The UCLA Department of Linguistics hosted the 12th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.
Talks were 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Many areas of the formal linguistics of Austronesian languages were represented, and there was a special session on child acquisition of Astronesian languages. The program featured two parallel sessions, except during the special session on acquisition.
Program |
Saturday, April 30
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Syntax/Semantics
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Syntax/Semantics
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| 9:30 |
Joachim Sabel
Universite catholique de Louvain
Grammatical Functions in Malagasy Syntax and the "Complements Only" Restriction |
Marit Vamarasi
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
On the Notion of Cliticization in Rotuman |
| 10:00 |
Matt Pearson
Reed College
Tense (Mis)matches Between Verbs and Obliques in Malagasy |
Celeste Lee & Loren Billings
National Chi Nan University
Wackernagel and verb-adjacent clisis in Central Philippine |
| 10:30 |
Break |
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Syntax/Semantics
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Phonology
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| 11:00 |
Raphael Mercado
McGill University
XP predicate-fronting in Tagalog |
Kie Zuraw
UCLA
Cluster splittability in Tagalog: corpus and survey evidence |
| 11:30 |
Hans-Martin Gartner & Paul Law,
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Restriction on in-situ wh-phrases in Malagasy, Tagalog and Tsou |
Tomoko Kozasa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Phonetic Implementations of Pohnpeian Long Vowels |
| 12:00 |
Nathan Culwell-Kanarek
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Word order and the syntax of /ang/ in Tagalog |
Bob Kennedy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Reflexes of initial gemination in Western Micronesian languages |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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Syntax/Semantics
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Syntax/Semantics
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| 2:00 |
Lisa deMena Travis
McGill University
Arguments, states, and roots in Malagasy |
Heather Willson
UCLA
Marshallese yes/no questions and remnant movement |
| 2:30 |
Bridget Copley
USC
Three Futures in Indonesian |
Catherine Macdonald
University of Toronto
Tongan /-'i/: Increasing Transitivity in Valency and Aspect |
| 3:00 |
Break |
| 3:30 |
Jonathon E. Cihlar
University of Chicago
Focus and Congruency in Tagalog Questions and Answers |
Diane Massam
University of Toronto
Copular constructions in a language without copular verbs |
| 4:00 |
Joseph A. Sabbagh
MIT
Existential Constructions in Tagalog |
Benjamin Keil
UCLA
An associative semantics for basic Malagasy sentences |
| 4:30 |
Break |
| 5:00 |
Randall Hendrick
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tongan Bound Pronouns |
Jonathon Herd
University of Toronto
The Actor-Emphatic: A Minimalist Portrayal |
| 5:30 |
Li-May Sung & Chia-chi Shen
National Taiwan University
Anaphoric Expressions in Kavalan |
Hsiao-hung Iris Wu
MIT
Topic and Focus in Bunun Revisited |
Sunday, May 1
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Syntax/Semantics
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Phonology
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| 9:30 |
Eric Potsdam & Maria Polinsky
University of Floria / UCSD
Finite Control in Malagasy |
Hui-chuan J. Huang
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
On Syllable Nuclei in Squliq Atayal |
| 10:00 |
Hilda Koopman
UCLA
Imperatives in Malagasy |
Chun-Mei Chen
University of Texas at Austin
The Role of Schwa in Paiwan Prosody |
| 10:30 |
Douglas Ball
Stanford University
Phrasal Noun Incorporation in Tongan |
David Meyer
University of Edinburgh
Deriving a description of the early 19th century Tahitian diphthong through an analysis of contemporary poetic texts |
| 11:00 |
Break |
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Syntax/Semantics
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Syntax/Semantics
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| 11:30 |
Ileana Paul
University of Western Ontario
Or, wh-, and not: Free choice and polarity in Malagasy |
Henry Yungli Chang
Institue of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Restructuring in Tsou |
| 12:00 |
Hans-Martin Gartner
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Zero or One? Adjunct Extraction and the Fine Structure of Pseudo-Clefts in Tagalog |
Paul R. Kroeger
Graduate
Insititute of Applied Linguistics
Argument alternations in Kimaragang |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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Syntax/Semantics
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Syntax/Semantics
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| 2:00 |
Alevtina Asarina &
Anna Holt
MIT
Argument Structure and Ordering Source in Tagalog Modal Must |
William D. Davies & Craig Dresser
University of Iowa
The structure of Javanese and Madurese DPs |
| 2:30 |
Norvin Richards
MIT
Person-Case effects in Tagalog |
Mark Donohue
National University of Singapore
Structure is not syntax: passive functions in Tukang Besi |
| 3:00 |
Break |
| 3:30 |
Cheng-Fu Chen
University of Texas at Austin
Nominalization and Grammatical Voice Formations in Rukai: A Three-way Voice System Analysis |
Yuko Otsuka
University of Hawaii
Syntax and/or pragmatics: PP scrambling in Tongan and the thematic hierarchy |
| 4:00 |
Dimitrios Ntelitheos
UCLA
Malagasy Participant Nominalizations: A Structural Account |
Aaron F. Kaplan
University of California, Santa Cruz
Long-Distance Wh-Movement in Chamorro |
| 4:30 |
Break |
| 5:00 |
POSTER SESSION
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Anne Yu-An Lu
Tsing-hua University
Order and Interaction of Prefixes in Mayrinax Atayal |
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Anastasia Riehl
Cornell University
The phonology and phonetics of nasal-obstruent sequences in Bare'e Pamona |
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Ying Lin
UCLA
Two Perspectives on Malagasy Reduplication: Derivational and Optimality Theoretic Analyses
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Nina Hyams, Dimitrios Ntelitheos & Cecile Manorohanta
UCLA / UCLA / Université Nord
Antsiranana MadagascarThe Acquisition of Voice in Malagasy |
Monday, May 2 2005
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Special Session: Language Acquisition |
| 9:30 |
Dimitrios Ntelitheos
UCLA
Root Infinitives in Malagasy |
| 10:00 |
Norhaida Aman
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
The Acquisition of Colloquial Singapore Malay |
| 10:30 |
Break |
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Syntax/Semantics
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Phonology |
| 11:00 |
Paul Law
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Questions and clefts in Malagasy |
Jeff Heinz
UCLA
Optional partial metathesis in Kwara'ae |
| 11:30 |
Edith Aldridge
SUNY, Stony Brook
Clefting and Predicate-Fronting in Austronesian Languages |
Andy Martin
UCLA
Loanwords as Pseudo-compounds in Malagasy |
| 12:00 |
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Amy P. Lee
University of Essex
Rightward Reduplication in Formosan Languages Revisited |
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