ICAAL 10 – Conference Information

The 10th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL10)

Program

The 10th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL10) will take place at Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (Oregon, USA) on December 1st – December 2nd, 2022 (or from the North American perspective: November 30-December 2, 2022). The conference will be held entirely online, via Zoom. 

Registration & Contact

Panelists are registered automatically for all of the sessions. Other participants may register for free, and will be sent Zoom links by email. Registration link: https://forms.gle/qnqwuYExqe55Rz978

Email questions to: ICAAL10@livingtongues.org

Time Zones

All times below are listed in Pacific Standard Time (PST) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Sessions that take place during the night in PST are meant to accommodate colleagues in Asia, and as such, they correspond to the following calendar date in many countries. Take careful note of the dates and times listed in the schedule below. They take into account Daylight Savings Time as well. To convert timezones, please visit: https://greenwichmeantime.com/

 

SCHEDULE

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Session 1

Date & time:
Wednesday, Nov. 30th, 2022. 6:15pm – 10:00pm PST
Thursday, December 1st, 2022. 2:15am – 6:00am GMT

PST: Nov 30 GMT: Dec 1 Title and Presenters
6:15pm 2:15am Welcome Address (15 min)
Gregory D. S Anderson
                                          

Panel: Phonetics & Phonology
Chair: Dr. Mark Alves

6:30pm 2:30am The Diverse Segmental Origins of Tone & Register in Austroasiatic Languages: Survey and Synthesis
Ryan Gehrmann
7:00pm 3:00am A Sociophonetic Study on Kemie Vowels and Consonants
Liu Xirui, Yan Jie, Liu Yan
7:30pm 3:30am Vietnamese in Mukdahan province, Thailand:
What’s the Difference with Vietnamese in Vietnam?
Binh Nguyen Ngoc, Phatcharaphong Phubetpeerawat
8:00pm 4:00am BREAK (30 mins)
                                         
Panel: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology & Language Education
Chair: Dr. Paul Sidwell
8:30pm 4:30am Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation in Central Nicobar
R. Vysakh
9:00pm 5:00am Writing Htanaw in Burmese Script:
The Challenges of Designing an Orthography
Mathias Jenny, Rachel Weymuth, Alexandra Herdeg, Han Tin, Ampika Rattanapitak
9:30pm 5:30am Leveraging Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization: A Case Study of the Iu Mien through Lenses of Migration and Diaspora
Kamori Osthananda

 

Session 2

Date & time: Thursday, December 1st, 2022. 8:00am – 10:15am PST (4:00pm – 6:15pm GMT)

PST: Dec 1 GMT: Dec 1 Title and Presenters
Panel: Morphology & Syntax
Dr. Bikram Jora
8:00am 4:00pm Indexing in Austroasiatic: Typology, Geography, and Diachrony
Tobias Weber
8:30am 4:30pm A Descriptive Account of Nominal Inflection in Sanenyö, an Endangered Tribal Language of the Central Nicobar Island
Rahul Pachori
9:00am 5:00pm BREAK (15 mins)
9:15am 5:15pm Case, Number and Gender in the Nominals and Pronominals of Kharia Language
Vidya Sahani
9:45am 5:45pm The Many Ways to Invisible in Sora: On the Derivational Genius of an Austroasiatic Language of India
Gregory D. S. Anderson and Opino Gomango

 

Session 3

Date & time:
Thursday, December 1st, 2022. 6:00pm – 11:00pm PST
Friday, December 2nd, 2022. 2:00am – 7:00am GMT

PST Dec 1. GMT Dec 2. Title and Presenters
Panel: Historical Linguistics
Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson
6:00pm 2:00am Re-evaluating Shorto’s Austroasiatic Reconstructions (or “Will the Real Austroasiatic Etyma Please Stand Up?”)
Paul Sidwell, Mark Alves
6:30pm 2:30am Austroasiatic Etymologies of Words Related to Household Structures
Mark Alves
7:00pm 3:00am Moklenic, Chamic, Aslian: Ancient Connections
Geoffrey Benjamin
7:30pm 3:30am BREAK (15 min)
7:45pm 3:45am Reconstructing the Proto‐Austroasiatic Lexicon: A Conspectus
Paul Sidwell
8:15pm 4:15am Rongic, A Vanished Branch of Austroasiatic
Roger Blench
8:45pm 4:45am BREAK (15 min)
                                         
Panel: Semantics
Chair: Dr. Ryan Gehrmann
9:00pm 5:00am Sense and Reference in Korku Semantics
Rakesh Kajle
9:30pm 5:30am First Step in Surveying “Thuy Danh” (River Names) in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam
Phan Thi Thanh Thuy, Tran Tri Doi
10:00pm 6:00am Transitivity in Mundari: Grammatical and Prominence Perspectives
Bikram Jora
10:30pm 6:30am ICAAL Business Meeting

 

Session 4

Date & time: Friday, December 2nd, 2022. 8:00am – 11:00am PST (4:00pm – 7:00pm GMT)

PST Dec 2. GMT Dec 2.  Title and Presenters
Panel: Phonetics and Phonology
Dr. Luke Horo
8:00am 4:00pm Prosodic Features of May Oral Narrative Texts
Irina Samarina
8:30am 4:30pm Newly Emerging Pronunciation in Central Khmer: The Case of Phnom Penh Dialect
Chem Vatho, Martine Grice, T. Mark Ellison
9:00am 5:00pm Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Prai
Nathaniel Hiroz
9:30am 5:30pm BREAK (15 min)
9:45am 5:45pm Aspects of Bến Tre Phonology
Huy Phan
10:15am 6:15pm The Production and Perception of Register and Voicing in Mnong Ralam
Marc Brunelle, Đinh Lư Giang, Tạ Thành Tấn
10:45am 6:45pm Closing Remarks (15 min)
Gregory D. S. Anderson

 

Conference organizers:
Gregory D. S. Anderson, Anna Luisa Daigneault

Conference email:
ICAAL10@livingtongues.org

Please also check the ICAAL Projects webpage for updates: https://sites.google.com/site/icaalprojects/icaal-meetings

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you at ICAAL 10!

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