2004 Annual Linguistics Society Conference

ALS is the main conference in Australia for people interested in all aspects of linguistics. Papers are given on general, theoretical, descriptive, historical, typological, acquisition, and sociolinguistics topics, as well as on descriptions of languages, especially languages of the region. In 2004, the plenary speakers included Carol Neidle (Boston University) on signed languages, and Cliff Goddard (University of New England). There was a workshop on historical linguistics.