Afla 7 Preliminary Programme

M. Klamer m.klamer at let.vu.nl
Mon Mar 13 15:32:18 UTC 2000


INFORMATION ABOUT AFLA 7

The preliminary programme of the 7th Annual Meeting of the
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA7) is given
below. The abstracts will be put on the Afla website on
Monday, March 20 onwards,

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

AFLA7, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 11-13 May, 2000

THURSDAY 11 MAY, 2000
8.30–9.15     Registration & coffee
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
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


FRIDAY 12 MAY, 2000
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    Lisa deMena Travis, McGill University
              The syntax of iteration and iconicity
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
8.45–9.00     Registration & coffee
9.00–9.30     Peter Cole, David Gil, Gabriella Hermon
&
              Uri Tradmor
              Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
               Anthropology,Leipzig & University of Delaware
              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:

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

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

  David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology
  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



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