9th International Conference On Oceanic Linguistics - COOL9

The 9th Conference On Oceanic Linguistics will be hosted by the Faculty of Education and Arts, and the Endangered Languages Documentation, Theory and Application Research Group, University of Newcastle, Australia, from February 4 – February 8, 2013, to be held at the Newcastle Museum in the city centre.

The Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family includes more than 500 languages. The region in which they are spoken includes Island Melanesia, much of coastal Papua New Guinea, Polynesia and most of Micronesia. These languages show a high degree of linguistic diversity and are of considerable scientific significance, and many are highly endangered. The COOL conference series is dedicated to research on Oceanic languages, and their multifaceted linguistic, social, cultural and historical contexts.

Plenary Speakers
Professor Maria  Polinsky	Harvard University, 'Deriving ergativity in Oceanic languages'
Dr Michael Dunn	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,'Patterns and Processes of Language Contact in Oceania'