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I'm passing this message on from Frantisek Kratocvil<br><br>
John<br><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Dear AN-Langers</font> <br><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>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.<br><br>
More information about the conference, the programme and abstracts is
found at our webpage <br><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Frantisek KRATOCHVIL</font> <br><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Leiden University, AAPP Project</font> <br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>I incluse also the poster Information:</font> <br><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="arial" size=5>4th International E Nusantara Linguistics Conference<br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=6><b>The Typology of East Nusantara Languages<br><br>
</b></font><font face="arial" size=5>Thu 30 June & Fri 1 July, 2005, Leiden University, 1175-148<br><br>
</font><font face="arial" color="#0000FF"><i><u><a href="http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html">http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html</a><br><br>
</u></font><font face="arial">Organisers: Michael Ewing & Marian Klamer<br><br>
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<font face="arial" color="#333333">The East Nusantara region includes eastern Indonesia and East Timor, where Austronesian as well as Papuan languages are spoken. <br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=5><b>1. Phonology</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Unusual clusters- what are they, where do they occur in the word? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Geminate or long consonants - where do they occur and what phonological significance do they have, e.g. are they weight-bearing/moraic? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> '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:<br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Is there any kind of tonal activity or unusual prosodies, such as nasal spreading? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Are there unusual segment types, such as implosives, glottalized segments? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> What are the stress placement rules (including secondary stress)? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> What is syllable structure like, are there any minimal word/weight requirements? <br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=5><b>2. Language internal systems for coding arguments</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Clause internal marking, including pronominal systems, agreement, verb morphology, and alignment (accusative, ergative, spilt-S, none of the above); <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Various types of alternations (voice systems, valency changing affixation) and <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Coding between clauses (referent tracking, switch reference systems, logophoric systems). Research questions:<br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> How to characterise the system of argument coding in a given language? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> The relationship between argument coding and possession marking <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Correspondences between systems of argument alignment and valency change <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Voice alternations and how they relate to argument coding <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Systems of argument coding (pronouns, verb morphology, clause structure) as employed in clause combining <br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=5><b>3. Negation <br><br>
</b></font><font face="arial" color="#333333">Negation in languages of East Nusantara is often strikingly different from that in other AN languages. Research questions include: <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> What is the range of negation strategies in E Nusantara languages? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> How do the functions of marking negation and encoding argument structure interact through word order?</font> <font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Can historical non-AN contact be shown to have motivated all cases of clause final marking or are there other motivating factors in evidence? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> How has negation changed in speech communities experiencing language shift? <br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=5><b>4. Verb serialisation <br><br>
</b></font><font face="arial" color="#333333">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:<br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> The composition and semantics of the serial verb construction(s); how do these relate to the typology of Van Staden and Reesink (to appear)? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> The formal properties of the serial verb construction(s) <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> If there are several coexisting serial verb types, how do they differ? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> How productive is the serialisation? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Is there optional verb serialisation? If so, what is the semantic and pragmatic functional motivation for this? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> Which verbs are likely to appear in serial verb constructions, and which are not? <br><br>
</font><font face="symbol" color="#333333">ˇ</font><font face="arial" color="#333333"> If the language has generic/light verbs, can they be formally distinguished from verbs in serial verb constructions? <br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=5><b>presenters:</b></font> <br><br>
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<font face="arial" color="#333333"><b>Peter Austin</b>, SOAS London,</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Louise Baird</b>, Leiden University,;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Michael Ewing</b>, University of Melbourne,</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Margaret Florey</b>, Monash University;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Nelleke Goudswaard</b>, Free University Amsterdam;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">John Hajek</b>, University of Melbourne;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Wilco van den Heuvel</b>, Free University Amsterdam;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Nikolaus Himmelmann</b>, Ruhr-Universität Bochum;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">John Haan</b>, Universitas Negeri Nusa Cendana, Kupang;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Gary Holton</b>, University of Alaska;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">June Jacob</b>, Universitas Kristen Artha Wacana, Kupang;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Marian Klamer</b>, Leiden University;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">František Kratochvíl</b>, Leiden University;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Simon Musgrave</b>, Monash University;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Ger Reesink</b>, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Bert Remijsen</b>, Leiden University;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Hein Steinhauer,</b></font> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Leiden University;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Catharina Williams-Van Klinken</b>, Dili Institute of Technology.<br><br></font>
</ul><font face="arial" size=5><b>Invited discussants:</b></font> <br><br>
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<font face="arial" color="#333333"><b>Michael Dunn</b>, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Kees Hengeveld</b>, University of Amsterdam;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Helen de Hoop</b>, Radboud University Nijmegen (Thursday);</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Andrej Malchukov</b>, Radboud University Nijmegen;</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Pieter Muysken</b>, Radboud University Nijmegen (Friday);</font><b> <font face="arial" color="#333333">Jan-Wouter Zwart</b>, University of Groningen. <br><br></font>
</ul><div align="center"><font face="arial"><b><i>The Program will soon be available on our webpage</b>:</font> <a href="http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html"><font face="arial" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/aapp/ENUS2005.html</a><br>
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