AFLA 23: the Proceedings of the 23rd meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2016. — 310 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics 34).Edited by Hiroki Nomoto, Takuya Miyauchi, Asako ShioharaThe Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is an organization that promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. The 23rd Annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 23) was held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan in June, 2016. Of the 30 papers presented at the conference, 20 are included in this volume, with contributions on languages including Tagalog, Malay/Indonesian and Formosan languages in Taiwan and on topics covering syntax, semantics and phonology.Paul Kroeger and Jim Johansson - Descriptive vs. expressive reduplication in Kimaragang
Scott AnderBois - A QUD-based account of the discourse particle naman in Tagalog
Victoria Chen - Philippine-type “voice” affixes as A’-agreement markers: Evidence from causatives and ditransitives
Victoria Chen and Shin Fukuda - Re-labeling “ergative”: Evidence from Formosan
Sihwei Chen - Lexical aspect and aspectually unmarked predicates in Atayal
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine - Multiple extraction and voice in Toba Batak
Vera Hohaus - The inchoative aspect in Samoan
Henrison Hsieh - Prosodic indicators of phrase structure in Tagalog transitive sentences
Gakuji Kumagai - Recursive feet and hidden phonology: The case of Fijian
Jonathan Cheng-Chuen Kuo - The event structure of Amis intransitive manner/result verbs: A lexicalist analysis
Edward L. Keenan, Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony, Paul Law and
Ravaka Julie Razanamampionona - Phrasal copying in Malagasy
Shih-Yueh Lin - On deriving the copula-initial structure in Ulivelivek
Hiroki Nomoto - Passives and clitic doubling: A view from Classical Malay
Mayumi Oiwa - Possessor raising in Truku Seediq
Elizabeth Pearce - Person marking in three Oceanic languages
Jed Pizarro-Guevara - The role of voice morphology in processing Tagalog A-bar dependencies
Yosuke Sato - An in-situ syntax of sluicing in Indonesian
Asako Shiohara - Pseudo-cleft constructions in the Sumbawa Besar dialect of Sumbawa
Jennifer Tan - On the modality of Tagalog evidentials
Shih-chi Stella Yeh - Stress and quantity-sensitivity in some central Paiwan communalects