ALS 2010 Annual Conference Programme - Australian Linguistic ...

Wednesday 7 July
9:00 (39A-201) Semantics. Chair: Karen Sullivan
9:00 Hannah Li (University of Auckland) On aspect in Modern Mandarin Chinese
– A corpus-based study from a discourse perspective
9:30 Keith Allan (Monash University) The semantics of the perfect progressive in
English
10:00 Celeste Rodríguez Louro (University of Melbourne) & Ilpo Kempas (Seinäjoki
University of Applied Sciences, Finland) Perfect usage and change in two varieties
of Argentinian Spanish
10:30 Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Sarah D’Hertefelt & An Van linden (University of
Leuven) Atypical deontic and evaluative meanings in Dutch complement insubordination
9:00 (39A-208) Language Revitalisation. Chair: Sarah Cutfield
9:00 Jean Harkins (University of Newcastle) & Amanda Lissarrague (Many Rivers
Aboriginal Language Centre) Grammar meets ethics: difficult choices in endangered
language renewal
9:30 Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (The University of Queensland) & Michael Walsh (The
University of Sydney) ‘Give Me Authenticity or Give Me Death!’???: Challenging
the Imprisoning Purism Prism and Endorsing Hybridity and Multiple Causation in
Aboriginal Language Reclamation
10:00 Samantha Disbray (Northern Territory Department of Education and Training,
University of Melbourne) Long Term Storage and Access Project: Indigenous
Languages and Cultures in Education Collections
10:30 Tony Jefferies The newly-discovered fieldnotes of Caroline Tennant-Kelly:
their value for Australian Linguistics
9:00 (39A-209) Coverbs and Australian Languages. Chair: Harold
Koch
9:00 Patrick McConvell (Australian National University) & Claire Bowern (Yale University)
Separability of coverbs as a factor in levels of lexical borrowing: a Kimberley
comparison
9:30 Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland) The development of asymmetrical
serial verb constructions in Gurindji Kriol
10:00 Dorothea Hoffmann (University of Manchester) Where to, from and through?
On the distribution of Path in Motion Descriptions in Jaminjung and Kriol
10:30 Ilana Mushin (University of Queensland) A closer look at Garrwa verbs
11:30 (Building 23) Plenary 1: Michael Walsh (Joint with ALAA)
(University of Sydney)
Future directions for Australian Indigenous languages: local and
global perspectives