Mary Laughren
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mary Laughren is involved.
2020 Ear and belly in Warlpiri descriptions of cognitive and emotional experience Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 240–271 | Article
Like most other Australian languages, Warlpiri – a Pama-Nyungan language of the Ngumpin-Yapa group – is rich in figurative expressions that include a body-part noun. In this article we examine the collocations involving two body parts: langa ‘ear’, which mostly relates to cognition; and miyalu… read more
2016 Possession in Kuku-Thaypan through a comparative lens Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 179–198 | Article
This chapter presents a cross-linguistic study of possession constructions, examining data from Kuku Thaypan (Rigsby 1976), Waanyi and Warlpiri. It acknowledges the distinction between alienable and inalienable possession constructions in the three languages, then focusses more particularly on how… read more
2005 Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley (eds.), pp. 367–401 | Article
2004 The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 151–178 | Article