ALL4: 4th Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
A two day conference of speakers
Date: 17 June 2009Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 18 June 2009Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Conference
UKARG is pleased to announce the 4th Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL4), to be held on Wednesday 17 June and Thursday 18 June 2009 in the Khalili Lecture Theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Invited speaker: I Wayan Arka (ANU)
Conference details
ALL4 offers a forum for researchers working in any area of Austronesian linguistics to present their research. We welcome contributions relating to any aspect of Austronesian from any perspective, including:
- formal theoretical issues;
- typology;
- descriptive linguistics;
- documentary linguistics and language endangerment;
- historical linguistics;
- lexicology;
- applied linguistics;
- discourse.
Papers will be twenty minutes in length plus ten minutes for discussion.
Submission of abstracts has now closed and successful applicants have been notified of acceptance. A full programme and registration details are available below.
Programme
DAY 1 - Wednesday 17th June 2009
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8.30 | Registration | |
| 8.55 | Welcome | |
| Session 1 Chair: Peter Sells | ||
| 9.00 | Ileana Paul University of Western Ontario | Wide-scoping bare nouns in Malagasy |
| 9.30 | Hazel Pearson Harvard University | A semantics for the Fijian comparative |
| 10.00 | Bethwyn Evans Australian National University | How many foci? The linguistic encoding of focus in Marovo |
| 10.30 | BREAK | |
| Session 2 Chair: Oliver Bond | ||
| 11.00 | Peter Sells SOAS, London | Dimensions of syntactic analysis in Toba Batak |
| 11.30 | Bill Palmer University of Newcastle | External objects and phrasal incorporation: two apparent typologically unusual phenomena in Oceanic |
| 12.00 | Justin Nuger UC Santa Cruz | The position of aspect in the Palauan VP |
| 12.30 | Suriel Mofu Oxford University | Biak nominal clauses |
| 13.00 | LUNCH | |
| Session 3 Chair: Bethwyn Evans | ||
| 14.30 | Mary Chambers SOAS, London | Where am I standing and which way is up? Verbs of motion and orientation in Kubokota men-and-tree games |
| 15.00 | Shuping Huang & Jenn-Yeu Chen National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | Topological spatial representations in Isbukun Bunun |
| 15.30 | Radu Voica SOAS, London | How far can we go south? Absolute frames of reference and spatial orientation in Blanga |
| 16.00 | Kerry Hull Reitaku University | Conceptual proximity and the alienable/inalienable possessive contrast in Polynesian languages |
| 16.30 | BREAK | |
| 17.00 | I Wayan Arka Australian National University | Pivot selection and its puzzle in Indonesian |
DAY 2 - Thursday 18th June 2009
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1 Chair: Peter Austin | ||
| 9.00 | Berthold Crysmann Bonn University, Germany | Case and agreement in Nias and the notion of subject |
| 9.30 | Jeremy Rafal CUNY, The Graduate Center | Clitic doubling as a trigger for object shift in Ilokano: Evidence from ellipsis |
| 10.00 | David Adger, Daniel Harbour, Oystein Nilsen & 'Oiwi Parker Jones Queen Mary, University of London & Oxford University | Obligatory double objects in Hawaiian |
| 10.30 | BREAK | |
| Session 2 Chair: Bill Palmer | ||
| 11.00 | Sebastian Nordhoff Universiteit van Amsterdam | Multi-verb-constructions in Sri Lanka Malay |
| 11.30 | Melanie Owens Stanford University | Austronesian serial verbs, and serial verb terminology, in the typology of serialization |
| 12.00 | David Gil Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig | On the position of Mentawai in a typology of Austronesian voice systems |
| 12.30 | LUNCH | |
| Session 3 Chair: Rados Voica | ||
| 14.00 | Shu-Yi Lin National Taiwan Normal University | Reconstruction of negative morphemes in Formosan languages |
| 14.30 | Peter Budd SOAS, London | Negation and actuality in the Epi languages of Central Vanuatu |
| 15.00 | Oliver Bond & Mary Chambers SOAS, London | Irreality and negation in the New Georgia linkage |
| 15.30 | BREAK | |
| Session 4 Chair: Dunstan Brown | ||
| 16.00 | Peter Slomanson City University of New York | Discourse culture shift and camouflaged diachrony in a Malay contact variety |
| 16.30 | Thomas Conners Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig | Standard vs. peripheral Javanese dialects: Which is the real outlier? |
| 17.00 | Scott Paauw University of Rochester | Verbal aspect in the Malay contact varieties of Eastern Indonesia |
Registration
Registration for ALL4 is now open. The standard registration cost for ALL4 is £20.00, with a concessionary rate of £10 for students/unwaged.
To register for this event, you must do two things:
- Submit your details using the ALL4 online registration form; this will enter your information into our registration database.
- Download a payment form, fill in the payment details, print it out, and then either post or fax it to:
Alison Kelly
ALL4
Department of Linguistics
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London
WC1H 0XG
Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4349
Participants will be sent an e-mail to confirm successful registration on receipt of their payment details.
Contact
Enquiries should be directed to the organising committee at the conference e-mail address: ukarg1@gmail.com.
Organiser: UK Austronesian Research Group (UKARG)