AFLA XI (2004)

Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung

Program

Friday, April 23
9:00-9:40   Nikolaus Himmelman (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
On so-called statives in western Austronesian (mostly Tagalog)
9:40-10:10   Loren Billings (National Chi Nan University) and
Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University)
Towards a Typology of Austronesian Pronominal Clisis
10:10-10:40   BREAK
10:40-11:10   David Gil (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Wordhood in Riau Indonesian
11:10-11:40   Nelleke Goudswaard (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Infix allomorphy in Ida'an-Begak
11:40-12:10   Wen-yu Chiang and Fang-mei Chiang
(National Taiwan University)
Vowel dispersion in Truku
12:10-13:30   LUNCH
13:30-14:00   Peter Sells (Stanford University)
Consequences of Raising for Case Assignment
14:00-14:30   Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario)
Two types of noun incorporation
14:30-15:00   Yuko Otsuka (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Consequential 'o-clauses and licensing of a null anaphor
15:00-15:20   BREAK
15:20-15:50   Hui-chuan J. Huang (National Tsing Hua University)
The avoidance of high sonority onsets in Squliq Atayal
15:50-16:20   Wilco van den Heuvel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Floating moras triggering epenthesis at intonation boundaries in Biak
16:20-16:40   BREAK
16:40-17:10   Elizabeth Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington)
Pronouns and individuation in Mäori
17:10-17:40   Matt Pearson (Reed College)
Voice Morphology, Case and Argument Structure in Malagasy
19:30   DINNER

Saturday, April 24
9:30-10:10   Edward Keenan (University of California, Los Angles)
Clause Structure and Theta Role Assignment in Malagasy
10:10-10:40   BREAK
10:40-11:10   Sandy Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Restriction and Modification in Chamorro
11:10-11:40   Mark Donohue (National University of Singapore)
Voice opposition without voice morphology
11:40-12:10   Jill Heather Flegg (Rutgers University)
Anaphoric reference from determiners to voice in Tagalog
12:10-13:30   LUNCH
13:30-14:00   Tomoko Kawamura (SUNY at Stony Brook)
(Best Student Abstract)
Fixed Segmentism in Palauan Multiple Reduplication
14:00-14:30   Chun-Mei Chen (University of Texas at Austin)
Phonetic structures of Paiwan
14:30-15:00   Wen-yu Chiang and I Chang-liao
(National Taiwan University)
Prosodic realization of negation in Saisiyat
15:00-15:20   BREAK
15:20-15:50   Melody Chang (National Tsing Hua University)
The problems of subject in Tsou grammar
15:50-16:20   Catherine R. Fortin (University of Michigan)
Minangkabau Causatives: Evidence for the l-syntax/s-syntax division
16:20-16:40   BREAK
16:40-17:10   Edith Aldridge (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Antipassive and Specificity in Tagalog
17:10-17:40   Eric Potsdam (University of Florida)
Wh-questions in Malagasy
17:50-18:00   BUSINESS MEETING
19:30   DINNER
 

Sunday, April 25

SPECIAL SESSION: THE SYNTAX OF ADJUNCTS
9:00-9:40   Lisa Travis (McGill University)
Malagasy from the other side of the looking glass
9:40-10:10   Henry Yung-li Chang (Academia Sinica)
The guest playing host: Modifiers as matrix verbs in Kavalan
10:10-10:20   BREAK
10:20-10:50   Arthur Holmer (Lund University)
Interposition and Formosan adverbial heads
10:50-12:20   Dylan Wen-tian Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)
T-feature checking and temporal adjuncts in Formosan languages
12:20-12:30   BREAK
12:30-13:00   Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Diane Massam
(University of Toronto)
Deriving the Order of Heads and Adjuncts: The Case of Niuean DPs
13:00-13:30   Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University)
(Best Student Abstract)
Adverbs at the Interface
13:30-14:00   Craig Thiersch (Universiteit van Tilburg/Universität Potsdam)
Two systems of Remnant Movement (II)