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Department of Linguistics

Sixth Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, 2013

APLL 6 - sand drawing

Michael Franjieh (photos from Vanuatu)

Keynote speaker: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (Universität zu Köln)

Date: 24 May 2013Time: 10:00 AM

Finishes: 25 May 2013Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: KLT and G3 (Friday), 4421 and 4418 (Saturday)

Type of Event: Conference

The Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics research group is pleased to announce its sixth international conference APLL6 to be held at SOAS, University of London, on 24-25 May 2013.  APLL6 follows last year's highly successful APLL5 conference, and the Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL) conferences held at SOAS and St Catherine’s College Oxford in previous years.

The purpose of the APLL conferences is to provide a venue for presentation of the best current research on Austronesian and Papuan languages and linguistics and to promote collaboration and research in this area. All papers will be subject to assessment by the Program Committee.

Program Committee
  • Wayan Arka (Australian National University)
  • Peter K. Austin (SOAS, University of London)
  • Oliver Bond (University of Surrey)
  • Dunstan Brown (University of York)
  • Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
  • Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)
  • Nick Evans (Australian National University)
  • Sebastian Fedden (University of Surrey)
  • Marian Klammer (Leiden University)
  • Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle)
  • Laura Robinson (University of California Santa Barbara)
  • Peter Sells (University of York)
Programme
Day/timeDescription
Friday, 24 May 2013
9:00-9:15Registration
9:15-9:30Welcome
 Serial Verbs
9:30-10:00Comparing nuclear and core serial verbs in Ughele,  Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad
10:00-10:30Serial verb constructions in Abma: data from Cut and Break Events, Eleanor Ridge
10:30-11:00Coffee
 Number
11:00-11:30Number and animacy in Meso-Melanesian, Bill Palmer
11:30-12:00Plural semantics: evidence from Marori, I Wayan Arka and Mary Dalrymple
12:00-12:30Pluralia Tantum in Walman, Lea Brown and Matthew Dryer
 Perception
12:30-1:00Perception and cognition in Korowai, Lourens de Vries
1:00-2:15Lunch
2:15-3:30Plenary lecture Nikolaus Himmelmann ‘Some observations on clausehood and event segmentation in Austronesian and Papuan Languages’
3:30-4:00Coffee
 Classification
4:00-4:30The relation between the Awyu-Dumut and the Ok families of languages, Wilco Van Den Heuvel and Sebastian Fedden
4:30-5:00Towards an internal classification of the Isabel Languages: the position of
Blanga, Zazao and Hma’e,
Radu Voica
 Direct Speech
5:00-5:30The peculiarities of direct-speech constructions in Toqabaqita Frank Lichtenberk
5:30Drinks
7.30Dinner
Saturday, 25 May 2013
 Alor-Pantar Languages
9:30-10:00Multiple alignment systems in a single family: evidence from Alor-Pantar, Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden
10:00-10:30Teiwa numeral classifiers: whence, and why?, Marian Klamer
 Negation
10:30-11:00The Jespersen Cycle in and around New Guinea, Frens Vossen and Johan van der Auwera
11:00-11:30Coffee
 Time and Space
11:30-12:00"The house is facing downwards to me" – orientation and frames of reference in Caac, Aurelie Cauchard
12:00-12:30Reference to time in Kilmeri, Claudia Gerstner-Link
12:30-1:00Spatially and temporally deictic predicates in Papitalai, Jessica Cleary-Kemp
1:00-2:00Lunch

 

 Formosan LanguagesTagalog
2:00-2:30On gradable predicates and degree achievements in Paiwan,
Chao-Lin Li
Ang and Ng as Determiners, Kay Cortes, Lareina
Milambiling and Ileana Paul
2:30-3:00A Syntactic Overview on
Kanakanavu Indefinite Quantifiers,
Sheng-Chieh Chang
Event existential constructions
with may/mayroon in Tagalog,
Anja Latrouite and Robert Van
Valin Jr
3:00-3:30On Kanakanavu interrogative words and content questions, An-Ting DengTagalog situation aspect and event structure,
Lareina Milambiling
3:30-4:00Coffee 
 Formosan Languages (cont.)Syntax and semantics
4:00-4:30Semantic perspectives on
Kanakanavu’s voice system,
Hsing-Chen Liu
Give constructions in heritage
Malay,
Marian Klamer and Francesca
Moro
4:30-5:00On the multiple applicative
construction in Takibakha Bunun,
Chao-Kai Shih and Atul Manqoqo
Referential properties, event
structure and the syntaxsemantics
interface,
Anja Latrouite
 Possession 
5:00-5:30Squished between noun and verb:
inalienable possession marking in
Yopno in typological perspective,
James Slotta
Tracing mirativity in languages
of the New Guinea Highlands,
Theocharis Mexas
Registration
  • Standard rate £30
  • Student rate £15
  • Conference dinner £20

Pre-registration and pre-booking for the (optional) conference dinner is required. 

On-line Registration

Organiser: Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics research group / Centres & Programmes Office

Contact email: apll6conference@gmail.com

Contact Tel: 020 7898 4586 or 020 7898 4892/3

Sponsor: Univeristy of York, Univeristy of Oxford, Surrey Morphology Group