19.913, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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Date: 17-Mar-2008
From: Monique Dufresne < dufresne at queensu.ca >
Subject: 13th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas

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13th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas 
Short Title: WSCLA 13 

Date: 28-Mar-2008 - 30-Mar-2008 
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada 
Contact: Charlotte Reinholtz 
Contact Email: cr19 at queensu.ca 
Meeting URL: http://www.queensu.ca/conferences/wscla13/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

13th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas

The central objective of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages
of the Americas (WSCLA) is to bring together linguists who are engaged in
research on the formal study of indigenous languages of the Americas in order to
exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and
academic and non-academic communities which are involved in the preservation and
revitalization of these languages.

The special theme of the workshop is Syntactic-Semantic Functions in Clause
Structure. This is an area of increasing importance in theoretical linguistics
generally, and particularly in the linguistic study of indigenous languages of
the Americas. Indigenous languages in Canada and the Americas at large possess a
wide range of phenomena that give cause for careful reconsideration of current
assumptions in linguistic theory about the content of syntactic-semantic
functions in clause structure as well as the nature of the general principles
that govern how and where these functions project in clause structure. 

WSCLA 13 Preliminary Programme
Venue: Policy Studies (Union Street), Room 202

Friday March 28th

8:30 
Registration & Coffee

9:20 
Opening Remarks

9:30 
Tanya Slavin, University of Toronto
The relative prefix ishi- in Oji-Cree

10 
Marina Sherkina-Leiber, University of Toronto
The aspectual suffix -Katta- in Labrador Inuktitut

10:30 
Rose-Marie-Déchaine & Charlotte Reinholtz
University of British Columbia & Queen's University

TBA

11 
Coffee

11:30 
Michael Barrie, University of British Columbia
Noun incorporation, doubling and possessor raising:
against ?-deletion

12 
Andrés Pablo Salanova, University of Ottawa
On the relationship between nominalizations
and ergativty

Lunch

14 
Sonja Thoma, University of British Columbia
Notion of contrastivity in St'àt'imcets: clitics and cleft

14:30 
Meagan Loui, University of Toronto
On the lack of temporal anchoring in Blackfoot and
its consequences for NPIs cross-linguistically

15 
Solveiga Armoskaite & Jennifer Glougie, University of British Columbia
Classification of Blackfoot stems: Syntactic Correlation

15:30 
Connor McDonough Quinn, MIT
TBA

17 
Reception
Ban Righ Hall, University & Bader Lane

Saturday, March 29th

9:00 
Coffee

9:30 
Joshua Bowles, University of Utah
Evidentiality and agreement interaction in Tuyuka: A generative approach

10 
Donna B. Gerdts & Kaoru Kiyasawa
Simon Fraser University & University of Victoria
Compositional morphology and transitivity in Salish languages

10:30 
Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa
Wh-agreement in Ojibwe: consequences for feature inheritance
and the categorical status of tense

11 
Coffee

11:30 
Richard Campton, University of Toronto
Contrastive underspecification: evidence from
Inuktitut consonant alternation

12 
Maria Amélia Reis Silva, University of British Columbia
Re-aspiration and vowel devoicing in Blackfoot

Lunch
14 Beatrice Bullshield & al., University of British Columbia
Collecting a Blackfoot creation story: methodology and empirical observation

14:30
Martina Wilstscheko, invited speaker
University of British Columbia

TBA

15:30 
Business Meeting

17 
Party

Sunday, March 30th

10 
Round Table
Details to follow...

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