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

Diane Massam - 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}}

Lisa Travis - 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}}

Timeline

  • AFLA Conference I (1994): Held at the University of Toronto, with attendees being students and faculty.
  • AFLA Conference II (1995): Held at McGill University
  • AFLA Conference III (1996): Held at the University of California at Los Angeles
  • AFLA Conference IV (1997): Held at the University of California at Los Angeles
  • AFLA Conference V (1998): Held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
  • AFLA Conference VI (1999): Held at the University of Toronto
  • AFLA Conference VII (2000): Held at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • AFLA Conference VIII (2001): Held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • AFLA Conference IX (2002): Held at Cornell University
  • AFLA Conference X (2003): Held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
  • AFLA Conference XI (2004): Held at Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung
  • AFLA Conference XII (2005): Held at the University of California at Los Angeles
  • AFLA Conference XIII (2006): Held at the National Tsing Hua University and Academia Sinica
  • AFLA Conference XIV (2007): Held at McGill University
  • AFLA Conference XV (2008): Held at the University of Sydney
  • AFLA Conference XVI (2009): Held at the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • AFLA Conference XVII (2010): Held at Stony Brook University, New York
  • AFLA Conference XVIII (2011): Held at Harvard University
  • AFLA Conference XIX (2012): Held at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica & Linguistic Society of Taiwan
  • AFLA Conference XX (2013): Held at the University of Texas at Arlington
  • AFLA Conference XXI (2014): Held at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica & Linguistic Society of Taiwan
  • AFLA Conference XXII (2015): Held at McGill University
  • AFLA Conference XXIII (2016): Held at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  • AFLA Conference XXIV (2017): Held at the University of Washington
  • AFLA Conference XXV (2018): Held at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan
  • AFLA Conference XXVI (2019): Held at the Inter-faculty Program in Linguistics, University of Western Ontario
  • AFLA Conference XXVII (2020): Held at the National University of Singapore
  • AFLA Conference XXVIII (2021): Organised by the National University of Singapore and McGill University, Montréal
  • AFLA Conference XXIX (2022): Held at the University of Manchester (as TripleAFLA, in collaboration with the TripleA workshop series)
  • AFLA Conference XXX (2023): Held at Lund University in Sweden
  • AFLA Conference XXXI (2024): Held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • AFLA Conference XXXII (2025): To be held at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

{{Cite web|title=Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association|url=http://www.uwo.ca/linguistics//research/afla/index.html|website=uwo.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}}

See also

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