AFLA III (1996)

University of California, Los Angeles

Program

Friday, April 26
1:00pm
   Welcome
    Invited Speaker
1:00-1:50pm
   Abigail Cohn (Cornell University)
Prosodic Constraints on Indonesian Stress: Phonological and Phonetic Evidence
1:50-2:00pm
   Break
  Phonology/Morphology Session I (chair: Donca Steriade)
2:00-2:30pm
  Sean Erwin (UCSD)
Finish What's on Your Template: Deep-Surface and Surface- Surface Disparaties in Malagasy
2:30-3:00pm
  Edward L. Keenan (UCLA) and Jean Paulin Razafimamonjy (Université d' Antananarivo)
Reduplication in Malagasy: A Proboblem for an OT Analysis
3:00-3:30pm   Paul Lassettre (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Rule and Constraint Interaction in Ponapean Reduplication
3:30-3:50pm
   Break
  Phonology/Morphology Session II (chair: Armin Mester)
3:50-4:20pm
   Keiichiro Suzuki (University of Arizona)
Distributive Correspondence in Palauan Reduplication
4:20-4:50pm
   Kie Ross (UCLA)
Moving Phonotactics: Variability in Tagalog Loanwords
4:50-5:20pm
   Harry van der Hulst (Leiden University/HIL) and Marian Klamer (Free University Amsterdam/HIL, Royal Academy of Sciences)
Reduplication in Leti
5:20-5:30pm
   Break
    Phonetics Session (chair: Peter Ladefoged)
5:30-6:00pm
   Ian Maddieson (UCLA) and Richard Wright (UCLA)
Small Vowel Systems and Phonetic Variability: Evidence from Amis
6:00-6:30pm
   Rachel Walker (UC Santa Cruz) and Geoffrey K. Pullum (UC Santa Cruz)
The Phonetic Definition of "Nasal": Evidence from Austronesian Phonology
    Invited Speaker
6:30-7:20pm
   Ian Maddieson (UCLA)
The Phonetic Richness of Austronesian Languages

Saturday, April 27

  Invited Speaker Top
9:00-9:50am
   Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz)
The Locality of Adjunct Extraction in Chamorro
9:50-10:00am
   Break
    Syntax/Semantics Session I (chair: Matt Shibatani)
10:00-10:30am
   Randall Hedrick (University of North Carolina)
Tongan Definites and Specificity Effects
10:30-11:00am
   Lillian M. Huang (National Taiwan Normal University)
Interrogative Constructions in Mayrinax Atayal
11:00-11:30am
   Diane Massam (University of Toronto)
Predicate Fronting and Focus in Niuean
11:30-11:40am
   Break
    Invited Speaker
11:40-12:30pm
   Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona)
12:30-1:30pm
   Lunch
  Parallel Sessions:
    Syntax/Semantics II (chair: Jean-Roger Vergnaud) and Phonology/Morphology III (chair: Sun-Ah Jun)
1:30-2:00pm
   Syntax/Semantics: Top
  Ileana Paul (McGill University)
Remarks on Malagasy Nominalization
    Phonology/ Morphology:
    Katherine Crosswhite (UCLA)
A Non-Cyclic Approach to Chamorro Cyclicity
2:00-2:30pm
   Syntax/Semantics:
    Mark Honegger (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Integrity in Malay VPs
    Phonology/Morphology:
    Mark Hale (Concordia University) and Madelyn Kissock (Harvard University)
The Phonology-Syntax Interface in Rotuman
2:30-3:00pm
   Syntax/Semantics:
    Hooi Ling Soh (MIT)
On A-bar Extractions in Malay
    Phonology/ Morphology:
    Marian Klamer (Free University Amsterdam/HIL, Royal Academy of Sciences)
Optimal Clitic Placement in Kambera
3:00-3:20pm
   Break
    Parallel Sessions:
    Syntax/Semantics III (chair: Tim Stowell)
and Phonology/Morphology IV (chair: Bruce Hayes)
3:20-3:50pm
   Syntax/Semantics:
    Norvin Richards (MIT)
Syntax Versus Semantics in Tagalog Wh-Movement
    Phonology/ Morphology:
    Sean Hendricks (University of Arizona)
Voice Licensing and Sonorant Linking in Malakmalak
3:50-4:20pm
   Syntax/Semantics:
    Elizabeth Pearce (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ)
DP Licensing and Spec Roles in Maori
    Phonology/ Morphology:
    Niken Adisasmito (Cornell University)
Faithfulness Constraints and Consonant Clusters in Indonesian
4:20-4:50pm
   Syntax/Semantics:
    Matthew Pearson (UCLA)
Domain Phrases and the Syntax of Specificity: The Case of Malagasy Existentials
    Phonology/ Morphology:
    Juliette Blevins (Stanford University, UC Berkeley, University of
Western Australia) and Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley)
Compensatory C/V "Metathesis"
4:50-5:10pm
   Break
    Invited Speaker
5:10-6:00pm
   Lisa Travis (McGill University)
Achievements and External Theta-Role Assignment: Suggestive Data from Malagasy

Sunday, April 28
  Invited Speakers Top
9:00-9:50am
   Edward L. Keenan (UCLA) and Jean Paulin Razafimamonjy (Universite d'Antananarivo)
Reciprocals in Malagasy
9:50-10:00am
   Break
    Syntax/Semantics Session IV (chair: Paul Schachter)
10:00-10:30am
   Emily Sityar (UCLA)
The Preverbal Actor Construction in Cebuano
10:30-11:00am
   John Alderete (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Canonical Types and Noun Phrase Configurationality in Boumaa Fijian
11:00-11:20am
   Break
  Session on Diachronic Syntax and Syntactic Typology (chair:Pam Munro)
11:20-11:50am
   Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Pennsylvania) and Nancy Niedzielski (UC Santa Barbara)
The Syntax and Semantics of olsem in Bislama
11:50-12:20pm
   Joseph C. Finney (Independent)
Diachronic Syntax of Proto-Polynesian
12:20-12:50pm
   Bernard Cornrie (USC) and Maria Polinsky (USC)
Relativizing Genitives in Austronesian Languages