AFLA 15 - Program

Day 1 - Monday June 30

Day 2 - Tuesday July 1

Day 3 - Wednesday July 2

 

Monday June 30 Registration begins at 9 am in the John Woolley Building, (entrance
Session 1	Miscellaneous	Chair -
9:00 - 9:30	Kie Zuraw Robyn Orfitelli Kristine Yu	Word-level prosody of Samoan
9:30 - 10:00	Simon Musgrave	The argument status of clitic pronouns in Sou Amana Teru
10:00 - 10:30	Mark Donohue	Phonological contrasts in Palu'e: synchronic and diachronic perspectives
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Session 2	Invited Speaker	Chair -
11:00 - 12:00	Robert Blust	Complex sound changes
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
Session 3	Formosan Phonologies	Chair -
1:30 - 2:00	Jennifer Hui-chuan Huang	Right-Edge Faithfulness in Squliq Atayal
2:00 - 2:30	Yeh Shih-chi	Suffixal reduplication in Paiwan and Amis
2:30 - 3:00	Amy Lee Pei Jung	Dorsal Consonant Harmony in Truku Seediq
3:00 - 3:30	Izumi Ochiai	Re-syllabification and Stress assignment in Seediq loanwords
3:30 - 4:00	Break
Session 4	Malagasy Syntax	Chair -
4:00 - 4:30	Joachim Sabel	Adjuncts and phrase structure in Malagasy
4:30 - 5:00	Lisa Travis	Malagasy no constructions and new observations
5:00 - 5:30	Dimitrios Ntelitheos	Gerundive Nominals in Malagasy Syntax
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Tuesday July 1
Session 5	Philippines	Chair -
9:00 - 9:30	Naonori Nagaya	Tagalog relativization as a lexical process
9:30 - 10:00	Loren Billings	The relative order of personal pronouns across Greater Central Philippine: Light-first and disformation
10:00 - 10:30	Dan Kaufman	Austronesian voice as thematic nominalization
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Session 6	Invited Speaker	Chair -
11:00 - 12:00	Elizabeth Pearce	Numbers, quantifiers and Number
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
Session 7	Oceanic syntax 1	Chair -
1:30 - 2:00	Eric Potsdam Maria Polinsky	The Structure of Wh-Questions in Polynesian
2:00 - 2:30	Hilda Koopman	Deriving ergativity in Samoan: the case of the missing 'accusative'
2:30 - 3:00	Donna Starks Diane Massam	Yes-No question particles in Niuean
3:00 - 3:30	Michael Gagnon Alexis Wellwood	Localizing the Marshallese question particle 'ke'
3:30 - 4:00	Break
Session 8	Oceanic syntax 2	Chair -
4:00 - 4:30	Frank Lichtenberk	Headship in Oceanic possessive constructions
4:30 - 5:00	Dunstan Brown Bill Palmer	Morphological defaults and the Kokota noun phrase
6:00	Book Launch	Lisa Travis will launch Voice and Gramatical Relations in Austronesian Languages, edited by Peter Austin and Simon Musgrave Venue: Gleebooks (upstairs) 49 Glebe Point Road (map)
7:00	Conference Dinner	TBA
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Wednesday July 2
Session 9	Malagasy and Madurese	Chair -
9:00 - 9:30	Jozina Vander Klok	Javanese Modals: In between auxiliaries and verbs
9:30 - 10:00	William Davies	Applying Madurese -agi
10:00 - 10:30	Matt Pearson	Complements of perception verbs in Malagasy
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Session 10	Invited Speaker	Chair -
11:00 - 12:00	Mary Dalrymple	Plural semantics and reduplication in Indonesian
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
Session 11	Western Austronesian syntax	Chair -
1:30 - 2:00	Maureen Saclot Meladel Mistica Lesley Stirling Timothy Baldwin	Semantic Determinants of -UM- Verbs and their Argument Realisation
2:00 - 2:30	Alastair Butler	The alternating property in Tukang Besi: a product of coding resources and operator-variable dependencies
2:30 - 3:00	Wayan Arka	On the pragmatics and morphosyntax of Balinese imperatives
3:00 - 3:30	Yi-an Lin	The Information Structure of Nominal Phrases and DP-internal Phrasal Movement in Buginese
3:30 - 4:00	Break
Session 12	Northern Austronesian syntax	Chair -
4:00 - 4:30	Jeremy Rafal	Reconsidering applicative constructions: Evidence for low and even 'higher' base-generated applicatives in Ilokano
4:30 - 5:00	Chunming Wu	Applicativizing Adverbial Verbs in Mayrinax Atayal
5:00 - 5:30	Henry Yung-li Chang	Focus marking and phrase structure in Tsou
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