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FACULTY OF ARTS '.,

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

ANNuAL REPORT 1974

The department worked well and made substantial progress, along lines that have }?een established over th.e past few-y~ars and _ described in past .annual reports.

There was again a substantial increase in enrolments (w.s.u.~~ :r:f.&ing by 50% .from 48-72 ). Enrolments ·in the .fitst year

. cour.se-.inCrea.Sed from 50 to 80 · and the department gained :~iX of ' ·the new M.A. scholarshipa al.located within the University.

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l - . , ,.,. l)uring each of the four years of its existence the depart-ment 'h.as consulted with students about methods of assessment; courses to be offered, syllabuses and so forth. Discussions of these topics continued in 1974 and the Octoher meeting of the Staff /Student Liaisqn

1Committee noted . that all of the ·significant recommendations of the · '10/10 Commi.ttee .Report had been, followed in the department since before the id/10 Committee was established. ·

.O.f the 24 courses _offered within the- department 21 have a · choice of means of -assessm_ent; that is, :there is no obligatory examln­atidn, but any student may request one. An exam may not be requested

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in the case ·c:>f · Linguistics ·A9 - Field Methods:, , and there are obligatory _'·' .• examinations for the two_ large first. year s·emester units Al - · Principles of Linguistics and A2 - Sociolinguistics. Students have indicated · that they think there is a need for obligatory examinations in Al and A2 and 80% of those who completed student assessment forms fo·r~ '.'.these courses indicated that they were happy with the exam requirements.

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~ro: !: · _The major research interest . of the department continued to be th~-. . stµ_dy of Au.3tralian languages - three members of staff, four postgraclWite s_tudents , two fourth year undergraduates, .. and one reseaJ;ch .-a~~ist~nt having undertake?J . substantial field WOJ:""k during the -:year. -. ".' Other researchip.terests are the study of Papuan languages, and ·· theorei;ical investigations · -within the fields o'f ·semantics, syntax and languag~ change. . . ·

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STAFF, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

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

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

Veraenderungen im Vokaleystem des provenzalischen Dialekts von Lafage au der Sicht der generativen Phonologie. Orbis, XXII, 1973, 343-352

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Richter, Rensch, Sperlbaum, Knetschke "Speziellemethodische Untersuchungen sprachlicher Phaenomene .. , Tuebingen 1974. Max Niemeyer Verlag.

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(c) J. Harris, B.A. (Syd), M.A. (Mich)' - Lecturer (resigned February 1974)

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

Targets . ~nd Syntactic Change, Mouton, 1974, pp.156 . .

'Ablaut in the Hua Verb', pp.32-46 of Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. xr. 1972.

'Concessives, ~onditionals, and Verbs of Vol~tion', pp.341-359 of 1Foundations of Language , Vol.11, 197~

(e) A. Wierzbicka, M.A~ ·Philology (Warsaw), ' PliJ). Cwarsa~, Polish Academy of Sciences), Dozent (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences) -Lecturing. Fellow (appointed Lecturer in .July) · ·

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'A · semantic analysts ·af words for part·S of the body', in: ~~: . Janus,. ed • . Semantics and Lexicography.;' .Warsaw 1974, Ossolineum ·

· · (in Polisl\) 'The . deep structure of exclamations', in M.R. Mayenowa, ed., . Language! Sign, and Culture, Mouton ·1974

(f) H.J Koch,, _B.A. (Waterloo Lutheran U.), M. A. (Wash), M.A. (Harv), Ph~D. {Harv) ·- Lecturing Fellow (from January 1974) -.

(g) .J·. ·Browne, B. A. (The American University, Wa~hington D. C..) , ··-~M.'A. (The American University, Washington D •. c.) - Temporary

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Professor Bh. Krishnamurt'i of Osmani~i"University , · tlyder~bad spent the second semester in the department as Asian Fellow. Professor Krishnamurti" gave a course oh 'Dravidian Linguistics' and also contri­buted to A2. L S'o·ciolingu:i:stics. In addition he 'lectured within '.the . . departments o~ · G~og~aphy' ·~artd Asian Civilizatiqns and at Monash Universi~r 1 Macquarie University, The 11niversity of Newcastle, and The trriiversity 9( 11 Queensland. · Professor Krish~urti' s lectures''were ' ·~ppreci~ted by · · ~.~;~ both staff 'and ' students klnci he' made a valuabl~ coiii:r'ibution to our" . . . . academic community.

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DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE

Percentage of Number Enrolled Percentage of Number Sitting

1 2 3 4 5 6. 7 8 9 10 11

Subject Enrol. Sitting Wastage Fail Sitting High Dist. Credit Pass Fail or unit as at (i.e. Dist.

30.4.74 2-3)

Ling. Al 83 (100) 75 (90) 5 (6) 3 (4) 75 (100) 6 (8) 16 (21) 28 (37) 22 (29) 3 (4)

Ling. A2 15* 2 (4) 47 (100) 4 (9) 13 (28) 21 (45) 7 (15) 2 (4)

Ling. A2S l* 1 .1 (100) 1 (100)

Ling. A3 16* 45 3 (8) 45 (100) 8 (18) 14 (31) 11 (24) 9 (20) 3 (8)

Ling. A4 16 (100) 15 (94) 1 (3) 1 (3) 15 (100) 3 (20) 4 (27) 4 (27) 3 (20) 1 (6) 1,ing. AS 22 (100) 21 (95) 1 (5) 1 21 (100) 4 (19) 11 (52) - 6 (29) -Ung. A6 6 (100) 6 (100) 6 (100) 2 (33) 1 (17) - 3 (50) -Ling. A7 6* 10 10 (100) 1 (10) 2 (20) 2 (20) 5 (50) -Ling. AS 6* 8 1 8 (100) - 2 (25) 4 (50) 1 (13) 1(13) Ling. Al2 9 (100) 9 (100) 1 (11) 9 (100) 3 (33) 4 (44) 1 (11) 1(11) Ling. Al3 14 (100) 14 (100) 14 (100) 2 (14) . 5 (36) 5 (36) 2 (-4) -Ling. B3* 4 3 3 (100) - 2 (67) 1 (33) Ling. BS O* 4 4 (100) - 4 (100) Ling, B6 1 0 1 0 Ling. B8 0 2 2 (100) - 2 (100)

No. % No. % No. % No. % No. · % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % ~~~0!te1o April 1974) Sitting Results Final Honours 4 4 4 2 Hl; 1 H2A; 1 12B Masters Qualifying 1 full-time; 2 part-time

Masters Degree 7 full-time; 1 staff; 1 part-time Ph.D. 4 full-time. *Since the department encourages students not to choose their second semester unit until the firstsemester results are announced, the figure in column 2 (enrolled as at 30.4.74) has little meaning in the case of seeond semester units sue as Linguis ties A2, AZS4 • ~ AS and fil.