11.313, Confs: Structure & Constituency/Langs of the Americas

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Subject: 11.313, Confs: Structure & Constituency/Langs of the Americas

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Date:  Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:11:53 -0500
From:  WSCLA 5 <wscla at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  Workshop-Structure & Constituency of Languages of the Americas, WSCLA 5 programme

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Date:  Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:11:53 -0500
From:  WSCLA 5 <wscla at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  Workshop-Structure & Constituency of Languages of the Americas, WSCLA 5 programme


A tentative programme has been set for the Workshop on Structure and
Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 5, to be held at the
University of Toronto March 24-26th, 2000.

For more information please visit the conference website at:

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/wscla

Or email wscla at chass.utoronto.ca


Tentative WSCLA 5 Programme

Friday March 24, 2000

8:30-9		Registration

9:10-9:30	Opening Remarks

9:30-10		Donna Gerdts and Tom Hukari:  The Halkomelem Double Antipassive
:Towards a word-based view of argument structure

10-10:30	Carrie Gillon:  Collapsing three morphemes into one:
Saanich plural reduplication

10:30-10:50	BREAK

10:50-11:20	Jan van Eijk:  Word, clitic and sentence in Lillooet

11:20-11:50	David Beck:  Conventionality and lexical classes

11:50-12:20	Deborah James, Sandra Clarke and Marguerite MacKenzie:
Paths of semantic change in a modal morpheme: The dubitative in Montagnais

12:20-2	LUNCH

2-3		Invited Speakers - Phil Branigan and Marguerite MacKenzie:
How much Syntax Can You Fit Into a Word?  The grammar of verbal agreement
in Innu-aimun.

3-3:30		Ben Bruening and Andrea Rackowski:  Configurationality and
object shift in Algonquian

3:30-3:50	BREAK

3:50-4:20	Norvin Richards:  Some notes on conjunct and independent
orders in Wampanoag

4:20-4:50	Marie-Odile Junker:  The role of the Participant Hierarchy
in determining word order in East Cree

4:50-5:20	Invited Speaker - Matthew Beach: Verb Elision and
Constituent  Structure in Inuit


Saturday March 25, 2000

8:30-9		Coffee/Breakfast

9-9:30		George Aaron Broadwell :  On the phonological
conditioning of clitic placement in Zapotec

9:30-10	Tomio Hirose :  Plains Cree is Head-initial: morphophonological
evidence

10-10:30	Carrie Dyck :  Defining the word in Cayuga (Iroquoian)

10:30-10:50	BREAK

10:50-11:20	Laura Bar-el and Linda Tamburri Watt:  Word internal
constituency in Skwxw7mesh (Squamish Salish)

11:20-12:20	Invited Speaker - Kevin Russell:  Words within Words:
Matching and mismatching domains in Cree

12:20-2	LUNCH

2-3		Invited Speaker - Karin Michelson: The lexical status of
utterance-final forms in Oneida

3-3:30		Nicole Rosen:  Is a word in French a word in Michif?

3:30-4		Sonya Bird :  What is a word? Evidence from a
computational approach to Navajo verbal morphology

4-4:20		BREAK

4:20-4:50	Grazyna Rowicka : Silent heads and audible dependents:
Phonotactic relations in Mohawk and Upper Chehalis

4:50-5:30	Invited Speaker - Susan Blake:  TBA

Saturday Evening: Dinner Party


Sunday March 26, 2000

10-1

Roundtable:  Language and Education

Invited speaker: John O'Meara  Incorporating linguistic
knowledge into the teaching of indigenous languages







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