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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">The Department of Linguistics at
Cornell University will host the 9th annual meeting of the Austronesian
Formal Linguistics Asscociation, April 26 - 28. Information about
the conference can be found at our web site.<br><br>
<a href="http://ling.cornell.edu/afla/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://ling.cornell.edu/afla/index.html</a><br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>The conference schedule
is as follows:<br>
<b><i></i></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Friday, April
26<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">8:30</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Registration
and Continental Breakfast<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">9:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Welcome<br><br>
<b>Session 1</b> </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">
(Chair: Abby Cohn)<br>
9:15<x-tab> </x-tab>Invited Speaker: Tien-Hsin Hsin, Academia Sinica<br>
<i>Rhythmic Vowel Deletion, Stress and Syllabicity of Maga Rukai<br><br>
</i>10:15</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee<br><br>
<b>Session 2</b> </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Frantisek Lichtenberk)<br>
10:45<x-tab> </x-tab>David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br>
<i>Intonation Does not Differentiate Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian<br>
</i>11:15<x-tab> </x-tab>Daniel Kaufman, Cornell University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Prosody and Pragmatics in Tagalog<br>
</i>11:45<x-tab> </x-tab>Whitney Postman, Cornell University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>What the Indonesian Morphological Causative Can Tell us about Aphasic Comprehension<br><br>
</i>12:15</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Lunch<br><br>
<b>Session 3</b> </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: William Davies)<br>
1:45<x-tab> </x-tab>Loren Billings, Providence University<br>
Abigail Wildman Konopasky, Duke University
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<dd>Reassessing the Role of Syntax inside the Morphological Word: Verb-Adjacent Clitics in Tagalog and Bulgarian</i>
</dl>2:15<x-tab> </x-tab>Diane Massam, University of Toronto<br>
<i>Troublesome Questions in Niuean<br>
</i>2:45<x-tab> </x-tab>Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario<br>
<i>Multiple Topics: Evidence from Malagasy<br><br>
</i>3:15</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee<br><br>
<b>Session 4 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Andrew Pawley)<br>
3:45 <x-tab> </x-tab>Edward Gustin, National Tsing Hua University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Grammaticalization of "Go" in Rukai<br>
</i>4:15 <x-tab> </x-tab>John Wolff, Cornell University
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<dd><x-tab> </x-tab><i>The Role of Canonical Shapes in the Reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian Phonology<br><br>
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</dl>4:45</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Break<br><br>
<b>Session 5 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Satoshi Tomioka)<br>
5:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Invited Student Speaker: Andrea Rackowski, MIT<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Configurational Voice in Tagalog</i> <br><br>
6:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Wine & Cheese Reception<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Saturday, April 27<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">8:30</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Continental Breakfast<br><br>
<b>Session 6 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: John Wolff)<br>
9:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Invited Speaker: Andrew Pawley, Australian National University
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<dd>On Grammatical Categories and Grammaticisation in Oceanic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives<br><br>
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</dl>10:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee<br><br>
<b>Session 7 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: David Gil)<br>
10:30<x-tab> </x-tab>Yury Lander, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow
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<dd>Possessive Constructions in Languages of West Indonesia: NP Incorporation vs. DP Separation</i>
</dl>11:00 <x-tab> </x-tab>Louise Vigeant, Carleton University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Existential Closure in Maori<br>
</i>11:30 <x-tab> </x-tab>Eric Potsdam, University of Florida<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Maria Polinsky, University of California, San Diego<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Obligatory Control in Malagasy<br><br>
</i>12:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Lunch<br><br>
<b>Session 8 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Kunio Nishiyama)<br>
1:30 <x-tab> </x-tab>Frantisek Lichtenberk, University of Auckland<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Direct Object - Oblique Object Inversion in Toqabaqita<br>
</i>2:00 <x-tab> </x-tab>Peter Cole, University of Delaware<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Yurie Hara, University of Delaware<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Ngee-Thai Yap, University of Delaware<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Fronting and the Distribution of Auxiliaries in Javanese<br>
</i>2:30 <x-tab> </x-tab>Joachim Sabel, Universitat Frankfurt/Main<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Tense-Agreement Effects in Malagasy<br><br>
</i>3:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee<br><br>
<b>Session 9 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Tien-Hsin Hsin)<br>
3:30<x-tab> </x-tab>Invited Student Speaker: Niken Adisasmito-Smith, Cornell University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Medial Nasal+Stop Clusters in Indonesian and Javanese: Preliminary Acoustic Account<br>
</i>4:00 <x-tab> </x-tab>Victoria Anderson, University of Hawai'i at Manoa<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Yuko Otsuka, University of Hawai'i at Manoa<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Phonetic Correlates of Length, Stress, and Definite Accent in Tongan<br>
</i>4:30<x-tab> </x-tab>Chuian-Fang Huang, National Taiwan University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>An Acoustic Study of the Intonation of Tsou - an Austronesian Language of Taiwan<br><br>
</i>5:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Break<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">5:15</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Business Meeting<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">7:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Dinner<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Sunday, April 28<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">8:30</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Continental Breakfast<br><br>
<b>Session 10 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Ileana Paul)<br>
9:00<x-tab> </x-tab>Invited Speaker: Norvin Richards, MIT<br>
<i>Tagalog Ellipsis<br><br>
</i>10:00</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Break<br><br>
<b>Session 11 </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">(Chair: Diane Massam)<br>
10:15 <x-tab> </x-tab>Yuko Otsuka, University of Hawai'i, Manoa<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>VOS in Tongan: Passive or Scrambling?<br>
</i>10:45 <x-tab> </x-tab>Kunio Nishiyama, Ibaraki University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Post-Syntactic Passivization and the Abstract Clitic Position in Indonesian<br><br>
</i>11:15</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>Session 12 </b>(Chair: Norvin Richards)<br>
11:45 <x-tab> </x-tab>William Davies, University of Iowa<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>When Raising in Austronesian Isn't (or at least may not be)<br>
</i>12:15 <x-tab> </x-tab>Chonghyuck Kim, University of Delaware<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Chang-Yong Sim, University of Delaware<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Yassir Tjung, University of Delaware<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Raising to Object in Indonesian<br>
</i>12:45 <x-tab> </x-tab>Jill Heather Flegg, McGill University<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>On the Difference between Raising and Control<br><br>
</i>1:15</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab>Closing Remarks<br>
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