13.382, Confs: Languages of the Americas, Edmonton, Canada
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:41:22 -0700
From: David Beck <dbeck at ualberta.ca>
Subject: WSCLA7 Programme
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:41:22 -0700
From: David Beck <dbeck at ualberta.ca>
Subject: WSCLA7 Programme
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
David Beck
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Alberta
4-45 Assiniboia Hall
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7
office: (780) 492-0807
FAX: (780) 492-0806
e-mail: dbeck at ualberta.ca
homepage: http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbeck
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