AFLA 22: the Proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2016. — 245 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics 27).Edited by Henrison HsiehThe Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is an organization that promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. The 22nd annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 22) was held at McGill University in Quebec, Canana in May, 2015. Of the 32 papers presented at the conference, 14 are included in this volume, with contributions on languages including Marshallese, Tagalog, Javanese and Kavalan and on topics covering syntax, semantics and phonology.Eli Asikin-Garmager - Sasak: Antipassives and the syntactic dimensions of nasal verb variation
Lena Borise - Sluicing in Tagalog: Strategies and implications
Victoria Chen and Shin Fukuda - Three ways to “steal” an element from a CP: Evidence from Formosan
Helen Jeoung - Voice and register differences in Madurese
Dong-yi Lin - Floating universal quantifier as a base-generated head in the VP periphery
Kuo-Chiao Lin - The gradual path to variable reduplication: Kavalan
Nicholas Longenbaugh and Maria Polinsky - The processing of long-distance dependencies in Niuean
Eric Potsdam and Daniel Edmiston - Extraposition in Malagasy
Catherine Provencher - On the Marshallese semi-glides and underspecified vowels
Norvin Richards - Some notes on Tagalog prosody and scrambling
Nova Starr - General number and semantic incorporation in Tagalog
Nozomi Tanaka, William O’Grady, Kamil Deen, Chae-Eun Kim,
Ryoko Hattori, Ivan Paul M. Bondoc, and Jennifer U. Soriano - An agent advantage in Tagalog relative clause comprehension
Jozina Vander Klok - Diagnosing VP-ellipsis in Javanese: Evidence for a non-movement and a movement account
Ekarina Winarto - The Indonesian DP