Austronesian Linguistics, June 2024

UH Mānoa had a strong presence at the 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, held June 20-24 2024 in Manila, Philippines. Linguistics faculty, current students, and alumni presented papers and participated in panels at the conference. Their presentations were:

Orlyn Joyce D. Esquivel: Ayta Magbukun language description and documentation
Orlyn Joyce D. Esquivel and William O’Grady: Multilingualism and early language development in Ayta Magbukun children
Kianu Schwerdtfeger: Evidence for the existence of uvular consonants in Palauan
Clemens Mayer: Phrase-final vowel realization in Woleaian: Evidence for pathways of historical development of Micronesian final vowels
Nathan Adamson: Exploring voice-based variation in the semantic roles of predicate arguments in Hiligaynon psychological verbs: A corpus study
Louward Allen Zubiri: Revisiting the Agta languages of Bikolandia
Louward Allen Zubiri, Kamil Deen: Features of child-directed speech in heritage Bikol acquisition
Bradley McDonnell, Blaine Billings, Jacob Hakim (with Dendi Wijaya and Yanti): A window into the early history of language contact in Sumatra

Also, Bradley McDonnell (along with Victoria Chen and Daniel Kaufman) convened a panel called “Geographical typology as a window into the evolution of the Austronesian family”. This panel included the following papers by UH people:

Bradley McDonnell (with Victoria Chen and Daniel Kaufman): Clitic positioning patterns in western Austronesian languages
Christina Truong: On the rise of applicatives in West Nusantara languages
Shelece Easterday, Blaine Billings, and Clemens Mayer: Emergence of divergent phonotactics in Austronesian: A distributional typological approach