WLP6 Program

Monday, July 17 

0920-1000        On the Accentual Phrase in Yali
– Katharina Gayler and Nikolaus Himmelmann

1000-1040        Clause chains, L boundary tones and larger discourse units in Yali
– Katharina Gayler, Sonja Riesberg and Nikolaus Himmelmann

1040-1110    REFRESHMENTS          

1110-1150         Phonological phrasing in Idi (Pahtouri River family): A preliminary analysis
– Adam J.R. Tallman and Volker Gast

1150-1230        Phrasal intonation and the absence of lexical stress in Yawa-Saweru
– Anne van Schie

1230-1330        LUNCH

1330-1410        Recent contact features in Northwest Papuan Malay
– David Gil

1410-1450        Developing a language resource center for Daru Secondary School
– Kate Lindsey

1450-1530     Adult Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
– Laura Arnold, George Saad and Emma Peddie

1530-1600        REFRESHMENTS

1600-1640    A peek into Proto-Pahoturi verbal morphology: evidence from Taeme
– Brady Dailey and Kate Lindsey

1640-1720       Reduplication in Papuan light-verb constructions
– Sonja Riesberg

1720-1800    Grammaticalization of serial verbs in Seget
– Allahverdi Verdizade

1800-1840     History of the habitual paradigm in Sa: A diachronic construction grammar approach
– Emma C. Mazzuchi

Tuesday, July 18

0920-1000    Spatial language in a Torres Strait contact zone: Meriam Mir (Oriomo) and its neighbours
– Bill Palmer

1000-1040        Number in Wooi 
– Yusuf Sawaki

1040-1110         REFRESHMENTS

1110-1150         Patterns of relative clauses in the East Bird’s Head languages
– Chrisma Fernando Saragih

1150-1230       A comparative study of possessive constructions in Pagu and West Makean
– Dalan Peranginangin

1230-1330    LUNCH   

1330-1410        Progress report on the subclassification of the Austronesian languages of Raja Ampat
– Laura Arnold

1410-1450    Notes on the Sumuri [tcm], a language isolate of the Bomberai Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia
Freja Lindgren and Harald Hammarström

1450-1530     Introducing Irires, a language of the East Bird’s Head family
– Antoinette Schapper and Yafed Syufi

1530-1600        REFRESHMENTS

1600-1640     Quantitative approaches to intelligibility and classification in the Kabenau subgroup (Rai Coast, Madang, Trans-New Guinea)
– DeAndre A. Espree-Conoway

1640-1720    Genetics of the Trans-New-Guinean language family          
– Nicolas Brucato, Adeline Morez, Georgi Hudjašov, Jason Kariwiga, Matthew Leavesley and Francois-Xavier Ricaut 

1720-1800     The OUTOFPAPUA database: Designing a system for collaborative reconstruction
– David Kamholz

1800-1830    BUSINESS MEETING and CLOSING