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The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is a
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that hosts forums for collaborative research on Austronesian languages. Founded in 1994 at the
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, AFLA is now administered from the
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. Conferences are held annually at a multitude of institutes across the globe, including
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(AFLA 2016),
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(AFLA 2000), and
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(AFLA 2018) located in Taipei, Taiwan. The most recent 2019 conference was held in its home administration at the University of Western Ontario. Due to the
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, the AFLA 2020 conference was postponed and tentatively rescheduled for August 20 at the
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.


Founders

Anna Maclachlan - author of "Optimality and three western Austronesian case systems" and 13 other research papers on Austronesian language
Diane Massam Diane Massam is a Canadian linguist. She earned her PhD in linguistics under Noam Chomsky in 1985 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She held a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto from 1989 until he ...
- professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto where she is involved in many research efforts Richard McGinn - accomplished linguist who taught a numerous universities including Ohio University. McGinn died at the age of 78 Barry Miller - attended York University in Toronto an co-founded AFLA with Massam
Lisa Travis Lisa deMena Travis is a researcher and educator in the field of linguistics, specializing in syntax and in the study of Austronesian languages such as Malagasy and Tagalog. She is currently a professor of linguistics at McGill University. Her 1 ...
- currently a professor of Linguistics at McGill University


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): To be held at the University of Manchester (as TripleAFLA, in collaboration with the TripleA workshop series)


See also

* List of major and official Austronesian languages


Notes and references


External links


Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
€”official website *LingAlert: AFLA {{authority control Austronesian languages Learned societies of Canada 1994 establishments in Ontario Linguistic societies