17.2028, Confs: Phonology;Discourse Analysis/Indonesia

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Subject: 17.2028, Confs: Phonology;Discourse Analysis/Indonesia

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Date: 11-Jul-2006
From: Uri Tadmor < uri at cbn.net.id >
Subject: 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 

	
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:48:49
From: Uri Tadmor < uri at cbn.net.id >
Subject: 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 
 

16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 
Short Title: SEALS XVI 

Date: 20-Sep-2006 - 21-Sep-2006 
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia 
Contact: Uri Tadmor 
Contact Email: uri at cbn.net.id 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS) organizes annual meetings dealing
with the analysis of Southeast Asian languages. 

SEALS XVI
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Atma Jaya University, Jakarta
20-21 September 2006
 
Program:
 
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
 
8:00-8:45 Registration
 
8:45-9:15 Opening Remarks
 
9:15-10:00 Plenary Session
    Paul Jen-kuei Li: Some Problems in the Kavalan Phonology
 
10:00-10:30 Refreshments
 
10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A     
Ruben Stoel: Fataluku as a tone language   
Uri Tadmor: Are there Clusters and Diphthongs in Malay?   
Zaharani Ahmad: The Phonology of Nasal Final Prefix meN- in Mala   
 
Parallel Session B
Li-May Sung and Cheng-chuen Kuo: Comparative Constructions in Amis and Kavalan   
Joanna Ut-seong Sio: The syntax of Cantonese relational nouns   
Ajid Che Kob: Variations in Melanau: Phonology and Lexical  

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
 
1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A     
Theraphan L-Thongkum & Chommanad Intajamornrak: Tonal Evolution Caused by
Language Contact: A Case Study of the T'in Language of Nan Province, Northern
Thailand   
Chalermchai  Chaichompoo: A Phonological Description of Nor Lae Palaung
Paul Sidwell: Creaky voice systems among the Mon-Khmer languages: towards
historical explanation    
 
Parallel Session B
Djatmika: Pragmatic Intricacy of Javanese Figurative Speech: Too Hard to
Understand? 
Zifirdaus Adnan: Discourse Structures of Indonesian Humanities Research Article
Introductions: A Comparative Study   
Vincent Taohsun Chang: Sentence Topic, Discourse Topic, or Cognitive Topic?
Topic Revisited from Cross-linguistic Perspective
  
3:00-3:30 Refreshments
 
3:30-5:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A     
David Gil: Distinctly Mesolectal Properties in Malay / Indonesian Dialects   
Rochayah Machali: Arabic Loanwords in Present-Day Javanese: Linguistic
Syncretism as Evidence of Cultural Syncretism   
Rungpat Roengpitya, Kimiko Tsukada, and  Yukari Hirata: The effects of vowel
length and place of articulation of the following stop on formant frequencies in
Thai vowels   
 
Parallel Session B 
Kyüi Ghüng Maang and George Bedell: Relative Clauses in K'cho    
Jan Wohlgemuth: Loan Verbs in Southeast Asia     
Madhumita Barbora: The Missing Verb Phrase  

7:30 Conference Dinner


Thursday, 21 September 2006
 
8:30-10:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A   
Michael C Ewing: Distributed Cognition in the context of language shift in
Eastern Indonesia   
Sung Kai-lin: The Language Choice Behavior of Amis People in Taipei and Hualien:
a contrastive study   
Sumittra Suraratdecha: Thai-English Codeswitching: A Hawai'i Case Study      
 
Parallel Session B   
Francisco Perlas Dumanig and Rodney C. Jubilado: A Descriptive Analysis of
Surigaonon Language    
Richard McGinn: Lexical Licensing at the Interface of Syntax and Semantics in
Rejang   
Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong: Relative Clause in Vietnamese as
a Nominal Dependency Relation 

10:00-10:30 Refreshments
 
10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A   
Thomas J. Conners: Morphosyntactic Simplification in Tengger Javanese
Morphosyntax   
Frantis?ek Kratochvíl: Abui as an active language   
Svetlana F. Chlenova: A first look at grammatical structure of West Damar or
Damar Batumerah, a language of Eastern Indonesia   
 
Parallel Session B   
Bahren Umar Siregar: Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality   
Khazriyati Salehuddin and Heather Winskel: Malay Numeral Classifiers: Sketching
its Conceptual Representation from a Native Speaker's Perspective   
Hien Pham: Constructinos of Spatial Situations in Vietnamese  

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
 
1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A   
Wolfram Schaffar: Grammaticalisation in Burmese: Nominalisation, Focus and Case
Particles in Historical and Typological Perspective   
Antonia Soriente: Is Penan Benalui a Kenyah Language? On the Classification of
the Languages of Some Hunter-Gatherer Populations in Borneo    
Kiyoko Takahashi: Grammaticalization Paths of the Thai Verb day3: A Corpus-Based
Study   
 
Parallel Session B   
Catharina Williams-van Klinken: Lexicalisation of Emotion and Character in Tetun
Dili   
Betty Litamahuputty: The use of pa in Ternate Malay (Indonesia)   
Yusrita Yanti: The Major Pronouns of the Minangkabau Language      

3:00-3:30 Refreshments

3:30-5:00 Parallel Sessions
 
Parallel Session A   
Jufrizal and I Wayan Arka: Voice in Mentawai: A Note on Its Typological Position
in the Austronesian Languages of Indonesia   
Natchanan Yaowapat and Amara Prasithrathsint: Reduced relative clauses in Thai
and Vietnamese   
Mark T. Miller: West Coast Bajau: Syntactically Ergative or Symmetrical Voice?   
 
Parallel Session B   
Yeshayahu Shen and David Gil: Comparisons in Indonesian: An Experimental Study   
Heather Winskel: The expression of temporal relations by Thai and English
children and adults   
Katubi: Different Language, Different Greeting: A Study of the Relationship
between Four Ethnic Groups in Alor, East Nusa Tenggara  

5:00-5:15 Break
 
5:15-6:00 Plenary Session 
Yusrita Yanti and Bambang Kaswanti Purwo: Emotive negative particles in Minangkabau 
 
6:00-6:15 Closing Remarks





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