Southeast Asian Language Conf at UCLA

[Iwasaki, Shoichi]

Dear Colleagues: 

The program of the "Languages of Southeast Asia" at UCLA (1/30-2/1,
2009) is now available at the following site. 

http://www2.humnet.ucla.edu/lsea/ 

Keynote speakers: 

Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig / University of California, Santa Barbara) 

"Areal typology of Southeast Asian languages: evidence from the World
Atlas of Language Structures". 

John Hartmann (Northern Illinois University) 

Tai toponymic analysis: GIS insights into migration and settlement
patterns 

Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig) 

"Dynamics of Human Diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia" 

Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California) 

"Vietnamese and the typology of passive constructions"