The 8th Australianists in Europe workshop
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 24 September 2016Time: 9:30 AM
Finishes: 25 September 2016Time: 1:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: 4426
Type of Event: Workshop
We are pleased to announce the 8th Australianists in Europe workshop which will take place at SOAS in London* on 24 and 25 September 2016. In the spirit of previous workshops in this series, the purpose is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of current research on Australian languages in a friendly informal environment.
Programme
SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER, 09:00-17:00
| 09:00 | WELCOME |
| 09:30 | Murrinhpatha verbs and models of morphology Rachel Nordlinger and John Mansfield (U Melbourne) |
| 10:00 | Imparting the basics of Murrinhpatha classificatory kinship Joe Blythe (Macquarie University), Lucinda Davidson (University of Melbourne) and Bill Forshaw (University of Melbourne) |
| 10:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:00 | Mawng gender as a flexible macro-system: variation and coherence in systems of nominal classification Ruth Singer (U Melbourne) |
| 11:30 | Binominal and other types of nominal word-formation in Australian languages: The case of Gurindji Steve Pepper (U Oslo) |
| 12:00 | The status of determining elements in Australian languages Dana Louagie (KU Leuven) |
| 12:30-14:30 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 | Requesting information or mobilizing response: the prosody of sentence final tags in Jaminjung Candide Simard (SOAS) |
| 15:00 | Information structure and constituent order in Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru Eva Schultze-Berndt (U Manchester) |
| 15:30 | COFFEE |
| 16:00 | A discourse analysis of the Ungarinyin definite subject marker) Stef Spronck (KU Leuven) |
| 16:30 | Spatial frames of reference in Iwaidja: an overview Cris Edmonds-Wathen (Umeå University) |
SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER, 10:00-13:00
| 10:00 | Quantifying complexity across multiple variables in a situation of language contact Xia Hua, Felicity Meakins and Lindell Bromham (U Queensland) |
| 10:30 | ‘New’ code-switching and long-term multilingualism at Maningrida (Arnhem Land) Jill Vaughan (NTNU) and Margaret Carew (Batchelor Institute) |
| 11:00 | COFFEE |
| 11:30 | Language contact on Groote Eylandt: the influence of English on Enindhilyakwa Marie-Elaine van Egmond (Greifswald University) |
| 12:00 | Some preliminary thoughts on the tense-aspect system of Anindhilyakwa James Bednall (ANU & U. Paris-Diderot) and Patrick Caudal (Paris-Diderot) |
| 12:30 | Loss of pronominal clitics: language contact scenarios Patrick McConvell (Australian National University) |
| 13:00 | Closing remarks |
Registration and fees
All participants will need to register. Registration is via the SOAS online store: online registration
Fee £20
Participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation. Useful Information about accommodation and transport can be found here.
*(considered to be in Europe for our purposes…)
Organiser: Candide Simard (SOAS) and Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester)
Contact email: cs75@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4582