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Mary Laughren is an Australian linguist.
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She received her PhD from Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 1973. 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. She was also the editor of the Warlpiri-English encyclopedic dictionary.
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. From 1996-1998 Mary was the President of Australex, and served on its board until 2000.
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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