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The 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 31) will be hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst from June 12th – 14th, 2024.
There will be an NSF-funded special session entitled Prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb-initial languages, which aims to foster collaboration and communication among researchers working on V1 languages in Austronesian and other language families.
AFLA will be an in-person conference. Our goal is to recreate the sense of community that AFLA fostered pre-pandemic. We will, however, be livestreaming the talks (platform TBD), so that scholars from different parts of the world can also engage with the projects.
Invited speakers (in alphabetical order)
- Lauren Clemens & Lee Bickmore, University at Albany, State University of New York
- Maria Kristina Gallego, University of the Philippines Diliman
- Dan Kaufman, CUNY Graduate Center
- Masatoshi Koizumi, Tohoku University
- Yining Nie, San Jose State University
- Hero Patrianto, Victoria University of Wellington
- Matt Wagers, University of California, Santa Cruz
Pre-conference workshop
Constantijn Kaland, University of Cologne, will hold a pre-conference workshop on June 11, 2024 on a computational, data-driven approach to working with prosodic data. The workshop is intended to offer methodology for initial exploratory work in languages with limited or no prosodic descriptions for fieldworkers from a variety of backgrounds, including those without training in prosody.
Key dates
- 2 February 2024, 11:59:59 EDT (UTC -4) — Abstract submission
- late February–early March 2024 — Notification of acceptance
- 11 June 2024 — Preconference workshop
- 12–14 June 2024 — In-person conference
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About AFLA
The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since the initial meeting in 1994, AFLA has served as a forum for the presentation of new research in all of the core areas of formal linguistics, including (but not limited to) phonology, linguistic typology, morphology, semantics and syntax. AFLA has a history of bringing together leading scholars, native speaker linguists, and junior scholars in the formal study of Austronesian languages.
More information about AFLA, including locations of past meetings, can be found here.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the organizing committee at afla31@umass.edu
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Acknowledgments
Organizing committee: Kristine Yu, Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Alessa Farinella
AFLA logo originally designed by Lauren Clemens for AFLA 22.
The special session is generously sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF #2314322)