AFLA XII (2000)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
May 11-13,2000
For the first time in the history of AFLA, this meeting was held outside the North-American continent, and contained contributions by speakers from eleven different countries: New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, Taiwan, the USA including Hawaii, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and The Netherlands.
Apart from the languages that are traditionally well-represented at Austronesian conferences, we were happy to see that the program also contained work on relatively small or lesser described languages, such as the minority languages of Taiwan, Northwest Borneo, Eastern Indonesia, Papua and Oceania.
Special themes of this conference were Iconicity and Argument marking. The papers in this volume show that the program covered a broad range of subdisciplines — from discourse grammar, phonology, morphology, syntax, to semantics — and that the authors are working within various theoretical frameworks. But despite the obvious differences in expertise, interest and background, the atmosphere on the conference was typically AFLA: lively and constructive, with an average rate of attendance of about 80%.
This meeting has again furthered the unwritten mandate of AFLA to encourage the formal study of Austronesian languages, especially work by speaker linguists and junior scholars. Six scholars presented analyses of their native language, and more than half of the 45 participants subscribed as 'student'. This suggests that the future of Austronesian linguistics looks very bright indeed.
The eight edition of Afla will be held in the spring of 2001 at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. The principal organiser will be Ileana Paul.
Proceedings of AFLA 7 The Seventh Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
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Program |
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THURSDAY MAY 11 |
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8.30 |
Registration & coffee: Main Building, room 10A00 | |
9.15 |
Opening | |
9.20 |
, Sydney University Categorial change in Oceanic Languages: First contact on the North New Guinea Coast |
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10.10 |
, Leiden University Austronesian features in a linguistic area |
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10.40 |
, National Taiwan University Evidentials and mental spaces: A study of Tsou narratives |
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11.10-11.30 |
Break | |
11.30 |
, National Taiwan University The pragmatics of focus in Tsou and Seediq |
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12.00 |
, Providence University, Taiwan Word order variation and topic continuity in Atayal |
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12.30-2.00 |
Lunch | |
2.00 |
, SUNY Stony Brook Syntax-phonology interactions in the Makassar languages |
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2.50 |
, Concordia University, Montreal The morphology-phonology interface: Rotuman metathesisrevisited |
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3.20 |
, Australian National University A nonlinear analysis of Vowel harmony and Vowel harmony blocking inPendau |
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3.50-4.20 |
Break | |
4.20 |
, UC Santa Cruz Fixed prosodic effects in Austronesian: AnOptimality-theoretic account |
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4.50 |
, SOAS, London Derivations vs. constraints: The [a]-[ò] alternation inJavanese |
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5.20 |
, University of Hawai’i Phonologically and morphologically grounded alternations inWoleaian |
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7 p.m |
Conference dinner: Kantjil & de Tijger, Spuistraat 291-293 | |
FRIDAY MAY 12 |
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| 8.45 | Registration & coffee | |
| 9.00 | , Universiti Brunei Darussalam Correlations of phonological structures and expressivity: emergence ofthe marked? |
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| 9.50 | , SUNY Stony Brook Identity effects in Selayarese Vowel Harmony |
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| 10.20 | , University of Manchester Fixed segmentism and markedness: Nominalising reduplicationin Chamorro |
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| 10.50-11.20 | Break | |
| 11.20 | Institute for
Psycholinguistics Nominalisation of verbal clauses in Marquesan (Oceanic) |
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| 11.50 | , National Taiwan University Nominalization in Rukai and Amis |
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| 12.20 | , Australian National University Case marking systems in Rotuman and Fijian |
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| 12.40-2.00 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 | , MIT/UQAM Concealed pseudo-clefts in Austronesian |
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| 2.50 | , University of Iowa Against long movement in Madurese |
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| 3.20 | , Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Reflexives and c-command in Toba Batak |
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| 3.50-4.20 | Break | |
| 4.20 | , University of Toronto Nominals in Niuean |
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| 5.10 | Business Meeting | |
SATURDAY MAY, 13 |
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| 8.45 | Registration & coffee | |
| 9.00 | Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, University of Delaware & University of Utrecht The acquisition of WH forms in Jakarta Indonesian |
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| 9.30 | , Massey University, New Zealand Malagasy, binary branching and null subjects |
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| 10.00 | Break | |
| 10.20 | , Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf An interpretation of the voice affix -i in Tagalog |
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| 10.50 | , University of Kiel Valency-changing clitics in Teop (Oceanic, Bougainville,PNG) |
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| 11.20 | , Oakland University Structural case and argument structure in Oceanic: Evidencefrom Rotuman |
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| 11.40 | , The University of Melbourne Emotion verbs and grammatical functions in Indonesian |
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| 12.20 | Lunch | |
| 1.40 | , Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia Voice and being core: Evidence from (Eastern) Indonesianlanguages |
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| 2.30 | , The University of Melbourne Arguments and non-Arguments in Meno-Mene Sasak, eastern Indonesia |
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| 3.00 | Anja Latrouite, Heinrich-Heine Universität DüsseldorfArgument marking in Tagalog | |
| 3.30-3.45 | Closing Session | |
| ALTERNATES: | ||
| , Université Paris-III Sorbonne
Nouvelle Vowel shifting and cloning in Motlav (Vanuatu) |
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| Institute Leipzig Island-like phenomena in Riau Indonesian |
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