Language Description Informed by Theory -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Editors' introduction -- Rob Pensalfini1, Diana Guillemin2 & Myfany Turpin1 -- Bibliography of Mary Laughren* -- Myfany Turpin1 & Diana Guillemin2 -- Evaluating Bilingual Education in Warlpiri schools* -- Samantha Disbray -- part 1 -- Phonology -- Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk* -- Myfany Turpin1, Katherine Demuth2 & April Ngampart Campbell3 -- Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel* -- Erich Round -- part 2 -- Morphology -- Liminal pronoun systems -- Evidence from Garrwa* -- Ilana Mushin -- Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu -- Rob Pensalfini -- The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology -- History, method and Pama-Nyungan (Australian) verbs -- Harold Koch -- part 3 -- Syntax -- Marking definiteness or specificity, not necessarily both -- Evidence of a principle of economy from mauritian creole -- Diana Guillemin -- Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism -- The case of romance negation -- Giuseppe Longobardi -- Serial verbs in Wambaya -- Rachel Nordlinger -- Nominals as adjuncts or arguments -- Further evidence from language mixing -- Felicity Meakins -- part 4 -- Semantics -- The case of the invisible postman -- The current status of the french future tense -- Lynn Wales -- Manner and result -- The view from clean* -- Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport Hovav -- part 5 -- Anthropological linguistics -- Shifting relations -- Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinship -- Murray Garde -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Language description and language theory -- 2. Language descriptions informed by theory -- 3. Mary Napaljarri Laughren -- References -- Bibliography of Mary Laughren* -- 1. Publications.

1. Unpublished materials (Dissertations, Papers, Manuscripts) held in archives -- 1. Warlpiri Literature (Translations by Mary Laughren) -- 1. Collated collections (umbers refer to the AIATSIS accession number) -- 1. Audio-visual publications and field recordings deposited at AIATSIS -- Evaluating Bilingual Education in Warlpiri schools* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs -- 2.1 Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs: English literacy -- 2.2 Evaluation of the Bilingual Education Programs: Wider Criteria -- 3. Warlpiri Bilingual Education Program -- 3.1 Teacher training and the Warlpiri professional network -- 3.2 Warlpiri Literacy Production -- 3.3 Warlpiri Dictionary Project and the Development of Warlpiri Curriculum -- 4. A Final wind back? -- References -- Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk* -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background to Arandic baby talk -- 1.2 Background to Arandic languages -- 1.3 Age-graded forms of Arandic baby talk -- 1.4 Methodology -- 1.5 Arandic phonemes -- 2. Segmental processes in ABT -- 2.1 Collapse of coronal distinctions in early ABT -- 2.2 Collapse of laminal distinctions in ABT -- 2.3 Introduction of apicals in late ABT -- 2.4 Constraints on rhotics and laterals in ABT -- 2.4.1 /ɻ/ ⇒ /w/, /ø/, /j/ -- 2.4.2 /ɾ/ ⇒ /ø/, /j/ -- 2.5 Constraints on other consonants in ABT -- 2.6 Reduction of consonant sequences -- 2.7 Vowels in ABT -- 3. Word formation processes in ABT -- 3.1 Initial vowel deletion -- 3.2 Reduplication -- 3.2.1 Whole-word Reduplication -- 3.2.2 Syllable reduplication -- 3.2.3 Other types of reduplication -- 3.2.4 Consonant harmony -- 3.3 Truncation of polysyllabic words to a foot -- 4. Unique BT vocabulary -- 4.1 Shared vocabulary between WBT and ABT -- 4.2 Source of the unique BT terms -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References.

Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nasals -- 2.1 Nasal articulation and Acoustic cues -- 2.2 The timing of velic lowering in enhancement theory -- 3. Laterals -- 3.1 Lateral articulation and its parallels with nasals -- 3.2 Parallels between laterals and nasals with respect to enhancement -- 4. A critical evaluation of claimed perceptual parallels in pre-stopping -- 4.1 Prestopping of laterals is unlikely to enhance place cues -- 4.2 A non-perceptual hypothesis regarding lateral pre-stopping -- 5. Sources of nasal pre-stopping -- 5.1 Duration and variability -- 5.2 Formation duration and place of articulation -- 6. Concluding remarks -- 6.1 The phonetics-phonology interface and analytic bias -- 6.2 Priorities for future research -- 6.3 Summary -- References -- Liminal pronoun systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical description of pronouns in Australian Languages: An overview -- 2.1 Yukulta pronouns -- 3. Garrwa pronouns -- 3.1 Non-compound garrwa pronouns -- 3.2 Compound pronouns -- 4. Syntax of Garrwa pronouns -- 5. The typological status of Garrwa pronouns -- References -- Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A brief introduction to Jingulu -- 1.2 Nominals -- 1.3 Verbs -- 2. Spatial deixis markers on jingulu nominals -- 3. The relationship between deixis markers and light verbs -- 4. The origin of spatial deixis markers in jingulu -- 4.1 How did the jingulu situation come about? -- 4.2 Synchronic analyses -- 4.2.1 The elements are verbal -- 4.2.2 The elements are homophonous with, but independent of, verbal elements -- 5. Similar phenomena in other languages -- 5.1 Somali -- 5.2 Wakashan languages -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology -- 1. The synchronic description of Australian verb inflection.

2. Reconstruction of Australian verb inflection -- 2.1 Dixon's reconstruction -- 2.2 Reactions to Dixon's reconstructions -- 3. Methodological issues in verb reconstruction -- 3.1 Internal reconstruction vs comparative reconstruction -- 3.2 The regularity of phonological change -- 3.3 Local probability constraints -- 3.4 Comparison of whole words before internal analysis -- 3.5 Exploiting known kinds of morphological change -- 3.5.1 Functional shift -- 3.5.2 Reanalysis of wordforms -- 3.5.3 Analogical changes -- 3.6 The value of shared irregularities -- 3.7 Distribution across subgroups -- 4. Exemplification -- 4.1 Internal reconstruction of Walmajarri verb inflection -- 4.2 Comparative reconstruction of Pama-Nyungan heterogeneous paradigms -- 4.2.1 Paradigms with n/rr -- 4.2.2 Paradigms with ng/w -- 4.2.3 Aberrant forms of the *nhaa- "see" Paradigm -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Marking definiteness or specificity, not necessarily both -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Organization of this paper -- 2. Semantic definitions: Definiteness and specificity -- 2.1 Denotation and reference -- 2.2 Specificity -- 2.2.1 Specific indefinites -- 2.3 Definiteness -- 2.3.1 Anaphoric definiteness -- 2.3.2 Associative anaphora -- 2.3.3 Situational uses -- 2.4 A Phonologically null definite determiner in MC -- 3. Syntactic framework -- 3.1 Minimalism -- 3.1.1 X-bar theory -- 3.1.2 Merge, move, and agree -- 3.1.3 Move and the economy principle -- 3.2 Structure of the clause and the determiner phrase -- 3.3 Noun denotation -- 3.3.1 The number projection -- 3.4 Licensing empty categories -- 3.5 Derivation by phase -- 4. The mauritian creole and french determiner systems -- 4.1 Bare nouns in MC -- 5. The analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism -- 1. Introduction and summary -- 2. A principles & schemata model.

3. Background -- 4. Feature specifications -- 5. A major typological generalization -- 6. Rumanian and Catalan -- 7. Further consequences of the fundamental asymmetry -- 8. Conditions on scope assignment -- 9. Italian and Spanish -- 10. Pre-infl positions -- 11. Some French -- 12. More French -- 13. Non-clausal scope -- 14. Occitan -- 15. Questions and Answers -- 16. Parametric minimalism -- 17. Negative quantifiers and syntactic dependencies -- 18. Sentential negative morphemes -- 19. Feature combinations -- 20. Principles, parameters, and schemata -- 21. Linear and hierarchical generalizations -- 22. Typological completeness -- 23. Conclusions -- References -- Serial verbs in Wambaya -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wambaya overview -- 3. Serial verbs in Wambaya -- 3.1 Adverbial Manner Constructions -- 3.2 Positional Constructions -- 3.3 Motion Constructions -- 3.4 Cause-effect Constructions -- 4. Reduced Coordination -- 5. Wambaya serial verbs and linguistic typology -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Nominals as adjuncts or arguments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gurindji nominals and the argument debate in Australian languages -- 3. Evidence from code-switching -- 3.1 Gurindji-kriol code-switching data -- 3.2 An overview of the structure of kriol -- 3.3 Patterns in the code-switching -- 3.4 Motivations for gurindji-kriol code-switching patterns -- 4. Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- References -- The case of the invisible postman: -- 1. Introduction: The invisible postman and the french future tense -- 2. Historical connections: Proto-indo-european to latin, latin to romance, french -- 2.1 Proto-indo-european to latin -- 2.2 Latin to romance -- 2.3 French: The "Futur Simple" (FS) -- 2.4 French: The "Futur Composé" (FC) -- 2.5 Current status of the french fs: Three theoretical approaches -- 3. Fleischman's diachronic model: The FS as mood.

3.1 The other modal: Semantic balance.