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PROGRAMME Click here for the programme in PDF format.  Day 1: 21 May 2008 Time Program 8.00 – 8.45am Registration at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities 8.45 – 9.30am Opening Ceremony by Keynote speaker 9.30 – 10.00am Tea / Coffee break 10.00 – 11.30am Parallel Session 1 Place Paper Presenter Room A Wh-Questions In Malay Caregiver-Child Interactions Rogayah A Razak, Yong Ennie & Zaharah Abu Bakar The Syntactic Development Of Classifier Phrases In Young Vietnamese Children Jennie Tan Relativization In Austronesian Masayoshi Shibatani Room B Polyfunctionality Of The SßŊ Grammatical Word In Thai Natchanan Yaowapat Reduplication In Thai: Form And Function Vanjuree@ Ramlah Abd Manaf Monadic Verbs In Isamal Language   Rodney C. Jubilado Room C How Possessive Is An Enclitic ‘-Nya’ In Malay? Fazal Mohamed Vietnamese Passive Sentences From A Typological Perspective Nguyen Hong Con On Cognate Objects And Cognate Subjects In East Asian Languages Marc Duval 11.30am – 1.30pm Parallel Session 2 Room A The Quotative Complementizer In Lao And Thai Amara Prasithrathsint Prepositions In Thai: A Reanalysis  Kitima Indrambarya Interference Of Thai Reduplication To Quantitative Intensifier In Vietnamese Spoken In Udon Thani Province, Thailand Songgot  Paanchiangwong Room B Two Complementizers? Analysis Of Amis U And A Yi-Ting Chen The Information Structure Of Nominal Phrases And DP-Internal Phrasal Movement In Buginese Yi-An Lin Noun-Modifying Constructions In Tagalog Naonori Nagaya Room C Split Quantified Phrases In Thai Nominals Pornsiri Singhapreecha And Rint Sybesma A Diachronic Study Of /Yuù/ In Thai Mingmit Sriprasit Deixis And Information Structure In Mon Jenny Mathias 1.30pm – 2.15pm Lunch Break 2.15pm – 3.45pm Parallel Session 3 Room A Basic Serial Verb Constructions In Thai Kiyoko Takahashi Event Coercion With The Completive Particle Lei In Makuri Naga Event Coercion With The Completive Particle Lei In Makuri Naga Larin Adams And Vongtsuh Shi Grammaticalization Of The Verb Of Taking Into Pragmatic Markers In Thai Jirat Hiranras Room B On Benefactive In Thai And Vietnamese: The Verb Of Giving Suthatip Mueanjai The Honorific System Reflected By First-Person Pronouns, Second-Person Pronouns And Responding Particles In Thai Royal Vocabularies Suwadee Nasawat The Pragmatics Of Malay Numeral Classifiers: An Investigation Of Modern Malay Corpuses Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel, & Marlyna Maros Room C The Structure Of The 4th Sentence In Malay Hasmidar Hassan It Was Done Or It Has Been Done? : What Corpus Tells Us About Perfective Aspect  And Perfect In Thai Kachen Tansiri   The Semantic Of   Prefix Pen- In Malay:  A Bridging Cross Reference Analysis Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin & Ahmad Harith Syah 3.45pm – 5.15pm Parallel Session 4 Room A Semantic Motivation For The Malay Prefix Ber- Imran Ho-Abdullah A Comparative Study Of Color Terms Among Fujian Speakers In Singapore, Taiwan, Penang And Southern Thailand Supamas Engchuan Progressive Aspect, The Verbal Prefix-Men And Stative Sentences In Malay Hooi Ling Soh And Hiroki Nomoto Room B Subjectification Of The Verb /HěN/ ‘SEE’ In Thai Parinya Wongtawan Eventivity And Stativity In Thai Predicate Natsuki Matsui Common Persian And Arabic Loanwords In Malay: A Trilingual Comparison Sepideh Chitsaz Room C Bahasa Melayu Men… - … Kan Affix: A Morphosemantics Analysis Norsimah Mat Awal &Harishon Radzi Semantic Extension Of The Verbs Of Tactile Sensation In Thai And Zhuang James N. Chancharu The Verb Of Acquiring In Vietnamese: A Corpus-Based Cognitive Semantic Study Soraj Ruangmanee 5.15pm – 5.45pm Tea / Coffee Break (Buses to commuter station and to the Equatorial Hotel will be ready at the foyer) Day 2: 22 May 2008 9.00am – 10.30am Parallel Session 1 Room A A Componential Analysis Of Cooking Terms In The Northern Thai Dialect Of Lamphun Kosin Panyaatisin   An Ethnosemantic Study Of Ghost Terms In Thai Manasikarn Hengsuwan & Amara Prasithrathsint     A Comparison Of The Subcategorization Of The ‘Put On’ Verbs In Thai And Japanese Anongnard Nusartlert Room B Phonology-Morphology Interface In Malay Zaharani Ahmad   Homorganic Point Of Articulation In Modern Khmer Songs Naraset Pisitpanporn   Representing Complex Oral-Nasal Segments In The Kualan Language Of Borneo Uri Tadmor Room C Acoustic Features Of Obstruent Voicing Contrasts In Burmese Brian Butler Nasal Preplosion And Word-Final Glottal Stops In Temuan: A Non-Linear Analysis Looi Siew Teip ‘Sound[S|Ed] Like …?’ Approximate Phonetic Search In The Mon-Khmer Languages Project Doug Cooper 10.30am – 11.00am Tea / Coffee Break 11.00am – 12.30pm Parallel Session 2 Room A Adaptation Of French Loanwords In Vietnamese Giang Nguyen   Identification Of Vietnamese Final Stops: A Preliminary Investigation Of The Effect Of Speakers’ Dialects Kimiko Tsukada & Thu T. A. Nguyễn   Contact-Induced Tonal Development?  A Comparison Of Register In Three Cham Dialects Marc Brunelle Room B An Acoustic Study Of The Tone System Of Penang Hokkien  – A Contact Variety Of Southern Min Sarah Lee   Excrescent Vowels In Minangkabau David Gil   Macnabb’s Lai Orthography George Bedell Room C Politics is Thai Boxing: The Concept Of Politics As Reflected In Metaphorical Expressions Used By Thai Politicians Ratchaneeya Klinnamhom Harmonious Vowels In Reduplications As The Representation Of The Javanese Speakers’ Lifestyle Djatmika A Cross-Linguistic Dimension Of Pragmatic Particles Faizah Sari 12.30pm – 2.00pm Lunch Break 2.00pm – 3.30m Parallel Session 3 Room A Different Style, Different Accent? Rosniah Mustaffa, Jamilah Mustafa, Idris Aman, Zaharani Ahmad, & Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar   Comparison Of The Variation Of Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) As Used By The Babas And Chitties Of Melaka Jamilah Mustafa, Zaharani Ahmad, Idris Aman, Rosniah Mustaffa, & Mohd Fadzeli Jaafar   The Sentence Repetition Test As A Tool To Measure Community-Wide Bilingualism In Standard Indonesian Hermanto Lim Room B Variation In The Systems Of Kinship Terms Used By Teochui Speakers Of Different Age Groups In Wat Hualampong Community In Bangkok Sasitorn Nawalertpreecha Code-Switching As A Means Of Staking The Claims Of Identities: A Case Study Of The Media In The Viet Diaspora Bao Duy Thai Reading Recent Indonesian Non-Conventional Expressions Yazid Basthomi Room C A Contrastive Analysis Between Thai And Myanmar Discourse Markers Monthira Tamuang   The Use Of Composition In Malay Language Newspapers’ Front Pages Kumaran Rajandran   Proto-Southwestern Tai: A New Reconstruction Pittayawat Pittayaporn 3.30pm – 5.00pm Parallel Session 4 Room A Is Mon-Khmer Dead? Long Live Austronesiatic Paul Sidwell   Proto-Aslian Diphthongs And Historical Parallels In Other Austroasiatic Languages. Gerard Diffloth   Nominalization, Relativization And Genitivization In Selected Palaungic Languages Paulette Hopple Room B Kri, A Vietic Language Of Laos N. J. Enfield And Gerard Diffloth   Semantics And Sensory Encoding In Semai Expressives Sylvia Tufvesson       Room C Lexical-Semantic System of The Visually Impaired And The Auditory Impaired Wichat Booranaprasertsook   Village Names In Chiang Saen: A Linguistic-Dominated Multidisciplinary View On The Study Of Village Names Sorabud Rungrojsuwan and Rungwimol Rungrojsuwan   The Effect of Alcohol on Reading Ability Azhar Jaludin   *Please be informed that bus will be ready to pick up participants/presenters at UKM commuter station at 0730. Please look out for placard “SEALS CONFERENCE”. You are advice to disembark at UKM station. Caution: DON’T MISS THE STATION. *There will be a bus to pick up participants/presenters at Equatorial Hotel at 0730.