Program

9.00-9.30 

Registration

Main square, Central Coast Campus

9.30-9.40

Welcome to country

Kerrie Anne Patterson
Representative of the Darkinyung people

9.40-9.50

Welcome to the Central Cost Campus

Professor Stephen Crump
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Central Coast Campus

9.50-10.00

Conference  Introduction

Bill Palmer
Convenor, Pacific Languages Research Group

 Syntax 1  Chair: Frank Lichtenberk

10.00-11.00  

Diane Massam
University of Toronto

Where predicates meet arguments.

11.00-11.30

 coffee

 Syntax II  Chair: Claire Moyse-Faurie

11.30-12.00

Elizabeth Pearce
Victoria University of Wellington,

Syntax of number particles in some Oceanic languages.

12.00-12.30

Bill Palmer
University of Newcastle

Clitic doubling and the Hoava VP.

12.30-1.30

 lunch

 Phonology  Chair: Mark Harvey 

1.30-2.30

Juliette Blevins
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Diversity and clarity in Oceanic sound patterns: some implications and challenges for phonological theory.

2.30-3.00

Laura Dimock
Victoria University of Wellington

Markedness in the distribution of labial consonants in Nahavaq.

3.00-3.30

  coffee

 Interactions I – morphosyntax, language change and language acquisition  Chair: Diane Massam

3.30-4.00

Jeremy Hammond
University of Sydney

Borrowing in Whitesands: language contact on Tanna (Vanuatu)

4.00-4.30

Anna Margetts
Monash University

Saliba ‘give’ verbs and implications for theories of language acquisition.

4.45

 Book launch & wine reception

Co-op Bookshop, Central Coast Campus

6.30

 dinner

Saba Vietnamese Restaurant, Terrigal

 Typology  Chair: Nick Thieberger

9.00-10.00

Claire Moyse

LACITO-CNRS

Intensifiers and reflexive markers in Oceanic languages: The value added by typology.

10.00-10.30

Laura Dimock, Jill Musgrave, & Elizabeth Pearce
Victoria University of Wellington

Duals and plurals in Southern Oceanic languages.

10.30-11.00

Cindy Schneider
Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University

Information structure in Abma. 

11.00-11.30

  coffee

 Interactions II – contact and change  Chair: Rene van den Berg

11.30-12.00

Ger Reesink
Radboud University, Nijmegen

A connection between Bird’s Head and (Proto-) Oceanic.

12.00-12.30

Antoinette Schapper
Australian National University

Whence the indirect possessive construction in Oceanic?

12.30-1.00

Tatsuya Yanagida
Australian National University

Possessive morphology encodes beneficiaries in Ata.

1.00-1.30

 lunch

1.30

 excursion

Hunter Valley wineries and dinner

 Description  Chair: Bill Palmer

9.00-10.00

Frantisek Lichtenberk
University of Auckland

Describing Oceanic languages.

10.00-10.30

Anna Margetts
Monash University

Spread of the plural marker in Saliba-Logea.

10.30-11.00

 Sébastien Lacrampe
Pacific Languages Unit, University of the South Pacific

Possession in Lelepa, a language of central Vanuatu.

11.00-11.30

  coffee

 Interactions III - integrating research perspectives   Chair: Michael Goddard

11.30-12.30

René van den Berg
SIL, PNG

Integration and interdependence in Oceanic research: an SIL perspective.

12.30-1.30

  lunch

 Documentation  Chair: Juliette Blevins

1.30-2.30

Nick Thieberger
University of Hawai’i

Language documentation in Oceania, what's new?

2.30-3.00

Andrew Margetts
Monash University

Getting more from a text collection.

3.00-3.30

Jean Harkins
University of Newcastle

Ethics, texts and power in linguistic research.

3.30-4.00

  coffee

 Interactions IV – communities of scholars, communities of speakers  Chair: Jean Harkins

4.00-4.30

Catriona Malau
University of the South Pacific/ University of Newcastle

Creating outputs for different audiences: An interdisciplinary language documentation project in Vanuatu.

4.30-5.00

Winifred Bauer
Te Kawa a Māui, Victoria, University of Wellington

Obstacles to language revitalisation: the case of Māori in New Zealand.