11.835, Confs: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

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Subject: 11.835, Confs: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

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Date:  Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:19:39 +0200
From:  "M. Klamer" <m.klamer at let.vu.nl>
Subject:  Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA7)

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Date:  Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:19:39 +0200
From:  "M. Klamer" <m.klamer at let.vu.nl>
Subject:  Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA7)

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
7th Annual Meeting (AFLA7)

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
11-13 May, 2000

ABSTRACTS & INFORMATION:
http://www.let.vu.nl:8100/~afla

PROGRAM:

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 & University of Utrecht
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

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