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Date: 11-Nov-2009
From: Michael Barrie < mbarrie at uottawa.ca >
Subject: 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:53
From: Michael Barrie [mbarrie at uottawa.ca]
Subject: 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
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15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
Short Title: WSCLA 15
Date: 05-Feb-2010 - 07-Feb-2010
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Contact: Eric Mathieu
Contact Email: wscla15 at uottawa.ca
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax
Meeting Description:
15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the
Americas WSCLA 15
The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
WSCLA 15 will take place at the University of Ottawa on February 5-7, 2010.
The following invited speakers have been confirmed:
Henning Garvin
Helena Joanne Keeshig
Bethany Lochbihler
Leslie Saxon
Martina Wiltschko
Alan Yu
There are two special themed sessions: (1) Issues in Phonology in Languages of the Americas, and (2) New Issues in Noun Incorporation. In addition there will be a round table discussion with invited speakers entitled Building Partnerships between Communities and Universities.
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~wscla15.
15ème Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas WSCLA 15
Le Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) est une conférence annuelle en linguistique, fondée en 1995. L'objectif central de WSCLA est de rassembler les linguistes qui se livrent à l'étude formelle des langues autochtones parlées sur le continent américain avec le but d'échanger des idées toutes théories confondues en visant toutes familles de langues et générations de chercheurs ainsi que les communautés universitaires et non-universitaires qui sont engagées dans la revitalisation des langues.
WSCLA 15 aura lieu à l'Université d'Ottawa du 5 au 7 février, 2010.
Les conférenciers invités suivants ont été confirmés:
Henning Garvin
Helena Joanne Keeshig
Bethany Lochbihler
Leslie Saxon
Martina Wiltschko
Alan Yu
Il y aura deux sessions thématiques spéciaux: (1) Problèmes en phonologie dans les langues d'Amérique, et (2) Nouvelles questions sur l'incorporation nominale. Une table ronde, avec conférenciers invités, aura lieu pendant l'atelier intitulé 'Création d'alliances entre les communautés et les universités'.
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~wscla15/indexfr.htm
Feb 5
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome
9:10 - 9:55
Invited Speaker: Leslie Saxon (University of Victoria), TBA
Regular Session:
9:55 - 10:20
Suzi Lima (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), ''There is No Count-mass Distinction in Yudja''
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:05
Emerson Loustau (University of Massachusetts), ''Agents, i-level Predicates, and Aspect Agreement in Mohawk''
11:05 - 11:30
Solveiga Armoskaite (University of British Columbia), ''Categorization of Blackfoot ROOTS''
11:30 - 11:55
Philip LeSourd (Indiana University), ''Does Maliseet-Passamaquoddy have VP-Ellipsis?''
11:55 - 1:25
Lunch
Phonology Session:
1:25 - 1:50
David Iannucci (University of Utah), ''Does this Prosody Make Me Look Fat? Stress, Weight and Syllabification in Chitimacha''
1:50 - 2:15
Analía Gutiérrez (University of British Columbia), ''Metathesis in Nivaclé''
2:15 - 2:40
Carrie Dyck (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Marie-Odile Junker and Kelly Logan (Carleton University), ''Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for a Vowel Merger in Northern East Cree''
2:40 - 3:00
Coffee break
3:00 - 3:25
Bronwyn Bjorkman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), ''The Morphological Basis of Default-to-opposite Stress in Nez Perce''
3:25 - 3:50
Heather Bliss and Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (University of British Columbia), ''Pharyngeal Movement in Douglas Lake Okanagan (Nsyílxcen)''
3:50 - 4:15
Meagan Louie (University of British Columbia), ''Variations on Vowel Voicelessness in Northern Paiute''
4:15 - 4:35
Coffee break
4:35 - 5:20
Invited Speaker: Alan Yu (University of Chicago), TBA
5:20 - 5:45
Jeff Muehlbauer and Nicole Rosen (University of Lethbridge), ''Mapping Vowel Spaces Across Cree and Michif''
Feb 6
9:00 - 9:45
Invited Speaker: Bethany Lochbihler, (McGill University), TBA
Regular Session:
9:45 - 10:10
Tanya Slavin (University of Toronto), ''The Left Edge Requirement as a Structural Constraint in Algonquian''
10:10 - 10:30
Coffee break
Noun Incorporation Session:
10:30 - 10:55
Alice Lemieux (University of Chicago), ''Small but Significant - Body Part Incorporation in Washo''
10:55 - 11:20
Richard Compton and Christine Pittman (University of Toronto), ''Pi- as a Syntactic Pro-form in Inuktitut Noun-incorporation and Beyond''
11:20 - 11:45
Javier Carol (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Andrés Pablo Salanova (Université d'Ottawa), ''On Pseudo Applicatives''
11:45 - 12:10
Michael Barrie and Éric Mathieu (University of Ottawa), ''Noun Incorporation as Nominal Restructuring''
12:10 - 1:40
Lunch
1:40 - 2:25
Invited Speaker: Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia), TBA
Regular Session:
2:25 - 2:50
Jason D. Haugen (Oberlin College), ''Linguistic Typology and Language Family-Internal Typicality--Examples and Problems from Uto-Aztecan''
2:50 - 3:10
Coffee break
3:10 - 3:35
Ann Michelle Foster (UCLA), ''A Corpus Study of Switch-Reference Markers in Chickasaw''
3:35 - 4:00
Michael Hamilton, Marie-Odile Junker (Carleton University) and Marguerite MacKenzie (Memorial University), ''Is there 'Pragmatic Skewing' in East Cree?''
4:00 - 4:25
Will Oxford (University of Toronto), ''A Question of Tense: Verb Morphology on Innu-aimun wh-words''
7:00 onward
Conference Dinner - Sweetgrass Aboriginal Bistro
Feb 7
9:00 - 9:15
Opening
9:15 - 12:30
Roundtable: Building Partnerships between Communities and Universities
-Henning Garvin
-Helena Joanne Keeshig
12:30 - 12:45
Business meeting
1:30 - 3:30
Excursion, to be determined
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