Conference program: Workshop on Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, Alberta, Canada, March 2002

[Scott McGinnis]

The Seventh Annual Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the
Languages of the Americas

March 22 - 24
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~linguist/WSCLA.htm

PROGRAMME

*Friday, March 22*

8:30 - 9:00

Coffee and Registration

9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Speaker:
Sarah Grey Thomason (University of Michigan)
Prominence Marking in Verbal Arguments in Salish and Algonquian

10:00 - 10:20

Coffee

10:20 - 11:50

Salon A
Lisa Conathan, UC Berkeley
Pragmatic convergence: Inverse marking in Northern California languages

Jan van Eijk, SIFC
On the Origin of the Inclusive vs. Exclusive in Shuswap

Eleanor Blain, Brandon U.  & Rose-Marie Dechaine, UBC
Evidential marking across  the Cree dialect continuum

Salon B

Sharon Hargus, Washington U
Allophonic lowering of schwa in Athabaskan stems: Evidence from
Witsuwit'en and Sekani

Cory RC Sheedy, U Calgary
Underspecification and contrast  in Tsuut'ina tonal phonology

Gary Holton, ANLC
Complex tone as an areal feature in  Eastern Alaska Athabaskan

11:50 - 1:20

**Open House and Lunch in the Linguistics Department
4-43 Assiniboia Hall, University of Alberta**

1:20 - 2:20

Invited Student Speaker:
Kiel Christianson (Michigan State University)
The age-related decrease of Inverse usage in Odawa: Externally or
internally driven?

2:20 - 2:40

Coffee

2:40 - 3:40

Salon A

Sally Rice & Valerie Wood, U Alberta
Variation in Language Decay: Some Dialectal Differences in  Dene
Sunlhine (Chipewyan)

Anthony P. Grant
Differentiation in patterns of the effects of language contact on the
Central American Atlantic Coast: Garifuna and Miskitu

Salon B

Alana Johns, U Toronto
Noun incorporation in Inuktitut  and little-v

Martina Wiltschko, UBC
Agreement morphemes as determiners. Re-analysing the polysynthetic
properties of Mohawk

3:40 - 4:00

Coffee

4:00 - 5:30

Salon A

Sybille De Pury, CELIA
The Arawak morphology of Garifuna (Black Carib) loanwords

Thomas Sch=F6neborn, U Konstanz
Differences between adjectival forms  in Eskimo dialects

David Golumbia
Some origins and consequences of linguistic complexity in the Americas

Salon B

Elena Benedicto, Purdue
Verbal classifier systems: The exceptional case of Mayangna auxiliaries

Florence Woo, UCSC
Clause-initial quantifiers in Nuu-chah-nulth: Topical predicates or
raised modifiers?

Donna Gerdts, SFU &  Thomas Hukari, UVic
The morphosyntax of Halkomelem de-nominal verbs

5:30 - 6:00

Coffee

5:10 - 6:10

Plenary Speaker:
Cecil Brown (Northern Illinois University)
How Mesoamerica Became a Linguistic Area


*Saturday, March 23*

8:30 - 9:00

Coffee and Registration

9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Speaker:
Leslie Saxon (University of Victoria) Athapaskan
Clause Structure and the Positions of Subjects and Objects

10:00 - 10:20

Coffee

10:20 - 11:50

Salon A

J. William Lewis, UVic
The development of Sahaptin segments in contact with Chinookan and
Salishan

Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, U Chicago
Relational prefixes and the 'Macro-Je hypothesis'

Heriberto Avelino, UCLA
Diversity and Unit of Languages in the Border of Linguistic Areas:
Evidence from Pamean Number Systems

Salon B

Suzanne Gessner, UBC
Variation in Dakelh Causative Formation

Andrea Wilhelm, U Calgary
Situation Type and Viewpoint Aspect in Dene Sunlhine (Chipewyan)

P.J. Moore, UBC
Influence of Non-Athabaskan Languages on  Personal Names,
Kinship Terms, and Directionals in Athabaskan Languages

11:50 - 1:20

Lunch

1:20 - 2:20

Plenary Speaker:
Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego)
Unity and Diversity in Possessive Constructions

2:20 - 2:40

Coffee

2:40 - 3:40

Salon A

Sahyang Kim, UCLA
The extension of Pima reflexive morphemes

Mercedes Q. Hinkson, NWIC
Salish lexical suffixes: Four principles  of semantic extension

Salon B

Robert Kirchner &  Eleni Varelas, U Alberta
A cue-based approach to the phonotactics  of Upper Necaxa Totonac

Pat Shaw, UBC On the edge: Obstruent clusters in Salish

3:40 - 4:00

Coffee

4:00 - 5:30

Salon A

Jochen Trommer, U Osnabrueck
Menomini direction marking as agreement

Rose-Marie-Dechaine &  Martina Wiltschko, UBC
The position of negation and its con-sequences

Salon B

Ryan Klint, U Alberta
Developing an acoustic diagnostic of  contrastive laryngealization
in Upper  Necaxa Totonac (UNT)

Eun-Sook Kim, UBC
Faithfulness and markedness in Southern  Wakashan Glottalisation

Rachel Wojdak, UBC
Variable fixed segmentism in  Nuu-Chah-Nulth reduplication

5:30 - 6:00

Coffee

6:00 - 7:00

Plenary Speaker:
Paul Kroeber (Indiana University)
Pre-verbal positions in Tillamook and its Neighbours

7:15 - 7:30

Business Meeting


*Sunday, March 24*

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee

10:00-11:00

Plenary Roundtable Speaker:
Ofelia Zepeda (University of Arizona)
The American Indian Language Development Institute

11:30 - 12:30

Roundtable Discussion on  Native Language Education

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All talks will be held in the Telus Centre for Professional
Development at the corner of 87th Ave and 111 St.

On-site registration is $25 for non-students.

The conference webpage can be accessed at:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~linguist/WSCLA.htm

The proceedings of this workshop are published by the UBC Working
Papers in Linguistics.

For further information, contact WSCLA7 at ualberta.ca