COOL6

Sixth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics

Emalus Campus, University of the South Pacific

Port Vila, Vanuatu

4 – 9 July, 2004

 

 

SECOND CIRCULAR

 

 

Note: Parts of this circular repeat information found in the first circular.

 

 

PAPERS

 

We have currently received 38 paper titles and abstracts, and 10 other people have indicated that they will be attending but have not yet provided titles or abstracts (see list at the end of this circular). It appears, then, that we will be looking at around 50 papers, but will still try to organise these with no parallel sessions and with at least half a day off in the middle.

 

For those who still intend to come but have not yet contacted us, papers may be presented on any area to do with individual Oceanic languages or groups of languages, such as:

  • phonological and grammatical descriptive studies
  • historical-comparative studies
  • lexicography
  • sociolinguistic studies
  • language policy and planning
  • language endangerment, survival, and maintenance
  • translation, teaching of Pacific languages, language education and other applied studies

In addition, papers may also be presented in the following areas:

  • pidgin and creole languages of the Oceanic area
  • languages of the East Papuan Phylum (as agreed at COOL5, East Papuanists will have a “home” at COOL)
  • Pacific varieties of metropolitan languages

 

Please contact us with your title and abstract as soon as possible, by filling in the registration form towards the end of this circular.

 

 

CONFERENCE FACILITIES

 

The conference will take place in the Meeting Room at the Emalus Campus of the University of the South Pacific in Vila. This location is easily accessible by taxi (approximately 200 vatu – 300 vatu per trip, depending on distance) or by Vila’s minivan bus service (whereby you can be picked up pretty much wherever you wave down the bus, and then dropped off at your precise destination, often after dropping off other passengers at their destinations too – but it’s cheap: 100 vatu per trip). Taxis and/or buses will be readily available from all accommodation locations. Note that many buses do not operate in the evenings.

 

Morning and afternoon teas will be served at the adjacent veranda canteen, and a small selection of lunch foods can also be purchased there.

 

The Meeting Room will be equipped with an overhead transparency projector, and a PC with a digital data projector suitable for Powerpoint or other computer-based presentations. You can either use your own laptop (especially if Mac format), or prepare a CD for use in the supplied computer. There will even be chalkboards and/or whiteboards for those into advanced technology!! Please let us know if you have any other equipment requirements and we will do our best to assist.

 

 

WEBSITE

 

The conference website can be found on the Pacific Languages Unit’s homepage:

http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/homepage.htm

This website will be updated from time to time.

 

 

REGISTRATION

 

A reminder that the registration fee will be 12,500 vatu (7,500 vatu for full-time students), to be paid when you arrive. This will cover morning and afternoon tea, reception(s), and other administrative costs – though not the Conference Dinner, which will be arranged separately. (The currency is the vatu. Approximate exchange rates as of today, 19 February, 2004, are:

12,500 vatu = $US 118.25 = € 92.50 = $Aus 149.00 = $NZ 167.50

There is no difficulty with exchanging foreign currencies at the banks or money exchangers in Port Vila.)

 

On-site registration for participants will take place in the evening of Sunday, 4 July, and will be followed by a welcome reception.

 

 

TRAVEL

 

Port Vila has direct air links with Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Nadi, Nouméa and Honiara. Participants travelling from other countries would be advised to check the most economical and convenient routing. Air Vanuatu’s schedule can be found at: http://www.airvanuatu.com/flights.html

 

No visas are required to enter Vanuatu: an outward ticket is sufficient to gain entry for one month.

 

If you are coming on a package tour, more than likely an airport transfer to and from your hotel will be included. Taxis are available at all flight arrivals and will take you to your accommodation for a fixed rate of either 1000 vatu or 1500 vatu depending on distance of the hotel from the airport. If you arrive during the day, and can walk with your luggage, you can take a very short walk over to the domestic terminal and then catch a local bus for 100 vatu.

 

 

ACCOMMODATION

 

Accommodation varies from the reasonably luxurious (and expensive) to the spartan, with a reasonable middle range. At least for those travelling from Australia and New Zealand, travel agents will have a number of package deals which would probably prove more economical than booking accommodation separately. There is a list of hotels on the National Tourism Office website (http://www.vanuatutourism.com/); we will investigate costs – and special deals – closer to the time of the conference, and will make that information available.

 

There may also be limited student facilities available on campus for around 2500 per day (including meals on weekdays). This, however, depends on enrolments, and at this stage we cannot reserve anything.

 

For a sample selection of package tours to Vanuatu from Australia go to http://www.travel.com.au/homepage.cgi and click on “Pacific” then find “Vanuatu” in the “Latest deals” section.

 

For a sample selection of package tours to Vanuatu from New Zealand go to http://www.travelonline.co.nz and click on “Packages” then click on “South Pacific” in the “Destinations” bar on the right hand side of the page, scroll down in the listing to find the current Vanuatu specials.

 

Some useful websites about Vanuatu are the following:

National Tourism Office: http://www.vanuatutourism.com/

Weather forecasts: http://202.80.47.86/forecast/

 

 

CONFERENCE ORGANISING TEAM

     John Lynch (lynch_j@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj)

     Robert Early (early_r@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj)

     Hannah Vari-Bogiri (bogiri_h@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj)

 

19 February, 2004

 

LIST OF THOSE CURRENTLY PLANNING TO ATTEND COOL6,

PLUS PAPER TITLES WHERE SUBMITTED

 

Jason D. Cabral

Relative clauses where the head noun is coreferential to a possessor in Hawaiian and Hawai’i Creole English

Ann Chowning

Extensions of the term for ‘family house’ in a non-house society

Ross Clark

TBA

Terry Crowley

Protovariability and parallel development: Reduced grammatical forms in Melanesian Pidgin

Robert Early

Language as fun and secret code: Some play varieties in the Pacific

Bethwyn Evans

Reconstructing botanical taxonomies for Proto Oceanic

Alexandre François

The cruel destiny of vowels in fourteen Banks languages 

Paul Geraghty

TBA

David Gil

‘We-person’: What does it mean, why does it mean it, and where does it come from?

Ryoko Hattori

An evidentiality contrast in Pingilapese auxiliary verbs

Emily Hawkins

Oral versus written stylistics in Hawaiian

David Healey

TBA

Jonathon Herd, Diane Massam and Catherine MacDonald

Genitive relative constructions in Polynesian languages

Robin Hooper

TBA

Even Hovdhaugen

Aspects of Pileni phonology

Aya Inoue

Bidialectal effects on reading: Word recognition in Hawai‘i Creole English

Ritsuko Kikusawa

Cyrtosperma taro in Yap

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On the development of the number systems of Oceanic pronouns

Frank Lichtenberk

Subject incorporation

Daniel Long

Japanese loanwords in the Micronesian region

John Lynch

Two ‘boundary problems’ in Southern Oceanic subgrouping

Anna Margetts

Another look at nuclear-layer serialization: Positional slots in Saliba complex verbs

Kazuko Matsumoto

A variety of Japanese in the Republic of Palau

David Meyer

A computationally assisted analysis of Tahitian oral tradition

Miriam Meyerhoff

A quantitative study of animacy effects in Bislama

Åshild Næss

Determination and quantification in Pileni

Meredith Osmond

Proto Oceanic fish names

Andrew Pawley

Patterns of stability and change in Oceanic terms for plant and animal taxa

Elizabeth Pearce

TBA

Ger Reesink

Sulka of East New Britain, a mixture of Oceanic and Papuan traits

Kenneth Rehg

The rhythmic structure of Pohnpeian

Malcolm Ross

TBA

Mary Salisbury

Subject in Pukapukan: Absolutive or agentive argument or no subject?

Hans Schmidt

Chronology of Rotuman Consonant Changes

Cynthia Schneider

TBA

Gunter Senft

Genres in Kilivila

Jae Jung Song

Grammaticalization and Structural Scope Increase - Evidence from possessive-classifier-based benefactive marking in Oceanic languages

Karin Speedy

TBA

Wolfgang Sperlich

TBA

Matthew Spriggs

How long do we have? Dating the changes of Oceanic through the witness of archaeology

Jim Stahl

TBA

Angela Terrill

Linguistic stratigraphy in the central Solomon Islands

Nicholas Thieberger

Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures

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Developing a linked media corpus of South Efate

Darrell Tryon

 

David Walsh

Structure, style, and content in dictionary entries for an Oceanic language

Claudia Wegener

Aspects of noun classification in Savosavo

Pila Wilson

The Hawaiian ka/ke article system: The historical development of a gender-like system

 

 

Others attending

 

Laurie Reid

 

Anastasia Riehl

 

Ruth Saovana-Spriggs

 

Melenaite Taumoefolau

 

 

COOL6

Sixth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics

Emalus Campus, University of the South Pacific

Port Vila, Vanuatu

4 – 9 July, 2004

 

 

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

 

Title and name:

 

Institutional affiliation:

 

Mailing address:

 

Fax:

 

Email address:

 

Paper title:

 

Abstract (no more than 150 words, please):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please either email to one of:

John Lynch (lynch_j@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj)

Robert Early (early_r@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj)

Hannah Vari-Bogiri (bogiri_h@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj)

 

or fax to: + 678 22633