UQ Working Papers in Linguistics

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ojs/index.php/uqwpl/issue/current

The current issue includes articles on Yukulta and Jingulu

Call for papers: Language Documentation

Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory: 75 years of Linguistics at SOAS, 5 years of the Endangered Languages Project

7-8th December 2007
School of Oriental and African Studies, London

In 2007 the Department of Linguistics at School of Oriental and African Studies celebrates its 75th anniversary. Founded in 1932 as the first department of general linguistics in Britain, the research carried out by linguistics within the department has made a significant and lasting impact on the fields of language documentation and description and linguistic theory.

This conference commemorates both the 75 year tradition of linguistics within the School and the 5th anniversary of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, comprising the Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP), the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), and the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP).

The conference aims to bring together researchers working on linguistic theory and language documentation and description, with a particular focus on innovative work on underdescribed or endangered languages, especially those of Asia and Africa. Our goal is to provide a forum to discuss the ways that linguists and others, especially community members, can respond to the current challenges to linguistic diversity and build on experiences of the past.

Themes:
1. implications of language documentation and description for linguistic theory
2. implications of linguistic theory for language documentation and description
3. experiences of language documentation and description and linguistic theory at SOAS
4. new techniques and opportunities for documenting and describing languages
5. community-oriented outcomes of endangered languages research

Abstracts:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion) on any of the themes identified above. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.

Abstracts should take the form of a PDF document, submitted by email and limited to one page (using 2.5cm margins on all sides and 12pt Times font) including references, and a further one page of examples and data. Any non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF document. Authors should submit two versions of their abstract, one with their name and affiliation included and a second without these details.

Abstract submissions should be sent electronically to abstract@hrelp.org. The deadline for abstract submissions is 17th August 2007. Acceptance will be notified by 30th August 2007 and a PDF comprising a 5-10 page outline of the paper to be presented (including examples and references) will be due on 19th November 2007. We will print all the outlines of accepted papers in a book that will be given to registrants at the conference.

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 17th August 2007
Notification of acceptance: 30th August 2007
‘Early bird’ registration deadline: 8th October 2007
Deadline for submission of 5-10 page outlines/Final registration deadline: 19th November 2007
Conference: 7-8th December 2007

Conference fees:

Early bird registration (by 8th October 2007)
- full £ 45
- student/unwaged £ 25

Registration (19th November 2007)
- full £ 60
- student/unwaged £ 35

Registration includes conference pack (including a book of paper outlines), morning/afternoon teas.

Conference dinner 7th December 2007 £ 25

Further details and conference registration forms will be available in August at http://www.soas.ac.uk/departments/departmentinfo.cfm?navid=892.

All other enquiries should be directed to Jacqui Freeman: conference@hrelp.org.

Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Director, Endangered Languages Academic Program
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

web: http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa

Customary Land Tenure

ANU Epress edition here.

Linguistic Indulgence

Many papers in Language Description, History and Development : Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades are on Australian languages.

2. A desiderative complement construction in Warrwa.
William B. McGregor
27-40
3. Noun incorporation in Rembarrnga discourse.
Graham R. McKay
41-52
4. A revised view of the verbal suffixes of Yugambeh-Bundjalung
M.C. Sharpe
53-68
16. Complex predication and the coverb construction
Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey
209-219
19. Nganyaywana revisited: Lessons from Terry Crowley’s work on New England languages
Paul Black
255-265
20. Divergent regularity in word-initial truncation in the Arandic languages
Harold Koch
267-280
32. The Crowley corrective: An alternative voice for language endangerment
Michael Walsh
431-437
34. Funeral liturgy as a strategy for language revival
Rob Amery and Dennis O’Brien
457-467

(Hat-tip: David Nash)

Reciprocal constructions

Reciprocal Constructions
Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

Of particular interest to Australianists:

Part II. Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers
C. Pronominal reciprocal marker only
21. Reciprocal constructions in Djaru
Tasaku Tsunoda

Part IV. Reflexive-reciprocal-sociative polysemy of reciprocal markers. Verbal reciprocal marker only
32. Reciprocal constructions in Warrungu
Tasaku Tsunoda

(Hat-tip: David Nash)