The 7th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics, held in Kiel, Germany between September 29 – October 1, 2017 at the Christian Albrechts University (CAU). The local organisation was admirably handled by John Peterson, Tobias Weber, and their student assistants.
Talks presented are listed below in order of their presentation in the program.
Mathias Jenny (Zurich): Mon comparative constructions in diachronic and areal perspective
Tobias Weber (Kiel): Variation in argument coding in Austroasiatic: a look at the diachrony and the geography
Gregory Anderson & Bikram Jora (Living Tongues): Interdependencies of negation, TAM marking and person-indexing in the Munda languages
Jurica Polančec (Zagreb): On the history of Munda prenominal relative clauses
John Peterson (Kiel): The prehistorical spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Asia
Bikram Jora (Living Tongues): Lexical distance between Mundari, Santali and Sadri and the impact of language migration
Judith Voß (Kiel): Work in progress: Verbal Morphology of Gutob
Felix Rau (Cologne): Referring to persons and groups in Gorum conversation
Hiram Ring (NTU, Singapore) & Gregory Anderson (Living Tongues): On the prosody of Khasian languages in relation to Munda
Elizabeth Hall (Payap University): A phonological analysis of Riang Lang
Anastasia Karlsson, Håkan Lundström, Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund): How lexical tones are sung: genre dependent techniques in Kammu singing
Ryan Gehrmann (Payap University): Katuic Derivational Morphology and Presyllable Vowel Contrasts
Paul Sidwell (ANU, Canberra): Proto Nicobarese phonology, morphology, and syntax
Roger Blench (Cambridge): Waterworld: lexical evidence for aquatic subsistence strategies in Austroasiatic
Sylvia Tufvesson (MPI, Nijmegen): Split syntactic alignment in Semai
Ewelina Wnuk (Radboud University & MPI, Nijmegen): Semantic specificity of verbs in Maniq (Aslian, Thailand)
Piers Vitebsky (Cambridge): The creation, and abandonment, of metaphor in Sora parallel ritual verse
Niclas Burenhult (Lund, MPI, Nijmegen) & Nicole Kruspe (Lund): Towards a theory of Aslian toponymy
Antoinette Schapper (KITLV & Cologne): The linguistic history of smell-kissing in Southeast Asia
Stefanie Siebenhütter (Munich): Is polite polite enough? How conceptual and linguistic awareness influences Kuy-Khmer bilinguals
Vera Scholvin (Berlin) & Judith Meinschaefer (Berlin): Integration of French loanwords into Vietnamese. A corpus-based analysis of tonal, syllabic and segmental aspects
Rachel Weymuth (Zurich): Aspectual prefixes in Palaung Rumai