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 30GMT: Dec 1Title and Presenters
6:15pm2:15amWelcome Address (15 min)
Gregory D. S Anderson

Panel: Phonetics & Phonology
Chair: Dr. Mark Alves

6:30pm2:30amThe Diverse Segmental Origins of Tone & Register in Austroasiatic Languages: Survey and Synthesis
Ryan Gehrmann
7:00pm3:00amA Sociophonetic Study on Kemie Vowels and Consonants
Liu Xirui, Yan Jie, Liu Yan
7:30pm3:30amVietnamese in Mukdahan province, Thailand:
What’s the Difference with Vietnamese in Vietnam?
Binh Nguyen Ngoc, Phatcharaphong Phubetpeerawat
8:00pm4:00amBREAK (30 mins)

Panel: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology & Language Education
Chair: Dr. Paul Sidwell
8:30pm4:30amLanguage Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation in Central Nicobar
R. Vysakh
9:00pm5:00amWriting Htanaw in Burmese Script:
The Challenges of Designing an Orthography
Mathias Jenny, Rachel Weymuth, Alexandra Herdeg, Han Tin, Ampika Rattanapitak
9:30pm5:30amLeveraging 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 1GMT: Dec 1Title and Presenters
Panel: Morphology & Syntax
Dr. Bikram Jora
8:00am4:00pmIndexing in Austroasiatic: Typology, Geography, and Diachrony
Tobias Weber
8:30am4:30pmA Descriptive Account of Nominal Inflection in Sanenyö, an Endangered Tribal Language of the Central Nicobar Island
Rahul Pachori
9:00am5:00pmBREAK (15 mins)
9:15am5:15pmCase, Number and Gender in the Nominals and Pronominals of Kharia Language
Vidya Sahani
9:45am5:45pmThe 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
6:00pm2:00amRe-evaluating Shorto’s Austroasiatic Reconstructions (or “Will the Real Austroasiatic Etyma Please Stand Up?”)
Paul Sidwell, Mark Alves
6:30pm2:30amAustroasiatic Etymologies of Words Related to Household Structures
Mark Alves
7:00pm3:00amMoklenic, Chamic, Aslian: Ancient Connections
Geoffrey Benjamin
7:30pm3:30amBREAK (15 min)
7:45pm3:45amReconstructing the Proto‐Austroasiatic Lexicon: A Conspectus
Paul Sidwell
8:15pm4:15amRongic, A Vanished Branch of Austroasiatic
Roger Blench
8:45pm4:45amBREAK (15 min)

Panel: Semantics
Chair: Dr. Ryan Gehrmann
9:00pm5:00amSense and Reference in Korku Semantics
Rakesh Kajle
9:30pm5:30amFirst Step in Surveying “Thuy Danh” (River Names) in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam
Phan Thi Thanh Thuy, Tran Tri Doi
10:00pm6:00amTransitivity in Mundari: Grammatical and Prominence Perspectives
Bikram Jora
10:30pm6:30amICAAL 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
8:00am4:00pmProsodic Features of May Oral Narrative Texts
Irina Samarina
8:30am4:30pmNewly Emerging Pronunciation in Central Khmer: The Case of Phnom Penh Dialect
Chem Vatho, Martine Grice, T. Mark Ellison
9:00am5:00pmLexical and Grammatical Tone in Prai
Nathaniel Hiroz
9:30am5:30pmBREAK (15 min)
9:45am5:45pmAspects of Bến Tre Phonology
Huy Phan
10:15am6:15pmThe Production and Perception of Register and Voicing in Mnong Ralam
Marc Brunelle, Đinh Lư Giang, Tạ Thành Tấn
10:45am6:45pmClosing 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!