Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics
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Contents: Volume 25, 2022
- Francisca Knarston: Returning New Zealanders and the workplace
- Luané Lennox: The left and right peripheries of Afrikaans
- Bryer Oden: New Zealand identity in (social) media: Who is a New Zealander in the wake of COVID-19?
- Reuben Sanderson: An historical analysis of /s/-retraction in New Zealand English
Contents: Volume 24, 2022
- Shae Holcroft: Taem i stap go: Marking tense and aspect in Bislama
- Matilda Neyland: The Sexual Other: Discursive constructions of migrant sex workers in New Zealand media
- Reuben Sanderson: Breaking frames with Babish: How community boundaries are managed through humour on a professional YouTube channel
Contents: Volume 23, 2017
Linguistic travels in time and space: Festschrift for Liz Pearce
- Laurie Bauer: How can you put Liz into a tree?
- Sigrid Beck: An alternative semantic cycle for universal quantifiers
- Adriana Belletti: Passive and movement of verbal chunks in a V/head-movement language
- Guglielmo Cinque: A note on Romance and Germanic past participle relative clauses
- Nicola Daly and Julie Barbour: Teachers’ understandings of the role of translation in vernacular language maintenance in Malekula: some early thoughts
- William D. Davies: Untangling multiple Madurese benefactives
- Paul de Lacy: Circumscriptive haplologizing reduplicants
- Mark Hale: Phonetics, phonology and syntax in synchrony and diachrony
- Hans Henrich Hock: Indo-European linguistics meets Micronesian and Sunda-Sulawesi
- Leina Isno: Nembangahu – The big stone
- Richard S. Kayne: The syntax of wherewithal
- Michael J. Kenstowicz: A note on the phonology and phonetics of CR, RC, and SC consonant clusters in Italian
- Alistair Knott and Martin Takac: A sensorimotor interpretation of Logical Form, and its application in a model of Māori sentences
- Paul Law: Some issues on verbal reciprocals in Malagasy
- John Lynch: Why did Erromangan wind names turn 90 degrees?
- Lisa Matthewson, Heidi Quinn, Diane Massam, and Lynsey Talagi: The curious case of preverbal ko in Niuean
- Timothy Mckinnon, Peter Cole, Yanti, and Gabriella Hermon: Phrase-level stem alternations in Sumatran Malayic
- Miriam Meyerhoff: Possession marking in Nkep (East Santo, Vanuatu)
- Yuko Otsuka: On Cia and C-final bases in Polynesian
- Bill Palmer: Pronouns and the DP in Hoava
- Luigi Rizzi: A note on the typology of topic and focus markers
- Nick Thieberger: Unable to say too much about kano in Nafsan (South Efate)
- Lisa deMena Travis: Adjacency and DP licensing
- Dieter Wanner: Surselvan 1S /-əl/, or: Jeu anflel quei buca curios
Contents: Volume 22, 2017
- Danielle Ashby-Coventry and Caitlin Andrews: The development of IM language over time
- Alexandra Birchfield: “Both a maid and a man”: The use of Do-support as a marker of gender in Shakespeare’s cross-dressing plays
- Lou Kendall: Gloriavale and the case of the opening MOUTH
- Kaitlyn Smith: Deconstructing ‘disabling’ discourses: the co- construction of disability identities in interaction
- Caleb Stone: Attitudes to Samoan English and Pākehā English
- Lou Kendall: How does contrastive accenting affect pronominal reference resolution?
- Emma Wollum: Swearing Is Caring? Investigating Links Between Expletive Vocabulary Size, Emotional Vocabulary Size, and Expletive Use
- Katharine Levendis: Yeah nah as a pragmatic marker of cultural politeness in New Zealand English
Contents: Volume 21, 2013
- Jessica Scott: Learning the ropes
- Rachel Leggett: A day in the life of an eldercare worker
- Roseanna Finkle-Vern: Development of sociolinguistic competence in children from a Montessori preschool
- Khadijeh Gharibi and Mortaza Yamini: Politeness in young children's speech
- Jennifer Gilbert: Sign language, interpreters and power
Contents: Volume 20, 2008
- Sophia Jarlov Wallingford: The pluralisation of nouns in New Zealand Sign Language
- Sophia Jarlov Wallingford: A preliminary formal syntactic analysis of wh-questions in New Zealand Sign Language
- Raquel Direnzo: Double realization of verbs in Argentinian Spanish
- Xitao Fu: Metonymy and metaphor: Continuum or hierarchy?
- Anna Piasecki and Paul Warren: Language-specific cues - A cue to language?
Contents: Volume 19, 2007
- Kazuyo Murata: Laughter in Japanese business meetings - a relational perspective
- Leilarna Kingsley: Explicit language policy and language practices in multilingual banks in Luxembourg
- Jeannie Fletcher: Powerhouses of organizational knowledge creation: Communities of practice or micro-communities of knowledge?
- Julia De Bres: Using workplaces to research attitudes and behaviours towards the Māori language in Wellington
- Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar: Politeness in intercultural workplace interaction: A literature review
Contents: Volume 18, 2006
- Katherine Quigley: The Metaphors of Economic Change
- Amigo Westbrook: Te Reo Māori words in job advertisements: Lexemes of New Zealand English?
- John Macalister: "That place would be better named Glover': Establishing and contesting identity through the (re)naming of places
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Contents: Volume 17, 2005
- Kalangis Bembe and Elizabeth Pearce: Unua texts
- Laura Dimock: The bilabial trill in Unua
- Glorious Oxenham, Elizabeth Pearce and Agnes Terraschke: Roviana text
- Martin Paviour-Smith: Mood marking on Malakula
- Martin Paviour-Smith and Willy Makenzie: Exacting the hen's revenge: An initial enquiry into the nature of narrative in Aulua
- Elizabeth Pearce: The reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *na in Unua
Contents: Volume 16, 2004
- Julia de Bres: Intergenerational attitudes towards Dutch language maintenance in New Zealand
- Jeh Sie Tan: The use of got in Malaysian English
- Stephanie Schnurr: How female leaders use humour to integrate their professional and their gender identities
- Janet Holmes: Monitoring, mentoring and managing: the complexities of workplace discourse
- Luke McCrohon: "2B or nt 2B": Txt Speak as an in-group marker
- Ann Weatherall: "Whr r u? tb!": A preliminary study of language use in young people's text messages
Contents: Volume 15, 2003
- Helen Ainsworth: How she says it and how he says it - differences in the intonation of dairy farming women and men in South Taranaki
- Patricia Vermillion: The ups and downs of Kiwis: an experiment investigating tonal cues used to identify NZE intonation
- Paul Warren, Shari Speer and Amy Schafer: Wanna-contraction and prosodic disambiguation in US and NZ English
- Joel Zwartz and Paul Warren: This is a statement? Lateness of rise as a factor in listener interpretation of HRTs.
Contents: Volume 14, 2002
- Laurie Bauer and Paul Warren: Affix-able words: morphological productivity as the basis for (de)composition in processing
- Gloria Hu: Phonological awareness in young Cantonese-Mandarin bilinguals
- Megan Rae and Paul Warren: The asymmetrical change in progress of NEAR and SQUARE vowels in NZE: psycholinguistic evidence
- Jen Hay and Paul Warren: Experiments on /r/-intrusion
Contents: Volume 13, 2001
- Laurie Bauer: Whither the thesaurus
- Laurie Bauer: How and why the phonological word and the morphosyntactic word do not coincide
- Hannah Buchanan: Neutralisation of DRESS and TRAP before /l/ in New Zealand English
- Yono Sukarno: vP-aspect: aspectual base properties of Indonesian predicates
Contents: Volume 12, 2000
- Angela Ford: A DP analysis of Iaai noun phrases
- Elizabeth Pearce: Transitivity, incorporation and animacy in Iaai
- Elizabeth Pearce: and Samuel Ukewea Wadjeno Uny me Cako: Iaai text
- Shizuka Torii: What is tense?
Contents: Volume 11, 1999
- Sai Hui: Humour in a Cantonese family: an analysis in an asymmetrical small group setting
- Jinnie Potter: Chartwell School: sixteen years of a Japanese-English bilingual venture
- Maria Stubbe, Chris Lane, Jo Hilder, Elaine Vine, Bernadette Vine, Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra and Ann Weatherall: Multiple discourse analyses of a workplace interaction
- Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics Policy Guidelines
Contents: Volume 10, 1998
Out of Print
- Janet Holmes: The linguistic construction of gender identity
- Jane Pilkington, Janet Holmes and Chris Lane: Gossip: its context and its boundaries
- Sandra Shearn: Interviewing styles on New Zealand National Radio: is Mike Hosking really so outrageous?
- Robert Sigley: Interpreting social variation using stylistic continua: the strange case of relativiser choice
- Lynnette Sollitt Morris: The paradox of silence in interaction: an indicator both of power and powerlessness
- Transcription conventions
Contents: Volume 9, 1997
- Diane Massam: Three Faces of Niuean aki
- Elizabeth Pearce: DP Licensing and Spec roles in Māori
- Elizabeth Pearce: Genitive Case in the Maori DP
- Shizuka Torii: Two Types of Evaluation Time and Subject Marking in Japan
Contents: Volume 8, 1996
- Jen Hay: No laughing matter: gender and humour support strategies
- Gary Johnson: The management of interaction in the television interviews of Maggie Barry
- Shelley Robertson: Māori English and the bus-driving listener: a study of ethnic identification and phonetic cues
- Ben Taylor: Gay men, femininity and /t/ in New Zealand English
- REPORT ON RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: Janet Holmes and Chris Lane Interactional Variation in Environmental Interviews
- BOOK REVIEW: Mary Crawford Talking Difference. Reviewed by Janet Holmes.
Contents: Volume 7, 1995
Out of Print
- Laurie Bauer: Is the morpheme dead?
- Jen Hay: The Adjacency Condition and the Atom Condition: compatible morphological constraints
- Elizabeth Pearce: V-movement and optionality
- Paul Warren: The sound of desert trains: delay strategies and constraints in spoken sentence processing
Contents: Volume 6, 1994
- Anita Easton: Talk and laughter in New Zealand women's speech
- Jen Hay: Jocular abuse in mixed gender interaction
- Janet Holmes and Allan Bell: Consonant cluster reduction in New Zealand English
- Camille Plimmer: Language maintenance and shift in the Italian community in Wellington
Contents: Volume 5, 1992
Out of Print
- Chris Lane: Repetitive questioning in courtroom interaction and interlanguage communication
- Lisa Matthewson: Conversation behaviour of television viewers
- Jane Pilkington: Don't try and make out that I'm nice!' The different strategies women and men use when gossiping
- Maria Stubbe: What's the score? Qualitative vs quantitative analysis in gender research.
Contents: Volume 4, 1992
- Laurie Bauer: Review of J. Kelly and J. Local Doing Phonology
- Gavin Carr: On Heads in Morphology and Syntax
- Lisa Matthewson: Prosodic Morphology in Alabama Negation
- Matthew Scott: An Assimilatory Neutralization in New Zealand English
Contents: Volume 3, 1991
- Janet Holmes: Women's verbal contributions in public settings
- Caroline McGhie: The jargon of Wellington taxi dispatchers
- Catherine Neazor: Language maintenance and shift in the Wellington Polish community
- Michael Williams: Post-vocalic (r) in the urban speech of the Isle of Wight
Contents: Volume 2, 1990
- Laurie Bauer: English vocabulary during the Twentieth century: an experimental approach
- Lisa Matthewson: The negative clitic in Middle High German
- Elizabeth Pearce: An analysis of negated infinitivals in Middle French
- Xuezhong Zhang: The structure of Chinese dative/benefactive and double object sentences
Contents: Volume 1, 1990
- 'Anahina 'Aipolo and Janet Holmes: The Wellington Tongan community: prospects for language maintenance
- Nicola Daly: Sri Lankans and Sinhala language maintenance in New Zealand
- Jane Pilkington: Mixed marriages and language maintenance: some Samoan data
- Wendy Thompson: Attitudes to Māori and the use of Māori lexical items in English
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