Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

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.

[2] 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.

[3] Anna Maclachlan - author of "Optimality and three western Austronesian case systems"[4] 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[5] Richard McGinn - accomplished linguist who taught a numerous universities including Ohio University.

McGinn died at the age of 78[6] Barry Miller - attended York University in Toronto an co-founded AFLA with Massam[7] Lisa Travis - currently a professor of Linguistics at McGill University[8] [9]