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.
October 5: Planning
October 12: Richards 2003: Why is there an EPP; Anderson 2008: 2P Clitics in Tagalog
October 26: Kaufman 2010: The Morphosyntax of Tagalog Clitics
November 9: Brodkin (in production): Second Position in Mandar
November 23: Bibbs (in production): Second Position in Chamorro
December 7: Summary meeting/Future Prospects
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
At this meeting, Jake presented Chen & McDonnell (2019) "Western Austronesian Voice".
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".