Projecting Voices

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ISBN (print):

9781760467050

ISBN (online):

9781760467067

Publication date:

Dec 2025

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/PV.2025

Series:

Asia-Pacific Linguistics

Disciplines:

Arts & Humanities: Linguistics; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies

Countries:

Australia

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• Preliminary pages (PDF, 157 KB)
• Contributors (PDF, 179 KB)
• Acknowledgements (PDF, 61 KB)
• Foreword (PDF, 90 KB) – Gillian Wigglesworth
• Introduction (PDF, 176 KB) – Carmel O’Shannessy, James Gray and Denise Angelo

Section 1: Big picture challenges to theory

1. Experiencer object constructions in Nen (Yam, Papuan) (PDF, 370 KB) – Nicholas Evans doi
2. Adventures in distributed exponence (PDF, 494 KB) – Alan Rumsey doi
3. Wiping the table clean: What resultatives and complex predicates tell us about the nature of primary and secondary predication (PDF, 905 KB) – Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King and Ghulam Raza doi
4. An unusual English resultative construction (PDF, 193 KB) – Beth Levin doi
5. Ancient resultatives: ‘Something there that wasn’t there before’ (PDF, 285 KB) – Nicholas Ostler doi
6. Argument coding and clause linkage in Australian Aboriginal languages (PDF, 764 KB) – Peter K. Austin doi
7. Transdisciplinarising the concept of homology: From biology to linguistics and other domains (PDF, 411 KB) – K. P. Mohanan and Tara Mohanan doi

Section 2: Language through time

8. Initial dropping and pre-stopping: Boundary marking in Australian languages (PDF, 377 KB) – Mark Harvey doi
9. The multiple functions of the Pama-Nyungan suffix(es) *‑karra (PDF, 272 KB) – Harold Koch doi
10. Tracking a ‘novel’ first person subject pronoun within Pama-Nyungan: From north-west Queensland to the Western Australian coast (PDF, 673 KB) – Mary Laughren doi
11. Reconstruction patterns in Pama-Nyungan clusivity (PDF, 382 KB) – Claire Bowern doi

Section 3: Linguistic structures

12. Cardinal direction enclitics in the Flinders Island Language, Cape York Peninsula (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Johnny Flinders and Peter Sutton doi
13. The path from cliticised to prefixed person marking in proto-Australian (PDF, 678 KB) – Brett Baker doi
14. Grammatical case and differential argument marking in Anindilyakwa (PDF, 445 KB) – James Bednall doi
15. The mysterious clitic =ju in Warlpiri: Topic marker, focus marker or something else? (PDF, 345 KB) – Maria Schreiner doi
16. Word order flexibility in Pitjantjatjara (PDF, 527 KB) – Sasha Wilmoth, Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez and Evan Kidd doi
17. Word structure and word formation in Western Yugur (PDF, 446 KB) – Yarjis Xueqing Zhong doi
18. The emergence of grammatical structure from inter-predictability (PDF, 626 KB) – John Mansfield and Charles Kemp doi

Section 4: Lexicon

19. Avoiding semantic trespass and etyma-larceny: Collaborative lexicography for under-resourced languages: An example from Vanuatu (PDF, 268 KB) – Nick Thieberger doi
20. Where strange words fit: Channelling Alice Duncan‑Kemp (PDF, 988 KB) – David Nash doi
21. Dismembering gender: Noun borrowing between Garrwa and Yanyuwa (PDF, 1.6 MB) – Rob Gill, Felicity Meakins and Ilana Mushin doi

Section 5: Language acquisition

22. Arrernte children’s linguistic construction of motion events: Exploring the use of Associated Motion (PDF, 1.8 MB) – Susan Poetsch and David Wilkins doi
23. The variable expression of possession in Alyawarr children’s language repertoires (PDF, 580 KB) – Sally Dixon doi
24. Are you my mother? Learning to discern who’s who within a universal kinship system (PDF, 923 KB) – Joe Blythe doi

Section 6: Languages in education

25. Learning to read and write Aboriginal languages through phonics in the Northern Territory (PDF, 273 KB) – Margaret Carew, Rebecca Green and Courtney Lynch doi
26. Teaching revival languages at universities (PDF, 292 KB) – Rob Amery, John Giacon, Tracey Cameron and Taylor Tipu Power-Smith doi
27. Partnering in teaching ‘strong’ Aboriginal languages at universities (PDF, 256 KB) – Angela Harrison, Kumalie Riley, Sam Osborne, Nyunmiti Burton, Brenda Muthamuluwuy and Yasunori Hayashi doi

Section 7: Sociocultural perspectives

28. The moon travels east (PDF, 738 KB) – Myfany Turpin doi
29. An example of rich language documentation: A return to the Old Mission (PDF, 346 KB) – Clair Hill doi
30. Ngurunderi’s wives: Implications for language and cultural revival (PDF, 271 KB) – Mary-Anne Gale and Judy Cole doi
31. Language documentation and the multi-dimensionality of capacity building: Framing research diversity in an Indonesian ethno-ecological context (PDF, 607 KB) – I Wayan Arka doi
32. My country, my language? (PDF, 195 KB) – Elisabeth Mayer doi
33. A Dharug perspective on the Dharug language ecology (PDF, 551 KB) – Jasmine Seymour, Corina Norman and Denise Angelo doi
34. Steady as she goes: Jane Simpson and Indigenous languages (PDF, 188 KB) – Francesca Merlan doi

• Tabula gratulatoria (PDF, 136 KB)