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Diane Massam
dmassam at chass.utoronto.ca
Thu Mar 18 17:07:29 UTC 1999
To Austronesian Linguists,
For your information, we are posting below, the preliminary schedule for
the AFLA VI conference to be held at the University of Toronto on April
16-18, 1999. This information is
also posted on our web page at
www.chass.utoronto.ca/~aflavi
The schedule on the web will be updated periodically. We hope that some of
you might be able to attend.
Best wishes,
AFLA committee
(Diane Massam, Susana Bejar, Daniel Currie Hall, Carolyn Smallwood)
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AFLA VI - Schedule
Friday, April 16th, 1999
Parallel sessions (rooms TBA):
A: Reduplication (Phonology)
B: Syntax
9:30-10:00 COFFEE
10:00-11:00 PLENARY SESSION: Lisa Travis (McGill)
"The syntax and semantics of reduplication"
11:00-11:30 A: Andrea Rackowski (MIT)
"Optimally optional: Tagalog aspectual reduplication"
B: Barry Miller (York U.)
"The Definiteness Restriction in Tagalog"
11:30-11:45 BREAK
11:45-12:15 A: Luba Butska (Rutgers U.)
"Sonority Constraints and Nakanai Reduplication"
B: Marie Meili Yeh (Lien Ho College, Taiwan)
"Negation and V-to-I movement in Saisiya"
12:15-12:45 A: Hasan Basri and Yiya Chen (SUNY, Stony Brook)
"When Harmony Meets Reduplication"
B: Susana Bejar (U. of Toronto)
"Number Features and Specificity"
12:45- 2:00 LUNCH
2:00- 2:45 PLENARY SESSION: Paul de Lacy and Catherine Kitto
(U. Mass, Amherst, U. of Toronto)
"A Correspondence Theory of Epenthesis"
(Invited Student Talk)
2:45- 3:15 A: Paul Lassettre (U. of Hawai'i)
"Intrusive -kk- and reduplication in Eastern Trukic"
B: Tham Shiao Wei (Stanford U.)
"The role of discourse functions in Malay word order"
3:15- 3:45 A: Franca Ferrari- Bridgers (NYU)
"On the proper treatement of quantitative complementarity
in Panopean reduplication"
B: Peter Cole, Elizabeth Jonczyk & Jason S Lilley (Delaware)
"Extraction from object position in Javanese and other
Austronesian languages"
3:45- 4:15 BREAK
4:15- 4:45 A: Josef Szakos (Providence Unviersity, Taiwan)
"Reduplication and subgrouping: A contrastive account of
Tsou, Kanavu and Sa'arua"
B: Suzanne Belanger (U. of Toronto)
"Wh-agreement in Chamorro"
4:45- 5:45 PLENARY SESSION: Daniel Finer (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Friday night: PARTY at the nearby Toronto Australia New Zealand Club to
the music of the Linguistic All Stars (every player a linguist - you too
can be one; bring your musical instruments), and enjoy Polynesian,
Indonesian and other musics.
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Saturday, April 17th, 1999
Parallel sessions (rooms TBA):
A: Reduplication (Phonology)
B: Syntax
9:00- 9:30 A: Dan Albro and Ed Keenan (UCLA)
"Reduplication in Malagasy: An Enriched OT Analysis"
B: Nornaida Aman, Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon (Delaware)
"The Acquisition of In situ and fully moved questions in
Singapore Malay"
9:30-10:00 A: Philip Spaelti (Kobe Shoin Women's U.)
"Syllable recycling reduplication: a specific result of a
comprehensive theory of infixing reduplication"
B: Norvin Richards (Kanda U.)
"Complementizer Cliticization in Tagalog and English"
10:00-10:30 A: Keira Ballantyne (U. of Hawai'i)
"Reduplication in Yapese"
B: Ritsuko Kikusawa (ILCAA, Japan)
"The Fijian transitive ending (C)aki] and related forms
in central Pacific languages from a historical point of
view"
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:30 A: Joseph Finney
"Reduplication, double consonants, double vowels, and
issues of orthography in a small Polynesian nation"
B: Chen Cheng-Fu (National Taiwan U.)
"Wh-words as polarity items in Rukai"
11:30-12:30 PLENARY SESSION: Elizabeth Pearce (Victoria U. Wellington)
12:30- 1:30 LUNCH
Parallel sessions (rooms TBA):
A: Reduplication (Syntax)
B: Phonology
1:30- 2:00 A: Paul Li ( Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica)
"Some Aspects of Pazeh syntax"
B: Jen Muller (Ohio State U.)
"Geminate Markedness: Evidence from Chuukese"
2:00- 2:30 A: Paul Llido (Georgetown U.)
"A comparison of verb reduplicative with non-
reduplicative verb stems in Cebuano"
B: Tien Hsin Hsin (U. of Connecticut)
"On consonant release in Tsou"
(Student Abstract Competition Winner)
2:30- 3:00 A: William Davies (U. of Iowa)
"Reduplication, Multiple Events, and Madurese
Reciprocals"
B: Jason Roberts (Wisconsin, Madison)
"The development of the vowel systems of the Micronesian
languages"
3:00- 3:30 BREAK
3:30- 4:00 PLENARY SESSION: Ileana Paul (McGill)
"On Passives" (Invited student talk)
4:00- 4:15 BREAK
4:15- 5:15 PLENARY SESSION: Juliette Blevins (Cambridge University)
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Sunday, April 18th, 1999
Parallel sessions (rooms TBA):
A: Reduplication /Phonology/ Semantics/Contact
B: Syntax
9:00- 9:30 PLENARY SESSION: Mark Hale (University of Concordia)
"Marshallese & The Relationship Between Phonetics & Phonology"
9:30-10:00 A: Alicia Lan-Ting Say (National Taiwan U.)
"Reduplication in Formosan languages - a typological
study"
B: Juvenal Ndayiragij (U. of Western Ontario)
"Evidence for the 'local' nature of MLC"
10:00-10:30 A: Niken Adisasmito-Smith (Cornell U.)
"Acoustic Characteristics of the Javanese breathy/clear
phonation contrast"
B: Carrie Gillon, Catherine Kitto, Nicole Rosen,
and Carolyn Smallwood (U. of Toronto)
"Fronted aspectual elements and 'ai' in Ngati Porou Maori"
10:30-11:00 A: Paul De Lacy (U. Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Circumscription in Optimality Theory"
B: Yehuda Falk (Hebrew University)
"Philippine subjects in a monostratal framework"
11:00-12:00 LUNCH
12:00-12:30 A: Marian Klamer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/HIL)
"The iconicity of being 'wild': evidence from
Austronesian expressives"
B: Matt Pearson (UCLA)
"Tense(?)-Marking on Malagasy PPs: an argument-non
argument asymmetry" (Student Abstract Competition Winner)
12:30- 1:00 A: Ralf Naumann and Anja Latrouite (U. of Dusseldorf)
"An interpretation of Tagalog voice-affixes in dynami
event semantics"
B: Li-May Sung (National Taiwan U.)
"Negation in Tsou"
1:00- 1:15 BREAK
1:15- 1:45 A: Kieran Snyder (U. of Pennsylvania)
"I speak Tahitian (French): Reflexives and the
borrowing of discourse"
B: Edith Aldridge (Cornell U.)
"Leftward Movement and Case-checking: Evidence from
Atayalic Languages"
1:45- 2:15 A: Miriam Meyerhoff (U. of Hawai'i/Cornell U.)
"When Having Morphology Matters"
B: Mark Donahue & Anna Maclachlan
(U. Sydney, Machina Sapiens)
"What Agreement in Chamorro"
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