Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

The 2001 Australian Linguistic Society Conference was held at the Australian National University in Canberra, from Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 September 2001. The Conference was co-hosted by the Linguistics Department in the Faculty of Arts and the Linguistics Department in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National University.

Papers from these proceedings should be referenced as:

Author(s)-of-paper. 2002. Title-of-paper. In Cynthia Allen (ed.), Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Not all papers presented at the conference were accepted for publication. These papers were anonymously peer-reviewed to DETYA standards by ALS members from around Australia (see below). Papers were required to meet the standard for publication in academic journals such as the Australian Journal of Linguistics, subject to a word limit commensurate with the length of conference presentations. The review process for the proceedings was separate from the review process for acceptance of abstracts for the actual conference presentations.

The official date of publication of these proceedings is 30 January 2002.

Contents

• Orientations to Greek in an Australian Greek school
  Julie Bradshaw & Andrea Truckenbrodt (University of Melbourne)
   
• Some discourse functions of existentials in English
  Peter Collins (University of New South Wales)
   
• Evidentiality and me: The interaction of evidentials and first person
  Timothy Jowan Curnow (La Trobe University)
   
• The semantics of the progressive
  Stefan Engelberg (University of Wuppertal)
   
• Wanyi reflexive-reciprocal constructions
  Mary Laughren (University of Queensland)
   
• The critical period hypothesis revisited
  Christo Moskovsky (University of Newcastle)
   
• How the French get engaged: An analysis of French interactional style
  Kerry Mullan (La Trobe University)
   
• Non-finite subordinate verbs in Australian Aboriginal languages: Are nominalised verbs really nominalised?
  Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)
   
• Affiliation in adolescents' use of discourse extenders
  Catrin Norrby (University of Melbourne) & Joanne Winter (Edith Cowan University)
   
• Japanese as a translanguage: A developing minority language in Japanese-English bilingual children in Australia
  Kaya Oriyama (University of Sydney)
   
• The distribution of grammatical information across sets: Some consequences for coordination
  Peter G. Peterson (University of Newcastle)
   
• Interpreting semantic extension: Metaphor and metonymy on different levels of lexical categorization
  Nick Riemer (Australian National University)
   
• High registers of Tetun Dili: Portuguese press and purist priests
  Catharina Williams-van Klinken
   
• The semantic prime 'THIS' in Korean
  Kyung-Joo Yoon (Australian National University)
   

Referees

The editor would like to thank the following colleagues for acting as referees: