AFLA 32 & ISLOJ 10
PROGRAM

AFLA 32 Day 1: Monday, June 2, 2025
TIME TALKS
08:30-09:10 Registration
09:10-09:30 Opening
09:30-10:30 Invited speaker 1: Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario)
What is shared in Voice Restructuring? Insights from Tagalog and Malagasy
(and beyond)
10:30-11:00 Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne), Nicola Klinger (Independent Scholar)
Towards a Typology of Multiple-Marking SVCS
11:00-11:15 coffee break 1
11:15-11:45 Madeline K Snigaroff (University of Chicago)
Revisiting Samoan "Specificity": An Alternative Semantics Account
11:45-12:15 Magdalena Lohninger (University of Salzburg) & Yiannis Katochoritis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Controlling for Subjecthood: A Malayo-Polynesian Typology
12:15-12:45 Ty Craaybeek (Florida Atlantic University)
Analyzing Austronesian Alignment in Hiligaynon Syntax
12:45-14:15 lunch break
14:15-14:45 John Middleton (University of the South Pacific)
Quantifier Float in Polynesian
14:45-15:15 Yiannis Katochoritis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
It's Just a Phase, It'll Pass: A Malagasy Guide on How to Unlock from A Distance
15:15-15:45 Hero Patrianto (Victoria University of Wellington; Language Office of East Java), Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington)
Extraction as A Window into Multiple Loci of Agree: Insights from Acehnese
15:45-16:00 coffee break 2
16:00-16:30 Jeanne Lecavelier, Saffanah Fathin (University of Potsdam)
Between Aspect and Argument-Structure: Comparing Men- in Malay and (Spoken) Indonesian
16:30-17:00 Yvette Yi-Chi Wu (Harvard University)
The Decomposition of Voice Morphology Across Austronesian Languages
17:00-17:30 Holly Drayton (Newcastle University)
Inner Aspect and Voice in Belait
AFLA 32 Day 2: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
TIME TALKS
09:00-10:00 Invited speaker 2: John Whitman (Cornell University), Ekarina (Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya)
10:00-10:30 Chun-Hung Shih (University of Pennsylvania)
Object Voice in Budai Rukai
10:30-10:45 coffee break 1
10:45-11:15 Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Gérard Avelino (Rutgers University)
Is Non-Canonical Sluicing Related to Exceptional Agent-Extraction in Tagalog?
11:15-11:45 Henrison Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University), Jed Pizarro-Guevara (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Sub-Extraction in Tagalog: An Experimental Investigation
11:45-12:15 Michelle Mayro (Stony Brook University), Grace Wivell (Stony Brook University)
A Perceptual Study of Stress Insensitivity in Speakers of Lio
12:15-12:45 Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado (Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK; Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK), Samantha Wray (Dartmouth College, USA), Adam J. Chong (Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK ), Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK )
Can Humans Hear Morphemes Even When They are Obscured and Variable? Evidence From Tagalog Nasal Assimilation and Nasal Substitution
12:45-13:45 lunch break
13:45-14:15 Jennifer Kuo (Cornell University)
Restructuring of Abstract Underlying Forms in Maga Rukai
14:15-14:45 Grace Wivell (Stony Brook University), Maria Magdalena Rini, (UniversitasFlores), Maria Floriani Serlin (Universitas Flores)
Flipping the Script: Ablaut and Rhyme Reduplication in Lio
14:45-15:15 Zi-Xiang Lin, Kuo-Chiao Lin (Kang Chiao International School (Taipei))
Revisiting The Binarity Effect in Kosraean Reduplication
15:15-15:30 coffee break 2
15:30-16:00 Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne)
(Anti-) Locality in Samoan Nominalizations
16:00-16:30 Nianpo Su (Cornell University)
An Optional Classifier Language with d: Seram Timur
AFLA 32 Day 3, ISLOJ 10 Day 1: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
TIME TALKS
09:00-09:45 Invited Student Speaker
Austin Kraft (McGill University)
Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak Questions
09:45-10:15 Keely New (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Multiple Reasons to Lack Multiple Wh-Questions
10:15-10:45 Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University), Michael Barrie (Sogang University), Gune Kim (Sogang University), Tekonnang Timee (Kiribati Teachers College)
Number Agreement in Kiribati
10:45-11:00 coffee break 1
11:00-11:30 Gerard Avelino (Rutgers University)
The Case of Tagalog Case: Revisiting Ditransitives
11:30-12:00 Abigail Roberts (University of California, Berkeley)
Characterizing Nukuoro Copulas
12:00-13:00 CLOSING OF AFLA AND AFLA BUSINESS MEETING
13:00-13:45 lunch break
13:45-14:00 Introduction to Register Session/ Opening of ISLOJ
14:00-14:45 ISLOJ Special Session
Nina Setyaningsih (Universitas Dian Nuswantoro)
“Info kreak kreak lur”: The Register of Semarang’s Citizen Journalism Instagram Accounts
14:45-15:15 Elin McCready ICREA/UAB)
Reading Thick and Thin Registers
15:15-15:45 Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus)
A Formal Semantics of the Javanese Speech Level System
15:45-16:00 coffee break 2
16:00-16:30 Ika Nurhayani (Universitas Brawijaya), Nurenzia Yannuar (Universitas Negeri Malang), Wawan Eko Yulianto (Universitas Ma Chung)
The Evolving Linguistic Dynamics of Javanese Speech Levels in Suriname: Insights from YouTube Videos
16:30-17:00 Jozina Vander Klok (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Nico Lehmann (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
How People-referring Expressions in Javanese Differ (or not) Across Registers
ISLOJ 10 Day 2: Thursday, June 5, 2025
TIME TALKS
09:00-10.00 Invited speaker ISLOJ: Misnadin (Universitas Trunojoyo)
010:00-10:30 Nurenzia Yannuar (Universitas Negeri Malang), Effendi Kadarisman (Universitas Islam Malang)
Exploring Onomatopeia in Javanese
10:30-10:45 coffee break
10:45-11:15 Dan Sachs (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Religio-Linguistic Landscapes in Javanese Public Spaces
11:15-11:45 Nurenzia Yannuar (Universitas Negeri Malang), Evynurul Laily Zen (Universitas Negeri Malang), Yusnita Febrianti (Universitas Negeri Malang)
Preserving Javanese Language and Culture in Digital Spaces
11:45-12:15 Evynurul Laily Zen (Universitas Negeri Malang), Nurenzia Yannuar (Universitas Negeri Malang), Yusnita Febrianti (Universitas Negeri Malang), Karkono (Universitas Negeri Malang)
Preserving our Roots: The Role of Formal Education Initiatives on Javanese Language Revitalization in Indonesia's Multilingual Setting
12:15-13:15 lunch break
13:15-13:45 Dwi Puspitorini (Universitas Indonesia), Nazarudin (Universitas Indonesia), Atin Fitriana (Universitas Indonesia), Dwi Rahmawanto (Universitas Indonesia)
Negotiating Identity and Social Relations through Conversation: A Comparative Study of Cirebon and Brebes
13:45-14:15 Jianqi Sun (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Sundanese Determiner Phrases: The Syntax of =na and Adjectival Modification
14:15-14:30 ISLOJ BUSINESS MEETING
14:30-14:45 CLOSING OF ISLOJ