AFLA VI (1999)

University of Toronto, Toronto

Special Topic: Reduplication

Program

Friday, April 16


9:55

Welcoming Remarks - Diane Massam and Catherine Kitto

10:00
PLENARY SESSION:

Lisa Travis (McGill University)
The syntax and semantics of reduplication

Reduplication (Phonology)
Syntax
11:00 Andrea Rackowski (MIT)
Optimally optional: Tagalog aspectual reduplication
Barry Miller (York)
The Definitcness Restriction in TagaJog
11:30
BREAK
11:45 Luba Butska (Rutgers)
Sonority Constraints and Nakanai
Reduplication
Marie Meili Yeh (Lien Ho College)
Negation and V-to-I movement in Saisiya
12:15 Hasan Basri and Yiya Chen (SUNY, Stony Brook)
When Harmony Meets Reduplication
Susana Bejar (U. of Toronto)
Number Features and Specificity
12:45
LUNCH
2:00
PLENARY SESSION:

Paul de Lacy (U. Mass.) and Catherine Kitto (U. of Toronto)
A Correspondence Theorv of Epenthesis (Invited Student Talk)

2:45 Paul Lassettre (U. of Hawai'i)
Intrusive -kk- and reduplication in EasternTrukic
Peter Cole, Elizabeth Jonczyk and Jason S. Lilley
(U. of Delaware)
Extraction from object position in Javanese and other Austronesian languages
3:15 Franca Ferrari-Bridgers (NYU)
On the proper treatment of quantitativecomplementarity in Panopean reduplication
Suzanne Belanger (U. of Toronto)
Wh-agreement in Chamorro
3:45
BREAK
4:15 Jozsef Szakos
(Providence University, Taiwan)
Reduplication and subgrouping: A contrastive account of Tsou, Kanavu and Sa'arua
 
PLENARY SESSION:
Daniel Finer (SUNY, Stony Brook) Cyclic clitics in Selayarese
 

Saturday, April 17


Reduplication (Phonology)
Syntax
9:30 Philip Spaelti
(Kobe Shoin Women's U.)
Syllable recycling reduplication: a specific result of a comprehensive theory of infixing reduplication
Norhaida Aman and Gabriella Hermon (U. of Delaware)
The Acquisition of in situ and fully movedquestions in Singapore Malay
10:00 Keira Ballantyne (U. of Hawai'i)
Reduplication in Yapese
Norvin Richards (Kanda U.)
Complementizer Cliticization in Tagalog and English
10:30
BREAK
11:00 Joseph Finney
Reduplication, double consonants, double vowels, and issues of orthography in a small Polynesiannation
Chen Cheng-Fu (National Taiwan U.)
Wh-words as polarity items in Rukai
11:30
PLENARY SESSION:

Elizabeth Pearce (Victoria U. of Wellington)
Topic and focus in a head-initial language: Maori

12:30
LUNCH
Reduplication (Syntax)
Phonology
2:00 Paul Li (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica) Some Aspects of Pazeh syntax Jen Muller (Ohio State U.)
Geminate Markedness: Evidence from Chuukcse
2:30 William Davies (U. of Iowa)
"Reduplication, Multiple Events, and Madurese
Reciprocals"
Tien Hsin Hsin (U. of Connecticut)
"On consonant release in Tsou" (Student
Abstract Competition Winner)   
3:00
BREAK
3:20
PLENARY SESSION:
Ilieana Paul (McGill University)
On Passives
(Invied student talk)
4:30
PLENARY SESSION:
Juliette Blevins (Cambridge University)
Untangling Leti infixation

Sunday, April 18


9:00
PLENARY SESSION:
Mark Hale (University of Concordia)
 Marshallese & The Relationship Between Phonetics & Phonology
 
Reduplication - Phonology -
Semantics
Syntax
10 00 Alicia Lan-Ting Say
(Natl Taiwan U.)
Reduplication in Formosan languages - a typological study
Juvenal Ndayiragij
(U. of Western Ontario)
Evidence for the 'local' nature of MLC
10 30 Niken Adisasmito-Smith
(Cornell U.) Acoustic Characteristics or :he Javanese
Yehuda Falk (Hebrew University)
Philippine subjects in a monostratal framework
11:00 Paul De Lacy (U. Massachusetts,
Amherst) Circumscription in Optimality
11:30
LUNCH
12:30 Marian Klamer (Vrije Univcrsiteit
Amsterdam/HIL)
The iconicity of being 'wild': evidencefrom Austronesian expressives
Matt Pearson (UCLA)
Tense(?)-Marking on Malagasy PPs: an argument-non-argument asymmetry
(Student Abstract Competition Winner)
1:00 Ralf Naumann and Anja Latrouite (U. of Dusseldorf)
An interpretation of Tagalogvoice-affixes in dvnamic event
Li-May Sung (Natl. Taiwan U.)
Negation in Tsou
1:30
BREAK
1:45 Kieran Snyder (U. of Pennsylvania)
I speak Tahitian (French) : Reflexives and the borrowing of discourse
Edith Aldridge (Cornell U.)
Leftward Movement and Case-checking: Evidencefrom Atayalic Languages
2:15 Miriam Meyerhoff (U of Hawai'i /
Cornell U.) When Having Morphology Matters
Mark Donohue (U. of Sydney) and Anna Maclachlan (Machina Sapiens) What Agreement in Chamorro?