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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>Announcing the Conference on Oto-Manguean and Oaxacan
Languages (COOL)<BR><BR>COOL 2004 will take place March 19-21 at UC Berkeley in
the Murray B. Emeneau conference room (370 Dwinelle Hall). Please see
registration and lodging information below following the program or on the COOL
website at: <A href="http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rosemary/cool.htm"
eudora="autourl"><FONT
color=#0000ff><U>http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rosemary/cool.htm</A><BR><BR></FONT></U>The
COOL program is as follows:<BR><BR><B>Friday, March 19</B> <BR>Noon
<B>Registration & snacks</B> <BR>1-1:50 <B>Zapotec Syntax</B> <BR>Michael
Galant, UCLA: Nature of the Standard of Comparison in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec
Comparatives <BR>John Foreman, UCLA & Cal State LA: Experiencer Subjects in
Macuiltianguis Zapotec <BR>2-2:50 <B>Invited talk by George Aaron Broadwell</B>,
SUNY Albany: Zapotec pronouns -- full, reduced, clitic, or null. <BR>3-3:50
<B>Inflection</B> <BR>Rosa María Rojas Torres, INAH: El Aspecto Completivo y las
Clases Verbales en el Zapoteco de Santa Ana del Valle <BR>Cheryl A. Black, SIL
International and University of North Dakota: An Autosegmental Analysis of
Tlapanec Noun Inflection <BR>4-4:50 <B>Invited talk by Enrique L. Palancar</B>,
UAQ: Minimizing morphology, maximazing function: nasal morphemes in Otomí
<BR>5-6:15 <B>Case</B> <BR>Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, UCLA: Is Valley Zapotec
lohoh a Dative Marker? <BR>Soren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology & the University of Copenhagen: Tlapanec cases <BR>Maurizio
Gnerre, University of Rome: Some cases in Huave <BR>6:30 <B>Dinner</B>
<BR><BR><B>Saturday, March 20 <BR></B>9-9:50 <B>Invited talk by Pamela
Munro</B>, UCLA: Teaching Grammar(s): Balancing Acts for Linguists (The Case of
<I>Cali Chiu?</I>) <BR>10-11:15 <B>Language and Society</B> <BR>Rosemary Beam de
Azcona, UC Berkeley: The top ten reasons why you should study an endangered
Otomanguean language (with examples from Southern Zapotec). <BR>Olivia V.
Martínez, UCLA: Two Orthographies One San Juan Guelavía Zapotec Dictionary.
<BR>Daniel Barragán Trejo, Universidad de Guadalajara: Una lengua, dos
ecologías: el mi'phaa en La Montaña y La Perla. <BR>Martha Muntzel, INAH:
Ocuiltec Toponyms, a community revitalization project. <BR>11:25-12:15
<B>Invited talk by Alejandro de Ávila</B>, Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca: The
classification of life in the Otomanguean family and the non-OM languages of
Oaxaca. <BR>12:15 <B>Lunch</B> <BR>1:30-2:20 <B>Discourse & Narrative</B>
<BR>Victor M. Franco Pellotier & Modesta Cruz Hernández, CIESAS-México,
D.F.: Oralidad y ritual matrimonial entre los amuzgos de Oaxaca. <BR>Edgar
Martín del Campo, SUNY Albany: An Ethnopoetic Approach to a Copala Triqui
Folklore Narrative. <BR>2:30-3:20 <B>Invited talk by Eugene Hunn</B>, University
of Washington, Seattle: Mixtepec Zapotec Biological Vocabulary <BR>3:30-5:10
<B>Phonetics & Phonology</B> <BR>Cindy Williams, SIL: An analysis of Amuzgo
nominal tone. <BR>Mary Paster and Rosemary Beam de Azcona, UC Berkeley: Aspects
of tone in the Yucunany dialect of Mixtepec Mixtec. <BR>Heriberto Avelino, UCLA:
Gender and Individual Differences in Voice Quality. Evidence from Yalálag
Zapotec. <BR>Scott Berthiaume, SIL-Mexico: An OT Account of Prestopped Nasals in
Xi’iùy. <BR>5:20-6:10 <B>Invited talk by Thomas Smith-Stark</B>, El Colegio de
México: Ethnobiological vocabulary in San Baltazar Chichicapan Zapotec <BR>6:30
<B>Dinner</B> <BR><BR><B>Sunday, March 21</B> <BR>9:00-9:50 <B>Invited talk by
Terrence Kaufman</B>, University of Pittsburg: Reconstructing Oto-Manguean
Morphosyntax <BR>10:00-11:40 <B>Historical Linguistics</B> <BR>Michael Swanton,
Universiteit Leiden: Philology and the Historical Dialectology of Chochon.
<BR>Natalie Operstein, UCLA: Spanish loan-words and the historical phonology of
Zaniza Zapotec. <BR>Aaron Huey Sonnenschein, USC: The evolution of the phonemic
inventory from Proto-Zapotec to present-day Zoogocho Zapotec.
<BR><BR><B>Registration</B>: We recommend that you pre-register as this will
help us to accurately estimate attendance for our caterers etc. More than one
meal will be provided with the proceeds from your registration fees which are
the following: <BR>Early registration $35<BR>On-site registration $45<BR>To
pre-register please send a check or money order made payable to "UC Regents" to:
<BR>COOL Registration<BR>c/o Paula Floro<BR>Linguistics Dept.<BR>1209 Dwinelle
Hall<BR>UC Berkeley<BR>Berkeley, CA 94720<BR><B>Lodging</B>: COOL participants
will be given a discount at: <BR><FONT color=#0000ff><U>Hotel Shattuck
Plaza<BR></FONT></U>2086 Allston Way<BR>Berkeley, CA 94704<BR>(510)
845-7300<BR>The discounted rate will be: <BR>1 person $70<BR>2 people
$80<BR>Plus 12% room tax and $10 for each additional person <BR>This rate is
guaranteed for those who make reservations by February 18th and is subject to
availability following that date. <BR>Please call for reservations as the
website is not set up to recognize discounts. Mention the block code "COOL" when
making a reservation in order to receive the discount. <BR><BR>COOL is sponsored
by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Graduate Assemby, Center for Latin
American Studies, and the departments of Linguistics, Anthropology and Ethnic
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