Mary Laughren
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Laughren is an Australian linguist. She received her PhD from Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 1973. Her research interests include Australian Aboriginal languages, language in education, lexicography and the semantic-syntactic interface. Laughren has played a key role in the documentation of the Warlpiri Language, with notable contributions to the understanding of song register and baby talk register. She was also the editor of the Warlpiri-English encyclopedic dictionary.
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- Syntactic Constraints in a 'Free Word Order' Language (2002) (44)
- The configurationality parameter and Warlpiri (1989) (43)
- Levels of Lexical Representation (1993) (41)
- Warlpiri Baby talk (1984) (36)
- The Ngumpin-Yapa Subgroup (2004) (26)
- Toward a Lexical Representation of Warlpiri Verbs (1988) (26)
- Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages (1992) (22)
- 5. Tone in Zulu Nouns (1984) (22)
- Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives (2013) (16)
- Edge Effects in Warlpiri Yawulyu Songs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification (2013) (15)
- What Warlpiri 'avoidance' registers do with grammar (2001) (13)
- Distinguishing Prosodic Word and Phonological Word in Warlpiri: Prosodic Constituency in Morphologically Complex Words * (2005) (13)
- Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core (2010) (11)
- Australian Aboriginal Languages: Their contemporary status and functions (2000) (9)
- Semantic Contrasts in Warlpiri Verbal Morphology: A Warlpiri's Verbal View (2001) (9)
- Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language (2005) (8)
- Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge: Evidence from Women's Ceremonies Relating to Edible Seeds (2019) (8)
- Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society (2007) (8)
- Papers in Australian linguistics No. 15 : Australian Aboriginal lexicography (1983) (6)
- Yawulyu Wirliyajarrayi-wardingkiki: ngatijirri, ngapa. Willowra songlines: Budgerigar and rain (2010) (6)
- A revised analysis of Warlpiri verb inflections plus auxiliary combinations: their make-over in 'Light' Warlpiri (2013) (5)
- Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) (2014) (5)
- Warlpiri picture dictionary: warlpiri yimi kuruwarri-kirli (2012) (5)
- Connected speech processes in Warlpiri (2008) (5)
- Palyku is a Ngayarta language (1997) (4)
- Thanks to reviewers (2013) (4)
- Body and Soul: An Aboriginal View [Book Review] (1998) (3)
- The role of animacy and definiteness in the clitic-DP nexus (2006) (3)
- Constraints on the pre-auxiliary position in Warlpiri and the nature of Auxiliary (2000) (3)
- Wanyi Reflexive-Reciprocal Constructions (2002) (3)
- Compromising transitivity : the problem of reciprocals (2004) (2)
- Learning from OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (2013) (2)
- Possession in Kuku-Thaypan through a comparative lens (2016) (1)
- The Ergative in Warlpiri: A Case Study (2017) (1)
- Ear and belly in Warlpiri descriptions of cognitive and emotional experience (2020) (1)
- Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (review) (2003) (1)
- proach, in this sense, seems to be on the right track and is indeed a valuable first step to delimit possible nonsubject antecedents. REFERENCES (1998) (0)
- Asymmetrical Distinctions in Waanyi Kinship Terminology 1 (2018) (0)
- Volume 2 Problems: Stopping and flapping in Warlpiri (2013) (0)
- Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia [Book Review] (2010) (0)
- Senufo Vowel Harmony: the Representation of Tongue Height Contrasts (2001) (0)
- Obituary: Kenneth Locke Hale (1934-2001) (2001) (0)
- Reviewers 2009 (2009) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2013) (0)
- Review of Moskovsky, Christo, aspects of binding in Bulgarian, Frankfur am main: Peter Lang (European University Studies, series XXI linguistics, 2002 (2004) (0)
- Review of Barbara Glowczewski, Desert dreamers: with the Warlpiri people of Australia (2016) (0)
- Publications received (1986) (0)
- TITLE: Warlpiri type languages and accusative case (2010) (0)
- The semantics of song: expressing meaning through dance, design and text in an Aboriginal song series (2011) (0)
- Me and my waddy (2013) (0)
- Women's yawulyu songs as evidence of connections to and knowledge of land: the Jardiwanpa (2016) (0)
- Review of Desert dreamers: with the Warlpiri people of Australia (2016) (0)
- From Linguistic Research Findings to Useful Products for Australian Aboriginal Communities (2016) (0)
- Daughters' and mothers' perceptions of counsellor role (1974) (0)
- TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF CONFIGURATIONALITY (2016) (0)
- Lexical & conceptual semantics Edited by Beth Levin and Steven Pinker (review) (2015) (0)
- Current issues in comparative grammar ed. by Robert Freidin (review) (2015) (0)
- Songs performed by Willie Rookwood at Woorabinda in 1965 (2017) (0)
- Text and meter in a Lander Warlpiri song series (2013) (0)
- Mothers' and Daughters' Perceptions of the Role of the Counsellor (1975) (0)
- Jurntu Purlapa1—Warlpiri songline for the Jurntu Fire Dreaming site (Australia) (2020) (0)
- The politics of suffering: Some contrarian reflections (2020) (0)
- Social anthropology: Du Reve A La Loi Chez Les aborigenes: Mythes, rites et organisation sociale en Australie [Book Review] (1993) (0)
- Volume 2 Problems: Me and my waddy (2013) (0)
- Desert dreamers: With the Warlpiri people of Australia [Book Review] (2016) (0)
- Serial verbs in Waanyi and its neighbours (2016) (0)
- Exploring the meaning of Warlpiri propositional particle nganta (2011) (0)
- Ac know ledg ments (2013) (0)
- Wanyi word formation and vowel harmony (2004) (0)
- Volume 2 Problems: Bamanan-kan (2013) (0)
- Asymmetrical distinctions in Waanyi kinship terminology (2018) (0)
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