AFLA XIV (2007)

McGill University, Montréal

Program

Friday, May 4
08:50   Opening Remarks
    Session 1
09:00   Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Case and Licensing in Tagalog
09:30   Michael Anderson (University of Arizona)
Control and Raising in Ilocano: a question of pro as null subjects
10:00   Coffee Break
    Session 2
10:15   Douglas Ball (Stanford University)
A unified analysis of Niuean (Tongic) aki
10:45   Arthur Holmer (Lund University)
Seediq adverbial verbs — a review of the evidence
11:15   Hsiaohung Iris Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Restructuring infinitives in Tsou
11:45   Coffee Break
12:00   Invited Talk 1:
Henry Yungli Chang (Academia Sinica)
Theoretical and Typological implications of Formosan verb serialization
13:00   Lunch
    Session 3
14:30   Paul Law
(Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenshaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung)
The impersonal construction in Tagalog
15:00   Jarren Bodily (McGill University)
Some implications for the applicative construction from Cebuano verbmorphology
15:30   Coffee Break
    Session 4
15:45   Joy Wu (National Taiwan Normal University)
Experiencer types and Psych predicates in Amis
16:15   Peter Cole, Gaby Hermon, Yanti (University of Delaware)
Anaphoric systems of Jambi Malay
16:45   Catherine Fortin (University of Michigan)
Indonesian sluicing and the P-stranding generalization
17:15   Coffee Break
    Invited Talk 2
17:30   Winifred Bauer (Victoria University of Wellington)
Typology to the rescue: halting the infiltration of English into Māori Syntax
19:00   Posters (Wine&Cheese)
    Cathryn Donohue (University of Nevada, Reno)
Mark Donohue (Monash University)
The case of possessors and subjects
    Joanna Furmanska (University of California, Los Angeles)
Between us and Them: Anaphoric Elements in Javanese
    Lanny Hidajat (University of Delaware)
The Indonesian Non-agentive Eventive Construction: an analysis of ke-anverbs
    Amy P. Lee (Hsuan Chuang University)
Reduplication as complementary compounding of autonomous truncation
    Yu-an Lu (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Degree of badness of OCP in Thao
    Catherine Macdonald (University of Toronto)
Prosodic Domains and variable parsing in Tongan
    Suriel Mofu (Oxford University)
Predicate Nominal Constructions in Biak
    Peter Slomanson (American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies)
Using Syntax to Resolve an Etymological Quandary
    Julia Su (University of Toronto)
Resultative and Descriptive clauses as matrix clauses in Tsou
    Phanintra Teeranon (Mae Fah Luang University)
Transparency effect in disyllabic words of the Malay dialect spoken in Pathumthani
    Chungming Wu (National Tsing Hua University)
Two Types of Verb Sequence in Kanakanavu
 

Saturday, May 5
    Session 5
09:00   Yuko Otsuka (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
Genitive Relative constructions and agentless transitives in Tongan
09:30   Tomoko Ishizuka (University of California, Los Angeles)
Internal structure of the DP in Javanese
10:00   Coffee Break
  Session 6
10:15   Bill Palmer (University of Surrey)
Semantically non-canonical possessive marking
10:45   Elizabeth Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington)
Possession syntax in Unua DPs
11:15   William Davies (University of Iowa)
Madurese as a Philippine(-type) language
11:45   Coffee Break
  Invited Talk 3
12:00   Diane Massam (University of Toronto)
Degrees of Separation:Theta relations in Niuean
13:00   Lunch
  Session 7
14:30   Justin Nuger (University of California, Santa Cruz)
A reductionist look at Ulu Muar Malay Discontiguous Reduplication
15:00   Yanti (University of Delaware),
Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay
15:30   Coffee Break
  Session 8
15:45   Karthik Durvasula (University of Delaware)
Jambi Malay as a clue to understanding prenasalized stops
16:15   Marc Brunelle (University of Ottawa)
The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense vs. lax stop contrast
16:45   Katrina Tang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compounds
17:15   Coffee Break
  Invited Talk 4
17:30   Kie Ross Zuraw (University of California, Los Angeles)
Extrapolation of generalizations from existing words to new words: modeling Palauan suffixation
19:00   Conference Dinner
 

Sunday, May 6
    Session 9
09:00   Wan-zhen Deng (National Tsing Hua University)
Toward a Unified Account for Saisiyat Consonant Loss and Its RelatedPhenomena: Moraic Codas or Not?
09:30   Ann Delilkan (City University of New York)
The Asymmetrical Distribution of Segmental Processes in Malay: A ProsodicAccount
10:00   Coffee Break
    Session 10
10:15   Raphael Mercado (McGill University)
The mystery of the mag- prefix: phases and reduplication in Tagalog
10:45   Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario)
Topics in pseudo-clefts: evidence from Malagasy
11:15   Eric Potsdam (University of Florida)
VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives
11:45   Coffee Break
    Invited Talk 5
12:00   Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
Agreement Parameters: From Africa to Austronesian and the World
13:00   Closing Remarks
13:10   Business Meeting