Overview

ALI 2008 will offer the following courses:

i) Additional Language Learning and Identity Development - William S. Armour (UNSW)

ii) Bi- and multilingualism - Michael Clyne (Hon Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, also Emeritus Professor, Monash University) sponsored by RIHSS

iii) Features - Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey, UK)

iv) First Language Acquisition: Syntax and Semantics - Stephen Crain (MACCS) and Rosalind Thornton (Linguistics/MACCS) sponsored by HCS-Net

v) Listening to Speech: Universal Processing Shaped by Language-Specific Structure - Anne Cutler (MPI for Psycholinguistics and University of Western Sydney) sponsored by HCS-Net

vi) Implemented LFG grammars: Using the XLE Grammar Development Platform - Mary Dalrymple (Professor of Linguistics, University of Oxford) Sponsored by the British Academy and the University of Sydney

vii) Sign Language Linguistics and Grammaticalisation - Louise de Beuzeville and Trevor Johnston (Sign Language Linguistics Group Macquarie University)

viii) Grammars, Parsers and Realisers - Mark Dras and Robert Dale (Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University) sponsored by HCS-Net

ix) Sociolinguistics and the law - Diana Eades (University of New England)

x) Complex words and Complex predicates - Mark Harvey (Newcastle) and Brett Baker (UNE)

xi) Sociophonetics - Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury) sponsored by HCS-Net

xii) Encoding the speaker's perspective in grammar: A case study of Japanese - Nerida Jarkey, University of Sydney, and Harumi Minagawa, University of Auckland.

xiii) Introducing Feminist Conversation Analysis - Celia Kitzinger (Feminist Conversation Analysis Unit University of York, UK)

xiv) Linguistic diversity and implications for L2 instruction: World Englishes and beyond - Ryuko Kubota (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

xv) Critical Discourse Analysis - Prof J R Martin, Linguistics, University of Sydney

xvi) Australian Aboriginal Languages in Lexical-Functional Grammar - Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)

xvii) Multimodal InterAction Analysis - Sigrid Norris (Auckland University of Technology, NZ)

xviii) Language and Cultural Values - Dr Bert Peeters, (Macquarie University), Prof Cliff Goddard, (University of New England, Armidale); Prof Anna Wierzbicka, (Australian National University, Canberra).

xix) Language Test Development: From Test Specifications to Test Use - Dr Aek Phakiti, The University of Sydney

xx) Quantitative Methods - Carsten Roever, (The University of Melbourne) sponsored by HCS-Net

xxi) Contact language typology - Ian Smith (York University)

xxii) Interface Issues in English - Gert Webelhuth and Regine Eckhardt (University of Goettingen)

A complete list of courses, topics and readings is available to download from the program link. Course timetabling is available from the Lingfest 2008 portal site

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