THEME: EXPLORING THE DIVERSITY OF AUSTROASIATIC LANGUAGES
Location: New Angkorland Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Jointly organized by The National Language Institute, Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) & The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), and Supported by SIL international and Unesco. Local Organisation by Meng Vong.
Program
Wednesday 29 July
9:00-10:00 Opening Ceremony
Welcome Addresses: H.E. Prof. Dr. Chan Somnoble, Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC)
Dr. Krisna Uk, Executive Director, Center for Khmer Studies (CKS)
Gérard Diffloth: Keynote Presentation
Vicheka Khim: “L’Interactionisme et son application dans le cadre de la recherche linguistique”
Paul Sidwell: “What a phylogenetic analysis tells us about Austroasiatic language history”
Denis Paillard: “A Study of Discourse words Formed on Pit in Khmer”
Mathias Jenny: “Syntactic diversity in Austroasiatic languages”
Badenoch Nathan: “Bit Expressives”
Roger Blench: “Rongic, a now-vanished branch of Austroasiatic”
Deepadung Sujaritlak: “A Lexical Comparison of the Palaung dialects spoken in China, Myanmar, and Thailand”
Thursday 30 July
Andrew Hsiu: “The Angkuic languages: a preliminary survey”
Sylvain Vogel: “Voix du Mondulkiri Historique”
Ryan Gehrmann: “Vowel Height and Register Assignment: Case Studies from the Katuic Languages”
Arun Ghosh: “Phonological evidence and scenarios for the historical development of the Munda Branch”
Gregory Anderson: “Pluractional Marking in Gtaʔ”
Felix Rau: “Phonological evidence and scenarios for the historical development of the Munda branch”
Jean-Michel Filippi: “One defining Standard Khmer”
Chem Vatho: “A New Khmer pronouncing dictionary”
Tobias Weber: “Phonological typology of Austroasiatic languages: an overview”
Sok Makara: “Metaphorical Uses of Face in the Khmer Language”
Keo Linet: “Ethnic Groups in Ancient Cambodia”
Yamzaki Sumiko: “Conflation of Tai-Kadai Lao and Austroasiatic Khmer Spoken in the Northeastern Cambodia”
Friday 31 July
Yuma Ito: “On Personal Pronoun in Mlabri”
Kevin Batch: “Prosodically dependent adjectives in Mlabri”
Shu Nimonjiya: “On Importance of Face-to-Face Relationship among the Mlabri in Northern Thailand: Focusing on Dual Personal Pronoun and Its Usage”
Chhum Sonnang: “Khmer Loanwords in Thai and Thai Loanwords in Khmer: The Coda Simplification”
Garry Davis: “Thai Tones in Old Khmer Loans: The Extended Monosyllables”
Leang Sam Eng: “Taboo Words in Khmer Society”
Tom Hoogervorst: “Lexical borrowing and its lessons on the ‘Indianization’ of Southeast Asia”
Sikder Monoare Murshed: “Khasi Language of Bangladesh: Representative of Austro-Asiatic family”
Nishaant Choksi: “Scripts and Sounds: Grapheme-phoneme correspondence in Santali”
John W. Eppele: “The role of sociolinguistics in nation-building: Advocacy for civil society at the margins”
Horo Luke and Sriyankoo: “Preliminary Investigation into the Assam Sora Dialectology”
BUI Thi Hoang Anh: “On the semantics of verbs as particles: the case of đi in Vietnamese”
Rajasingh V.R: “Directional affixes in Muöt”
Van Vy: “A Study of Village Naming in Cambodia”
Business Meeting and Announcement of ICAAL7
Closing Remarks by Academician Khlot Thyda