Announcement: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

[Fiona Whalen]

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            WORKSHOP ON AMERICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
                        Santa Barbara, CA
                         May 14-16, 1999
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The linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its second annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
(WAIL), a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive
linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas.

               ** Invited Speaker: Sara Trechter **

   * Roundtable Discussion led by Wallace Chafe and Marianne Mithun
   * Presentation by the UCSB American Indian Student Association
   * Reception and dinner

Registration: $20 (see form at end of message)

For further information check out our web site at:
        http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/wail.html

or contact conference coordinator at:
        wail at humanitas.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776
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                     PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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Friday

Session 1
Matthew Gordon                          Intonational properties of
                                        Chickasaw

Eugene Buckley                          On the naturalness of unnatural
                                        rules

Graham Horwood                          Anti-faithfulness and Subtractive
                                        Morphology

Session 2
Loretta O'Connor                        Classificatory verbs of transfer
                                        in Lowland Chontal

James Copeland                          Marking of Semantic Roles and
                                        Grammatical Relations in Tarahumara

Robert Cromack                          Simple Forms and Multiple
                                        Functions in Cashinawa Narrative

UCSB American Indian Students Association


Saturday

Session 3
William Weigel                          Referential Tracking in Yokuts
                                        Languages

Anna Berge                              Preliminary Studies of the
                                        Distribution of Aamma in West
                                        Greenlandic

Timothy  Thornes                        Demonstratives in Northern Paiute

Session 4
                        Keynote Address
                         Sara Trechter

Session 5
Pilar Maritza Valenzuela                Transitivity, Case-Marking, and
                                        Switch-Reference in Shipibo-Konibo

Nancy Mattina                           Toward a history of the
                                        inflectional future in
                                        Colville-Okanagan Salish

Session 6
Rosa Yanez Rosales                      Language Replacement in a Nahuatl
                                        Speaking Community: Testimonies of
                                        the Speakers and Their Children

Fred Field                              A quantitative look at borrowing
                                        patterns in Malinche Mexicano

John Nichols                            Incorporative and Hyperbolic
                                        Variation in Severn Ojibwe

Session 7
Roundtable Discussion

Party


Sunday

Session 8
Randy Rightmire                         Native vs. borrowed grammar:
                                        Relative clauses in Santa Maria
                                        Chimalapa Zoque

Jeff Rasch                              The grammaticization and
                                        lexicalization of Yaitepec Chatino
                                        '7o'

Sergio Meira de Santa Cruz Oliveira     Nominalizations in Tiriyo


Session 9
Ellen Courtney                          Child Acquisition of the Quechua
                                        Affirmative Suffix

Connie Dickinson                        Mirativity, Evidentiality and
                                        Semantic Verb Classes in Tsafiki
                                        (Colorado)

Session 10
Rosemary G Beam de Azcona               Ablaut in Coatlan-Loxicha Zapotec,
                                        a diachronic explanation

Darin Howe and Patricia Shaw            Prosodic Faithfulness: Vowel
                                        Syncope and Reduction as Output-Output
                                        Correspondence

Suzanne Wash                            Immitative Sound Symbolism in
                                        Miwok Languages

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Registration for the conference is $20 per person.
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Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Department of Linguistics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106