Conference on Noun Incorporation in Austronesian Languages, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1998

计划于1998年3月27日至29日举行南岛形式语言学协会特别会议。AFLA第五届会议的主题是“南岛语名词合并的展望”。为了充分探讨名词合并（NI）的理论意义，AFLA V将邀请以南岛语为母语的语言学家参加。受邀者包括两名来自塔那那利佛大学（马达加斯加）的参与者、一名来自梅西大学（新西兰）讲马达加斯加语的语言学家和一名来自南太平洋大学（瓦努阿图）的语言学家。选择NI作为会议的主题，是因为它是南岛语系中一个非常高产的策略，也因为NI对句法和形态理论的基本问题具有重要意义。主讲人将从几个角度阐述NI在语法中的位置（从在句法中定位NI的转换方法，到在构词法过程中定位NI的词汇学方法），以及解释其语义和形态特性所需的语言学理论的本质。

A special meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is planned for 27-29 March 1998. The theme for AFLA V will be "Perspectives on Noun Incorporation in Austronesian Languages." In order to explore the theoretical implications of noun incorporation (NI) fully, AFLA V will invite linguists who are native speakers of Austronesian languages to participate. The invitees are two participants from University of Antananarivo (Madagascar), one Malagasy-speaking linguist from Massey University (New Zealand), and one linguist from the University of the South Pacific (Vanuatu). NI has been selected as the theme for the meeting because it is a highly productive strategy in the family of Austronesian languages, and also because of the significance of NI for fundamental issues of syntactic and morphological theory. Keynote speakers will present several perspectives on where NI takes place in the grammar (from transformational approaches locating NI in the syntax, through to lexicalist approaches locating NI in processes of word formation), and hence the nature of the linguistic theory required to account for its semantic and morphological properties.