[lg policy] calls: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Sun Apr 25 16:49:02 UTC 2010

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Short Title: WAIL 2010

Date: 30-Apr-2010 - 01-May-2010
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Contact: Stephanie Morse
Contact Email: wail.ucsbgmail.com
Meeting URL: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/

Meeting Description:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Santa Barbara, CA
April 30th-May 1st, 2010

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL),
which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and
practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.

Friday, April 30th
Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building

Registration
8:00 - 5:00

Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00

9:00
Welcome and opening remarks

Session I:
9:15-11:15

How We Will Write Our Grammar: Ixil Maya Speakers Decide What their Book is
About, Melissa Axelrod, Jule Gomez de Garcia, Maria Luz Garcia and Michael
Hughes (University of New Mexico, California State University - San Marcos,
University of Texas at Austin)

The Making of a Q'anjob'al-Spanish-English Click-and-hear Dictionary, Allison
Bitter, Nicolas Cristobal Aparicio (California State University - San Marcos)

A Morphological Parser for Blackfoot, Joel Dunham (University of
British Columbia)

Building an Intergenerational, Home-based Language Nest, Melissa Borgia & Sandy
Dowdy (Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Seneca Nation of Indians)

Break
11:15-11:30

Session II:
11:30-1:00
Evidentiality in South American Languages

Tense and Evidentiality in Two Tupí-Guaraní Languages, Östen Dahl (Stockholm
University)

Evidentiality and Involvement in the Native Languages of South America, Martine
Bruil (Leiden University)

Children's Interpretation of Quechua Validational and Evidential
Suffixes, Ellen
H. Courtnet (University of Texas at El Paso)

1:00-2:00
Lunch
Frybread lunch provided by the Santa Barbara chapter of the American
Indian Movement

Keynote Talk - Sally Rice
2:00-3:00
''Turning Evidence: Field Linguistics in the 21st Century.''

Break
3:00-3:15

Session III: Semantics
3:15-4:45

Categorical Restrictions of Positional Verbs in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec,
Keiko Beers (San Francisco State University)

''There's No Thermostat in the Woods'': Talking about Temperature in
Anishinaabemowin, Hunter Lockwood & Susanne Vejdemo (Eastern Michigan
University)

Critical mass in Michif, Carrie Gillon & Nicole Rosen (Arizona State
University;
University of Lethbridge)

Break
4:45-5:00

Session IV: Alignment
5:00-6:30

A Corpus Study of Switch-reference Markers in Chickasaw, Niki Foster
(University
of California, Los Angeles)

Hiaki Pronominals and the Typology of Structural Deficiency, Heidi
Harley & Alex
Trueman (University of Arizona)

An Unusual Development: the Dual Demonstrative in Eyak, Chris Donlay
(University
of California, Santa Barbara)

6:30-8:30
Native Plants Walk & Marine Touch Tank Visit

Saturday, May 1st
Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building

8:30-9:00
Registration & Breakfast

Session V: Syntax
9:00-10:30

Clause Linking Constructions in Omagua, Vivian Wauters (University of
California, Berkeley)

Complement Clause Types in Northern Tepehuan: A Continuum of Syntactic and
Semantic Complexity (Stefanie Ramos Bierge), Universidad de Sonora

The Particle VA and Biclausal Sentences in Ixil Maya, Melissa Axelrod, Jule
Gomez de Garcia, Maria Luz Garcia (University of New Mexico, California State
University - San Marcos, University of Texas at Austin)

Break
10:30-10:45

Session VI: Historical Inquiries
10:45-12:45

Diversity and Deviation: Evaluating Language Groups in the Americas, Mark
Donohue (Australian National University)

Proto-Kampan Reconstruction and the Internal Classification of the
Kampan Branch
of Arawak, Lev Michael, Robin Alcorn, Lisa Fann, Birana van Epps, Mona Zarka
(University of California, Berkeley)

Grammaticalization of Polyfunctionality in Omagua, Tammy Stark (University of
California, Berkeley)

Pre-Columbian Language Contact and Cultural History in the Southern Andes-Gran
Chaco, Mark Donohue, Lev Michael, Patience Epps, Frank Seifart (Australian
National University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Texas at
Austin; Max Planck Institute - Leipzig)

Lunch
12:45-2:00

Special Panel
2:00-3:30
Dual Footings: Native Scholars, Native Linguistics

Uso del Maya Yucateco: El Caso Concreto de Dos Jovenes, Ismael May May (Centro
Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la UNAM)

Yawenda': Rediscovering the Voice of the Huron Wendat People, Megan Lukaniec
Wendake Huron Reserve; Université Laval

Sibling Rivalry: Ideological Differentiations of Chickasaw and
Choctaw, Jenny L.
Davis (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Break
3:30-3:45

Session VII: Phonetics and Phonology
3:45-5:15

Ejectives in Nez Perce, Katherine Nelson (Rice University)

Assimilatory Processes in Chuxnabán Mixe, Carmen Jany (California State
University, San Bernardino)

The Role of Homophony Avoidance in Morphology: A Case Study from Mixtec, Mary
Paster (Pomona College)

5:30
Closing

Dinner at Mithun/Chafe Residence
6:30-9:00

Sunday, May 2nd
Special side trip to the Channel Islands

We are planning to make arrangements for a trip to the Channel Islands on the
Sunday following the conference (5/2/2010). We will be taking the 8:00 am trip
to East Santa Cruz Island, with options of returning by 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm. To
reserve a spot, please call Island Packers. For information on the tour as well
as contact information, please see their website:

http://www.islandpackers.com/isltrips.html

http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-1970.html
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