bi-functional in that they can mark both participant and event nominalizations while others are uni-functional
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Iconic bias in Italian spatial demonstratives Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Ian Joo, Yu-Yin Hsu, Emmanuele Chersoni
ABSTRACT An iconic pattern across spoken languages is that words for ‘this’ and ‘here’ tend to have high front vowels, whereas words for ‘that’ and ‘there’ tend to have low and/or back vowels. In Italian, there are two synonymous Italian words for ‘here’, namely qui and qua, and two synonymous words for ‘there’, lì and là. Qui ‘here’ and là ‘there’ are iconic because qui has the high front vowel /i/
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The ethnopragmatics of English stage-of-life words as forms of address Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Gian Marco Farese
ABSTRACT This paper examines the nominal category of stage-of-life words used in English address practices and presents an analysis of their interactional uses and meanings made adopting the principles and methods of ethnopragmatics. The paper has a twofold aim: (i) to highlight the polysemous nature of English stage-of-life words and make a clear distinction between their reference and address meanings;
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Barngarla place names and regions in South Australia Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Petter A. Næssan, Ghil’ad Zuckermann
ABSTRACT Barngarla is a Thura-Yura Pama-Nyungan language originally spoken on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia and adjacent northern hinterlands. This paper proposes various etymologies and supports the Barngarla language reclamation. Reflecting Barngarla epistemology and traditional ecological knowledge, toponyms are intimately connected to place name reclamation and language reclamation. Delineating
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What women want: Teaching and learning pronouns in Ngarrindjeri Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Mary-Anne Gale, Angela Giles, Jane Simpson, Rob Amery, David Wilkins
ABSTRACT Ngarrindjeri is one of many Aboriginal languages being actively revived in southern Australia. Women in the Ngarrindjeri community have expressed a desire to speak, read and write their language with the same richness as when it was spoken fluently over 70 years ago. Like many Aboriginal languages, Ngarrindjeri has a rich selection of free and bound pronouns, which express person, number and
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Beyond ‘Macassans’: Speculations on layers of Austronesian contact in northern Australia Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Antoinette Schapper
ABSTRACT This article seeks to identify traces of language contact between speakers of Australian languages and speakers of Austronesian languages other than Macassans. I put forward evidence for lexical borrowing into northern Australian languages from Austronesian languages in South and East Sulawesi, Maluku and Timor-Rote, as well as from Austronesian languages of the Sama-Bajau and Oceanic subgroups
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Indigenizing say in Australian Aboriginal English Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Madeleine Clews, Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard
ABSTRACT The quotative system – lexical and morphosyntactic strategies for the direct reporting of speech and thought – has undergone a major transformation in mainstream World Englishes. Diachronic studies of quotation in Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand English have all documented the same trends: a relatively stable system, using a small number of quotative variants, becomes more varied
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On the syntax of wan ‘finish/complete’ in Mandarin Chinese Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 I-hao Woo
ABSTRACT In this study, I revisit the linguistic properties of wan ‘finish/complete’ in Chinese and provide a syntactic account. I demonstrate that wan is undergoing a process of grammaticalization from being a lexical item to a functional one. I also argue that because of this process, wan is found in different places in syntax. As a main predicate, it is projected in the head of the VP; in contrast
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Bound, free and in between: A review of pronouns in Ngarrindjeri in the world as it was Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Mary-Anne Gale, Rob Amery, Jane Simpson, David Wilkins
ABSTRACT Ngarrindjeri, a language from southern South Australia, is being revived on the basis of material recorded from 1840 until the 1960s. This material shows a heavy use of three types of pronouns, suggesting a language that is ‘pronoun happy’. When reviving a language, it is essential to know how pronouns work, but the earliest source does not include the kinds of texts that allow analysis of
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Ten years of Linguistics in the Pub Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Lauren Gawne, Ruth Singer
ABSTRACT In December 2009 the first ‘Linguistics in the Pub’ event was held in Melbourne. For over a decade Linguistics in the Pub (LIP) has been a space for linguists, language workers and language activists to discuss a wide range of topics, covering practical, theoretical and ethical elements of language work. In this paper we provide an overview of the themes that have emerged from these discussions
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Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification in an Iranian modal verb: A paradox resolved by Dutch Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Sepideh Koohkan, Jan Nuyts
ABSTRACT This paper deals with the grammatical and semantic development of a modal verb in four West Iranian languages: gu/ga in Kahangi, gijabon in Semnani, boGostæn/bogostæn in the Takestan dialect of Tati and goan in Vafsi. Field work data demonstrate that, from the perspective of the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification literature, this verb in these languages poses a challenge. It occurs
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A tale of two genres: Engaging audiences in academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis presentations Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Hang (Joanna) Zou, Ken Hyland
ABSTRACT This paper reports a cross-genre study of how academics engage their audiences in two popular but underexplored academic genres: academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations. Based on a corpus of 65 academic blog posts and 65 3MT presentations from social sciences, we examine how academics establish interpersonal rapport with non-specialist audiences with the aid of engagement
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Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Martin Schweinberger
ABSTRACT This study takes a corpus-based approach to investigating ongoing change in the Australian English adjective amplifier system based on the Australian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The paper analyzes changes in amplifiers across apparent time, with special attention being placed on amplifier–adjective–bigram frequencies, to provide insights into cognitive mechanisms
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Entity- vs. event-existentials: A new typology Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Yong Wang
ABSTRACT Different classifications of existential clauses (ECs) have been proposed in the literature, including structural classifications, classifications according to the source construction and classifications according to the functions performed by ECs. However, no serious attempt has been made to typologize ECs according to the semantic nature of the most essential element of the construction
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Fricative contrasts and neutralization in Marri Tjevin Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 John Mansfield, Ian Green
ABSTRACT Marri Tjevin is the language of the Rak Thangkurral and Rak Nadirri people of the Daly River region in northern Australia. Unusually for an Australian language, Marri Tjevin has fricatives at all points of articulation /β, ð, ʐ, ʒ, ɣ/, contrasting with phonetically long, voiceless stops /p, t̪, t, ȶ, k/. These series are only contrastive word-medially, while most word-initial obstruents vary
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Constraints on subject elision in northern Australian Kriol: Between discourse and syntax Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Connor Brown, Maïa Ponsonnet
ABSTRACT Kriol is an English-lexified creole spoken throughout the northern regions of Australia since the beginning of the twentieth century. With documentation and description of the language commencing only in the later decades of the twentieth century, many aspects of Kriol grammar remain under-described, especially within the domains of syntax and pragmatics. This study documents and describes
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Elastic language in academic emails: Communication between a PhD applicant and potential supervisors Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Peyman G. P. Sabet, Samran Daneshfar, Grace Zhang
ABSTRACT This paper examines how and why elastic language (EL) is used in email communication between a PhD applicant and potential supervisors. It addresses the factors that are involved in EL use when the genre is the same but speech acts differ, which fills a gap in existing research. Based on a corpus of student–supervisor email correspondence, the forms (elastic quantifiers, intensifiers, possibility
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The cognition of caused-motion events in Spanish and German: An Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar analysis Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Sergio Torres-Martínez
ABSTRACT In this paper, I present a comparative analysis of caused-motion events (involving placement, removal, causation and transfer) in Spanish and German within an emerging Cognitive Construction Grammar theory of mind and language. The aim of this article is to offer a syntactic account by which argument structure information is required to understand the encoding of transferred object/target
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Complex predication and adverbial modification in Wagiman Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Daniel Krauße, Mark Harvey
ABSTRACT In many languages of northern Australia with coverb constructions, it is difficult to draw a distinction between predication and adverbial modification because coverbs appear to be both predicates and modifiers. We present evidence from Wagiman that a distinction between predication and modification can be drawn syntactically. We argue that Wagiman has two necessarily predicational positions
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New insights into /el/-/æl/ merging in Australian English Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Penelope Schmidt, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes
ABSTRACT A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There have also been some observations of /æl/ raising to [el], termed “transposition”. Although thought to be characteristic of older speakers, empirical evidence for transposition is scant. Here we report the discovery of substantive degrees of merging in thirteen older
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Rations: Flour, sugar, tea and tobacco in Australian languages Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Vicky Hoogmartens, Jean-Christophe Verstraete
ABSTRACT This paper is a lexical study of rations – flour, sugar, tea and tobacco – in Australian languages. The distribution of food played an important role in relations between Aboriginal people and colonizers: this study complements existing historical and ethnographic work on the topic by investigating the lexicon of rations in a set of 197 languages across Australia. We discern a number of patterns
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Revisiting the syntactic derivation of English split questions Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Chengdong Wang, Jinquan Han
ABSTRACT This article argues that an English split question consists of two parts, a wh-question and an it-cleft. The former serves as a topic and is located in [Spec, TopP] and the latter as a comment and is in the complement position of Top. In the first part, the wh-phrase moves from its base position within TP to [Spec, CP] for the purpose of typing the clause as WH-interrogative. The second part
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The genetic position of Anindilyakwa Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Marie-Elaine van Egmond, Brett Baker
ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate that Anindilyakwa, spoken on Groote Eylandt, East Arnhem Land, is genetically closely related to Wubuy (Gunwinyguan). Anindilyakwa has long been believed to be a family-level isolate, but by a rigorous application of the Comparative Method we uncover regular sound correspondences from lexical correspondence sets, reconstruct the sound system of the proto-language
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Korean internally-headed relative clauses: Encoding strategy and semantic relevance Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Jieun Lee
ABSTRACT This study explores semantic relevance between internally-headed relative clauses (RCs) and main clauses in Korean, and argues that semantic relevance is caused by the encoding strategy of an internally-headed RC, which is shared by perception-verb complements. An internally-headed RC is distinguished from a gap RC in that the head noun appears in the RC as a full noun. Previous studies have
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Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Pablo M. Tagarro, Nerea Suárez-González
(2020). Subordination in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 391-396.
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Encyclopaedia of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics / Yuyanxue Yu Yingyong Yuyanxue Baike Quanshu Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Zheng Wang
(2020). Encyclopaedia of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics / Yuyanxue Yu Yingyong Yuyanxue Baike Quanshu. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 402-403.
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Miegunyah: From bark huts to grand houses and a Fiji cane farm Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Jan Tent, Paul Geraghty
ABSTRACT Indigenous loanwords comprise an important component of the lexicons of the Englishes of former British colonies. Often these words are used as placenames, which are in turn transported across the country with little knowledge of their origin or meaning. In this article we trace the adoption of gunyah into Australian English, and its use in the house name and toponym Miegunyah/Meigunyah/Mygunyah
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Words That Go Ping: The Ridiculously Wonderful World of Onomatopoeia Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Alan Reed Libert
(2020). Words That Go Ping: The Ridiculously Wonderful World of Onomatopoeia. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 400-401.
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Borrowing: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Catherine E. Travis
(2020). Borrowing: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 396-400.
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Epenthetic prefixation in Alawa and Marra Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Mark Harvey, Brett Baker
ABSTRACT Languages adopt a number of strategies to avoid dispreferred phonotactic structures. The general pattern is that such strategies involve minimum departure from the input form. One of these strategies is epenthesis. With epenthesis, the minimum departure from the input form is usually the addition of a singleton consonant or a singleton vowel. We show that Alawa and Marra have epenthetic CV
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Lend me your verbs: Verb borrowing between Jingulu and Mudburra Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Felicity Meakins, Rob Pensalfini, Caitlin Zipf, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway
ABSTRACT We discuss two unrelated languages, Jingulu (Mirndi, non-Pama-Nyungan) and Mudburra (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan), which have been in contact for 200–500 years. The language contact situation is unusual cross-linguistically due to the high number of shared nouns, tending to an almost shared noun lexicon. Even more unusually, this lexicon was formed by borrowing in both directions at a relatively
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The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Andreea S. Calude
(2020). The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 388-391.
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Contrast and retroactive implicatures: An analysis of =lku ‘now, then’ in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Mitchell Browne
ABSTRACT The clitic =lku in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan, Australia) has been previously analyzed as a ‘change of state’ marker indicating some proposition is false at an earlier time, and true at a later time. In this paper, I examine a number of uses of =lku, which require expanding and refining the ‘change of state’ analysis, in order to argue for a new analysis of =lku as
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Do English noun phrases tend to minimize dependency distance? Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Junyan Lu, Haitao Liu
ABSTRACT Many studies have shown that, owing to the constraint of working memory capacity, language users prefer shorter dependency distances. However, these studies, which are all based on dependency distances in sentences or texts, leave the question unanswered: does noun phrase structure also demonstrate the tendency of dependency distance minimization? To answer this question, the article, based
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How do we make ourselves heard in the writing of a research article? A study of authorial references in four disciplines Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Mohsen Khedri, Konstantinos Kritsis
ABSTRACT This study examined the use of personal (exclusive first-person plural pronouns) and impersonal (abstract rhetors, periphrastic passives and it-clauses) authorial references in a corpus of 160 research articles in applied linguistics, psychology, environmental engineering and chemistry. The aim was to see if personal and impersonal authorial references, as realized by the rhetorical options
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Australian English Bilingual Corpus: Automatic forced-alignment accuracy in Russian and English Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Ksenia Gnevsheva, Simon Gonzalez, Robert Fromont
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Australian English Bilingual Corpus, a Russian–English spoken corpus, and uses it for a comparison of automatic time alignment between two different languages. Automatic forced alignment is gaining popularity in corpus research as it allows for time-efficient processing of phonetic information. The Language, Brain and Behaviour: Corpus Analysis Tool is one aligner
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Writing persuasive texts: Using grammatical metaphors for rhetorical purposes in an educational context Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Vinh To, Damon Thomas, Angela Thomas
ABSTRACT Persuasive language has been described as the language of power. When a person can use persuasive language effectively in speech and writing, it increases their ability to participate and access power in democratic societies. Persuasive writing is one of three key text types in the Australian Curriculum: English, and language features of persuasive text types are taught across the curriculum
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Three Generations, Two Countries of Origin, One Speech Community: Australian-Macedonians and their Language(s) Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Arwa AL Thobaiti
(2020). Three Generations, Two Countries of Origin, One Speech Community: Australian-Macedonians and their Language(s) Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 387-388.
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Bilingualism in the Community: Code-switching and Grammars in Contact Australian Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.576) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Sally Dixon
(2020). Bilingualism in the Community: Code-switching and Grammars in Contact. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 263-265.