Contacts:   Abstracts: Melenaite Taumoefolau,   m.taumoefolau@auckland.ac.nz   Other enquiries: Frank Lichtenberk,   f.lichtenberk@auckland.ac.nz Draft Program:  please note this program is subject to change Monday 4 January        Wednesday     Thursday     Friday    Saturday Registration: 10am - 12 noon and  3pm - 6pm Tuesday 5 January 9.00 am 9.45 am Powhiri (Welcome) and other formalities Morning tea 10.30 am Plenary 1: Western Oceanic revisited: interpreting shared innovations Malcolm Ross Chair: Frank Lichtenberk SPACE AND DIRECTION Chair: Robin Hooper 11.30 am 12.00 noon A comparison of geocentric directionals across Banks and Torres languages Alexandre François Route description tasks and spatial terminology in Kiribati Bill Palmer 12.30 pm Lunch LINGUISTICS AND PREHISTORY Chair: Ray Harlow 2.00 pm 2.30 pm 3.00 pm New Evidence For Equatorial Outlier-East Polynesian William Wilson Current understandings and trends in Polynesian archaeology: possible implications for comparative linguistics? David J. Addison and Lisa Matisoo-Smith Language in the North, Basalt in the South: An East and West Polynesian Puzzle William H. Wilson and David J. Addison 3.30 pm Afternoon tea CONTACT (MODERN) Chair: Alexandre François 4.00 pm 4.30 pm 5.00 pm 5.30 pm An endangered Japanese variety in the Oceanic area Kazuko Matsumoto From Oceanic Languages to Oceanic Englishes? Carolin Biewer Towards a Typology of Norf'k Joshua Nash Pronoun Trebling in Bislama Lana Grelyn Takau 6.30pm Wine and Cheese Evening Fale Pasifika 24 Wynyard Street Back to top Wednesday 6 January PASSIVE, TRANSITIVE, CAUSATIVE Chair: Bill Palmer 8.30 am 9.00 am 9.30 am 10.00 am Time and transitivity in South Efate Nick Thieberger The Natügu në- form as further evidence for a Proto-Oceanic passive Brenda H. Boerger and David Graves The unifying role of na in Abma Cindy Schneider Faka-Niue: Understanding cause in Niuean Isaac Gould, Diane Massam, and Philip Patchin 10.30 am Morning tea DEMONSTRATIVES Chair: Melenaite Taumoefolau 11.00 am 11.30 am 12.00 noon The two alternative positions of the deictic particles in noun phrases in Māori. Kelly Keane-Tuala This, That and the Other: The Polynesian Demonstratives Ross Clark Demonstrative Uses in Logeia Carmen  Dawuda 12.30 pm Lunch PROCESSES OF CHANGE Chair: John Read 2.00 pm 2.30 pm 3.00 pm 3.30 pm External pressure prompts change: examining types of language change in Polynesian Mark Donohue The role of Maori women in sound change Jeanette King, Catherine Watson, Margaret Maclagan, Peter Keegan and Ray Harlow Stylistic variation and sound change in Māori Ray Harlow, Margaret Maclagan, Catherine Watson, Peter Keegan and Jeanette King The changing use of the manner particles of Māori Winifred Bauer 4.00 pm Afternoon tea STRESS, LENGTH, TONE Chair: Winifred Bauer 4.30 pm 5.00 pm 5.30 pm 6.00 pm Issues in Saliba Phonology: from segments to syllables to stress John Hajek The Phonetic Nature of Niuean Vowel Length Nicholas Rolle Evidence of tone in New Ireland: a phonetic study of tonal activity in Kara John Hajek and Mary Stevens Stress in Samoan Vavao Fetui and Melenaite Taumoefolau Back to top Thursday 7 January SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS Chair: Claudia Wegener 8.30 am 9.00 am 9.30 am What on earth in Oceanic languages Eric Potsdam and Maria Polinsky Binding and anaphora in Maori: A neo-Gricean pragmatic account Yan Huang Second-person pronouns for third-person reference in Saliba-Logeia Anna Margetts 10.00 am Morning tea 10.30 am Plenary 2 The concept of ‘return’ as a source of grammaticalization Claire Moyse-Faurie Chair: Ross Clark SUBJECT, OBJECT, FOCUS Chair: Gunter Senft 11.30 am 12.00 noon 12.30 pm On the Subject of Samoan: an absolutive answer Helen Charters Echo subject in Whitesands versus switch reference Hilário de Sousa and Jeremy Hammond Subject marking in Ughele, an Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad 1.00 pm Lunch SYNTAX 1 Chair: Yan Huang 2.30 pm 3.00 pm 3.30 pm 4.00 pm How many foci? The linguistic encoding of Focus in Marovo Bethwyn Evans Long dependencies and verbal object marking in Oceanic languages Joachim Sabel From manner-of-action verbs to light verbs in Oceanic languages in New Guinea Joel Bradshaw Completing in Unua Elizabeth Pearce 4.30 pm Afternoon tea PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY Chair: Ger Reesink 5.00 pm 5.30 pm 6.00 pm The acquisition of the two phonological registers in Samoan: results from a preliminary study into the speech of four year old children. Elaine Ballard What’s up with the clusters? Vowel ellipsis, vowel epenthesis and non-vocalic nuclei in Lelepa, Central Vanuatu Sebastien Lacrampe The interaction between reduplication and the stative prefix in Nahavaq Laura Dimock Back to top Friday 8 January TENSE, ASPECT, MOOD Chair: Mary Salisbury 8.30 am 9.00 am 9.30 am The Prominence of Mood In Neverver Julie Barbour The Registers of Commands in Hawaiian. Jason Cabral The semantics of tense and aspect in Tongan. Melenaite Taumoefolau 10.00 am Morning tea SYNTAX 2 Chair: Elizabeth Pearce 10.30 am 11.00 am 11.30 am The Nature of the Noun and Verb Classes in Oceanic Languages. Bill Foley and Jeremy Hammond Is Tongan a VSO language? A quantitative analysis. Giovanni Bennardo The labile nature of Tinrin (New Caledonia) verb fwi Midori Osumi 12.00 noon Lunch PREHISTORY AND CONTACT (ANCIENT) Chair: Bethwyn Evans 1.30 pm 2.00 pm 2.30 pm Diffusion of morphosyntactic features of possession between Papuan and Oceanic languages. Ger Reesink Retention and replacement of Proto Oceanic basic vocabulary in the Central Pacific languages Andrew Pawley Numeral systems, phylogeny and contact in Oceanic languages. Russell Gray 3.00 pm Afternoon tea LEXICAL STUDIES Chair: Arapera Ngaha 3.30 pm 4.00 pm 4.30 pm 5.00 pm 5.30 pm The Legal Māori Project: a report on the pilot phase. Mary Boyce Lexical modernization as a language promotion : the case of Iaai, a Melanesian language of Ouvea (New Caledonia). Anne-Laure Dotte Assisting the Compilation of the Satawalese Cultural Dictionary: Thirty Years of a Dictionary Project Initiated by Cultural Anthropologists. Ritsuko Kikusawa Introducing a non-native new genre: the production and comprehension of highly complex NPs in dictionary definitions in Savosavo. Claudia Wegener Talking about color and taste on the Trobriand Islands: A diachronic comparative study. Gunter Senft 7.30pm Conference Dinner Santa Lucia Restaurant 51 Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay Back to top Saturday 9 January METHODS AND PROJECTS Chair: Andrew Pawley 9.00 am 9.30 am 10.00 am The probability of proto-forms. Simon J. Greenhill Using corpora for diachronic study – preliminary findings of a pilot investigation into change in the syntax of Māori. Karena Kelly Working with old data. P C Lincoln 10.30 am Morning tea LOCAL SUBGROUPING 1 Chair:  Cindy Schneider 11.00 am 11.30 am Patterns and puzzles in Pukapuka’s precontact poetre Kevin Salisbury Is Pukapukan Ellicean? Was it a staging post between Eastern Polynesian and Equatorial Outliers? Mary Salisbury 12.00 pm Lunch LOCAL SUBGROUPING 2 Chair: Anna Margetts 1.30 pm 2.00 pm 2.30 pm The languages of Maewo Hans Schmidt Southeast Solomonic: a view from possessive constructions Frank Lichtenberk Advances in Central Pacific historical phonology Paul Geraghty 3.00 pm Final tea Back to top