{"id":5180,"date":"2013-05-13T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2013-05-10T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T21:35:07","slug":"mits-austronesianists-go-to-afla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/05\/13\/mits-austronesianists-go-to-afla\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT&#8217;s Austronesianists go to AFLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend, three talks from MIT will be presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uta.edu\/faculty\/sabbagh\/afla20\/\">20th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association<\/a>\u00a0at the Arlington campus of the University of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s AFLA, \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/norvin\/www\/home.html\">Norvin Richards<\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>one of three invited speakers at the conference, will be asking and answering the question &#8220;<em>Why are so many Austronesian languages verb-initial<\/em>&#8221;. \u00a0Fourth-year student\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\"><strong>Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong><\/a> will be speaking on\u00a0&#8221;<em>Topic, Specificity, and Subjecthood in Squiliq Atayal<\/em>&#8221; (research arising from his fieldwork in last summer as a member of the\u00a0NSF-hosted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284\">East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute<\/a>\u00a0in Taiwan). \u00a0Third-year student <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/tfranklevin\/\"><strong>Ted Levin<\/strong><\/a> will be speaking on the topic of \u00a0&#8221;<em>Dissolving the Balinese Bind: Balinese Binding and The A\/A-Bar status of Spec TP<\/em>&#8221;. \u00a0 But that&#8217;s not all! \u00a0 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uta.edu\/faculty\/sabbagh\/\">Joey Sabbagh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 (PhD 2005) is one of the conference organizers, so we\u00a0<em>know<\/em> it will be a great meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend, three talks from MIT will be presented at the 20th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association\u00a0at the Arlington campus of the University of Texas. At this year&#8217;s AFLA, \u00a0Norvin Richards,\u00a0one of three invited speakers at the conference, will be asking and answering the question &#8220;Why are so many Austronesian languages verb-initial&#8221;. \u00a0Fourth-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}