LINGUIST List 7.1775

Sun Dec 15 1996

Confs: Malay/Indonesian Symposium, Lang acq

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. David Gil, Malay/Indonesian Symposium: Programme
2. Jeannette C. Schaeffer, URGENT: PROGRAM LANG. ACQ. WORKSHOP MIT

SYMPOSIUM ON MALAY/INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS

Date: 14, 15 January 1997

Venue: Dewan Persidangan Universiti,
 Universiti Sains Malaysia
 Penang, Malaysia

Cosponsors: The Association for Linguistic Typology
 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Centre for Languages
 and Translation
 University of Delaware, Department of Linguistics

PROGRAMME:

Tuesday 14 January

0830 - 0900 registration

Session 1 Languages in Contact

0900 - 0930 "Ayam Tim and Babi Chin:
 Typological Convergence in Baba Malay"

 Stephen Matthews & Umberto Ansaldo
 (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 & Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

0930 - 1000 "Contact Linguistics: The Case of the Language
 of The Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia"

 Teo Kok Seong
 (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
 Malaysia)

1000 - 1030 "Arabic Loanword Trajectories in Malay"

 Alan S. Kaye
 (California State University, Fullerton, USA)

1030 - 1100 opening ceremony

Session 2 Field and Corpus Linguistics

1100 - 1130 "Notes on Malay in the Natuna Islands"

 James T. Collins
 (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
 Malaysia)

1130 - 1200 "A 'Bank of Malaysian and Indonesian Languages':
 A Modest Proposal"

 Ed Anderson
 (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

1200 - 1230 "Towards a Typology of Malay/Indonesian
 Dialects"

 David Gil & Uri Tadmor
 (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala
 Lumpur, Malaysia / University of Delaware,
 Newark, USA &
 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA)

1230 - 1400 intermission

Session 3 Phonetics and Phonology

1400 - 1430 "Tense-Lax Vowels Perception of Malay Speakers
 Learning English"

 Nasrun bin Alias
 (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
 Malaysia)

1430 - 1500 "A Non-Linear Approach to Nasal Spreading in
 Malay and Indonesian Languages"

 Carol Bloomfield
 (Northern Territory University, Darwin,
 Australia)

1500 - 1530 "When Fusion Fails: Prefix-Nesting in Malay"

 Ann Delilkan
 (New York University, New York, USA)

1530 - 1600 "Stress and Prominence in Indonesian Malay"

 Ove Lorentz
 (University of Troms=F8, Troms=F8, Norway)

1600 - 1630 intermission

Session 4 Syntax: Word Order and Word Classes

1630 - 1700 "Word Order in Malay Sentences: The Interplay 
 of Communicative Dynamism and Systemic Ordering" 

 Zahrah Abd. Ghafur
 (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)

1700 - 1730 "A Comparison of Some Indonesian Malay
 and Brunei Malay Syntactic Structures:
 Implications for Universal Grammar"

 Gloria Poedjosoedarmo
 (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

1730 - 1800 "Indonesian Word Classes Revisited"

 Franz Muller-Gotama
 (California State University, Fullerton, USA)

1930 - dinner

Wednesday 15 January

Session 5 Syntax and Semantics: The Verbal Prefixes

0900 - 0930 "On the Unity or Non-Unity of ber-"

 Norhaida Bte. Aman
 (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)

0930 - 1000 "Affixes, Austronesian and Iconicity in Malay"

 Geoffrey Benjamin
 (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

1000 - 1030 "The Prefixes di- and N- in Malay/Indonesian
 Dialects"

 David Gil
 (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala
 Lumpur, Malaysia / University of Delaware,
 Newark, USA)

1030 - 1100 intermission

Session 6 Syntax

1100 - 1130 "Apa Yang 'Apa Yang'?"

 Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon & Norhaida
 Bte. Aman
 (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)

1130 - 1200 "Particle Movement in Malay"

 Ramli Md Salleh
 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,
 Malaysia

1200 - 1230 "Subjectless Sentences in Malay"

 Mashudi Kader
 (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)

INVITATION TO ATTEND THE WORKSHOP ON "THE INTERPRETATION OF ROOT
INFINITIVES AND BARE NOUNS IN CHILD LANGUAGE" MIT, JANUARY 13 & 14,
1997, Building E25 - room 401

(no registration fee, but pre-registration required: please contact
Jeannette Schaeffer: schaeffemit.edu if you want to attend the
workshop)


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Monday, January 13, 1997

9:00 - 9:15 	 Welcome

9:15 - 10:00	 Ken Wexler - MIT: "D-interpretability and 
Interpretation in the Optional Infinitive Stage"
10:00 - 10:15	 Discussion

10:15 - 11:00	 Frank Wijnen - University of Utrecht: "The 
temporal interpretation of root infinitivals in Dutch"
11:00 - 11:15	 Discussion

11:15 - 11:45	 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30	 Ingeborg Lasser - CUNY: The interpretation of 
Root Infinitive Constructions in adult and child German.
12:30 - 12:45	 Discussion

12:45 - 2:15	 Lunch break

2:15 - 3:00	 Sergey Avrutin - Yale: "EVENTS as units of
discourse representation in Root Infinitives"
3:00 - 3:15 Discussion

3:15 - 4:00	 Jeannette Schaeffer - MIT "The
interpretation of (bare) object nouns in child language"
4:00 - 4:15 	 Discussion

4:15 - 4:45 	 Tea break

4:45 - 5:30	 Tom Roeper - UMass Amherst and Ana
Perez-Leroux - Penn State: "Bare nominals and null genitives in 
child language"
5:30 - 5:45 	 Discussion

6:00 - ... Dinner/Party - D-Wing lounge Dept. of
Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT


Tuesday, January 14, 1997

MORNING (9AM - 12:45PM): Designing experiments to test the predictions
following from Monday's presentations on the interpretation of root
infinitives and bare nouns in various child languages. Participants
are divided into sub-groups.

AFTERNOON (2:15PM - 5PM): Presentation of designs and discussion.

5:00 PM: Conclusion.




Jeannette C. Schaeffer
MIT - Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
18 Vassar Street 20C-228
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:	(617) 253-2559
Fax:	(617) 253-5017
E-mail:	schaeffemit.edu