AFLA IV (1997)

University of California, Los Angeles

Program

Friday, April 25
1:00pm
   Welcome
    Invited Speaker
1:00-1:50pm
   Ian Maddieson (UCLA)
The many glottalized consonants of Yapese: How, why, and whence?
1:50-2:00pm
   Break
  Session I
2:00-2:30pm
  Rita Bhandari (SUNY Stony Brook)
Alignment and nasal substitution strategies in Austronesianlanguages
2:30-3:00pm
  Paul Lassettre (University of Hawaii)
Final vowel deletion in Micronesian languages
3:00-3:30pm   Elizabeth Hume, Jennifer Muller, Aone van Engelenhoven (Ohio State University, University of Leiden)
Nonmoraic geminates in Leti
3:30-3:50pm
   Break
  Session II
3:50-4:20pm
   Hasan Basri, Ellen Broselow, Daniel Finer (SUNY Stony Brook) Clitics and crisp edges in Makassarese
4:20-4:50pm
   Joseph C. Finney
Prehistory of AN ergativity and accusativity
4:50-5:00pm
   Break
    Session III
5:00-5:30pm
   Andrea Rackowski (McGill University)
Malagasy adverbs
5:30-6:00pm
   Matt Pearson (UCLA)
Adjunct placement and object shift in Malagasy

Saturday, April 26

  Invited Speaker Top
9:00-9:50am
   Edward L. Keenan (UCLA),
Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony (Universite d'Antananarivo)
NP (possessor) raising in Malagasy
9:50-10:00am
   Break
    Session IV
10:00-10:30am
   Marian Klamer (Vrije Universiteit / HIL)
Possessor raising and nominal incorporation in EasternIndonesia
10:30-11:00am
   Randall Hendrick (University of North Carolina)
Tongan mystery raising
11:00-11:30am
    Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas, Austin),
I Wayan Arka (Udayana University, University of Sydney)
Balinese binding and raising
11:30-12:00am
   David Gil (Universiti Kebangsaan)
Little green linguists land in the Riau Archipelago
    Invited Speaker
1:00-1:50pm
   Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware)
Wh-movement in Malay		 Top
1:50-2:00pm   Break
  Session V
2:00-2:30pm    Daniel Finer (SUNY Stony Brook)
V-to-D raising in Sulawesi relatives
2:30-3:00pm
   Norvin Richards (MIT)
Relativization strategies in Tagalog, English, and Japanese
3:00-3:30pm
   Kenneth Hyde (University of Delaware)
Valency and word order in Toba Batak: A minimalist approach to the LCA
3:30-3:50pm   Break
    Session VI
3:50-4:20pm
   Alan M. Stevens (Queens College, CUNY)
Deverbal nouns and nominalized clauses in Indonesian
4:20-4:50pm   Hasan Basri (SUNY Stony Brook)
Number marking in Selayarese
4:50-5:20pm   Jennifer Muller (Ohio State University)
Leti reduplication
5:20-5:50pm   John Foreman (UCLA)
An OT analysis of consonant mutations in Malagasy
5:50-6:00pm
   Break
    Invited Talk
6:00-6:50pm   Carol Georgopoulos
Direct object definiteness effects
7:00pm   Business Meeting
7:30pm   Party
   

Sunday, April 27
  Invited Speakers
9:00-9:50am
   Lisa Travis (McGill University)
Binding and theta positions
9:50-10:00am
   Break
    Session VII
10:00-10:30am
   Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Pennsylvania)
On defaults and defects: Verbal inflection in serial verbs
10:30-11:00am
    Diane Massam, Yves Roberge (University of Toronto)
Variable clitics: Niuean ai and aki
11:00-11:30am
   Alan Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
Arbitrary null subjects in Malay
11:30-12:00pm
   Ileana Paul (McGill University)
Case, scope, and partitivity