Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

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]

Distribution of Austronesian languages and primary subdivisions

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
  1. "Welcome to AFLA", official website, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, accessed 27 May 2009.
  2. "Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association". uwo.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  3. "AFLA 27 – National University of Singapore, August 2020". Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  4. "Anna Maclachlan - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  5. "Diane Massam". homes.chass.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  6. "Linguistics Mourns Loss of Dr. Richard McGinn". Ohio University | College of Arts & Sciences. 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  7. Paul, Ileana. (2000). Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics. Phillips, Vivianne., Travis, Lisa. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-017-1580-5. OCLC 851379467.
  8. "Lisa Travis". Linguistics. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  9. "Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association". uwo.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-05.


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