AFLA XIII (2006)

National Tsing Hua University and
Institute of Linguistics of Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program

Friday, March 24


09:00   Welcoming Speech
09:10   Keynote Speech:
Edward Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Voice and UTAH in Malagasy
[Full Paper]
10:10  
Coffee Break
  Session 1: Syntax
10:30   Edith Aldridge (Northwestern University, USA)
Against Case Agreement in Tagalog
[Handout]
11:00   Jonathon Herd (University of Toronto, Canada)
Revisiting Polynesian Pseudo Noun-Incorporation: Root Modification and Other Problems
11:30   Jason A. J. Jackson (University of Hawaii, USA)
Some Basics of Selayarese Pronominal Clitics
[Handout]
12:00  
Lunch
    Session 2: Phonology
13:30   Chun-Mei Chen (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Lexical Stress and Postlexical Accent in Paiwan
14:00   Yu-an Lu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
UM Infixation and OCP Effect in Austronesian Languages
[Handout]
14:30   Shih-chi Stella Yeh (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Schwa Reduction and Consonant Clusters in Central Amis
15:00  
Coffee Break
  Session 3: Syntax 
15:20   Mark Donohue (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Nonverbal Clause Order in a Verb-Initial Language
[Handout]
15:50   Fuhui Hsieh and Shuanfan Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Emotion and Affect in Four Formosan Languages
16:20  
(Short Break)
  Session 4: Syntax
16:30   Christina Ting-Ting Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Resultative Construction in Squliq Atayal
17:00   Bill Palmer and Dunstan Brown (University of Surrey, UK)
Heads in Oceanic Indirect Possession
[Full Paper]
 

Saturday, March 25


09:10   Keynote:
Paul Jen-kuei Li (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Austronesian Numeral Systems
10:10  
Coffee Break
  Session 5: Syntax
10:30   Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University, USA) and
Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Sluicing in Tagalog
11:00   Paul Law (Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Germany)
Some Syntactic and Semantic Properties of the Existential Construction in Malagasy
11:30   Catherine Macdonald (University of Toronto, Canada)
Morphosyntax of Tongan Personal Pronouns
12:00  
Lunch
    Session 6: Syntax
14:00   Li-May Sung and Shuping Huang
(National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Split Intransitivity in Kavalan
[handout]
14:30   Joachim Sabel (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
The Postverbal Order of Nominal Arguments in Malagasy
15:00  
Coffee Break
  Session 7: Phonetics
15:20   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   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   (Short Break)
  Session 8: Syntax
16:30   Malcolm Ross (The Australian National University, Australia)
The Argument Structure of Non-Actor Voice Clauses in Formosan and Other Philippine-Type Languages
17:00   Elizabeth Zeitoun (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Lillian Huang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
Nominalization in Formosan Languages
18:30  
Banquet
 

Sunday, March 26


09:30   Kuang Mei (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Temporal Referential Marking Across Formosan Languages
10:15   Coffee Break
10:30   Isabelle Bril (LACITO-CNRS, Paris)
From Coordinators to Pragmatic Hierarchy and Subordination
11:15   Henry Yungli Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Syntax-semantics mismatch and complex predicate formation in Formosan languages
[Handout]
12:00  
Lunch
13:30   Lisa Travis (McGill University, Canada)
Wh-extraction through an Austronesian lens
14:15   Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Possessors and Definiteness Effects in Two Austronesian Languages
15:00  
Coffee Break
15:15   Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Some notes on Tagalog prosody and Tagalog syntax
16:00   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