Linguistics 2014 Seminar Series

Follow the links on the seminar titles to access their abstracts.

Date	Presenter	Seminar Title
5 Feb 2014	Assoc Prof Paul Geraghty	Linguistic areas and substrates in the Western Pacific
27 Feb 2014	Dr Birgit Hellwig	Language socialisation and the transmission of Qaqet Baining (Papua New Guinea): towards a documentation project
11 Mar 2014	Prof Jeff Siegel	Contact-induced grammatical change in Melanesia: who were the agents of change?
15 Apr 2014	Sonja Riesberg	Linking Austronesian Symmetrical Voice Languages – two LFG approaches
21 May 2014	Dr Cindy Schneider	Language variation and usage across the varieties of North-Central Pentecost, Vanuatu
18 June 2014	Arvind Iyengar (PhD candidate)	Sindhi in the Roman Script: An Investigation into Community Acceptance
23 Jul 2014	Dr Finex Ndhlovu	Reflections on Linguistic Cartography: Insights from Language Practices of African Marginals in Australia
20 Aug 2014	Thoai Ton Nu Linh (PhD candidate)	Vietnamese Address Terms: Affective Meanings and Translational Challenges in ESL Classroom Contexts
1 Sep 2014	Dr Roger Blench	The Austronesians: an agricultural revolution that failed
3 & 4 Sep 2014	Prof Scott DeLancey	Workshop on Grammatical categories in description and explanation
4 Sep 2014	Prof George van Driem	Asian ethnolinguistic phylogeography: The Eastern Himalaya as a cradle of ethnogenesis
11 Sep 2014	Sophia Waters (PhD candidate)	The cultural semantics of sociality concepts in Australian English, with contrastive reference to French
1 Oct 2014	Dr Elizabeth Ellis	Interpreting sensitive Aboriginal cultural information: challenges presented by the ecology of multilingual interactions in tourism at Uluru
26 Nov 2014	Assoc Prof Nick Reid	Oral traditions about sea-level rises: Aboriginal cultural transmission over great time-depths

Recordings of the seminars can be accessed in the playlist below.