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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

ANNUAL REPORT 1973

58/1974

The department worked well and made substantial progress, along lines that have been established over the past few years and described in past annual reports.

There was again a significant increase in enrolments (w.s.u. 's rising by 20%). Semester courses were introduced and proved popular amongst both undergraduates and staff, for their flexibility and ease of assessment (there are no obligatory examinations for most subjects taught in the department).

The department now has fifteen postgraduate students working on a variety of topics, particularly the detailed in­vestigation of Australian languages (a subject which has been pretty well neglected during most of the last two hundred years). Miss S.L. Kesteven, who gained a First Class Honours in 1972 (the first awarded in the department) was elected to a Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University.

Although members of the department have, by their own choice, a heavy teaching load (preferring to teach more hours to relatively small classes than fewer hours to large classes), they were also productive in research. During a fifteen month period four of the five permanent members of staff had books published - Professor Dixon's The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland was put out by Cambridge University Press in December 1972, Dr. Wierzbicka's Semantic Primitives by Athen~um in March 1973, Dr. Rensch's Nordkalabrischer Sprachatlas anhand der Parabel vom verlorenen Sohn, by Mouton in January 1973, and Dr. Haiman's Targets and Syntactic Change is due to be published by Mouton in early 1974.

Professor Dixon attended a colloquium on semantics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in May.

STAFF, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

(a) Professor R.M.W. Dixon, M.A. (Oxen), Ph.D. (London) -Head of Department.

"The Semantics of Giving 1, pp. 205-223 of The Formal

Analysis of Natural Languages 11, edited by Maurice Gross,

Morris Halle and Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, Mouton, 1973.

(b) K.H.M. Rensch, Dr. phil (Mun) - Senior Lecturer.

Nordkalabrischer Sprachatlas unhand der Parabel vom verlorenen Sohn, Mouton, 1973, p. xxxiii, 166.

(c) J. Harris, B.A. (Syd), M.A. (Mich) - Lecturer.

(d) J.M. Haiman, B.A. (Tor), Ph.D . (Harv) - Lecturer.

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(e) A. Wierzbicka, M.A. Philology (Warsaw), Ph.D. (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences), Dozent (Warsaw, Polish Acndemcy of Sciences) - Lecturing Fellow (took up duties in June 19 73).

Semantic Primitives, Athena.um Verlag, December 1972.

"Acts of Speech 11 in Se:niotyka. i struktura tekstu, ed. M.R. Mayenowa, Warszawa~ 1973 (in Polish), pp.

"In Search of Semantic Model of Time and Spnce;7 in Generative Gra.mnar in Europe, eds. F. Kiefer and N. Ruwet, Dordrecht, 1973, pp.

(f) H.J. Koch, B.A. (Waterloo Lutheran U.), M.A. (Washington), M.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Harvard) - Lecturing Fellow (will take up duties in January 1974)

VISITING STAFF

Professor James D. Mccawley of the University of Chicago spent the second term in the depart~ent as an Australian Anerican Educational Foundation Visiting Fellow. Professor McCn:wley is one of the leading linguists in the U.S.A., working in the field of "Generative Ser:inntics", and his lectures were found educntive and inspriing by the student~ and staff who attended then. Dr. Noriko Mccawley was also a faculty visiting lecturer during second term and made a welconc contribution to the teaching of both the Department of Linguistics and the Departnent of Japanese.

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