Programme for the Linguistics, Languages and Cultures Graduate Conference

12-13 November 2009

All sessions take place at the Law Theatre

(See more details on this conference here)

Thursday 12 November

9:15–9:30 Registration, opening address (Mark Donohue)
9:30–10:30 The decline in assessing language vitality
Michael Walsh (Guest speaker, University of Sydney)
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10:30–11:00 Morning tea (catered)
11:00–11:30 The morning, yesterday, a long time ago: Yuwaalaraay verbs
John Giacon
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11:30–12:00 The use of reciprocals in two Australian languages: Yidiny and Jiwarli
Anneliese Kuhle (Freie Universitat Berlin)
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12:00–1:00Lunch (catered)
1:00–1:30 Speaker-audience interaction in the context of Mexican political monologic talk
Margarita Escobar
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1:30–2:00 An investigation of the interactional role of 'I know' in conversation
Sarah McLaughlan
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2:00–2:30 Topicalisation in Squliq Atayal
Adlay Kun-Long Liu
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Joint afternoon with the Darwin and the Social Sciences Workshop,
Spark Helmore lecture theatre. To register for this, contact Kim Sterelny (kimbo@coombs.anu.edu.au). Full program here.
2:30–3:45 Darwinism and Cultural Evolution
Russell Gray (Keynote speaker)
 		  
3:45–4:15 Afternoon tea (catered)
4:15–5:15 Renewing the Darwin connection: coevolutionary approaches in post-Chomskyan linguistics
Nicholas Evans (Linguistics, RSPAS)  
  Is English biologically heritable?
Michael Michaels 
7.00 Linguistics, Languages and Cultures Graduate Conference dinner.
Venue TBA

Friday 13 November

9:30–10:30 What do evolutionary biologists have to offer historical linguists?
Russell Gray (Guest speaker, University of Auckland)
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10:30–11:00 Morning tea (catered)
11:00–11:30 Traditional knowledge of honeybee biology among the Solega of southern India
Aung Si
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11:30–12:00 People say it's just a desert: the desert and the bush in English and Pitjantjatjara
Helen Bromhead
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12:00–1:00 Lunch (catered)
1:00–1:30 Will the real Lishui tone sandhi please stand up?
William Steed
 		  
1:30–2:00 Orthographic changes in Chinese characters used in the Japanese writing system
Dilhara Premaratne
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2:00–2:15 Conference wrap up, feedback
Close of conference

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