Linguistics Department Seminar Series Semester 2 2007

Date	Presenter	Title
2nd Aug	Surprise Presenters	‘Surprise Symposium’
9th Aug	Aaron Corn	Budutthun Ratja Wiyinymirri: Formal Flexibility in the Manikay Tradition of North-East Arnhem Land
16th Aug	Hilario de Sousa	The Echo-subject system(s) in Vanuatu
23rd Aug	Michael Gray	Aspect in Australian Signed Language: What can signed languages tell us about human language?
30th Aug	Perin C Ganeshsundaram	India as a Linguistic Area: Peculiarities of the Dravidian Languages (with Special Reference to Tamil)
6th Sept		cancelled
13th Sept	Johanna Rendle-Short	Conversation analysis (talk-in-interaction) as methodology: Analysing asymmetrical use of address terms in the political news interview
20th Sept	Winnie Chor	"Subjectivity and intersubjectivity: interpersonal use of language"
		Non-teaching week
4th Oct	Linda Barwick	"A dance like this didjeridu corroboree but without the didjeridu": commonalities between djanba and wangga/lirrga song texts at Wadeye (NT)
11th Oct	Matthew Honnibal	Improving the Quality of Annotated Corpora: Updating CCGbank
18th Oct	Ping Tian	Co-articulating "worry" in Children's Picture Books
25th Oct	Freya Bailes	Memory for song in oral music tradition: Interdisciplinary analyses
1st Nov	David Caldwell	The Rhetoric of Rap: A Social Semiotic Analysis of North American Rap Music
8th Nov	Gregory Guy	Lexical exceptions in linguistic variation