Abstracts are available from the Participants & Papers page
| Friday, Sept. 15 | Location: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall | Location: Room 201, Gowen Hall | ||
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| 9:00-9:20 | Zev Handel, Asian Languages and Literature | |||
| Welcome to the conference | ||||
| 9:20-9:30 | Ellen Kaisse, Divisional Dean of Arts & Humanities | |||
| Welcome to the university | ||||
| SESSIONS | Chair: Inga-Lill Hansson | Chair: Keith Dede | ||
| 9:40-10:00 | Yang, Liujin | T | Aldridge, Edith | JK |
| A diachronic comparison of domestic animal name pronunciations among the Nisu Yi of China | The Emergence of Wh-indefinites in Chinese | |||
| 10:00-10:20 | Gaca, Maciej | T | Yue, Kun | JK |
| Amazing story of Wo Renbo - written scripts of Southern China and ethnic indentity | Attention and Mandarin Syntax | |||
| 10:20-10:40 | T | Dai, ZhaoMing | JK | |
| The Typological Significance of the Chinese Modality Particles | ||||
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break (outside the Walker-Ames Room) | |||
| 11:00-11:40 | Randy LaPolla | |||
| Keynote Address: Nominalization in Rawang, with an excursus on “descriptive” linguistics and linguistic theory (Introduction: Professor James A. Matisoff) |
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| 11:40-1:00 | Lunch Break (on your own; groups will leave for McMahon 8 from Walker-Ames at 11:45) | |||
| SESSIONS | Chair: Randy LaPolla | Chair: Edith Aldridge | ||
| 1:00-1:20 | Evans, Jonathan | R | Yeh, Jui-chuan | JK |
| How do you analyze a two tone system – when both tones are high? | On the Excessive Construction in Mandarin Chinese | |||
| 1:20-1:40 | SHIRAI, Satoko | R | Yu, Dominic | D |
| Functions of the modality suffix "-a" in nDrapa | Relative clauses and the noun phrase in Cantonese | |||
| 1:40-2:00 | Huang, Chenglong | R | Dede, Keith | D |
| Relative Clauses in the Puxi Variety of Qiang | The Reported Speech Particle in the Xining Dialect | |||
| 2:00-2:20 | Lin, You-Jing | R | Sung, Kai-lin | Oth |
| From Directional to Past Imperfective: A Case from rGyalrong | Tonal Harmony in Chinese Raps | |||
| 2:20-2:40 | IKEDA, Takumi | R | Hsiao, Yuchau E. and Sung, Kai-lin | AB |
| Some Historical Records on the Lyuzu Language in Southwest China | A Corpus Study of Classic Chinese Poetry | |||
| 2:40-3:00 | Coffee Break (outside the Walker-Ames Room) | |||
| SESSIONS | Chair: James A. Matisoff | Chair: Mark Alves | ||
| 3:00-3:20 | Hansson, Inga-Lill | U | Gong, Hwang-cherng | AB |
| Evidentiality in Akha | A hypothesis of the influences of pre-initial consonants upon the development of rhymes from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese | |||
| 3:20-3:40 | Pelkey, Jamin | U | Dempsey, Jakob | AB |
| Muji uncorked: A first tasting of the dialects, distinctives, and distribution | Intra-/ inter-divisional doublets and their implications for OC | |||
| 3:40-4:00 | HAYASHI, Norihiko | U | Ferlus, Michel | AB |
| Youle Jino Adjectives | What were the four divisions of the Middle Chinese | |||
| 4:00-4:20 | Lama, Ziwo | U | PHUA, Chiew Pheng | AB |
| Where did the 'Dog' 'Go': a Continuing 'Chew' over the Labiovelars of Northern Yi | Alternations of Voiced and Voiceless Initials in Old Chinese: A Cognitive Approach to the Study of Chinese Historical Phonology | |||
| 4:20-4:40 | Lidz, Liberty | U | Jeon, Kwang Jin | AB |
| A Synopsis of Yongning Na (Mosuo) | Phonological change of Old Chinese (LFK System): Dissimilation | |||
| 4:40-5:00 | HU, Suhua | U | ||
| The Serial Verb Constructions in Nuosu Yi Language | ||||
| 6:30 | Dinner (on your own; groups will leave for University Way restaurants from Watertown Hotel lobby at 6:30) | |||
| SATURDAY, Sept. 16 | Location: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall | Location: Room 201, Gowen Hall | Location: Room 1A, Gowen Hall | |||
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| SESSIONS | Chair: Kamal Malla | Chair: Jerry Norman | ||||
| 9:00-9:20 | DeLancey, Scott | V | Brewer, Warren | FG | ||
| A Preliminary Survey of the Kurtoep Verb | Mapping Taiwanese 'goose' | |||||
| 9:20-9:40 | Doty, Christopher | V | Branner, David Prager | FG | ||
| Relativization in Kurtoep: Preliminary Notes | A Sound Change in Progress in Some Fújiàn Mǐnnán Dialects | |||||
| 9:40-10:00 | Mazaudon, Martine | V | Jiang, Ping | FG | ||
| Tone and voice quality in TGTM (Tamang-an) languages | Consonant alternation in Fuzhou Chinese | |||||
| 10:00-10:20 | Michailovsky, Boyd | V | Chang, Jung-Im | FG | ||
| Sources of vowel alternation in Kiranti verbs | Development of the -m Coda and the "Closed-Mouth Final" in the Yong'an Dialect Spoken in Fujian Province | |||||
| 10:20-10:40 | Plaisier, Heleen | V | Chan, Marjorie K.M. | C | ||
| Lepcha and its next of kin | Liu Yi Chuan Shu (柳毅傳書): A Cantonese Opera, Its Language, Script Versions, and Stage Performances | |||||
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break (outside the Walker-Ames Room) | |||||
| 11:00-12:00 | Robbins Burling | |||||
| Keynote Address: The Lingua Franca cycle and the map of Tibeto-Burman Languages (Introduction: Professor Inga-Lill Hansson) |
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| 12:00-1:20 | Lunch Break (on your own) | |||||
| SESSIONS | Chair: Scott DeLancey | Chair: Tung Chung-Szu | ||||
| 1:20-1:40 | Taguchi, Yoshihisa | Q | Chen, Yi-Hsiu | FG | ||
| *r and the cluster initials in Proto-Hmong-Mien | The Pragmatics and Grammaticalization of Taiwan Southern Min「死」 | |||||
| 1:40-2:00 | Lowes, Gwendolyn | Q | Lin, I Chen | FG | ||
| Comparative Notes on Tibeto-Burman Copulas | Processing of Taiwanese tone sandhi: The Gating paradigm | |||||
| 2:00-2:20 | Matisoff, James A. | Q | Chen, Yawen | FG | ||
| Stable roots in Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman | A study on the use of Taiwanese classifiers by different generations | |||||
| 2:20-2:40 | Sun, Hongkai | Q | Cheng, Ying and Chen, Yawen | FG | ||
| Pronominalization in Tibeto-Burman | A study on the semantics and compounding of Southern Min chêng 前 | |||||
| 2:40-3:00 | Coffee Break (outside the Walker-Ames Room) | |||||
| SESSIONS | Chair: Martine Mazaudon | Chair: David Branner | Chair: David Solnit | |||
| 3:00-3:20 | Caplow, Nancy | X | Chiang, Min-hua | E | Hartmann, John | LM |
| The reconstruction of stress in Proto-Tibetan | The distinctions between Hai咍/Tan覃/Han寒 and Tai泰/Tan談/Huan桓 rhymes in Gan and Hakka | A Regional Approach to the Study of Tai Toponyms | ||||
| 3:20-3:40 | Sung, Kuo-ming | X | CHENG, Hsiao-feng | E | LUO, Yongxian | LM |
| A Four-Tone Autosegmental Analysis on Tone Sandhi in Lhasa Tibetan | On the Dangshe hekou Division 3 words in Hakka and Min | Some Sino-Tai Correspondences in Old Chinese *-a- （鱼）Finals | ||||
| 3:40-4:00 | Willis, Christina | X | Yeh, Chiou-shing | E | Khanittanan, Wilaiwan | LM |
| Who is Doing What to Whom? -- A Case Study of Coding Strategies in Darma | An Optimality Theoretical Approach to Reduplication Tone Sandhi in Hai-lu Hakka | Tao Te Ching Influence in Tai Languages: Evidence for a Taoist Legacy | ||||
| 4:00-4:20 | Huziwara, Keisuke | S | TUNG, chung-szu | E | Feng, Ying | LM |
| Come and Go in Cak | The Relationship among Yao, She, and Hakka through Phonetic Analyses | 汉语借词对水语构词方式的影响borrowing words from Chinese influence on the word formation of Shui Language | ||||
| 4:20-4:40 | Wu, Chinwei | S | Liu, Hsiao-Chien | E | Tumtavitikul, Apiluck | LM |
| The Morphophological Structures of Four-Syllabic Reduplicants in Jingpo(Kachin) Dialect: An Optimality-Theoretical Approach | The Euphemism of Death in Hakka, Mandarin, and English | Thai Intonation in Four Emotions | ||||
| 4:40-5:00 | DAI, Qingxia | S | Wu, Anqi | C | ||
| The Negative Category of Jingpo Language | Historical Strata of Colloquial and Literary Words in Wenzhou Speech | |||||
| 7:00-9:00 | Banquet (Portage Bay Room at South Campus Center -- see separate sheet for directions) | |||||
| SUNDAY, Sept. 17 | Location: Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall | Location: Room 201, Gowen Hall | ||
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| SESSIONS | Chair: Jonathan Evans | Chair: Boyd Michailovsky | ||
| 9:20-9:40 * | Sawada, Hideo | O | Hasnain, Muhammad | W |
| ʔă-prefixation on verbs and auxiliaries in Lhaovo (Maru) Language: non-derivational use | Balti Proverbs - Compiled by G. H. Hasni | |||
| 9:40-10:00 | Watkins, Justin | O | Malla, Kamal Prakash | W |
| The SOAS Wa Dictionary Project: Lexicography for a Divided Language | A Tale of the Tail: Classical Newari and Proto-Tibeto-Burman | |||
| 10:00-10:20 | Solnit, David B | O | ||
| Notes on Pa-O Phonology | ||||
| 10:20-10:40 | KATO, Atsuhiko | O | ||
| Valence-changing particles in Pwo Karen | ||||
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break (outside the Walker-Ames Room) | |||
| 11:00-11:40 | Jerry Norman | |||
| Keynote Address: Proto-Min Numerals (Introduction: Professor William G. Boltz) |
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| 11:40-1:00 | Lunch Break (on your own) | |||
| SESSIONS | Chair: Robbins Burling | Chair: Janet Xing | ||
| 1:00-1:20 | Sarmah, Priyankoo | Y | Deng, Lin | D |
| An acoustic study of Mizo tones and morpho-tonology | Stratified Tonal Changes in Shaoguan Dialect of Northern Guangdong | |||
| 1:20-1:40 | Peterson, David A. | Y | Shen, Hong | D |
| Aspects of Mru phonetics and phonology | Chongqing Yanzi | |||
| 1:40-2:00 | Coupe, Alec | Y | Hsu, Fu-mei | H |
| Diachronic sources of converb morphology in Ao | Predicate Ellipsis in Old Chinese | |||
| 2:00-2:20 | Dockum, Rikker | Y | Zhang, linsheng | H |
| Convergences in Khumi and Marma morphosyntax | On the topic marker "zhe" in the Old Chinese | |||
| 2:20-2:40 | HSIAO, Suying | H | ||
| Language contact and lexical competition: Chinese impact on Mongolian negations | ||||
| 2:40-3:00 | Coffee Break (outside the Walker-Ames Room) | |||
| SESSIONS | Chair: David Branner | Chair: Chiang Min-hua | ||
| 3:00-3:20 | Fu, Jingqi | P | Xing, Janet | I |
| The Word Orders of the Bai Language | Semantic Extension of Color Terms in Chinese | |||
| 3:20-3:40 | Xu, Shixuan | P | Lu, Mingchang | I |
| The Tujia Lexicon and Language Contact | An OT and Corpus-Based Analysis of English Loanwords in Mandarin: Cases of Coda Adaptation | |||
| 3:40-4:00 | Kiryu, Kazuyuki | Z | Tang, Chihsia | I |
| An Analysis of a verbal suffix chəi in Meche | Synchronic and Diachronic Metaphorical Explorations of English Slang with Food Names and Comparisions with Chinese Semantically-corresponding Counterparts | |||
| 4:00-4:20 | Alves, Mark | N | Luo, Jiapeng | C |
| A Report on the Loanword Situation in Vietnamese | Statistical Analysis Methods of the Corresponding Patterns of the Sound System Among Chinese Varieties | |||
| 4:20-4:40 | Gage, William | N | ||
| Residual Chinese Loans in Vietnamese | ||||
| 4:45-5:00 | Zev Handel, Asian Languages and Literature | |||
| Closing Remarks | ||||
| 6:30-8:00 | Barbecue Dinner (Watertown Hotel lobby) | |||
| KEY TO PANELS | |
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| AB | Chinese Historical Phonology |
| C | Chinese Strata/Lexicon |
| D | Chinese Dialects |
| E | Chinese Dialects: Hakka |
| FG | Chinese Dialects: Min |
| H | Chinese Historical Syntax |
| I | Mandarin Morphology and Semantics |
| JK | Mandarin Syntax |
| LM | Tai |
| N | Austroasiatic: Vietnamese |
| O | Tibeto-Burman: Burmish, Karen |
| P | Tibeto-Burman: Bai, Tujia |
| Q | Tibeto-Burman Comparison |
| R | Tibeto-Burman: Qiangic |
| S | Tibeto-Burman: Jingpo-Nungish-Luish |
| T | Tibeto-Burman: Loloish texts |
| U | Tibeto-Burman: Loloish |
| V | Tibeto-Burman: Himalayish 1 |
| W | Tibeto-Burman: Himalayish 2 |
| X | Tibeto-Burman: Himalayish 3 |
| Y | Tibeto-Burman: Kuki-Chin-Naga |
| Z | Tibeto-Burman: Bodo-Garo |
| Oth | Other |