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Australian Journal of Linguistics special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly

The latest double issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics (45.3) is a special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly. It has been my absolute pleasure to be an editor for this special issue, bringing together an amazing range of work that touches on the contributions and legacy of Barbara F. Kelly.

Thanks to my co-editors Katharine Parton and Celeste Rodriguez Louro. Thanks also to all of the contributors, who were the loveliest collection of authors one could hope to work with (unsurprising, given that one of Barb's particular talents was collecting great people).

Almost all articles are Open Access, with the remainder available without paywall for the first six months.

I'll be sharing more later about the two contributions in the collection I was an author on. I wanted to start by sharing the full list of the articles and contributors in the special issue.

Special Issue: In Memory of Barbara F. Kelly Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 45(3)

For the love of people: Introduction to the special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Katharine Parton & Lauren Gawne

Barbara F. Kelly and the study of children’s multimodal language socialization Eve V. Clark & Alan Rumsey

Multimodal strategies for engaging young Arrernte and Warlpiri children in storytelling and play Carmel O’Shannessy, Jennifer Green, Vanessa Davis, Jessie Bartlett, Alice Nelson, Ashleigh Jones & Denise Foster

Children’s introductions to story characters in Murrinhpatha, a traditional Australian language Lucinda Davidson & Gillian Wigglesworth

An acquisition sketch of polysynthetic verbal morphology in Murrinhpatha William Forshaw, Lucinda Davidson & Rachel Nordlinger

Children’s verbal inflection development in Pitjantjatjara: An acquisition sketch Wanyima Wighton, Rebecca Defina & Barbara F. Kelly

A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the Acquisition Sketch Project Evan Kidd, Birgit Hellwig, Rowena Garcia, Rebecca Defina, Lucinda Davidson & Shanley Allen

Say “I’m Uncle Lama” and sit with crossed legs: Socializing religious practice in Sherpa Sara Ciesielski

Natural disasters elicit spontaneous multimodal iconicity in onomatopoeia and gesture: Earthquake narratives from Nepal and New Zealand Lauren Gawne, Kristine A. Hildebrandt & Suzy Styles

Gestures for me and you: A corpus study of Matukar Panau referential gestures Danielle Barth & Kira Davey

From both sides now: Revisiting Dalabon kintax Nicholas Evans

Stance in [in]action: Being in the room where it happens Katharine Parton & G. Edwards

Decolonizing the introductory linguistics curriculum Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, Ewan O’Brien, Katharina Froedrich & Luisa Miceli

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Queen Bee

We are under zzzzsiege! Defend your Queen Bee! Protect the hive!” - Queen Bee

Real Name: Zazzala

Gender: Female

Height: 5′ 9″

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Black

Powers:

Alien Physiology

Immortality

Abilities:

Bee Fighter

Leadership

Weaknesses:

Color Blindness

Equipment:

Stinger Gun

Magno-Nuclear Rod

Universe: 

Earth-One

New Earth

Origin: The Queen Bee is the ruler of an intergalactic bee hive and eventually became the third mistress of the H.I.V.E. Organization.

Base of Operations: 

Hiveworld Korll

H.I.V.E HQ

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Queen

First Appearance: Justice League of America#23 (November, 1963)

Last Appearance: Flash Vol 2 #247 (February, 2009)

Powers

Alien Physiology

Bee Control: Although Zazzala may be able to control more than just bees she has a strong affinity towards bees from both her planet and Earth; this means that she may have general control over any being with the same genetic structure as a normal honeybee no matter what the planet.

Flight: Zazzala like the rest of her race can fly, but does not need wings like Earth's bees.

Hypno Pollen: Zazzala's body produces a hypnotic pollen. She does this mentally by willing her body to produce the pollen. Once Zazzala releases the pollen her victims will do what ever she tells them to do. There is no limit to how many people she can have under her control but there is a limit for how long they stay under control. The amount of time that depends on the size of the dose.

Immortality: Having drank the Elixir of Immortality, the elixir had the side-effect of gradually turn Zazzala immobile. She could use her Magno-Rod to absorb magnetic energy from persons transformed in winged beings and be mobile again.

Superhuman Strength

Superhuman Speed

Abilities

Bee Fighter: Zazzala has her own unique fighting style that is common among her kind. It has a lot to do with flight combat mixed with kicks.

Leadership

Weaknesses

Color Blindness: Zazzala is unable to see the color red. Everything coated in red is invisible to her eyes.

Equipment

Stinger Gun: Once Zazzala became Queen Bee, she had her drones attach a gauntlet gun to her arm. This gun fires stingers that a normal Earth bee has on its abdomen. Instead of just being a normal stinger, Zazzala's induces a deadly poison. Upon breaking the skin, her stingers induce a poison and if not treated within 3 hours the victim will die. It takes time for the poison to affect victim. After ten minutes the person gets dizzy. Thirty, the person develops a fever and finally the poison takes its full effect and kills the victim. If the stinger was to miss the person, the stinger would explode and release a gas form of the poison with the same effects if inhaled.

Magno-Nuclear Rod: The rod has a small artificial intelligence; if she wish, only Zazzala can control the rod. Erroneous instructions are taken literally by the rod. When Zazzala ordered the rod to "obey only Zazzala, the immortal", the rod turned off all its power when she became mortal again. The rod needs proper adjustments in order to fulfill its role properly. The rod also needs to be recharged periodically, once every five uses. The known powers of the Magno-Rod are:

Animal Control

Mind Control

Energy Projection

Power Absorption: It only drain human intellect and redirects to mind-controlled animals.

Shape-Shifting: Can only change victims into small winged people.

Magnetic Manipulation and Energy Absorption: Can create small winged duplicates from persons made with magnetic energy. Zazzala can avoid her immobility side-effect with the stings of these duplicates, which disappear after it. The person mimicked by the duplicate is temporarily magnetized and become tied to near metals. Superman's strength cannot resist to this magnetic attraction.

Origin

The leader of the hive-world Korll, Zazzala lives only for the interstellar expansion of her species. She clashed frequently with the Justice League of America during their early adventures. Queen Zazzala created an army of bee-men to find a potion of immortality for her. She first tested them by having them loot various worlds. But on Earth they failed, being defeated by the Justice League. Therefore she threatened to destroy Earth if the JLA did not find the vial for her. They did but the Green Lantern used his power ring to stop her from opening it. However, back on her home world, she looked through the records of her people's experiments on a Green Lantern Ring and found a way to open the vial.

Zazzala later formed her own team of super-villains in a bid to destroy the JLA. This Anti-Justice League operated from an Earth-orbiting satellite resembling a giant beehive. This team was very short-lived, disbanding after one battle with the JLA.

In her next battle with the JLA, Zazzala controlled real bees. Claiming she was a victim of a scheme that was transferring human intellect to animals, she led the JLA to believe that Sonar was the real villain of the piece. Fooled for a while, the League went on to discover that this was nothing other than an elaborate plot by Zazzala for her revenge.

Queen Bee later worked in concert with the Planeteer in a plot against Superman.

Injustice Gang

Zazzala was later contacted by Lex Luthor to join his Injustice Gang, in which she agreed, freeing The General from his asteroid prison in exchange for a percentage of Earth's population to become her drones. She also participated in other battles against the League. Her main effort was concentrated on New York City. She forced many of the citizens to craft an "egg matrix" out of local supplies as a way to secure even more mind-control. She attempted to brainwash Green Lantern and Steel, but both heroes were able to fight it off; Huntress encouraged Green Lantern to resist the pollen, and Steel's suit protected him from the pollen's effects. Using Queen Bee's inability to see the color red, which many of the superheroes had in their costumes, Wonder Woman and Big Barda kept the Queen's forces occupied while Steel and Plastic Man got the drop on the Queen. Using a Boom Tube they teleported the Queen and her army back to Korll.

The Society and H.I.V.E.

Zazzala returned to Earth and she and along her drones joined Lex Luthor's new Secret Society of Super Villains. The Queen became the leader of the H.I.V.E., a multinational criminal enterprise. The Secret Six attacked her base as part of a war against the Society. Her forces were defeated, the base's prisoner, Firestorm, was freed and Zazzala herself was badly wounded.

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