Mary Laughren
Mary Laughren is an Australian linguist.
She received her PhD from Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 1973.[1] 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 our understanding of song register and baby talk register.[2] She was also the editor of the Warlpiri-English encyclopedic dictionary.[3]
Laughren is currently an Honorary Research Senior Fellow at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at The University of Queensland. Mary has also been the puzzles co-coordinator for OzCLO, a member of the IOL. In 2005 she shared the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Inaugural Ken Hale Chair with Jane Simpson and David Nash.[4] From 1996-1998 Mary was the President of Australex, and served on its board until 2000.[5]
Key publications
Laughren, Mary (2013). Bamanan-kan. In Dragomir Radev (Ed.), Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Green Book (pp. 88-90) Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Laughren, Mary (2010). Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: The thematic core. In Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey (Ed.), Complex predicates: Cross-linguistic perspectives on event structure (pp. 167-236) Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Laughren, Mary, Pensalfini, Rob and Mylne, Tom (2005). Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language. In Carnie, Andrew, Harley, Heidi and Dooley, Sheila Ann (Ed.), Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages 1st ed. (pp. 367-401) Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Laughren, Mary (2002). Syntactic Constraints in a 'Free Word Order' Language. In Amberber, Mengistu and Collins, Peter (Ed.), Language Universals and Variation 1st ed. (pp. 83-130) Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers.
Laughren, Hoogenraad, Hale, Granites (1996). A Learner's Guide to Warlpiri: Tape course for beginners, IAD Press, Alice Springs.
Hale, Kenneth, Mary Laughren and Jane Simpson (1995) 'Warlpiri.' In J. Jacobs, A. von Stechow, W. Sternefeld, and T. Venneman, eds., Syntax: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, vol. 2. Pp. 1430-1451. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Mary Laughren (1984) Warlpiri Baby talk, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 4:1, 73-88
References
- ^ "WorldCat". 2015. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Language Description Informed by Theory. Benjamins. 2014. p. 21. ISBN 9789027206145.
- ^ "Warlpiri dictionary". 200-. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ "Past Linguistic Institutes: Named Professorships". 2-12. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ "Australex: Committee 1996-1998". 1998. Retrieved 2015.
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