SACLC24 -- program

[Catherine Rudin/HU/AC/WSC]

One of these years we need to agree on an acronym!

Here is the complete program of the recent Siouan and Caddoan Languages
Conference in Wayne, Nebraska, slightly revised to reflect what actually
happened rather than what was planned.

               24th SIOUAN AND CADDOAN LANGUAGES CONFERENCE
                              June 11-13, 2004
                              Wayne, Nebraska
 hosted by Wayne State College Language and Literature Department / School
                          of Arts and Humanities

Friday, June 11  morning
Thaddeus C. Grimm  (Wichita, KS)
      "The Glottal Stop in Siouan Languages -- A Review"

John Koontz  (Boulder, CO)
      "Reconstructing Some Mississippi Valley Kinterms"

Corey Telfer  (University of Calgary)
      "The History of Lakhota a-final Roots"

(Mary Marino  (University of Saskatchewan)
      "The French-Assiniboine Lexique of Fr Valentin Vegreville, OMI"
 *Mary was unfortunately unable to present her paper, but did give informal
versions of it at various meals and coffee breaks.)

Friday, June 11  afternoon
Carolyn Quintero  (University of Oklahoma)
      Mini-presentation:  "Guns"

Carolyn Quintero  (University of Oklahoma)
      "Osage Dictionary"

Alice Saunsoci  (Nebraska Indian Community College)
      "NICC Omaha Language Class Materials and Development"

Mark Awakuni-Swetland  (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
      "I am Looking for the Middle Ground / Tónde indónbe khe ubthíxide"

ROUNDTABLE:  Issues in the teaching of Siouan languages.  Discussion
anchored by:
      Mark Awakuni-Swetland  (University of Nebraska)
      Kathleen Shea  (University of Kansas)
            Cooperative development of the Ponca Alphabet
      Andy Thundercloud  (Hochunk Renaissance Program)
            An impromptu presentation on the Hochunk language teaching
program in              Winnebago, Nebraska
A high point of the discussion was the singing of "Head, Shoulders, Knees,
and Toes" in Assiniboine (by Linda Cumberland) and Hochunk (by Caroline
Frenchman)

Saturday, June 12  morning
Jurgita Saltanaviciute  (University of Oklahoma)
      "Revitalization of the Lakota Language:  Women, Health, and
Intergenerational       Transmission"

Rory Larson  (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
      "Acculturation Terms in Omaha: Forms of Derivation"

Linda Cumberland  (Indiana University)
      "Specificity and Definiteness in Assiniboine"

Regina Pustet  (University of Colorado/University of Munich)
      "Aspect Marking in Lakota"

Bruce Ingham  (SOAS London)
      "Nature and Use of the Independent Personal Pronouns in Lakota"

Saturday, June 12  afternoon

Robert Rankin  (University of  Kansas)
      "Active/Stative Case Alignment in Ohio Valley Siouan"

David Rood  (University of Colorado)
      "Wichita Word Formation"

John Boyle  (University of Chicago)
      "A Comparative look at aru-/ala- and aku-/ak- in Missouri Valley
Siouan"

ROUNDTABLE:  Clause Structure in Siouan.   Discussion anchored by:
      Catherine Rudin  (Wayne State College)
            Summary of clause-structure issues and possible types of
evidence available
      John Boyle  (University of Chicago)
            Hidatsa data bearing on the issues of movement and
subordination

***Two scheduled participants were unable to attend the conference:
      Vida Stabler (Umonhon Nation School)
            Education roundtable participant
      Randolph Graczyk  (St Charles Mission, Montana)
            "Topics in Crow Morphology:  Reduplication and Possessive
Reflexive"

***Participants who attended without giving papers or presentations
included Jan Ullrich, Renee New Holy, Caroline Frenchman, and several Wayne
State College faculty members.