Nang

The New Austronesian Group
UCSC Linguistics

Winter 2021

Meeting time: tbd; here.

  • First Meeting: Quirky Extraction in Mandar (Dan)

  • Second Meeting: Richard?

  • Third Meeting: tbd?

Fall 2020

Meeting time: Alternating Mondays at 2 PM here.

See you all at Nang!

Spring 2020: The Revival

In the Spring quarter, we will meet from 10:00-11:00 on Zoom on these dates:

  • Monday, April 13

  • Monday, April 27

  • Monday, May 11

  • Monday, May 25

  • Monday, June 8

Zoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/2855138115

At our second meeting this quarter (April 13), Dan presented on the following papers:

  • van Zanten et al 2010: Stress Types in Austronesian Languages

  • Himmelmann 2018: Some Preliminary Observations on Prosody and Information Structure in Austronesian Languages of Indonesia and East Timor

At our third meeting this quarter (April 27), Dan will be presenting on the following papers:

  • Stoel 2007: The Intonation of Manado Malay

  • Himmelmann 2008: Notes on Waima'a Intonational Structure

At our fourth meeting this quarter (May 11), Richard will be presenting his work on Chamorro weak pronoun placement at the syntax-phonology interface. We'll be reading the following for review:

  • Chung 2003: The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro

At our fifth meeting this quarter (May 25), Jake will be presenting on the following paper:

  • Yu and Stabler 2017: (In)variability in the Samoan syntax/prosody interface and consequences for syntactic parsing

At our sixth meeting this quarter (June 8), Jed will be presenting on the following paper:

  • Richards 2017: Tagalog Prosody and Scrambling

Spring quarter meetings

In the Spring quarter, we will meet from 10:00-11:00a in the LCR on the following Fridays only:

  • Friday, May 17

  • Friday, May 31

At our first meeting this quarter (May 17), Richard, Jake, and Jed will each spend 20 minutes presenting the following chapters from Blust (2013):

  • Richard: Ch. 4 "Sound systems" (pp. 169-276)

  • Jake: Ch. 5 "The lexicon" (pp. 277-354)

  • Jed: Ch. 6 "Morphology" (pp. 355-441)

  • Jake: Quick overview of Ch. 7 "Syntax" (pp. 442-518)

3/15/19, 11:00am in Stevenson 217

Planning meeting: 3/1/19, 11:00am in Stevenson 217

Our first meeting happened on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 11:00am in Stevenson 217. We decided that AnG will meet biweekly and settled on our first set of readings:

  • Chen & McDonnell (2019) will be presented on 3/15/19 by Jake. This will be the last meeting of Winter Quarter.

  • In Week 1 of Spring Quarter, Jed, Jake, and Richard will present Chs. 4-7 of Blust's (2013) The Austronesian Languages. We will also assume that everyone has read Ch. 2 "A bird's eye view of the Austronesian language family".