SEALS 23  Program

May 29-31, 2013

Chulalongkorn University Bangkok

Prepared by Elisabeth Ginsburg, SEALS Archivist           Below, H = handout, P =presentation, D = document/paper    Metadata

Wednesday, May 29, 2013
8.30-9.30	Opening ceremony
	A1 Chair: Marc Brunelle	B1 Chair: Martha Ratliff	C1 Chair: Mathias Jenny	D1 Chair: David Bradley
9.30-10.00	James P. Kirby. Tonogenesis in Khmer: A cross-dialect comparison	Stephen Morey. Grammatical change in North East India – the case of Tangsa H Grammatical change in North East India – the case of Tangsa P	Hsiu-chuan Liao. Functions of reflexes of PAN/PMP *maR- in Philippine languages	Herbert C. Purnell. Bending rules in minority language bilingual lexicography
10.00-10.30	Elizabeth Hall. An  analysis of Muak Sa-aak tone H, An analysis of Muak Sa-aak tone P	Mark J. Alves. Grammatical functions in Mon-Khmer morphology	Tam Nguyen. Mirative and a contrastive focus in Bih (Chamic)	Suwilai Premsrirat. Thailand's draft national language policy: Achievements and challenges in supporting language diversity and language rights
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
	A2 Chair: Justin Watkins	B2 Chair: Paul Sidwell	C2 Chair: Kachen Tansiri	D2 Chair: Daniel Kaufman
11.00-11.30	Pattama Patpong. A transitivity analysis in a Thai Song Dam topographic procedure	Risya Tazkia Nafisah. Ambiguity when Sundanese homonyms are used in an Indonesian context	Naruadol Chancharu. Prohibitives in Southeast Asian languages	Ryn Jean Fe V. Gonzales. Dialect perception and language development in Pasil H Dialect perception and language development in Pasil P
11.30-12.00	Denis Burnham, Amanda Reid  and Benjawan Kasisopa. Universal and language-specific experience in the perception of Thai lexical tone	Tianqi Yang. The role of phonetics in loanword adaptation: A case study from Chinese loanwords in Bai	Elisabeth Ginsburg. Topological relations in White Hmong: Description and typology H, Topological relations in White Hmong: Description and typology P	Cecilia F. Genuino. Language attitude in a multilingual context: The Chabacano case
12.00-12.30	Praneerat Panpraneet and Chutamanee Onsuwan. Perception of lexical tones in Thai children of different age groups	Norihiko Hayashi. Loanwords in Youle Jino	Toan Thang Ly and Kieu Van Le Thi. A cross-cultural study of conceptualizing internal body organs in SEA languages	Abigail C. Cohn and Maya Ravindranath. Can a language with millions of speakers be endangered?
12.30-14.00	Lunch
	A3 Chair: Volker Dellwo	B3 Chair: Yoshihisa Taguchi	C3 Chair: Tobias Weber	D3 Chair: TBA
14.00-14.30	Beau Cooper and Lisa Cooper. Three-way voiceless plosive contrast in Burmese	Michel Ferlus. The sexagesimal cycle, from China to Southeast Asia	George Bedell and Khawlsonkim Suantak. Vaiphei relative clauses	Sirivilai Teerarojanarat and Kalaya Tingsabadh. A GIS-based comparative study of lexical and phonological variation in the Northern Thai - Northeastern Thai - Central Thai Dialect transition area: A preliminary result
14.30-15.00	James Gruber. Challenges for acoustic analysis of a laryngeally-complex tone system: An example from Burmese	Wilaiwan Khanittanan. Ancient links between Thai and Vietnamese: Evidence from cognates, Sukhothai inscriptions, and traditional calendrical terms for animals	Yanti, Timothy McKinnon, Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon. Island-saving strategies and the suffix -ge in Tapus Minangkabau	Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin, Zaharani Ahmad, Harishon Radzi and Mokhtar Jaafar. Lexical variation and distribution in Perak Malay: A GIS approach
15.00-15.30	Paul Sidwell. Creaky and glottalized syllables in Katuic languages: Analysis of the Huffman recordings	Jakrabhop Iamdanush. Periphrastic causative constructions in Patani Malay	Sihwei Chen. The interaction of modals and temporal markings in Squliq Atayal
15.30-16.00	Coffee break
16.00-17.30	Plenary 1 Linguistic Fieldwork in a Changing Southeast Asia Marc Brunelle - Phonetic and Phonological Research in Vietnam and Cambodia Daniel Kaufman - Populist platforms and strategic documentation in a changing Southeast Asia
17.30-18.30	Reception

Thursday, May 30, 2013
	A4 Chair: Mathias Jenny	B4 Chair: Marc Brunelle	C4 Chair: Kitima Indrambarya	D4 Chair: Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin
9.00-9.30	Denis Paillard. Polyfunctionality in Khmer: The case of daoy	Hanbo Liao. Proto-Tai reconstruction of "maternal grandmother" revisited:*naai A or *taai A ?	Xiaodong Yang, Guozhen Peng and Yiya Zhao. Transitivity of resultative verbs and word order typology	Mirinda Burarungrot. Teaching Thai as a second language to Patani Malay speaking children in the Southern border provinces of Thailand
9.30-10.00	Ampika Rattanapitak and Sujaritlak Deepadung. The polyfunctionality of the particle /dɨ/ in Dara-ang Palaung	Andrea Hòa Phạm. Vowel chains in Vietnamese	Tobias Weber. Locus of marking on the clause level in Southeast Asia: Areal and genealogical patterns	Djatmika, Agus Hari Wibowo and Ida Kusuma Dewi. The quality of text structure and texture to determine the strength of language performance of children: A study of children's language development
10.00-10.30	Somsonge Burusphat. Plant-based classifiers in Tai Dam H, Plant-based classifiers in Tai Dam P	Hideo Sawada. Some properties of Burmese script H1 Some properties of Burmese script H2 (map)	Peter Jenks. Accounting for a generalization about quantifier float and word order in Southeast Asia	Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong. Punctuation and other text-category indicators in written Thai text: Issues and implications for Thai L2 reading instruction
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
	A5 Chair: James P. Kirby	B5 Chair: Brian Migliazza	C5 Chair: Hsiu-chuan Liao	D5 Chair: Peter Jenks
11.00-11.30	Lisa Cooper and Beau Cooper. A case for an IPA symbol for the dental plosive: The example of Modern Burmese	Pavadee Saisuwan. Kathoey “imitation” of women’s speech and the construction of gender identity	Rodney C. Jubilado, Francisco P. Dumanig and Sajed S. Ingilan. Lexicalization of profanity in Cebuano and Bahasa Sug	Michael Tanangkingsing. Demonstratives in Cebuano: Referential and non-referential functions
11.30-12.00	Yukie Masuko, Hirokazu Sato and Makoto Minegishi. Reexamination of coarticulative tones in Thai	Kosin Panyaatisin. Variationist study in Lanna Thai: The mixture of Northern Thai dialects’ linguistic features with standard Thai dialect by local community radio anchors	Nuttanart Facundes. Psycho-collocations in Thai	Bornini Lahiri. Noun cases in Nyishi
12.00-12.30	Hanyong Park, Garry W. Davis and Siriporn Lerdpaisalwong. Tone neutralization in Thai disyllables of the type CV(ʔ)-(H1) Tone neutralization in Thai disyllables of the type CV(ʔ)-(H2)	Phennapha Klaisingto and Kittinata Rhekhalilit. Stylistic variation in Thai Facebook status posting	Lawrence A. Reid. On the sources of suppletive SAY verbs in some Philippine languages	Kokitboon Fukham. Investigating the mental representation of Thai prepositions: A case of naj and bon
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.40	Plenary 2 Going beyond history: Re-assessing genetic groupings in SEA Martha Ratliff - Grammatical features shared by Hmong-Mien and Austronesian Daniel Kaufman - Reviewing the place of PAn within Asia Zev Handel - Linguistic evidence relates languages, archeological evidence relates cultures, genetic evidence relates populations: implications for STAN and related hypotheses Weera Ostapirat - Austro-Tai revisited
15.40-16.00	Coffee break
16.00-16.45	Plenary 2 (cont.)
16.45-17.30	Business meeting
18.00-20.00	Banquet

Friday, May 31, 2013
	A6 Chair: Volker Dellwo	B6 Chair: David Bradley	C6 Chair: Daniel Kaufman	D6 Chair: Sujaritlak Deepadung
9.00-9.30	Kalyan Das, Amalesh Gope and Shakuntala Mahanta. The phonetics and phonology of focus marking in Bodo	Gérard Diffloth and Nathan Badenoch. Ruma'ai glottalized vowels in an historical context	Louward Allen Zubiri. Negation in Bashiic languages	Wyn Owen. An introduction to Tai Laing: Phonology, orthography and sociolinguistic context
9.30-10.00	Timothy McKinnon, Yanti, Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon. Complex morphophonology in Jangkat Malay	Theraphan Luangthongkum. A view on Proto-Karen phonology and lexicon P, A view on Proto-Karen phonology and lexicon H	Anindita Sahoo. (Re-)visiting the principles of reflexivization: A study of reflexives in Khasi	Kevin Baetscher. Grammar sketch: Mlabri
10.00-10.30	Douglas Cole. Word stress in Laotian, an OT analysis	John D. Phan. A possible tonal merger in checked syllables: The case of Mường Chỏi (A language of Northern Vietnam)	Katharina Endriati Sukamto. Anophoric expressions in Indonesian narrative discourse	Geneviève Caelen-Haumont and Katarina Bartkova. When diachrony is helping for a synchronic study: The case of the Mo Piu tones from the Hmong-Mien family in North Vietnam
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
	A7 Chair: Yuphanphan Hoonchamlong	B7 Chair: TBA	C7 Chair: Tongtip Poonlarp.	D7 Chair: Daniel Kaufman
11.00-11.30	Hiroki Nomoto and Kartini Abd. Wahab. On the person restriction on the agents in di- passives in Malay	Mike Pham. The emergence of classifiers from class term compounds in Vietnamese	Atsuko Utsumi. Morphology and semantics of basic verbs in the Talaud language	Nicole Kruspe. RWAAI, repository and workspace for Austroasiatic intangible heritage
11.30-12.00	Nattaya Piriyawiboon. Person shift in Thai pronouns: A feature-geometric approach	Tianqiao Lu Tonal inflection and grammaticalization of demonstratives in Thai and beyond	Paul Julian Santiago and Danielle Anne Tadena. Notes on Kalanguya verbal phenomena	Hien Pham. Towards a multi-purpose resource of language corpora: The case of Vietnamese
12.00-12.30	T. Daniel Arisawa. The degree of definiteness in noun phrases in Iu Mien	Foong Ha Yap, Ariel Shuk-ling Chan and Tak-sum Wong. On the grammaticalization of stative verbs into continuative markers: The case of Malay asyik ‘desire’ and Cantonese gwaazyu ‘keep thinking     about’	Makoto Minegishi. Semantic characteristics of Thai basic verbs	Levi C. Cruz. Basic oral language documentation in the Philippine context
12.30-13.30	Lunch
	A8 Chair: James Gruber.	B8 Chair: TBA	C8 Chair: Tobias Weber	D8 Chair: Peter Jenks
13.30-14.00	Volker Dellwo and Peggy Mok. Rhythmic variability in South-East Asian languages: A novel method for rhythmic measurements based on syllabic amplitude peak points, (pptx version)	Yoshihisa Taguchi. On the phylogeny of Hmongic languages	Picus Sizhi Ding. An analysis of topics in Prinmi: In cross-linguistic perspective	Ying Zhang. A cross linguistic study of “Increment-Supplement” notions by semantic map approach
14.00-14.30	Justin Watkins. A look at tone in Myebon Sumtu Chin: Polarity, deracination and dual flip-flop	Andrew Hsiu. The Gelao languages: Preliminary classification and state of the art	Tongtip Poonlarp and Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin. The semantic domains of intensification: A cross-language perspective	Yi-Ting Chen. A sketch of high adverbials in Amis
14.30-15.00	Kieu-Phuong Ha and Martine Grice. The intonation of repair initiations in Northern Vietnamese: Evidence from multi-word utterances	David Bradley. Time ordinals in Tibeto-Burman	Mathias Jenny. ‘New Situation’ (NSIT) - Southeast Asian languages and aspect theory	Giang Le. A study of Vietnamese adverbs
15.00-15.30	Closing ceremony