Selected Papers from the 1998 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

The ALS1998 Conference took place 3-5 July, 1998, and was hosted by the University of Queensland.

Excluding the plenary, the papers published herewith were all peer reviewed as full papers and meet DEST specifications.

Papers from these proceedings should be referenced as:

Author(s)-of-paper. 1998. Title-of-paper. In John Ingram (ed.), Selected papers from the 1998 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Note that the papers are provided as HTML documents. Therefore no page numbering system is provided. Copyright resides with the author(s) of the paper.

Plenary

• Nonmonotonicity in Linguistics: Optimality and transformations (summary only)
  K. P. Mohanan
   
• Categorizing Morphemes: Content Morphemes and Two Types of Functional Elements (summary only)
  Carol Myers-Scotton
   
• Linguistics for Everyone
  Wayne O'Neil
   

Peer-reviewed papers

• Loss of the postnominal genitive in English
  Cynthia Allen
   
• Towards a typology of irrealis marking in modality
  Clare Bowern
   
• The dative split in Martuthunira
  Alan Dench
   
• Overlapping in Australian and Chinese conversations
  Xudong Deng
   
• Valence, voice and argument structure in Austronesian
  Mike Dukes
   
• Towards a comparative analysis of Mandarin de constructions
  Michelle Fu
   
• No joking matter! The functions of humour in the workplace
  Janet Holmes
   
• A survey of nominative case assignment by adpositions
  Alan Libert
   
• Japanese indefinite nouns and gradation of non-specificity
  Harumi Moore
   
• A focus construction in Sasak
  Simon Musgrave
   
• English in South Korea revisited
  Jae Jung Song
   
• Researching language in the workplace: a participatory model
  Maria Stubbe
   

Referees

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

Cynthia Allen (A.N.U.)
Keith Allen (Monash Uni.)
Peter Austin (Uni. Melbourne)
Isabella Barbier (Uni. Queensland)
Barry Blake (Latrobe Uni.)
David Bradley (Latrobe Uni.)
Ray Cattell (Uni. Newcastle)
Michael Clyne (Monash Uni.)
Terry Crowley (Uni. Waikato)
Alan Dench (Uni. Western Aust.)
Susane Döpke (Monash Uni.)
Dominique Estival (Uni. Melbourne)
Paul Foulkes (Uni. Leeds)
Helen Fraser (Uni. New England)
Cliff Goddard (Uni. New England)
John Hajek (Uni. Melbourne)
Jonathan Harrington (Macquarie Uni.)
Michael Harrington (Uni. Queensland)
Rodney Huddleston (Uni. Queensland)
John Ingram (Uni. Queensland)
Anthony Liddicoat (A.N.U.)
Mary Laughren (Uni. Queensland)
David Lee (Uni. Queensland)
June Luchjenbroers (Uni. Queensland)
Chris Manning (Uni Sydney)
Patrick McConvell (Uni. Northern Territory)
David Nash (A.N.U.)
Yasuko Obana (Uni. Queensland)
Phil Rose (A.N.U.)
Jane Simpson (Uni. Sydney)
Lesley Stirling (Uni. Melbourne)
Jeff Siegel (Uni. New England)
Laura Tollfree (Monash Uni.)
Lynn Wales (Uni. Queensland)
David Wilkins (Max Planck Inst.)