[An-lang] 4th East Nusantara Conference

[John Bowden]

I'm passing this message on from Frantisek Kratocvil

John


Dear AN-Langers

I would like to ask your attention for the 4th East Nusantara Conference 
that will be held between Thu June 30th till Fri July 1st 2005 at Leiden 
University, the Netherlands.

More information about the conference, the programme and abstracts is found 
at our webpage

<http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html>http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html 


Frantisek KRATOCHVIL

Leiden University, AAPP Project
<file://outbind://21/www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/team.html>www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/team.html 






I incluse also the poster Information:





4th International E Nusantara Linguistics Conference

The Typology of East Nusantara Languages

Thu 30 June & Fri 1 July, 2005, Leiden University, 1175-148

<http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html>http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html

Organisers: Michael Ewing & Marian Klamer

The East Nusantara region includes eastern Indonesia and East Timor, where 
Austronesian as well as Papuan languages are spoken.

1. Phonology

·  Unusual clusters- what are they, where do they occur in the word?

· Geminate or long consonants - where do they occur and what phonological 
significance do they have, e.g. are they weight-bearing/moraic?

· 'Final consonant loss' - to what extent has this occurred? Or conversely, 
in what ways is the presence of final consonants reinforced (e.g. loans, 
C-only clitics)? What 'strategies' are adopted in languages that appear to 
lead to the elimination of historical final consonants, e.g. consonant 
deletion, vowel or paragoge, and metathesis? Also:

·  Is there any kind of tonal activity or unusual prosodies, such as nasal 
spreading?

·  Are there unusual segment types, such as implosives, glottalized segments?

·  What are the stress placement rules (including secondary stress)?

·  What is syllable structure like, are there any minimal word/weight 
requirements?

2. Language internal systems for coding arguments

· Clause internal marking, including pronominal systems, agreement, verb 
morphology, and alignment (accusative, ergative, spilt-S, none of the above);

· Various types of alternations (voice systems, valency changing 
affixation) and

· Coding between clauses (referent tracking, switch reference systems, 
logophoric systems). Research questions:

· How to characterise the system of argument coding in a given language?

· The relationship between argument coding and possession marking

· Correspondences between systems of argument alignment and valency change

· Voice alternations and how they relate to argument coding

· Systems of argument coding (pronouns, verb morphology, clause structure) 
as employed in clause combining

3. Negation

Negation in languages of East Nusantara is often strikingly different from 
that in other AN languages. Research questions include:

·  What is the range of negation strategies in E Nusantara languages?

· How do the functions of marking negation and encoding argument structure 
interact through word order? · Can historical non-AN contact be shown to 
have motivated all cases of clause final marking or are there other 
motivating factors in evidence?

·  How has negation changed in speech communities experiencing language shift?

4. Verb serialisation

Verb serialisation is found in many of the languages of East Nusantara. We 
can say that a sequence of verbs qualifies as a serial verb construction if 
there is no marker of syntactic dependency between the components. Research 
questions include:

· The composition and semantics of the serial verb construction(s); how do 
these relate to the typology of Van Staden and Reesink (to appear)?

·  The formal properties of the serial verb construction(s)

·  If there are several coexisting serial verb types, how do they differ?

·  How productive is the serialisation?

· Is there optional verb serialisation? If so, what is the semantic and 
pragmatic functional motivation for this?

·  Which verbs are likely to appear in serial verb constructions, and which 
are not?

· If the language has generic/light verbs, can they be formally 
distinguished from verbs in serial verb constructions?

presenters:

Peter Austin, SOAS London, Louise Baird, Leiden University,; Michael Ewing, 
University of Melbourne, Margaret Florey, Monash University; Nelleke 
Goudswaard, Free University Amsterdam; John Hajek, University of Melbourne; 
Wilco van den Heuvel, Free University Amsterdam; Nikolaus Himmelmann, 
Ruhr-Universität Bochum; John Haan, Universitas Negeri Nusa Cendana, 
Kupang; Gary Holton, University of Alaska; June Jacob, Universitas Kristen 
Artha Wacana, Kupang; Marian Klamer, Leiden University; Franti¹ek 
Kratochvíl, Leiden University; Simon Musgrave, Monash University; Ger 
Reesink, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen; Bert Remijsen, Leiden University; 
Hein Steinhauer, Leiden University; Catharina Williams-Van Klinken, Dili 
Institute of Technology.

Invited discussants:

Michael Dunn, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen; Kees Hengeveld, University of 
Amsterdam; Helen de Hoop, Radboud University Nijmegen (Thursday); Andrej 
Malchukov, Radboud University Nijmegen; Pieter Muysken, Radboud University 
Nijmegen (Friday); Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen.

The Program will soon be available on our webpage: 
<http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html>http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html

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