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Tuesday, July 16:
Time
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Paper/Activity
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Presenter
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Session Theme
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8.30-9.00
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Conference Registration
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9.00-9.30
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Conference Welcome
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9.30-10.30 |
SHWNG noun phrases, and how they got that way
| Emily Gasser | NPs & determination |
10.30-11.00 | Morning Coffee |
| NPs & determination |
11.00-12.00 | Determiners in Wooi | Nikolaus Himmelmann | NPs & determination |
12.00-13.00 | Contributions of phonology in understanding the morphology of verbs in Wooi | Yusuf Sawaki | Phonology |
13.00-14.00 |
Lunch
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14.10-15.00 | Expressions of caused accompanied motion events in Yali | Sonja Riesberg | Location & motion |
15.00-15.30 | Afternoon Coffee | |
Lakes Plain
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15.30-16.30 | Se zokwasi – a register of public speech in Komnzo | Christian Döhler | Ethnography of communication |
16.30-17.30 | Studying string figure-making as a tool of language documentation | Darja Hoenigman | Ethnography of communication |
Wednesday, July 17:
Time
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All day | Conference excursion to surrounding villages, with lunch in a Javanese restaurant |
Thursday, July 18:
Time | Paper/Activity | Presenter | Session Theme |
9.00-10.000 |
The grammatical structure of Mor (ISO 639-3: moq) of Bomberai
Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia
| Harald Hammarström |
Documentation of new languages
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10.00-11.00 |
Muyu Grammar Sketch – A lowland Ok language of New Guinea
| Alexander Zahrer |
New languages
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11.00-11.30 |
Morning Coffee
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11.30-12.30 |
Yamben: a previously undocumented language of Madang
| Andrew Pick |
New languages
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch
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13.30-14.30 | Argument relations in Abawiri: Grammar, semantics, and pragmatics | Brendon Yoder | Lakes Plain |
14.300-15.00 |
Afternoon coffee
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15.00-16.00 |
The imperative imperative
| Nick Evans |
Verbal morphology
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16:00-16:30 | General discussion: Directions in Papuan linguistics | | |
16.30-17.00 | Conference closing remarks – future conferences, thanks, etc. |
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