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Confs: Syntax, Phonology, Semantics, General Ling/USA
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1. Andrei
Antonenko,
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
Message 1: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
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Date: 16-Apr-2010
From: Andrei Antonenko <andantgmail.com>
Subject: Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
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Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
Short Title: AFLA 17
Date: 07-May-2010 - 09-May-2010
Location: Stony Brook NY, USA
Contact: Yu-an Lu
Contact Email: afla17afla17.org
Meeting URL: http://www.afla17.org
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
AFLA 17
Stony Brook University
May 7-9 2010
The Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY, will
host the 17th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.
The conference dates are May 7-9, 2010.
Friday, May 7th, 2010
10:00-10:50
Arrival, Registration, Breakfast
10:50-11:00
Opening Remarks:
Session I Syntax A.
11:00-11:30
Marshallese Initial Wh-questions: Clefts of Pseudoclefts?, Heather Willson
(Brigham Young University)
11:30-12:00
Does Tsou Display High-low Applicative Distinction?, Henry Y. Chang (Academia
Sinica)
12:00-12:30
The Constituency and Command Paradox in Philippine Type Languages, Daniel
Kaufman (CUNY)
12:30-1:50
Lunch
Session II Syntax B.
1:50-2:20
Argument Salience Constrains the Predicates in Tongan Noun Incorporation,
Douglas Ball (Truman State University)
2:20-2:50
Linking Compounds in Malagasy, Dimitrios Ntelitheos (United Arab Emirates
University)
2:50-3:20
Sundanese Number Agreement, Lauren Eby (Harvard University)
3:20-3:40
Coffee Break
Session III Syntax C.
3:40-4:10
Distinguishing Raising and Control in Sundanese, Eri Kurniawan (University of
Iowa, Indonesia University of Education)
4:10-4:40
Trying to Forget in Madurese, William Davies (University of Iowa)
4:40-5:10
Alternating Control in Amis, Yi-Ting Chen (Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages)
5:10-5:30
Coffee Break
5:30-6:30
Invited Talk: Edith Aldridge (University of Washington), ''Predicate, Subject,
and Cleft in Austronesian Languages''
7:00
Welcoming Reception: University Café
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
8:30-9:30
Breakfast
Session IV. Semantics.
9:30-10:00
'Accidental' ter- in Malay as an Anti-bouletic Modifier, Pasha Siraj (University
of Massachusetts Amherst)
10:00-10:30
On the Semantics of Future Markers in East Javanese, Jozina Vander Klok (McGill
University)
10:30-11:00
On Modals in Mayrinax Atayal, Tsai-Li Pei, Chia-Hao Tai & Chun-Ming Wu (National
Tsing Hua University)
11:00-11:20
Coffee Break
Session V. Syntax D.
11:20-11:50
What Austronesian Tells Us about 'who', Andreea Nicolae & Gregory Scontras
(Harvard University)
11:50-12:20
Interrogative Verbs in Kavalan: Implications for Syntactic Categories, Dong-yi
Lin (University of Florida)
12:20-1:40
Lunch Break
Session VI. Syntax E.
1:40-2:10
Itawes Morphosyntax, Aaron Ecay & Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania)
2:10-2:40
On Affected Arguments in Atayal, Sihwei Chen (Academia Sinica)
2:40-3:00
Coffee Break
Session VII. Phonology.
3:00-3:30
Quality-sensitive Stress and Opacity in Piuma Paiwan, Shih-chi Stella Yeh
(National Tsing Hua University)
3:30-4:00
Voicing and Vowel Raising in Sundanese, Vladimir Kulikov (University of Iowa)
4:00-4:30
Learning the Marshallese Phonological System: The Role of Orthography and
Underspecification, Wendy Baker, Heather Willson, Jared August, Carmen Fenn &
Brad Miller (Brighan Young University)
4:30-5:00
Clitic Reduplicants, Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle)
5:00-5:30
Coffee Break
5:30-6:30
Invited Talk: Abigail Cohn & Anastasia Riehl (Cornell University) , ''NCs in
Austronesian: Clusters, Prenasalized Stops, or Postploded Nasals?''
Introduction: Marie Huffman, Stony Brook University
6:30-7:00
Go to dinner
7:00-9:00
Dinner Reception
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
9:30-10:00
Breakfast
Session VIII. Syntax F.
10:00-10:30
Implicit Arguments in Unaccusative Syntax: Evidence from Palauan, Justin Nuger
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
10:30-11:00
Not-so-Implicit Agents, Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania)
11:00-11:10
Coffee Break
Session IX. Syntax G.
11:10-11:40
On the Presence of Adjectives in Fijian and the Universality of the Category
'adjective', Hazel Pearson (Harvard University)
11:40-12:10
Long Dependencies and Verbal Object Marking in Fijian and Kiribati, Joachim
Sabel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main)
12:10-12:30
Coffee Break
12:30-1:30
Invited Talk: Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, & Timothy McKinnon (University of
Delaware), ''Is a Unified Syntactic Analysis Possible for Kerinci Ablaut?''
1:30-1:45
Closing Remarks
1:45-2:00
Business Meeting
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