LINGUIST List 17.2028

Tue Jul 11 2006

Confs: Phonology;Discourse Analysis/Indonesia

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Directory         1.    Uri Tadmor, 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Message 1: 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Date: 11-Jul-2006
From: Uri Tadmor <uricbn.net.id>
Subject: 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society


16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Short Title: SEALS XVI

Date: 20-Sep-2006 - 21-Sep-2006 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Contact: Uri Tadmor Contact Email: uricbn.net.id

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS) organizes annual meetings dealing with the analysis of Southeast Asian languages.

SEALS XVI The 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Atma Jaya University, Jakarta 20-21 September 2006

Program:

Wednesday, 20 September 2006

8:00-8:45 Registration

8:45-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:00 Plenary Session Paul Jen-kuei Li: Some Problems in the Kavalan Phonology

10:00-10:30 Refreshments

10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A Ruben Stoel: Fataluku as a tone language Uri Tadmor: Are there Clusters and Diphthongs in Malay? Zaharani Ahmad: The Phonology of Nasal Final Prefix meN- in Mala

Parallel Session B Li-May Sung and Cheng-chuen Kuo: Comparative Constructions in Amis and Kavalan Joanna Ut-seong Sio: The syntax of Cantonese relational nouns Ajid Che Kob: Variations in Melanau: Phonology and Lexical

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A Theraphan L-Thongkum & Chommanad Intajamornrak: Tonal Evolution Caused by Language Contact: A Case Study of the T'in Language of Nan Province, Northern Thailand Chalermchai Chaichompoo: A Phonological Description of Nor Lae Palaung Paul Sidwell: Creaky voice systems among the Mon-Khmer languages: towards historical explanation

Parallel Session B Djatmika: Pragmatic Intricacy of Javanese Figurative Speech: Too Hard to Understand? Zifirdaus Adnan: Discourse Structures of Indonesian Humanities Research Article Introductions: A Comparative Study Vincent Taohsun Chang: Sentence Topic, Discourse Topic, or Cognitive Topic? Topic Revisited from Cross-linguistic Perspective

3:00-3:30 Refreshments

3:30-5:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A David Gil: Distinctly Mesolectal Properties in Malay / Indonesian Dialects Rochayah Machali: Arabic Loanwords in Present-Day Javanese: Linguistic Syncretism as Evidence of Cultural Syncretism Rungpat Roengpitya, Kimiko Tsukada, and Yukari Hirata: The effects of vowel length and place of articulation of the following stop on formant frequencies in Thai vowels

Parallel Session B Kyüi Ghüng Maang and George Bedell: Relative Clauses in K'cho Jan Wohlgemuth: Loan Verbs in Southeast Asia Madhumita Barbora: The Missing Verb Phrase

7:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 21 September 2006

8:30-10:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A Michael C Ewing: Distributed Cognition in the context of language shift in Eastern Indonesia Sung Kai-lin: The Language Choice Behavior of Amis People in Taipei and Hualien: a contrastive study Sumittra Suraratdecha: Thai-English Codeswitching: A Hawai'i Case Study

Parallel Session B Francisco Perlas Dumanig and Rodney C. Jubilado: A Descriptive Analysis of Surigaonon Language Richard McGinn: Lexical Licensing at the Interface of Syntax and Semantics in Rejang Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong: Relative Clause in Vietnamese as a Nominal Dependency Relation

10:00-10:30 Refreshments

10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A Thomas J. Conners: Morphosyntactic Simplification in Tengger Javanese Morphosyntax Frantis?ek Kratochvíl: Abui as an active language Svetlana F. Chlenova: A first look at grammatical structure of West Damar or Damar Batumerah, a language of Eastern Indonesia

Parallel Session B Bahren Umar Siregar: Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality Khazriyati Salehuddin and Heather Winskel: Malay Numeral Classifiers: Sketching its Conceptual Representation from a Native Speaker's Perspective Hien Pham: Constructinos of Spatial Situations in Vietnamese

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A Wolfram Schaffar: Grammaticalisation in Burmese: Nominalisation, Focus and Case Particles in Historical and Typological Perspective Antonia Soriente: Is Penan Benalui a Kenyah Language? On the Classification of the Languages of Some Hunter-Gatherer Populations in Borneo Kiyoko Takahashi: Grammaticalization Paths of the Thai Verb day3: A Corpus-Based Study

Parallel Session B Catharina Williams-van Klinken: Lexicalisation of Emotion and Character in Tetun Dili Betty Litamahuputty: The use of pa in Ternate Malay (Indonesia) Yusrita Yanti: The Major Pronouns of the Minangkabau Language

3:00-3:30 Refreshments

3:30-5:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A Jufrizal and I Wayan Arka: Voice in Mentawai: A Note on Its Typological Position in the Austronesian Languages of Indonesia Natchanan Yaowapat and Amara Prasithrathsint: Reduced relative clauses in Thai and Vietnamese Mark T. Miller: West Coast Bajau: Syntactically Ergative or Symmetrical Voice?

Parallel Session B Yeshayahu Shen and David Gil: Comparisons in Indonesian: An Experimental Study Heather Winskel: The expression of temporal relations by Thai and English children and adults Katubi: Different Language, Different Greeting: A Study of the Relationship between Four Ethnic Groups in Alor, East Nusa Tenggara

5:00-5:15 Break

5:15-6:00 Plenary Session Yusrita Yanti and Bambang Kaswanti Purwo: Emotive negative particles in Minangkabau

6:00-6:15 Closing Remarks