Afla7 Website address changed

[M. Klamer]

AUSTRONESIAN FORMAL LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION, 7th Annual
Meeting (AFLA7, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 11-13 May, 2000
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CHANGE OF WEBSITE ADDRESS Afla7

It appeared that some had difficulties accessing the AFLA
website. We have therefore moved the site to a more
accessible location:

http://www.let.vu.nl/afla

We hope that the Abstracts will now be available for
everyone interested. In case you have trouble accessing
them, please let me know. Happy reading!

Marian Klamer
Vrije Universiteit
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AFLA7 PROGRAM

THURSDAY 11 MAY, 2000
8.30–9.15
Registration & coffee: Main Building, room 10A00

9.15–9.20
Opening

9.20–10.10
William Foley, Sydney University
Categorial change in Oceanic Languages: First contact on the
North New
Guinea Coast

10.10–10.40
Ger Reesink, Leiden University
Austronesian features in a linguistic area

10.40–11.10
Lily I-wen Su, National Taiwan University
Evidentials and mental spaces: A study of Tsou narratives

11.10–11.30
Break

11.30–12.00
Shuanfan Huang, National Taiwan University
The pragmatics of focus in Tsou and Seediq

12.00–12.30
Der-Hwa Victoria Rau, Providence University, Taiwan
Word order variation and topic continuity in Atayal

12.30–2.00
Lunch

Room 11A05
2.00–2.50
Ellen Broselow, SUNY Stony Brook
Syntax-phonology interactions in the Makassar languages

2.50–3.20
Mark Hale, Concordia University, Montreal
The morphology-phonology interface: Rotuman metathesis
revisited

3.20–3.50
Phil Quick, Australian National University
A nonlinear analysis of Vowel harmony and Vowel harmony
blocking in
Pendau

3.50–4.20
Break

4.20–4.50
Adam Ussishkin, UC Santa Cruz
Fixed prosodic effects in Austronesian: An
Optimality-theoretic account

4.50–5.20
Katrina Hayward, SOAS, London
Derivations vs. constraints: The [a]-[ò] alternation in
Javanese

5.20–5.50
Paul Lassettre, University of Hawai’i
Phonologically and morphologically grounded alternations in
Woleaian

7 p.m.
Conference dinner: Kantjil & de Tijger, Spuistraat 291-293

FRIDAY 12 MAY, 2000
Room 10A00
8.45–9.00
Registration & coffee

9.00–9.50
Adrian Clynes, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Correlations of phonological structures and expressivity:
emergence of
the marked?

9.50–10.20
Hasan Basri & Yiya Chen, SUNY Stony Brook
Identity effects in Selayarese Vowel Harmony

10.20-10.50
Thomas B. Klein & Meta Y. Harris, University of Manchester
Fixed segmentism and markedness: Nominalising reduplication
in Chamorro

10.50–11.20
Break

11.20–11.50
Cabriele H. Cablitz, Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics
Nominalisation of verbal clauses in Marquesan (Oceanic)

11.50–12.20
Li-May Sung, National Taiwan University
Nominalization in Rukai and Amis

12.20–12.40
Ritsuko Kikusawa, Australian National University
Case marking systems in Rotuman and Fijian

12.40–2.00
Lunch

2.00–2.50
Ileana Paul, MIT/UQAM
Concealed pseudo-clefts in Austronesian

2.50–3.20
William D. Davies, University of Iowa
Against long movement in Madurese

3.20–3.50
Peter Cole & Gabriella Hermon, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Reflexives and c-command in Toba Batak

3.50–4.20
Break

4.20–5.10
Diana Massam, University of Toronto
Nominals in Niuean

5.10–5.30
Business Meeting

SATURDAY 13 MAY, 2000
Room 11A05

8.45–9.00
Registration & coffee

9.00–9.30
Peter Cole, David Gil, Gabriella Hermon & Uri Tradmor
Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, University of Delaware &
University of
Utrecht
The acquisition of WH forms in Jakarta Indonesian

9.30–10.00
Charles Randriamasimanana, Massey University, New Zealand
Malagasy, binary branching and null subjects

10.00–10.20
Break

10.20–10.50
Anja Letrouite & Ralf Naumann, Heinrich-Heine Universität,
Düsseldorf
An interpretation of the voice affix –i in Tagalog

10.50–11.20
Ulrike Mosel & Jessika Reinig, University of Kiel
Valency-changing clitics in Teop (Oceanic, Bougainville,
PNG)

11.20–11.40
Madelyn Kissock, Oakland University
Structural case and argument structure in Oceanic: Evidence
from Rotuman

11.40-12.20
Simon Musgrave, The University of Melbourne
Emotion verbs and grammatical functions in Indonesian

12.20–1.40
Lunch

1.40–2.30
I Wayan Arka, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia
Voice and being core: Evidence from (Eastern) Indonesian
languages

2.30–3.00
Peter K. Austin, The University of Melbourne
Arguments and non-Arguments in Meno-Mene Sasak, eastern
Indonesia

3.00–3.30
Anja Latrouite, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Argument marking in Tagalog

3.30–3.45
Closing Session

4.00 VU Buildings Close

ALTERNATES:
Alexandre Francois, Université Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle
Vowel shifting and cloning in Motlav (Vanuatu)

David Gil, Max Planck Institute Leipzig
Island-like phenomena in Riau Indonesian



Dr Marian Klamer
General Linguistics
Vrije Universiteit
P.O. Box 7161
1007 MC Amsterdam
Phone 31 + (0)20 444 6482
Email m.klamer at let.vu.nl