13th Annual Meeting of the
Southeast Asian Linguistic Society at UCLA


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13th Annual Meeting of the
Southeast Asian Linguistics Society at UCLA

Conference Program

May 2 – 4, 2003

Friday, May 2, 2003

08.15 –

 

Registration

08.45

Opening

Time

Title

Presenter

09.00-09.30

The Grammaticalization of Generational Ranking in Kualan

Uri Tadmor

09.30-10.00

The Rise and Fall of Sundanese “Middling” Speech: A Study in Pragmatic Devaluation

Benjamin Zimmer

10.00-10.30

Riddles of Death: The Structure of the Tangke-tangke Riddle Game Used at Pendau Memorial Services

Phil Quick

10.30-10.45

Coffee Break

 

10.45-11.15

Feet & Fusion: The case of Malay

Ann Delilkan

11.15-11.45

Contrastive Vowel Length in Mienic: Inheritance or Diffusion?

Martha Ratliff

11.45-12.15

A Preliminary Phonological Sketch of Pyen, with Comparison to Bisu

Kirk. R. Person

12.15-01.45 pm

Lunch break

 

01.45-02.15

Accomplishment Constructions in Thai: Diverse Cause-Effect Relationships

Kiyoko Takahashi

02.15-02.45

Comparing Transitive Constructions in

Balinese and Pandau

Phil Quick

I. Wayan Pastika

02.45-03.15

Word Order and Transitive Clauses in Malagasy

Ando Rasolofo

 

03.15-03.30

Coffee Break

 

03.30-04.00

Adjectives in Thai

Mark Post

04.00-04.30

Lexical Strata of Indonesian Vocabulary

Mie Hiramoto

04.30-05.50

From Pre-Angkorian to Angkorian: The Syntax of ta in Old Khmer

Chhany Sak-Humphry

05.00-05.30

Plenary (Video-taped lecture):

A Historical Study of Time Markers in Thai

Pranee Kullavanijaya


Saturday, May 3, 2003

Time

 

08.30 -

Registration

Time

Title

Presenter

09.00-09.30

Some Remaining Phonological Issues in Austronesian

Joseph Finney

09.30-10.00

Creative Forces in Khmer

John Haiman

Noeuong Ourn

10.00-10.30

Influences of Iconicity and Frequency on the Grammar of Sgaw Karen

Carol Lord

Louisa Benson Craig

10.30-10.45

Coffee Break

 

10.45-11.15

Negation in Lai

George Bedell

11.15-11.45

Information structure, focus and prosody in Burmese

Andrew Simpson

Justin Watkins

11.45-12.15 pm

Business Meeting

12.15-01.45 pm

Lunch Break

 

01.45-02.45

 

Plenary: Middle Voice in Balinese

 

 

Masayoshi Shibatani Ketut Artawa

02.45-03.15

 The Role of Object Topicality and Grounding in Balinese Voice Selection

 I. Wayan Pastika

03.15-03.30

Coffee Break 

03.30-04.00

On "final particles" in Khmer

Kanako Mori

04.00-04.30

Consonantal Lenition and Vocalic Transfer in Kadai Languages - With disyllabic Proto-Be-Tai as a supporting evidence

Ryuichi Kosaka

04.30-05.00

The Iambic Template Hypothesis in Thai

Tommi Leung

05.00-05.30

Language Transfer/Interference: The Case of Heritage Speakers of Vietnamese

Tin Pham

 06.30

 Dinner at Thai House (Westwood)


Sunday, May 4, 2003

Time

 

08.00-

Registration

Time

Title

Presenter

08.30-09.00

On native and contact-induced grammaticalization: A diachronic analysis of Malay empunya

Foong Ha Yap

09.00-09.30

Contact-induced change in Anong, a Nungish Tibeto-Burman Language Spoken by Some 400 people in Yunnan

Graham Thurgood Fengxiang Li

09.30-10.00

An apparent countertrend to unidirectionality: The case of a verb of speaking in Thai

Shoichi Iwasaki

10.30-10.30

Grammaticization in Pacoh Pronouns

 

Mark Alves

10.30-10.45

Coffee Break

 

10.45-11.45

 

Plenary:

Syntax and Prosody: Interacting Coding Systems in Dolakha Newar

 

Carol Genetti

11.45-01.15 pm

Lunch Break

01.15-01.45

The Role of Four-Word Phrases in Lao Narrative Discourse

Carol Compton

01.45-02.15

Reported Speech in Conversational Indonesian

Juliana Wijaya

02.15-02.45

Thai Language Audio Resource Center Project: Thai Speech Database and Application in Web-Based Language Teaching

Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong, Rugchanok Janevarakul, Sathaporn Koraksawet

02.45-03.00

Coffee Break

03.00-03.30

Humans, Animals, and the Indexing of Social Status in Balinese Narrative: The Case of 'ukud' and 'diri'

Edmundo Cruz Luna

03.30-04.00

Socializing Respect and the Emergence of a New Language Variety

Kathryn Howard

04.00-04.30

Language Shift in the Thai Chinese Community

Liang Chua