<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">I</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">m posting this on behalf of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Catharina Williams-van Klinken </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><</span><a href="mailto:cwvk@livethedream.tl" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: purple;" class="">cwvk@livethedream.tl</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><br class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class="">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Catharina Williams-van Klinken" <<a href="mailto:cwvk@livethedream.tl" style="color: purple;" class="">cwvk@livethedream.tl</a>><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class="">Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">A new publication (for free download): Discourse structures of Tetun Dili</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class="">Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">4 November 2020 at 18:17:52 AEDT<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class="">To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:an-lang-bounces@anu.edu.au" style="color: purple;" class="">an-lang-bounces@anu.edu.au</a>><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">A colleague and I have completed a provisional writeup of discourse analysis of Tetun Dili. I hope it is of use to others as it the process of writing was to us.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Regards,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Catharina Williams-van Klinken</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Discourse structures of Tetun Dili, an Austronesian language of Timor-Leste, by Catharina Williams-van Klinken and Olinda Lucas, 2020</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.tetundit.tl/Publications/WvK%20and%20Lucas%202020%20Tetun%20Dili%20discourse.pdf" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.tetundit.tl/Publications/WvK%20and%20Lucas%202020%20Tetun%20Dili%20discourse.pdf</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Tetun Dili is an Austronesian language spoken in Timor-Leste (East Timor), where it has been a lingua franca for centuries, and a co-official language along with Portuguese since independence in 2002.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The authors draw on discourse analysis to describe two general areas that have not been covered in descriptions of the language to date.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The first is how language works beyond sentence level. For instance, how are stories structured, and how are participants referred to in a story?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The second is function within a text. For example, what are relative clauses used for?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The authors draw on in-depth discourse analysis of a corpus of primarily oral texts, supplemented by twenty years of more general language analysis and extensive experience in translation and translation testing.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Prof. Catharina Williams-van Klinken</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Director, Centre for Language Studies</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Dili Institute of Technology</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Website:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tetundit.tl/" style="color: purple;" class="">www.tetundit.tl</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Email: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cwvk@livethedream.tl" style="color: purple;" class="">cwvk@livethedream.tl</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Phone: (+670) 7724 8459</span></div></div></body></html>