All talks will take place at Leacock 232.
THURSDAY, MAY 21
| 10th Madagascar Workshop, held by the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill | |
| Chair: Lisa Travis | |
| 4:00 – 5:00pm | Madagascar Workshop Plenary Talk Alexander Adelaar (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Contact between Austronesian and African languages: a short overview |
| 5:00 – 6:00pm | AFLA Plenary Talk (joint event with the Madagascar Workshop) Ileana Paul (Western University) Morphosyntactic micro-variation in Malagasy |
| 6:00 – 7:30pm | Reception (joint event with the Madagascar Workshop) |
FRIDAY, MAY 22
| 8:45 – 9:30am | REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST |
| Session 1 | Chair: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine |
| 9:30 – 10:30am | Plenary Talk I Wayan Arka (Australian National University) Alternative manner expressions in Balinese: towards an integrated analysis |
| 10:30 – 11:00am | Jooyoung Kim, Peter Cole (University of Delaware); Pande Made Sumartini (La Trobe University) Balinese adverbial wh-phrases – movement for focus |
| 11:00 – 11:30am | BREAK |
| Session 2 | Chair: Henrison Hsieh |
| 11:30am – 12:00pm | Victoria Chen, Shin Fukuda (UH Mānoa) Three ways to “steal” an element from a CP: Evidence from Formosan |
| 12:00 – 12:30pm | Dong-yi Lin (Ghent University) Floating universal quantifier as a base-generated head in the VP periphery |
| 12:30 – 2:00pm | LUNCH BREAK |
| Session 3 | Chair: Junko Shimoyama |
| 2:00 – 2:30pm | Hooi Ling Soh (University of Minnesota) Evidentiality and modality: The case of sentence final punya in Colloquial Malay |
| 2:30 – 3:00pm | Jozina Vander Klok (UBC, MPI) Diagnosing VP-ellipsis in Javanese: Evidence for a non-movement account |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Ekarina Winarto (Cornell University) DP movement and a layered DP: Indonesian case study |
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | BREAK |
| Session 4 | Chair: John Lumsden |
| 4:00 – 4:30pm | Nozomi Tanaka, William O’Grady, Kamil Deen, Chae-Eun Kim, Ryoko Hattori (UH Mānoa); Ivan Paul M. Bondoc, Jennifer U. Soriano (U Philippines Manila) An agent advantage in Tagalog relative clause comprehension |
| 4:30 – 5:00pm | Norvin Richards (MIT) Tagalog prosody and scrambling |
| 5:00 – 5:30pm | Nova Starr (University of Ottawa) Tagalog general number and incorporation (handout) |
| Evening | Graduate student bar night Thomson House (3650 McTavish) |
SATURDAY, MAY 23
| 8:45 – 9:30am | BREAKFAST |
| Chair: Lauren Clemens | |
| 9:30 – 10:30am | Plenary Talk Joey Sabbagh (University of Texas Arlington) Prosodic evidence for the derivation and structure of verb initial word order in Tagalog |
| 10:30 – 11:00am | BREAK |
| Session 5 | Chair: Grace Kuo |
| 11:00 – 11:30am | Gašper Beguš (Harvard University) Intervocalic devoicing in Kiput and Berawan dialects |
| 11:30am – 12:00pm | Martha Abramson (University of Minnesota) Allophonic space of Malay vowels |
| 12:00 – 1:30pm | LUNCH BREAK |
| Session 6 | Chair: Anna Maria Di Sciullo |
| 1:30 – 2:00pm | Kristine Yu (UMass Amherst) Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan (slides) |
| 2:00 – 2:30pm | Catherine Macdonald, Diane Massam (U Toronto) Microparametric variation in the Tongic DP: The lingering determiner effect |
| 2:30 – 3:00pm | Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle, Australia) Case, topic and clefts in Mono-Alu |
| 3:00 – 4:30pm | POSTERS |
| Maayan Abenina-Adar (UCLA) Tagalog resultatives |
| Lena Borise (Harvard University) Tagalog sluicing reanalyzed |
| Hyun-Jong Hahm (University of Guam) Polite plurals in Chuukese |
| Jonathan Cheng-Chuen Kuo (Academia Sinica, UH Mānoa) Introducing internal arguments in symmetrical voice languages |
| Theodore Levin (MIT) Unmarked case is unvalued case: Default Voice in Formosan restructuring |
| Kuo-Chiao Lin (New York University) The gradual path to variable reduplication: Kavalan |
| Yuko Otsuka (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Agreeing demonstratives in Wuvulu relative clauses |
| Catherine Provencher (Université du Québec à Montréal) On the Marshallese semi-glides and underspecified vowels |
| Chunming Wu, Henry Y. Chang (Academia Sinica) Nonfinites in Southern Paiwan: Verbal vs nominal |
| Session 7 | Chair: Thomas Leu |
| 4:30 – 5:00pm | Victoria Chen, Shin Fukuda (UH Mānoa) Restructuring in Formosan languages and their implications for object Case-licensing |
| 5:00 – 5:30pm | Eric Potsdam, Dan Edmiston (University of Florida) Extraposition in Malagasy |
| 5:30 – 6:00pm | Emerson Lopez Odango, Yuko Otsuka (UH Mānoa) Ang-marked NPs in recent perfective in Tagalog |
| 6:00 – 6:30pm | BUSINESS MEETING |
| 6:30 pm | DINNER ($12 students; $20 faculty) |
SUNDAY, MAY 24
| 9:15 – 10:00am | BREAKFAST |
| Chair: Jessica Coon | |
| 10:00 – 11:00am | Plenary Talk Maria Polinsky (Harvard University) Equidistance returns: Real and apparent subject/object symmetries in Polynesian |
| 11:00 – 11:30am | BREAK |
| Session 7 | Chair: Jiajia Su |
| 11:30am – 12:00pm | Helen Jeoung (University of Pennsylvania) Register and voice differences in Madurese |
| 12:00 – 12:30pm | |
| 12:30 – 1:00pm | Eli Asikin-Garmager (University of Iowa) Sasak voice morphology |