Four Carleton students will present their original research at the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Indonesian/Malay Linguistics (ISMIL 14) at the University of Minnesota, 30 April – 2 May 2010. ISMIL is an international professional linguistics conference, and linguists and researchers of Indonesian and Malay from all over the world will be in attendance.
Sara Cantor (Linguistics, ’11), Daniel Ehrenberg (CS/Mathematics, ’12), Jennifer Krafft (Japanese Linguistics, ’10) and Mikaela Van Sistine (Linguistics, ’10) will each present a paper on an aspect of Malay or Indonesian syntax. All papers were born of research projects the students conducted in Fall 2009, as participants in Linguistics 325, Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language. In this course, participants worked closely with two native speakers of Malay to gather primary data, the source of their descriptions and analyses.
Mikaela Van Sistine’s talk, meN- and DP movement in Malay: an Agreement analysis, is Friday, 30 April, 4pm.
Sara Cantor’s talk, Yes-No questions in Malay: A multiple C-based account, is Saturday, 1 May, 10:15am.
Dan Ehrenberg’s talk, DP structure and ellipsis in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian, is Saturday, 1 May, 2:00p.
Jennifer Krafft’s talk, Multiple ter- prefixes in Malay, is Saturday, 1 May, 3:00p.
More information about the conference, including the complete program, can be found here: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ismil/14/index.html