Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
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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,"[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20130824032252/http://ling.uwo.ca/afla/ Welcome to AFLA]", official website, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, accessed 27 May 2009. 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.{{Cite web|title=Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association|url=http://www.uwo.ca/linguistics//research/afla/index.html|website=uwo.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-05-06}} 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.{{Cite web|title=AFLA 27 – National University of Singapore, August 2020|url=https://lingconf.com/afla27/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-06}}
Founders
- Anna Maclachlan
:author of "Optimality and three western Austronesian case systems"{{Cite web|title=Anna Maclachlan - Google Scholar Citations|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w-70g6gAAAAJ&hl=en|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2020-05-08}} and 13 other research papers on Austronesian language
: professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto where she is involved in many research efforts{{Cite web|title=Diane Massam|url=http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~dmassam/index.html|website=homes.chass.utoronto.ca|access-date=2020-05-08}}
- Richard McGinn
: accomplished linguist who taught a numerous universities including Ohio University. McGinn died at the age of 78{{Cite web|title=Linguistics Mourns Loss of Dr. Richard McGinn|url=https://www.ohio-forum.com/2018/03/linguistics-mourns-dr-richard-mcginn/|date=2018-03-28|website=Ohio University {{!}} College of Arts & Sciences|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-08}}
- Barry Miller
: attended York University in Toronto an co-founded AFLA with Massam{{Cite book|last=Paul, Ileana.|title=Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics|date=2000|publisher=Springer Netherlands|others=Phillips, Vivianne., Travis, Lisa.|isbn=978-94-017-1580-5|location=Dordrecht|oclc=851379467}}
: currently a professor of Linguistics at McGill University{{Cite web|title=Lisa Travis|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/lisa-travis|website=Linguistics|language=en|access-date=2020-05-08}}
See also
Notes and references
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110617030947/http://westernlinguistics.ca/afla/ Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association]—official website
- LingAlert: AFLA {{Cite web|title=Search Results for "AFLA"|url=https://lingalert.com/?s=AFLA&submit=Search|website=Ling alert|language=en|access-date=2020-05-08}}
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Category:Austronesian languages
Category:Learned societies of Canada