Tentative Schedule

	Auditorium		Room 1
Time	Moderator	Speaker	Moderator	Speaker	Notes
8:00~8:30		Registration			Coffee/Tea
8:30~9:30	Opening Michael Forman	Peter Englert, Chancellor Jean Toyama, LLL Assoc Dean (for Joe O’Mealy, LLL Dean) David Hanlon, Pacific Island Studies Byron Bender, Department of Linguistics
9:30~9:35					Break
9:35~10:35	Michael Forman	Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh) ‘Interfaces: variation, sociolinguistics and formal linguistics’			Invited Speaker 1
10:35~10:45					Break
10:45~11:15	Bob Blust	Jill Heather Flegg (Rutgers University) ‘Topics and clitic left dislocation in Malagasy’			Students’ Best Abstracts
11:15~11:45	Bob Blust	Robert J. Podesva (Stanford University) ‘The effect of foot structure on segment duration in syllable-timed languages: the case of Buginese and Toba Batak’			Students’ Best Abstracts
11:45~1:00					Lunch
1:00~1:30	Edith Aldridge	Matthew Pearson (Reed College) ‘Malagasy voice morphology as wh-Agreement’	Bob Blust	Robert Kennedy (University of Arizona) ‘Implications of Micronesian reduplication for formal theories of phonology’
1:30~2:00		Diane Massam & Yuko Otsuka (University of Toronto and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) ‘Complementizers in Niuean and Tongan’		Mie Hiramoto (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) ‘Speech communities and lexical strata of Indonesian vocabulary’
2:00~2:30		Elizabeth Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) ‘Phrasal movement within the Maori DP’		Thomas J. Conners (Yale University) ‘Circumfixation: an unnoticed complication for Indonesian stress’
2:30~2:45					Break
2:45~3:15	Ileana Paul	Jonathon Herd (University of Toronto) ‘Predicate fronting in Maori’	Mie Hiramoto	Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University) ‘Paradigm effects and the affix-shape/position generalization’
3:15~3:45	Ileana Paul	J P Blevins (University of Cambridge) ‘Impersonal constructions in Oceanic’	Mie Hiramoto	Melanie Owens (Stanford University) ‘Benefactive, applicative, and possessor-raising constructions in Bimanese’
3:45~4:00					Break
4:00~4:30	Diane Massam	Norvin Richards (MIT) ‘Tagalog and the syntax of wh-extraction’
4:30~5:00	Diane Massam	Dan Finer & Hassan Basri (SUNY Stony Brook & Tadulako University) ‘Clause reduction and agreement in Makassar’
5:00~5:30					Break
5:30~		Dinner Buffet
6:00~	Reception Keao NeSmith	6:00-6:30 Yahna Kawaa (Department of Linguistics) Hula, 6:30-7:00 Rapata Wiri (Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages) Maori chant and Haka, 7:00-7:30 Lose Kaufusi (Liberal Studies Program) Tongan dance, 7:30-8:00 Jane Moulin and Te Vevo Tahiti no Manoa (Department of Dance) Tahitian dance

	Auditorium		Room 1
Time	Moderator	Speaker	Moderator	Speaker	Notes
8:30~9:00					Coffee/Tea
9:00~10:00	Ken Rehg	Juliette Blevins (UC Berkeley) ‘Consonant Epenthesis in Austronesian: Natural and Unnatural History’			Invited Speaker 2
10:00~10:15					Break
10:15~10:45	Ken Rehg	Ileana M. Paul (University of Western Ontario) ‘On the lack of wh-movement in Malagasy’
10:45~11:15		Keira G. Ballantyne (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) ‘Is noun incorporation a discourse variable in Yapese? Seamless morphology as a heuristic for productivity’
11:15~11:45		Robert Blust (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) ‘`Must sound change be phonetically motivated?`’
11:45~1:00					Lunch
1:00~1:30	Norvin Richards	Jonathon Herd & Christine Pittman (University of Toronto) ‘Prosodic conditioned ordering of predicate modifiers in Maori’	Keira Ballantyne	Veronica Gerassimova (Stanford University) Unbounded Dependencies in Palauan Revisited
1:30~2:00		Joachim Sabel (University Catholique de Louvain) ‘Wh-quantifier interaction in Malagasy’		Raphael Mercado ‘Tagalog focus’
2:30~3:00		Nelleke Goudswaard (Vrije University Amsterdam) ‘Accusative and oblique subjects in Ida’an-Begak transitive verbs’
3:00~3:15					Break
3:15~3:45	Matt Pearson	Loren A. Billings (National Chi Nan University) ‘Clitics and R-expressions in Tagalog: actor-first and subject-last ordering’	Victoria Anderson	Alan Lee (University of Pennsylvania) ‘Cluster simplification in several Malay dialects’
3:45~4:15	Matt Pearson	Edith Aldridge (SUNY Stony Brook) ‘Transitivity and absolutive extraction in Tagalog’	Victoria Anderson	Meylysa Tseng (National Chung Cheng University) ‘Reduplication as affixation in Paiwan’
4:15~4:30					Break
4:30~5:00	Kamil Ud Deen	Yuko Otsuka (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) ‘Coordination in Tongan: is syntactic ergativity real?’	Victoria Anderson	Adam Ussishkin & Andrew Wedel (U of Arizona & UC Santa Cruz) ‘Loanword adaptation asymmetries in Austronesian and articulatory gestural programs’
5:00~5:30	Kamil Ud Deen	Diane Massam (University of Toronto) ‘Lexical categories in Niuean’	Victoria Anderson	Katsura Aoyama (Texas Tech University) ‘Acoustic analysis on geminate consonants in Guinaang Bontok’
5:30~	Paul Lassettre	Business meeting
7:00~	Optional Dinner	China Buffet at Holiday Inn Waikiki (808-955-8817) 1830 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96815 (click here for more information)

	Auditorium		Room 1
Time	Moderator	Speaker	Moderator	Speaker	Notes
9:00~9:30					Coffee/Tea
9:30~10:00	Yuko Otsuka	Ileana Paul & Lisa Travis (University of Western Ontario & McGill University) ‘Ergativity in Austronesian languages’	Katsura Aoyama	Peter Norquest (University of Arizona) ‘Prosody vs. syllable structure in Oceanic & Chamic’
10:00~10:30	Yuko Otsuka	Eric Potsdam (University of Florida) ‘Ellipsis identity and Malagasy sluicing’	Katsura Aoyama	Marc Brunelle (Cornell University) ‘Eastern Cham as two-tone language’
10:30~10:45					Break
10:45~11:45	Bob Blust	Elizabeth Zeitoun (Academia Sinica) ‘Toward a reconstruction of Proto-Rukai morphosyntax’			Invited Speaker 3
11:45~	Byron Bender	Closing Remarks

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Tentative Schedule:

Day 1: 3/28/03 (Friday)

Notes

Registration

Notes

Adam Ussishkin & Andrew Wedel

Business meeting

Elizabeth Zeitoun (Academia Sinica)

‘Toward a reconstruction of Proto-Rukai morphosyntax’

Closing Remarks