Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
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The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is a learned society that hosts forums for collaborative research on Austronesian languages. Founded in 1994 at the University of Toronto,[1] AFLA is now administered from the University of Western Ontario. Conferences are held annually at a multitude of institutes across the globe, including Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (AFLA 2016), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (AFLA 2000), and Academia Sinica (AFLA 2018) located in Taipei, Taiwan.[2] The most recent 2019 conference was held in its home administration at the University of Western Ontario. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AFLA 2020 conference was postponed and tentatively rescheduled for August 20 at the National University of Singapore.[3]
Founders
Anna Maclachlan - author of "Optimality and three western Austronesian case systems"[4] and 13 other research papers on Austronesian language
Diane Massam - professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto where she is involved in many research efforts[5]
Richard McGinn - accomplished linguist who taught a numerous universities including Ohio University. McGinn died at the age of 78[6]
Barry Miller - attended York University in Toronto an co-founded AFLA with Massam[7]
Lisa Travis - currently a professor of Linguistics at McGill University[8]
Timeline
- AFLA Conference I (1994): Held at the University of Toronto, with attendees being students and faculty.
- AFLA Conference II (1995): Held at McGill University
- AFLA Conference III (1996): Held at the University of California at Los Angeles
- AFLA Conference IV (1997): Held at the University of California at Los Angeles
- AFLA Conference V (1998): Held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- AFLA Conference VI (1999): Held at the University of Toronto
- AFLA Conference VII (2000): Held at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- AFLA Conference VIII (2001): Held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- AFLA Conference IX (2002): Held at Cornell University
- AFLA Conference X (2003): Held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- AFLA Conference XI (2004): Held at Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung
- AFLA Conference XII (2005): Held at the University of California at Los Angeles
- AFLA Conference XIII (2006): Held at the National Tsing Hua University and Academia Sinica
- AFLA Conference XIV (2007): Held at McGill University
- AFLA Conference XV (2008): Held at the University of Sydney
- AFLA Conference XVI (2009): Held at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- AFLA Conference XVII (2010): Held at Stony Brook University, New York
- AFLA Conference XVIII (2011): Held at Harvard University
- AFLA Conference XIX (2012): Held at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica & Linguistic Society of Taiwan
- AFLA Conference XX (2013): Held at the University of Texas at Arlington
- AFLA Conference XXI (2014): Held at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica & Linguistic Society of Taiwan
- AFLA Conference XXII (2015): Held at McGill University
- AFLA Conference XXIII (2016): Held at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- AFLA Conference XXIV (2017): Held at the University of Washington
- AFLA Conference XXV (2018): Held at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan
- AFLA Conference XXVI (2019): Held at the Inter-faculty Program in Linguistics, University of Western Ontario
- AFLA Conference XXVII (2020): Held at the National University of Singapore
- AFLA Conference XXVIII (2021): Organised by the National University of Singapore and McGill University, Montréal
- AFLA Conference XXIX (2022): To be held at the University of Manchester (as TripleAFLA, in collaboration with the TripleA workshop series)
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See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Welcome to AFLA", official website, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, accessed 27 May 2009.
- ^ "Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association". uwo.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ "AFLA 27 – National University of Singapore, August 2020". Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ "Anna Maclachlan - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ "Diane Massam". homes.chass.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ "Linguistics Mourns Loss of Dr. Richard McGinn". Ohio University | College of Arts & Sciences. 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ Paul, Ileana. (2000). Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics. Phillips, Vivianne., Travis, Lisa. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-017-1580-5. OCLC 851379467.
- ^ "Lisa Travis". Linguistics. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ "Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association". uwo.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
External links
- Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association—official website
- LingAlert: AFLA "Search Results for "AFLA"". Ling alert. Retrieved 2020-05-08.