Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics

PROGRAMME

14 and 15 January 1997

Venue:

Dewan Persidangan Universiti

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Penang, Malaysia

Session 1 Languages in Contact (14 January)
Session 2 Field and Corpus Linguistics (14 January)
Session 3 Phonetics and Phonology (14 January)
Session 4 Syntax: Word Order and Word Classes (14 January)
Session 5 Syntax and Semantics: The Verbal Prefixes (15 January)
Session 6 Syntax (15 January)

Tuesday 14 January

0830 - 0900 registration

Session 1 Languages in Contact

0900 - 0930

"Ayam Tim and Babi Chin:

Typological Convergence in Baba Malay"

Stephen Matthews & Umberto Ansaldo

(University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

& Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

0930 - 1000

"Contact Linguistics: The Case of the Language

of The Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia"

Teo Kok Seong

(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,

Malaysia)

1000 - 1030

"Arabic Loanword Trajectories in Malay"

Alan S. Kaye

(California State University, Fullerton, USA)

1030 - 1100 opening ceremony

Session 2 Field and Corpus Linguistics

1100 - 1130

"Notes on Malay in the Natuna Islands"

James T. Collins

(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,

Malaysia)

1130 - 1200

"A 'Bank of Malaysian and Indonesian Languages': A Modest Proposal"

Ed Anderson

(Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

1200 - 1230

"Towards a Typology of Malay/Indonesian Dialects"

David Gil & Uri Tadmor

(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia / University of Delaware,

Newark, USA &

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA)

1230 - 1400 intermission

Session 3 Phonetics and Phonology

1400 - 1430

"Tense-Lax Vowels Perception of Malay Speakers

Learning English"

Nasrun bin Alias

(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia)

1430 - 1500

"A Non-Linear Approach to Nasal Spreading in Malay and Indonesian Languages"

Carol Bloomfield

(Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia)

1500 - 1530

"When Fusion Fails: Prefix-Nesting in Malay"

Ann Delilkan

(New York University, New York, USA)

1530 - 1600

"Stress and Prominence in Indonesian Malay"

Ove Lorentz

(University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway)

1600 - 1630 intermission

Session 4 Syntax: Word Order and Word Classes

1630 - 1700

"Word Order in Malay Sentences: The Interplay

of Communicative Dynamism and Systemic Ordering"

Zahrah Abd. Ghafur

(Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)

1700 - 1730

"A Comparison of Some Indonesian Malay and Brunei Malay Syntactic Structures: Implications for Universal Grammar"

Gloria Poedjosoedarmo

(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

1730 - 1800

"Indonesian Word Classes Revisited"

Franz Muller-Gotama

(California State University, Fullerton, USA)

1930 - dinner

Wednesday 15 January

Session 5 Syntax and Semantics: The Verbal Prefixes