COOL6

Sixth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics

Emalus Campus, University of the South Pacific

Port Vila, Vanuatu

4 – 9 July, 2004

DRAFT PROGRAM

SUNDAY 4 JULY
5.00 – 7.00 p.m.	Welcome reception and official opening Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre Official opening by the Director of the Museum, Mr Ralph Regenvanu
MONDAY 5 JULY
7.45 – 8.30	Registration
8.30 – 10.00	Pronouns, etc.
Ritsuko Kikusawa -Tokyo University of Foreign Studies	On the development of the number systems of Oceanic pronouns
David Gil -Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig	‘We-person’: What does it mean, why does it mean it, and where does it come from?
Jae Jung Song -University of Otago	Grammaticalization and structural scope increase: Evidence from possessive-classifier-based benefactive marking in Oceanic languages
	Morning tea
10.30 – 12.30	Polynesian
Jonathon Herd, Diane Massam and Catherine MacDonald -University of Toronto	Genitive relative constructions in Polynesian languages
Robin Hooper -University of Auckland	Ups and downs in Tokelau
Elizabeth Pearce -Victoria University of Wellington	The various uses of ko in Māori: A unified analysis
Mary Salisbury -Massey University	Subject in Pukapukan: Absolutive or agentive argument or no subject?
	Lunch
1.30 – 3.00	Pileni and Vanikoro
Even Hovdhaugen -University of Oslo	Aspects of Pileni phonology
Åshild Næss -University of Oslo	Determination and quantification in Pileni
Benjamin Tua -Institute of Solomon Islands Studies	Teanu and other languages of Vanikoro
	Afternoon tea
3.30 – 5.30	Language, Literacy and Education
Kenneth Rehg -University of Hawai’i at Manoa	Linguists, literacy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Léonard Sam -Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie	Enseignement expérimental des langues et de la culture kanak à l'école primaire publique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Ruth Saovana-Spriggs -Australian National University	Language and cultural preservation as a cultural goldmine: An indigenous researcher's perspective on integrity and intimacy in the dialogue between language and culture
Melenaite Taumoefolau -University of Auckland	The role of second language acquisition theory and practice in Pasifika language maintenance in New Zealand
TUESDAY 6 JULY
8.30 – 10.00	Historical phonology, etc.
Alexandre François -LACITO-CNRS, Paris	The cruel destiny of vowels in fourteen Banks languages
Hans Schmidt -Afrika-Asien-Institut, Abteilung für Südseesprachen, Hamburg	Chronology of Rotuman consonant changes
Mary Salisbury and Kevin Salisbury -Massey University	Pukapukan links: east and west
	Morning tea
10.30 – 12.30	Language contact
Paul Geraghty -University of the South Pacific, Fiji	Polynesian loans in the Solomon Islands
Jonathon Herd -University of Toronto	English loanword adaptions into Polynesian languages
Daniel Long -Tokyo Metropolitan University	Japanese loanwords in the Micronesian region
Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain -University of Tokyo	The attrition of Japanese negation: the case of Palauan Japanese
	Lunch
1.30 – 3.30	Western Oceanic plus
Anna Margetts -Monash University	Another look at nuclear-layer serialization: Positional slots in Saliba complex verbs
Piet Lincoln	Being or not in Banoni
Eva Lindström -Stockholm University	Phonological and lexical convergence in central New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
	Afternoon tea
3.30 – 5.30	IT applications
Nicholas Thieberger -University of Melbourne	Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
Simon Greenhill -University of Auckland	A freely accessible computerised database of Austronesian basic vocabulary
David Meyer -University of Edinburgh	A computationally assisted analysis of Tahitian oral tradition
Nicholas Thieberger -University of Melbourne	Developing a linked media corpus of South Efate
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
8.30 – 10.00	Textual analysis, etc.
Wolfgang Sperlich -UNESCO	Kuwae: the story in Namakir
Gunter Senft -Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Genres in Kilivila
David Walsh	What's in a name, an orthography, or a cluster bomb?
	Morning tea
10.30 – 12.30	East Papuan studies
Ger Reesink -Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Sulka of East New Britain, a mixture of Oceanic and Papuan traits
Angela Terrill -Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Linguistic stratigraphy in the central Solomon Islands
Michael Dunn -Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Reconstructing the dispersal of Papuan languages in Island Melanesia
Claudia Wegener -Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Aspects of noun classification in Savosavo
Free	afternoon
THURSDAY 8 JULY
8.30 – 10.00	Oceanic flora
Bethwyn Evans -Australian National University	Reconstructing botanical taxonomies for Proto Oceanic
Malcolm Ross -Australian National University	Proto Oceanic flora terms
Ritsuko Kikusawa -Tokyo University of Foreign Studies	Cyrtosperma taro in Yap
	Morning tea
10.30 – 12.30	Oceanic culture-history
Meredith Osmond -Australian National University	Proto Oceanic fish names
Andrew Pawley -Australian National University	Patterns of stability and change in Oceanic terms for plant and animal taxa
Ann Chowning -University of Auckland	Extensions of the term for ‘family house’ in a non-house society
Matthew Spriggs -Australian National University	How long do we have? Dating the changes of Oceanic through the witness of archaeology
	Lunch
1.30 – 3.00	Subgrouping in Vanuatu
John Lynch -University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu	The Central/Southern “boundary problem” in Vanuatu subgrouping
Alexandre François -LACITO-CNRS, Paris	Subgrouping hypotheses in North Vanuatu
Ross Clark -University of Auckland	On the unity (or not) of North and Central Vanuatu
	Afternoon tea
3.30 – 5.00	Creole studies
Terry Crowley -University of Waikato	Protovariability and parallel development: Reduced grammatical forms in Melanesian Pidgin
Miriam Meyerhoff -University of Edinburgh	A quantitative study of animacy effects in Bislama
Aya Inoue -University of Hawai’i at Manoa	Bidialectal effects on reading: Word recognition in Hawai‘i Creole English
FRIDAY 9 JULY
8.30 – 10.00	Language use
Robert Early -University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu	Language as fun and secret code: Some play varieties in the Pacific
Apolonia Tamata -University of the South Pacific, Fiji	Taivosa: A case of deliberate language shift
David Healey -SIL (Vanuatu)	Eye, ‘heart’ and place: idioms in Maskelynes
	Morning tea
10.30 – 12.30	Syntax
Claire Moyse-Faurie -LACITO-CNRS, Paris / University of New Caledonia	Reflexives and intensifiers in New Caledonian and Polynesian languages
Ryoko Hattori -University of Hawai’i at Manoa / East-West Center	An evidentiality contrast in Pingilapese auxiliary verbs
Michinori Shimoji -Tokyo University of Foreign Studies	Topicalization in Palauan revisited: a text-based study
Cynthia Schneider -University of New England	An analysis of the function of te in Apma (Central Pentecost, Vanuatu)
	Lunch
1.30 – 3.00	Dictionaries and stylistics
David Walsh	Structure, style, and content in dictionary entries for an Oceanic language
Lawrence Kenji Rutter -University of Hawai’i at Manoa	Galeya dictionary project
Emily Hawkins -University of Hawai’i at Manoa	Oral versus written stylistics in Hawaiian
	Afternoon tea
3.30 – 5.00	The Hawaiian farewell
Jason D. Cabral -University of Hawai’i at Hilo	Relative clauses where the head noun is coreferential to a possessor in Hawaiian and Hawai’i Creole English
William (Pila) H. Wilson -University of Hawai’i at Hilo	The Hawaiian ka/ke article system: The historical development of a gender-like system
Brief meeting	1. Publication of conference proceedings 2. Venue and date for COOL7
7.00	Conference dinner: Rossi restaurant