17.853, Confs: Austronesian/General Ling/Hsinchu, Taiwan

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Subject: 17.853, Confs: Austronesian/General Ling/Hsinchu, Taiwan

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Date: 18-Mar-2006
From: Hui-chuan Huang < hcjhuang at mx.nthu.edu.tw >
Subject: 13th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:31:46
From: Hui-chuan Huang < hcjhuang at mx.nthu.edu.tw >
Subject: 13th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 

13th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 
Short Title: AFLA XIII 

Date: 24-Mar-2006 - 26-Mar-2006 
Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan 
Contact: Henry Yungli Chang 
Contact Email: afla13 at gate.sinica.edu.tw 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.nthu.edu.tw/afla13 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Austronesian 
Meeting Description: 

The 13th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association will be held in Taiwan, jointly sponsored by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics of National Tsing Hua University and the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.  This is the first time for AFLA to be held in a place where a number of Austronesian languages are still actively spoken.  We invite submissions of abstracts in any area of Austronesian linguistics.  Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes, with 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. 

Program of AFLA13
March 24-26, 2006

March 24 (Friday)
08:30~9:00	Registration
09:00~9:10	Welcoming Speech
09:10~10:10	Chair: Chin-chuan Cheng
Keynote Speech: Edward Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Voice and UTAH in Malagasy

10:10~10:30	Coffee Break

Session 1: Syntax        
Chair: Chinfa Lien                                    
10:30~11:00   Edith Aldridge (Northwestern University, USA)	
Against Case Agreement in Tagalog

11:00~11:30   Jonathon Herd (University of Toronto, Canada)	
Revisiting Polynesian Pseudo Noun-Incorporation: Root Modification and Other Problems

11:30~12:00	Jason A. J. Jackson (University of Hawaii, USA)	
Some Basics of Selayarese Pronominal Clitics 

12:00~13:30	Lunch

Session 2: Phonology        
Chair: John Ohala                       
13:30~14:00	Chun-Mei Chen (University of Texas at Austin, USA)	
Lexical Stress and Postlexical Accent in Paiwan

14:00~14:30	Yu-an Lu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)	
UM Infixation and OCP Effect in Austronesian Languages

14:30~15:00  Shih-chi Stella Yeh (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Schwa Reduction and Consonant Clusters in Central Amis

15:00~15:20	Coffee Break

Session 3: Syntax       
Chair: Der-Hwa Victoria Rau                            
15:20~15:50	Mark Donohue (Monash University, Australia)	
Nonverbal Clause Order in a Verb-Initial Language

15:50~16:20	Fuhui Hsieh and Shuanfan Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Emotion and Affect in Four Formosan Languages

16:20~16:30	(Short Break)

Session 4: Syntax       
Chair: Feng-fu Tsao
16:30~17:00  Christina Ting-Ting Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Resultative Construction in Squliq Atayal

17:00~17:30  Bill Palmer and Dunstan Brown (University of Surrey, UK)	
Heads in Oceanic Indirect Possession

March 25 (Saturday)
08:30~09:10	Registration
09:10~10:10	Chair: James Tai 
Keynote Speech: Paul Jen-kuei Li  (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)  
Austronesian Numeral Systems

10:10~10:30	Coffee Break

Session 5: Syntax      
Chair: Lillian M. Huang
10:30~11:00  Daniel Kaufman* and Ileana Paul**
(Cornell University, USA* and University of Western Ontario, Canada**)	
Sluicing in Tagalog

11:00~11:30  Paul Law (ZAS, Germany)	
Some Syntactic and Semantic Properties of the Existential Construction in Malagasy

11:30~12:00   Catherine Macdonald (University of Toronto, Canada)
Morphosyntax of Tongan Personal Pronouns

12:00~13:30	Lunch

Session 6: Syntax      
Chair: Marie Meili Yeh
13:30~14:00   Dimitris Ntelitheos (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Nominalizations as (Reduced) Headless Relative Clauses

14:00~14:30   Li-May Sung and Shuping Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)	
Split Intransitivity in Kavalan

14:30~15:00   Joachim Sabel (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)	
The Postverbal Order of Nominal Arguments in Malagasy

15:00~15:20	Coffee Break

Session 7: Phonetics       
Chair: Chiu-yu Tseng
15:20~15:50   Chia-jung Ho and Wen-yu Chiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)	
The Study of Phonetics-Phonology Interaction in the Vowel System of Kavalan

15:50~16:20   Phanintra Teeranon (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
The Influence of Initial Consonant on the Intrinsic Pitch of High and Low Vowels in the Malay Dialect Spoken in Pathumthani Province, Thailand

16:20~16:30	(Short Break)

Session 8: Syntax       
Chair: Ying-chin Lin
16:30~17:00   Malcolm Ross (The Australian National University, Australia)
The Argument Structure of Non-Actor Voice Clauses in Formosan and Other Philippine-Type Languages

17:00~17:30   Elizabeth Zeitoun* and Lillian Huang**
(Academia Sinica, Taiwan* and National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan**)
Nominalization in Formosan Languages

18:30~20:30	Banquet

March 26th (Sunday)
09:00~09:30	Registration

09:30~10:15  Chair: Lily I-wen Su
Kuang Mei (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)	
Temporal Referential Marking Across Formosan Languages

10:15~10:30	Coffee Break

10:30~12:00  Chair: Shuanfan Huang
10:30~11:15	Isabelle Bril (LACITO-CNRS, Paris)	
>From Coordinators to Pragmatic Hierarchy and Subordination

11:15~12:00	Henry Yungli Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)	
Syntax-Semantics Mismatch and Complex Predicate Formation in Formosan Languages

12:00~13:30	Lunch 

13:30~15:00  Chair: Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin 
13:30~14:15	Lisa deMena Travis (McGill University, Canada)	
Wh-extraction through an Austronesian lens

14:15~15:00	Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)	
Possessors and Definiteness Effects in Two Austronesian Languages

15:00~15:15	Coffee Break

15:15~16:45  Chair: Li-May Sung
15:15~16:00	Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)Some notes on Tagalog prosody and Tagalog syntax

16:00~16:45	Dylan Wei-Tien Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)Self and Only: A Comparative Study of Reflexive Adverbials in Squliq Atayal and Mandarin Chinese

16:45	Business Meeting

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