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Subject: 20.1561, Confs: General Linguistics, Austronesian/UK

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Date: 23-Apr-2009
From: Peter Sells < ukarg1 at gmail.com >
Subject: 4th Austronesian Languages and Linguistics Conference
 

	
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:16:43
From: Peter Sells [ukarg1 at gmail.com]
Subject: 4th Austronesian Languages and Linguistics Conference

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4th Austronesian Languages and Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: ALL4 

Date: 17-Jun-2009 - 18-Jun-2009 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Peter Sells 
Contact Email: ukarg1 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/all4/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Austronesian 
Meeting Description: 

The UK Austronesian Research Group (UKARG) is pleased to announce the 4th Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL4), to be held on Wednesday 17 June and Thursday 18 June in the Khalili Lecture Theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and Linguistics conference. 

4th Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics
School Of Oriental and African Studies

Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 17th June 2009

9.00	
Ileana Paul, University Of Western Ontario
Wide-Scoping Bare Nouns in Malagasy

9.30
Hazel Pearson, Harvard University
A Semantics for the Fijian Comparative

10.00
Bethwyn Evans, Australian National University
How Many Foci? The Linguistic Encoding of Focus in Marovo

10.30
Break 

11.00
Peter Sells, SOAS, London
Dimensions of Syntactic Analysis in Toba Batak

11.30
Bill Palmer, University Of Newcastle
External Objects and Phrasal Incorporation: Two Apparent Typologically
Unusual Phenomena in Oceanic 

12.00
Justin Nuger, UC Santa Cruz
The Position of Aspect in the Palauan VP

12.30
Suriel Mofu, Oxford University
Biak Nominal Clauses

13.00
LUNCH 

14.30
Mary Chambers, SOAS, London
Where Am I Standing and Which Way Is Up?

15.00
Shuping Huang & Jenn-Yeu Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Topological Spatial Representations in Isbukun Bunun

15.30
Radu Voica, SOAS, London
How Far Can We Go South? Absolute Frames Of Reference and Spatial
Orientation in Blanga 

16.00
Kerry Hull, Reitaku University
Conceptual Proximity and the Alienable/Inalienable Possessive Contrast
In Polynesian Languages 

16.30
Break 

17.00 Invited Speaker
I Wayan Arka, Australian National University
Causativisation without Causative Morphemes in Indonesian

Day 2 - Thursday 18th June 2009


9.00
Berthold Crysmann, Bonn University, Germany
Case and Agreement in Nias and the Notion of Subject

9.30
Jeremy Rafal, CUNY, The Graduate Center
Clitic Doubling As a Trigger for Object Shift in Ilokano: Evidence from Ellipsis

10.00
David Adger, Daniel Harbour, Oystein Nilsen & 'Oiwi Parker Jones 
Queen Mary, University Of London & Oxford University
Obligatory Double Objects in Hawaiian 

10.30
Break 

11.00
Sebastian Nordhoff, Universiteit Van Amsterdam
Multi-Verb-Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay

11.30
Melanie Owens, Stanford University
Austronesian Serial Verbs, and Serial Verb Terminology, in the Typology of Serialization 

12.00
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
On the Position of Mentawai in a Typology of Austronesian Voice Systems

12.30
Lunch 

14.00
Shu-Yi Lin, National Taiwan Normal University
Reconstruction of Negative Morphemes in Formosan Languages

14.30	       
Peter Budd, SOAS, London
Negation and Actuality in the Epi Languages of Central Vanuatu

15.00
Oliver Bond & Mary Chambers, SOAS, London
Irreality and Negation in the New Georgia Linkage

15.30
Break 

16.00
Peter Slomanson, City University of New York
Discourse Culture Shift and Camouflaged Diachrony in a Malay Contact Variety

16.30
Thomas Conners, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Standard Vs. Peripheral Javanese Dialects: Which Is the Real Outlier?

17.00
Scott Paauw, University of Rochester
Verbal Aspect in the Malay Contact Varieties of Eastern Indonesia





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