UT-Austin - Symposium on Endangered Languages of Amazonia

[Nilson Gabas Junior]

Symposium on Endangered Languages of Amazonia

University of Texas, Austin     16-17 February 2007

Schedule of the Symposium

Friday, February 16, 2007 (UTC 1.102)

9:00-10:15 	Keynote: Nilson Gabas Jr. (Museu Paraense Emílio 
Goeldi, 
	Belém, Brazil) 'Ideophones and evidentials in Karo (Tupi)'
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:15	Lev Michael: `Mood and Negation in Nanti (Kampa, 
	Arawak)'     
11:15-12:00	I-Wen Lai: 'Conditionals and Counterfactuality in 
Iquito'
12-2:00	Lunch Break                 
2:00-3:15	Keynote: Mily Crevels (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 
The 
	Netherlands) 'How a language without nominal number 
	expresses plurality: The case of Itonama (isolate, Bolivia)'
3:15-3:30	Break           
3:30-4:15	Taryne Hallett: `A paradigm of event modality: The 
Iquito 
continuum'
4:15-5:00	Pattie Epps 'Verb compounding and 
antigrammaticalization in 
Hup (Nadahup, Brazil)'

Saturday, February 17, 2007 (MEZ 1.120)

9:00-9:45	Chris Beier: `Putting the hunt into words: Formal 
features of 
		Nanti hunting stories in Montetoni (Southeastern 
Peruvian 			Amazonia)
9:45-10:30	Cynthia Anderson: `Hands, fingers, feet, and toes?  
Oh, brother.  
		The numeral system in Iquito'
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:30	Brianna Rauschuber: `Tonal Accent in Iquito'
11:30-12:45	Keynote: Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) (with 
Flávia 
		Castro Alves) 'Nominative-Absolutive alignment in 
Cariban 
		and Jê Description and reconstruction'


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