SEALS XVI

SEALS XVI
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Atma Jaya University, Jakarta
20-21 September 2006

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 20 September 2006

8:00-8:45 Registration

8:45-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:00 Plenary Session
Paul Jen-kuei Li: Some Problems in the Kavalan Phonology

10:00-10:30 Refreshments

10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
Ruben Stoel: Fataluku as a tone language
Uri Tadmor: Are there Clusters and Diphthongs in Malay?
Zaharani Ahmad: The Phonology of Nasal Final Prefix meN- in Mala

Parallel Session B
Li-May Sung and Cheng-chuen Kuo: Comparative Constructions in Amis and
Kavalan
Joanna Ut-seong Sio: The syntax of Cantonese relational nouns
Ajid Che Kob: Variations in Melanau: Phonology and Lexical

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
Theraphan L-Thongkum & Chommanad Intajamornrak: Tonal Evolution Caused by
Language Contact: A Case Study of the T?in Language of
Nan Province, Northern Thailand
Chalermchai Chaichompoo: A Phonological Description of Nor Lae Palaung
Paul Sidwell: Creaky voice systems among the Mon-Khmer languages: towards
historical explanation

Parallel Session B
Djatmika: Pragmatic Intricacy of Javanese Figurative Speech: Too Hard to
Understand?
Zifirdaus Adnan: Discourse Structures of Indonesian Humanities Research
Article Introductions: A Comparative Study
Vincent Taohsun Chang: Sentence Topic, Discourse Topic, or Cognitive Topic?
Topic Revisited from Cross-linguistic Perspective

3:00-3:30 Refreshments

3:30-5:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
David Gil: Distinctly Mesolectal Properties in Malay / Indonesian Dialects
Rochayah Machali: Arabic Loanwords in Present-Day Javanese: Linguistic
Syncretism as Evidence of Cultural Syncretism
Rungpat Roengpitya, Kimiko Tsukada, and Yukari Hirata: The effects of vowel
length and place of articulation of the following stop on formant
frequencies in Thai vowels

Parallel Session B
Kyüi Ghüng Maang and George Bedell: Relative Clauses in K'cho
Jan Wohlgemuth: Loan Verbs in Southeast Asia
Madhumita Barbora: The Mising Verb Phrase

7:30 Conference Dinner


Thursday, 21 September 2006

8:30-10:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
Michael C Ewing: Distributed Cognition in the context of language shift in
Eastern Indonesia
Sung Kai-lin: The Language Choice Behavior of Amis People in Taipei and
Hualien: a contrastive study
Sumittra Suraratdecha: Thai-English Codeswitching: A Hawai?i Case Study

Parallel Session B
Francisco Perlas Dumanig and Rodney C. Jubilado: A Descriptive Analysis of
Surigaonon Language
Richard McGinn: Lexical Licensing at the Interface of Syntax and Semantics
in Rejang
Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong: Relative Clause in Vietnamese
as a Nominal Dependency Relation

10:00-10:30 Refreshments

10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
Thomas J. Conners: Morphosyntactic Simplification in Tengger Javanese
Morphosyntax
Franti¹ek Kratochvíl: Abui as an active language
Svetlana F. Chlenova: A first look at grammatical structure of West Damar or
Damar Batumerah, a language of Eastern Indonesia

Parallel Session B
Bahren Umar Siregar: Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality
Khazriyati Salehuddin and Heather Winskel: Malay Numeral Classifiers:
Sketching its Conceptual Representation from a Native Speaker?s Perspective
Hien Pham: Constructinos of Spatial Situations in Vietnamese

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
Wolfram Schaffar: Grammaticalisation in Burmese: Nominalisation, Focus and
Case Particles in Historical and Typological Perspective
Antonia Soriente: Is Penan Benalui a Kenyah Language? On the Classification
of the Languages of Some Hunter-Gatherer Populations in Borneo
Kiyoko Takahashi: Grammaticalization Paths of the Thai Verb day3: A
Corpus-Based Study

Parallel Session B
Catharina Williams-van Klinken: Lexicalisation of Emotion and Character in
Tetun Dili
Betty Litamahuputty: The use of pa in Ternate Malay (Indonesia)
Yusrita Yanti: The Major Pronouns of the Minangkabau Language

3:00-3:30 Refreshments

3:30-5:00 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session A
Jufrizal and I Wayan Arka: Voice in Mentawai: A Note on Its Typological
Position in the Austronesian Languages of Indonesia
Natchanan Yaowapat and Amara Prasithrathsint: Reduced relative clauses in
Thai and Vietnamese
Mark T. Miller: West Coast Bajau: Syntactically Ergative or Symmetrical
Voice?

Parallel Session B
Yeshayahu Shen and David Gil: Comparisons in Indonesian: An Experimental
Study
Heather Winskel: The expression of temporal relations by Thai and English
children and adults
Katubi: Different Language, Different Greeting: A Study of the Relationship
between Four Ethnic Groups in Alor, East Nusa Tenggara

5:00-5:15 Break

5:15-6:00 Plenary Session
Yusrita Yanti and Bambang Kaswanti Purwo: Emotive negative particles in
Minangkabau

6:00-6:15 Closing Remarks