Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

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.

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

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: