The conference proper will begin in the morning of Monday, June 22 and will end in the afternoon of Thursday, June 25. A social programme will be organised on June 26.
Plenary speakers
Three keynote speakers will be invited to give a plenary speech:
Robert Blust |
University of Hawai’i |
(handout) |
Nikolaus Himmelmann |
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster | |
Aone van Engelenhoven |
Universiteit Leiden | |
Abstracts
Download the 
Book of Abstracts. [Pdf, 150 pp., 1.3 Mb — updated 04/06/2009]
Download the Conference Programme.
Downloadable papers from the Conference
You may find below a small number of papers which were presented at the conference. Each Pdf file below reflects either a handout, or an on-screen presentation.
- Robert Blust (Univ. Hawaii), keynote speaker
The Great North Borneo hypothesis.
- Nikolaus Himmelmann (Westfälische Wilhelms–Universität Münster), keynote speaker
Prosodic Phrasing in western Austronesian languages ( handout — slides).
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Haowen Jiang
Three Dichotomies in the Kavalan Demonstrative System.
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Cheng-Chuen Kuo
Parts of Speech as Radical Constructions in Amis.
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Hiroaki Kitano & Michael Pangilinan
Complementation with the determiner ing in Kapampangan.
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Amy Pei-jung Lee
Reduplication and Odor in some Formosan Languages.
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Alain Lemaréchal
Three hypotheses on PAN *Su as ‘2pl’ and on the chronology of the diathesis and voice systems: Formosan languages are not so “archaic”.
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Michael Pangilinan
Assessing the current status of the Kapampangan “pre-Hispanic” script.
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Michael Pangilinan
Kapampangan Lexical Borrowing from Tagalog: Endangerment rather than Enrichment.
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Laurent Sagart
PAN morphology in phylogenetic perspective.
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Naomi Tsukida
Complementizer ka in Seediq.
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Maya Yuting Yeh & Shuanfan Huang
On the interaction between TAM, voice forms, and Nom NPs in Squliq Atayal.
