The conference will run from Monday the 8th to Friday the 12th of February 2010, and will include a free day for an excursion and informal discussions on Wednesday the 10th. The conference will be followed by a one-day master class on Field Methods and Language Resources on Saturday the 13th of February.
| | Monday 8 February |
| 0800 - | registration (desk will be open all morning) |
| 0830 - 0900 | opening |
| 0900 - 1000 | Ideology and Language Change in the Sepik
Bill Foley
University of Sydney
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| 1000 - 1030 | Morphosyntactic Correlates of Reference in Auye
Mike Moxness
YMP3
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| 1030 - 1100 | refreshments |
| 1100 - 1145 | Landscape and Spatial Orientation in Western Pantar (Lamma)
Gary Holton
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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| 1145 - 1215 | Towards a Typology of Spatial Deictic Systems in Papuan Languages
Carl Whitehead and Pat Whitehead
SIL PNG
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| 1215 - 1330 | lunch |
| 1330 - 1400 | Verb Types and Semantic Roles of Person Markers of Kui, Alor
Shiohara, Asako
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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| 1400 - 1430 | The Verb System of Sentani: An Overview
Tobias Weber
University of Zurich / Universität Leipzig
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| 1430 - 1500 | The Structure, Meaning and Function of Serial Verb Constructions in Ughele
Benedicte Frostad
Radboud University, Nijmegen
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| 1500 - 1530 | “Realis” and “Irrealis” in Wogeo: A Valid Category?
Mats Exter
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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| 1530 - 1600 | refreshments |
| 1600 - 1630 | From Mountain Talk to Hidden Talk: Continuity and Change in Awiakay Registers
Darja Hoenigman
Australian National University, Canberra
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| 1630 - 1700 | Represented Speech, Thought and Unfulfilled Desires: Constructing Intersubjectivity in Momu, a Language of Papua New Guinea
Thomas Honeyman
Australian National University, Canberra
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| | Tuesday 9 February |
| 0900 - 1000 | Lessons from Typological Comparison: The Difficulties and Discoveries of a Standardised Approach
Ger Reesink
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| 1000 - 1030 | The Pronominal System of the Ambai Language
Ariel Gutman* and Sara Karubabaª
*École Normale Supérieure, Paris, ªUniversitas Negeri Papua, Manokwari
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| 1030 - 1100 | refreshments |
| 1100 - 1145 | Austronesian Inheritences, Papuan Substrates, Areal Features and Internal Developments in Roon
David Gil
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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| 1145 - 1215 | Contact-Induced Change in Southern Bougainville: Papuan Features in a Grammatically Aberrant Austronesian Subgroup
Bill Palmer* and Bethwyn Evansª
*University of Newcastle, NSW, ªMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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| 1215 - 1330 | lunch |
| 1330 - 1415 | Austronesian - Non-Austronesian Contact in Maluku Utara
John Bowden
Max Planck Institute fir Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta
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| 1415 - 1530 | poster session |
| 1530 - 1600 | refreshments |
| 1600 - 1645 | Linguistic Training in Papua New Guinea
Kenneth Sumbuk
University of Papua New Guinea / James Cook University
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| 1645 - 1715 | business meeting |
| 1715 - 1900 | break |
| 1900 - 1930 | opening ceremony: Center for Endangered Languages Documentation, UNIPA |
| 1930 - 2000 | Doing It the Papuan Way: Language Documentation at the CELD in Manokwari
Yusuf Sawaki*, Apriani Arilahaª, Sutriani Narfafanª and Alexander Lochª
*Australian National University, Canberra / Universitas Negeri Papua, ªUniversitas Negeri Papua,
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| | Wednesday 10 February |
| 0900 - 1800 | excursion and other social events |
| | Thursday 11 February |
| 0830 - 0930 | Affixless in Indonesia: The Abnormality of Flores
John McWhorter
Manhattan Institute, New York
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| 0930 - 1000 | The Relation between Speech and Song in the Vocal Music of New Guinea
Helena Lopez Palma
University of A Coruña
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| 1000 - 1030 | Numerical Cognition in the Absence (or Temporary Unavailability) of Language for Number
Michael C. Frank
Massachusetts Institute of Techology, Cambridge / Stanford University
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| 1030 - 1100 | refreshments |
| 1100 - 1145 | Reevaluating Papuan Diversity: The Unsuspected Multiplicity of Southern New Guinea Language Families
Nick Evans
Australian National University, Canberra
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| 1145 - 1215 | The Genetic Position of the Mawes Language
Harald Hammarström
Chalmers Univeristy, Gothenburg
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| 1215 - 1330 | lunch |
| 1330 - 1500 | PANEL: Local Languages and Education in Melanesia |
| 1500 - 1530 | refreshments |
| 1530 - 1630 | PANEL: The Role of Papuan Malay |
| 1630 - 1800 | break |
| 1800 - | banquet |
| | Friday 12 February |
| 0830 - 0930 | Prosodic Phrasing and Information Structure
Nikolaus Himmelmann
Wesfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / CELD, Universitas Negeri Papua, Manokwari
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| 0930 - 1000 | The Sound(s) of Melanesia
Mark Donohue
Australian National University, Canberra
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| 1000 - 1030 | Moor Tonal Phonology
David Kamholz
University of California, Berkeley
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| 1030 - 1100 | refreshments |
| 1100 - 1145 | Projecting Morphology and Agreement in Morori
I Wayan Arka
Australian National University, Canberra / Universitas Udayana, Bali
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| 1145 - 1230 | Papuan-Austronesian Language Contact in Alor Pantar: Alorese Grammar in Areal Perspective
Marian Klamer
Leiden University
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| 1230 - 1330 | lunch |
| 1330 - 1500 | PANEL: Scientific Infrastructure for Investigating Melanesian Languages |
| 1500 - 1530 | refreshments |
| 1530 - 1730 | WORKSHOP: The Jakarta Lexical Database Project
Tom Conners and Betty Litamahuputty
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta
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| | Saturday 13 February |
| 0900 - 1700 | WORKSHOP: Field Methods
Wayan Arka, Mark Donohue, Nick Evans, David Gil and Nikolaus Himmelmann
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