| The19thInternationalConferenceonHistoricalLinguistics(ICHLXIX)washeldattheRadboudUniversity,NijmegenfromAugust9-14,9009,withover200participantspresentingpapersfromawiderangeoflanguagefamilies,includingIndo-European,Afro-Asiatic,Sino-Tibetan,Australian,andAustonesian.ThisconferenceisorganizedeverysecondyearbytheInternationalSocietyofHistoricalLinguists,towhichlinguistswhodoresearchonthehistoricaldevelopmentoflanguagesandtheirhistoricalreconstructionbelong.Mypresentationwasentitled.ReconstructingaDualPronountoProto-Malayo-Polynesian.,theparentofalltheAustronesianlanguagesoutsideofTaiwan,andprovidedasolutiontoalong-standingissueinthedescriptionofWesternMalayo-Polynesianlanguagesregardingtheoriginofaubiquitousfirstpersondualinclusivepronoun,foundinPhilippineandNorthernSulawesilanguages. |