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Intro/Lead- the founding of the conference; how often it is held, etc

changed platforms.

Also include Austronesian languages and their respective regions, I think this is on the stub. Be sure to note that AFLA was founded specifically to study these languages from a formal perspective specifically, because there were other Austronesian societies in existence beforehand. Make note of the fact that all aspects of the languages are discussed at AFLA.

Maybe move the citation for the timeline to the end of the list rather than having it at the beginning.

Lead
The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is a learned society that provides forums for collaborative research of Austronesian languages. (keep the current first sentence that's on the stub as well? it's pretty good). Potentially change "provides" to "host" or a more appropriate verb.

While the AFLA was founded at the University of Toronto in 1994, conferences are now 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. The most recent 2019 conference was held in its home administration at the University of Western Ontario, and the 27th planned 2020 AFLA conference was postponed and given a tentative August 20 date due to COVID-19, and is presumed to be held at the National University of Singapore.

Countries included:


 * Taiwan
 * Island Southeast Asia
 * Micronesia
 * Coastal New Guinea
 * Island Melanesia
 * Polynesia
 * Madagascar



Founders
Anna Maclachlan- author of "Optimality and three western Austronesian case systems" 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

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- currently a professor of Linguistics at McGill University

Timeline
AFLA Conference I (1994): Held at the University of Toronto, with attendees comprised of 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): Will be held at the National University of Singapore (postponed due to COVID-19)