Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society - Australian Linguistic Society 2012 Conference

The 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society was held at the University of Western Australia in Perth from December 5th to 7th 2012.

After the conference, seventeen of the over 100 presented papers were submitted for these Proceedings. All Proceedings submissions were subject to anonymous peer review by at least two reviewers who were independent of the conference organising committee. Eleven papers have been accepted. The Proceedings review process was separate from the review of abstracts for presentations at the conference.

We thank all the reviewers for their very important contributions.

The publication date for these Proceedings is December 20th 2013.

Please cite individual papers as:

<Author> 2013 <Title> in John Henderson, Marie-Eve Ritz and Celeste Rodríguez Louro (eds) Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (Perth, 5-7 December 2012) https://sites.google.com/site/als2012uwa/proceedings

ISBN-10: 0980281555

ISBN-13: 978-0-9802815-5-2

Note that page numbering starts from page 1 in each paper.

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Understanding Japanese culture through a semantic analysis of kawaii ‘cute’, itai ‘pitiful’ and ita-kawaii ‘pitifully trying to be cute’.
Yuko Asano-Cavanagh

Language maintenance in seven Australian families of Calabrian background.
Timothy Jowan Curnow, Simone Marino & Giancarlo Chiro

Comparatives without scales: an NSM analysis of English comparative constructions.
Cliff Goddard

Towards a linguistic typology of address pronouns in Europe – past and present.
John Hajek, Heinz L Kretzenbacher & Robert Lagerberg

On the History of Conveyance Voice in Some Dusun Languages.
Shelly Harrison

A revised analysis of Warlpiri verb inflections plus auxiliary combinations and their make-over in 'Light' Warlpiri.
Mary Laughren

The Cantonese utterance particle gaa3 and particle combinations: an NSM semantic analysis.
Helen Hue Lam Leung

Russian Byt' used as a verb of perfective aspect.
Elena Paducheva

Performer talk in Irish traditional singing performances in Australia.
Mahesh Radhakrishnan

Birth-Order Term Borrowing as Evidence for Historical Interaction Patterns in the Saruwaged Mountains of Papua New Guinea.
Hannah Sarvasy

The Acquisition of English Spatial Prepositions: The Case of Logical Relations .
Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Nobuaki Akagi