7.1775, Confs: Malay/Indonesian Symposium, Lang acq
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Subject: 7.1775, Confs: Malay/Indonesian Symposium, Lang acq
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:18:22 -0500 (EST)
From: David Gil <dgil at UDel.Edu>
Subject: Malay/Indonesian Symposium: Programme
2)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 96 20:04:31 EST
From: "Jeannette C. Schaeffer" <schaeffe at MIT.EDU>
Subject: URGENT: PROGRAM LANG. ACQ. WORKSHOP MIT
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:18:22 -0500 (EST)
From: David Gil <dgil at UDel.Edu>
Subject: Malay/Indonesian Symposium: Programme
SYMPOSIUM ON MALAY/INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS
Date: 14, 15 January 1997
Venue: Dewan Persidangan Universiti,
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia
Cosponsors: The Association for Linguistic Typology
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Centre for Languages
and Translation
University of Delaware, Department of Linguistics
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday 14 January
0830 - 0900 registration
Session 1 Languages in Contact
0900 - 0930 "Ayam Tim and Babi Chin:
Typological Convergence in Baba Malay"
Stephen Matthews & Umberto Ansaldo
(University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
& Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
0930 - 1000 "Contact Linguistics: The Case of the Language
of The Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia"
Teo Kok Seong
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
Malaysia)
1000 - 1030 "Arabic Loanword Trajectories in Malay"
Alan S. Kaye
(California State University, Fullerton, USA)
1030 - 1100 opening ceremony
Session 2 Field and Corpus Linguistics
1100 - 1130 "Notes on Malay in the Natuna Islands"
James T. Collins
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
Malaysia)
1130 - 1200 "A 'Bank of Malaysian and Indonesian Languages':
A Modest Proposal"
Ed Anderson
(Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
1200 - 1230 "Towards a Typology of Malay/Indonesian
Dialects"
David Gil & Uri Tadmor
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia / University of Delaware,
Newark, USA &
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA)
1230 - 1400 intermission
Session 3 Phonetics and Phonology
1400 - 1430 "Tense-Lax Vowels Perception of Malay Speakers
Learning English"
Nasrun bin Alias
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
Malaysia)
1430 - 1500 "A Non-Linear Approach to Nasal Spreading in
Malay and Indonesian Languages"
Carol Bloomfield
(Northern Territory University, Darwin,
Australia)
1500 - 1530 "When Fusion Fails: Prefix-Nesting in Malay"
Ann Delilkan
(New York University, New York, USA)
1530 - 1600 "Stress and Prominence in Indonesian Malay"
Ove Lorentz
(University of Troms=F8, Troms=F8, Norway)
1600 - 1630 intermission
Session 4 Syntax: Word Order and Word Classes
1630 - 1700 "Word Order in Malay Sentences: The Interplay
of Communicative Dynamism and Systemic Ordering"
Zahrah Abd. Ghafur
(Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)
1700 - 1730 "A Comparison of Some Indonesian Malay
and Brunei Malay Syntactic Structures:
Implications for Universal Grammar"
Gloria Poedjosoedarmo
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
1730 - 1800 "Indonesian Word Classes Revisited"
Franz Muller-Gotama
(California State University, Fullerton, USA)
1930 - dinner
Wednesday 15 January
Session 5 Syntax and Semantics: The Verbal Prefixes
0900 - 0930 "On the Unity or Non-Unity of ber-"
Norhaida Bte. Aman
(University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
0930 - 1000 "Affixes, Austronesian and Iconicity in Malay"
Geoffrey Benjamin
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
1000 - 1030 "The Prefixes di- and N- in Malay/Indonesian
Dialects"
David Gil
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia / University of Delaware,
Newark, USA)
1030 - 1100 intermission
Session 6 Syntax
1100 - 1130 "Apa Yang 'Apa Yang'?"
Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon & Norhaida
Bte. Aman
(University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
1130 - 1200 "Particle Movement in Malay"
Ramli Md Salleh
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
Malaysia
1200 - 1230 "Subjectless Sentences in Malay"
Mashudi Kader
(Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 96 20:04:31 EST
From: "Jeannette C. Schaeffer" <schaeffe at MIT.EDU>
Subject: URGENT: PROGRAM LANG. ACQ. WORKSHOP MIT
INVITATION TO ATTEND THE WORKSHOP ON "THE INTERPRETATION OF ROOT
INFINITIVES AND BARE NOUNS IN CHILD LANGUAGE" MIT, JANUARY 13 & 14,
1997, Building E25 - room 401
(no registration fee, but pre-registration required: please contact
Jeannette Schaeffer: schaeffe at mit.edu if you want to attend the
workshop)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Monday, January 13, 1997
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
9:15 - 10:00 Ken Wexler - MIT: "D-interpretability and
Interpretation in the Optional Infinitive Stage"
10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 11:00 Frank Wijnen - University of Utrecht: "The
temporal interpretation of root infinitivals in Dutch"
11:00 - 11:15 Discussion
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 12:30 Ingeborg Lasser - CUNY: The interpretation of
Root Infinitive Constructions in adult and child German.
12:30 - 12:45 Discussion
12:45 - 2:15 Lunch break
2:15 - 3:00 Sergey Avrutin - Yale: "EVENTS as units of
discourse representation in Root Infinitives"
3:00 - 3:15 Discussion
3:15 - 4:00 Jeannette Schaeffer - MIT "The
interpretation of (bare) object nouns in child language"
4:00 - 4:15 Discussion
4:15 - 4:45 Tea break
4:45 - 5:30 Tom Roeper - UMass Amherst and Ana
Perez-Leroux - Penn State: "Bare nominals and null genitives in
child language"
5:30 - 5:45 Discussion
6:00 - ... Dinner/Party - D-Wing lounge Dept. of
Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT
Tuesday, January 14, 1997
MORNING (9AM - 12:45PM): Designing experiments to test the predictions
following from Monday's presentations on the interpretation of root
infinitives and bare nouns in various child languages. Participants
are divided into sub-groups.
AFTERNOON (2:15PM - 5PM): Presentation of designs and discussion.
5:00 PM: Conclusion.
Jeannette C. Schaeffer
MIT - Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
18 Vassar Street 20C-228
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-2559
Fax: (617) 253-5017
E-mail: schaeffe at mit.edu
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