Richard McGinn (Ohio University): Discourse, markedness and the evolution of focus in Rejang. M. Klamer (Vrije Univeristeit Amsterdam/HIL): Continuative aspect and the nature of the dative clitic in Kambera.
N. Richards (MIT): Another look at Tagalog subjects.
A. MacLachlan (McGill University): Causatives and case mechanisms in Tagalog.
E. Sityar (UCLA and University of Arizona): Voice and existential closure (Cebuano, Tagalog).
M. Donohue (Australian National University): Evidence for the thematic hierarchy from applicative and causative constructions in Tukang Besi.
J. Voskuil (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden): A-bar movement and verbal morphology in Indonesian. L. Travis (McGill University): Morphology, phrase structure and l-syntax in western Malayo-Polynesian languages (Malagasy, Tagalog). V. Phillips (McGill University): The prefix maha- in Malagasy: deriving meaning from the root. D. Finer (SUNY, Stony Brook): Selayarese a-bar constructions.
S. Hanitriniaina and J.-Y. Morin (Université de Montreal): A constraint-based approach to causatives and reciprocals in Malagasy. I. Paul (McGill University): Word order and specificity in Malagasy.
E. Keenan (UCLA): Morphology is structure: a Malagasy test case. P. Sells (Stanford): Raising and the order of clausal constituents (Kapampangan, Cebuano, Tagalog).
C.D. McFarland (Waseda University): Relativization in Philippine languages (Tagalog).
J.C. Finney (American Institute of Higher Studies): Is Chamorro Philippine or Formosan? Evidence from a fossilized casemarker. E. Woolford (UMASS, Amherst): Object agreement in Palauan: specificity, humanness, economy and optimality.
It was decided at the end of the conference by those present that every effort should be made to continue with AFLA next year. If all goes well, we will hopefully be reconvening in California sometime next spring. No steps were taken to establish membership fees for AFLA or to set up a governing board. Both, however, may be necessary in the future.
There are plans to publish the proceedings of AFLA '95. This publication will also include papers of those people who could not make it (in total there will be about twenty-five contributors). At present we are considering several possibilities. Hopefully, within a year we will be able to offer to the general linguistic community an affordably priced publication. Information concering the progress and purchasing of the publication will be sent out at the appropriate times. (Those who are contributing papers to the publication will, of course, be contacted fairly soon with regard to deadlines, paper format and other details).
We are also putting together an AFLA e-mailing list. Barry Miller of York University has agreed to act as AFLA's official contact. Updates about AFLA and future conferences will be sent out periodically by Barry Miller. Any general inquiries can be addressed to him. If you know of anyone that might be interested in future AFLA conferences, please put them in contact with Barry Miller. He can be reached at bmiller@vm1.Yorku.Ca
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who participated at AFLA '95 and who helped to make the conference a success. Thanks must also go to the SSHRCC and McGill University for generously funding the conference. Given the growing formal interest in Austronesian languages and hence, also the need for a venue for the presentation and discussion of the research now being done, there is definite enthusiasm for AFLA to continue. Here's to future AFLA conferences...
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