Program

AFLA 27 will be held fully online and will be free for all. In addition to the talks, AFLA 27 includes two other, optional activities:

  1. Business meeting: See the meeting minutes.
  2. Pop-up mentoring: Sign up for pop-up mentoring at AFLA 27 has closed.

Add the AFLA 27 schedule to your calendar: Google Calendar link / ICS (iCal) format file link


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Block 1

Chair: mitcho

2020-08-20 08:00Welcome
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2020-08-20 08:15Ileana Paul and Diane Massam. “A recipe for null arguments”
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2020-08-20 08:45Tamisha L. Tan. “Two Types of Pronoun Doubling in Amarasi”
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2020-08-20 09:15Break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-20 09:45Hiroki Nomoto. “Bare passive agent hierarchy”
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2020-08-20 10:15Carly J. Sommerlot. “A tale of two (nasal) prefixes: Evidence from Desa, a Malayic language of West Kalimantan”
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2020-08-20 10:45Dongwoo Park and Hae-Kyung Wee. “An analysis of Indonesian Wh-questions and Pseudoclefts”
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2020-08-20 11:15Grad student mixer 1 / extended Q&A in Zoom

Block 2

Chair: Kenyon

2020-08-20 20:00Invited talk: Kilu von Prince. “The Actual, the Counterfactual, and the Possible”
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2020-08-20 21:00Short break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-20 21:15Vera Hohaus. “Flavours of Samoan Modality: The Split between Epistemic and Root”
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2020-08-20 21:45Mike Berger. “Valence matching in Saliba”
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2020-08-20 22:15Short break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-20 22:30Jens Hopperdietzel. “Verbal VP-modifiers in Samoan verb serialization”
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2020-08-20 23:00Kenneth Baclawski Jr. “Event semantics and discourse connected-movement in Eastern Cham”
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2020-08-20 23:30Grad student mixer 2 / extended Q&A in Zoom

Block 3

Chair: mitcho

2020-08-21 08:00Invited talk: Apay Ai-Yu Tang. “From endangered language shift to maintenance: where do formal linguists fit?”
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2020-08-21 09:00Break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-21 09:30Victoria Chen and Shin Fukuda. “When Philippine-type voice meets Indo-European-style voice: Insights from Puyuma”
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2020-08-21 10:00Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara and Matthew Wagers. “(A)symmetries in Tagalog relative clause processing”
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2020-08-21 10:30Hajime Ono, Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, ‘Ana Heti Veikune, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka and Masatoshi Koizumi. “Processing syntactic ergativity in Tongan relative clauses”
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2020-08-21 11:00Extended Q&A in Zoom

Block 4

Chair: Keely

2020-08-21 20:00Invited talk: Lauren Clemens. “Absolutive movement in Polynesian: Syntactic ergativity and postverbal word order variation”
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2020-08-21 21:00Break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-21 21:30Michael Barrie and Moonhyun Sung. “Quasi PNI in Tagalog: Internal Reconstruction”
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2020-08-21 22:00Dan Brodkin. “Definiteness, Object Shift, and Agent Extraction in Mandar”
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2020-08-21 22:30Rebecca Tollan and Diane Massam. “Cognate object case in Samoan and Niuean”
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2020-08-21 23:00Conference dinner / lunch / breakfast / snack 1 / extended Q&A in Zoom

Block 5

Chair: Zheng

2020-08-22 08:00Invited talk: Alexander Smith. “Tracing the path of constraint movement: The Austronesian binary-foot requirement and word-minimum phenomena”
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2020-08-22 09:00Break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-22 09:30Jennifer Kuo. “Evidence for base-driven alternation in Tgdaya Seediq”
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2020-08-22 10:00Andre Goderich. “Vowel alternations in Matu’uwal Atayal”
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2020-08-22 10:30Edith Aldridge. “Proto-Austronesian Case and its Diachronic Development”
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2020-08-22 11:00Conference dinner / lunch / breakfast / snack 2 / extended Q&A in Zoom

Block 6

Chair: Henrison

2020-08-22 20:00Invited talk: Coppe van Urk. “Insights from transitivity in Fijian”
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2020-08-22 21:00Break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-22 21:30Kenyon Branan. “Regimes of ordering”
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2020-08-22 22:00Mathieu Paillé. “Nominative-third and Austronesian subjects”
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2020-08-22 22:30Break / extended Q&A in Zoom
2020-08-22 23:00Victoria Chen. “Tagalog voice revisited”
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2020-08-22 23:30Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. “Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis?”
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2020-08-23 00:00Closing and goodbye!
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