ISMIL 27 and ISBL 1 will be held jointly. ISMIL 27 will take place June 5-6 2024, and ISBL 1 will take place June 6-7 2024. On June 6, there will be a joint session on Malayic languages of Borneo.
The following schedule is subject to minor changes. All times shown below are in Singapore Time (SGT).
Last updated: May 28, 2024
Wednesday, 5 June 2024 (SGT): ISMIL Day 1
Location: NUS Block AS8, room 04-01
8:30-9:00: Registration.
9:00-9:15: Opening remarks.
9:15-10:15: INVITED TALK – Nala Lee (National University of Singapore). Language endangerment and its socio-structural consequences in Baba Malay.
10:15-10:30: BREAK.
10:30-12:00: SESSION 1
- 10:30-11:00: Keely New. On the optionality of subject voice morphology in Jakartan Indonesian.
- 11:00-11:30: David Gil. Islands without Dependencies: How Riau Indonesian Does It. [slides]
- 11:30-12:30: Hero Patrianto, Victoria Chen. Pivot lowering and the rise of split ergativity: Insights from Nusantara voices. [handout]
12:00-1:15: LUNCH.
1:15-2:45: SESSION 2
- 1:15-1:45: Kanta Hasegawa. Grammaticalization of prepositions derived from verbs in Indonesian. [slides]
- 1:45-2:15: Omri Doron. Reduplication and number in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian. [handout]
- 2:15-2:45: Jozina Vander Klok, Hiroki Nomoto, David Moeljadi, Sarah Zobel. The morphosyntax of Modal-nya forms in Indonesian: The case for adverbs. [slides]
2:45-3:15: COFFEE BREAK.
3:15-4:15: INVITED TALK – Hiroki Nomoto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). MALINDO Conc: Its development and use in linguistics, language teaching and NLP.
4:15-4:30: BREAK.
4:30-6:00: SESSION 3
- 4:30-5:00: Karl Anderbeck. Counting Malayic in Western Indonesia. [slides]
- 5:00-5:30:
Mohammad Khairulanwar Abdul Ghani, Mohd Tarmizi Hasrah. Internal Reconstruction of Baling Proto Dialect. - 5:30-6:00: Luca Iezzi [online]. Reviewing in two languages: Indonesian-English code switching on Instagram. [slides]
Thursday, 6 June 2024 (SGT): ISMIL Day 2 + Joint ISMIL/ISBL Session
Location: NUS Block AS7, room 01-02 (NOTE: different building than Day 1)
9:00-10:30: SESSION 4
- 9:00-9:30: David Moeljadi. Building Koper: An Error-Annotated Indonesian Learner Corpus. [slides]
- 9:30-10:00: Santi Kurniati, Fadlul Rekinan, David Gil. How Colour Term Inventory Affects the Colours of Mosques: A Case Study from Indonesia. [slides]
- 10:00-10:30: Ruoan Wang. Personlessness-as-politeness in Jakartan Indonesian. [slides]
10:30-10:45: BREAK.
10:45-11:45: INVITED TALK – Bradley McDonnell (University of Hawai’i at Manoa). Choosing fillers.
11:45-1:00: LUNCH.
1:00-2:00: SESSION 5
- 1:00-1:30: Ernanda, Foong Ha Yap [hybrid]. What phrasal alternation tells us about the formation of passive constructions in Kerinci Malay. [slides]
- 1:30-2:00: Khairunnisa. Ampenan Malay: Code-mixing between Hadrami Arabs in WhatsApp.
- 2:00-2:30: Asako Shiohara, Yanti, Hiroki Nomoto, Farhan Athirah binti Abdul Razak. Consensus-making Strategies Observed in SCOPIC (Social Cognition Parallax Corpus): A Comparative Study of Three Malay Varieties. [slides]
2:30-3:00: COFFEE BREAK.
3:00-4:30: SESSION 6 (Joint ISMIL/ISBL)
- 3:00-3:30: David Gil. The Malay/Indonesian Macrolanguage in Borneo. [slides]
- 3:30-4:00: Karl Anderbeck. Malay versus Malayic in Western Borneo. [slides]
- 4:00-4:30: Carly J. Sommerlot. Morphosyntactic variation in the Kendayan-Salako branch. [slides]
4:30-4:45: BREAK.
4:45-5:45: INVITED TALK – Roselind Wan (Curtin University Malaysia). PRESERVING ASEN: Language documentation of Kayan Baram, Malaysian Borneo.
6:30-8:00: CONFERENCE DINNER.
Friday, 7 June 2024 (SGT): ISBL
Location: NUS Block AS8, room 04-01 (same room as ISMIL Day 1)
9:00-10:30: SESSION 1
- 9:00-9:30: Carly J. Sommerlot. Not Indonesian-type, not Philippine-type, but something else: Voice in Land Dayak languages. [slides]
- 9:30-10:00: Paul Kroeger. On the diversity of the periphrastic passive in Borneo. [handout]
- 10:00-10:30: Austin Kraft [online]. Philippine-type morphology meets Indonesian-type syntax in Simpakng passive infixation. [handout]
10:30-10:45: BREAK.
10:45-11:45: INVITED TALK – Charlotte Hemmings (University of Oxford). Syntactic choices and information structure in northern Sarawak.
11:45-1:00: LUNCH.
1:00-2:30: SESSION 2
- 1:00-1:30: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Alexander D. Smith. On the syntax of the analytic passive in Kenyah. [slides], [handout]
- 1:30-2:00: Holly Drayton. Is there evidence for split ergativity in Belait? A study of the perfective marker ngaa. [slides], [handout]
- 2:00-2:30: Fukaya Yasuka. The inclusive pronoun in Kelabit with a special focus on its non-canonical usages in possessive contexts. [slides]
2:30-3:00: COFFEE BREAK.
3:00-4:30: SESSION 3
- 3:00-3:30: Michael Boutin. Bonggi Stative Predicates. [slides]
- 3:30-4:00: Nelleke Johansson. The situational prefix iN- in Kimaragang Dusun. [slides]
- 4:00-4:30: Alexander D. Smith, Calvin Jemarang. Linguistic approaches to reconstructing human history and the exodus of Punan from Sarawak. [slides]
4:30-4:45: Closing remarks.
5:00-7:00: DINNER + DRINKS (informal).