<OM>COOL announcement

[Scott Berthiaume]

Announcing the Conference on Oto-Manguean and Oaxacan Languages (COOL)

COOL 2004 will take place March 19-21 at UC Berkeley in the Murray B. Emeneau conference room (370 Dwinelle Hall). Please see registration and lodging information below following the program or on the COOL website at: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rosemary/cool.htm

The COOL program is as follows:

Friday, March 19 
Noon Registration & snacks 
1-1:50 Zapotec Syntax 
Michael Galant, UCLA: Nature of the Standard of Comparison in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec Comparatives 
John Foreman, UCLA & Cal State LA: Experiencer Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec 
2-2:50 Invited talk by George Aaron Broadwell, SUNY Albany: Zapotec pronouns -- full, reduced, clitic, or null. 
3-3:50 Inflection 
Rosa María Rojas Torres, INAH: El Aspecto Completivo y las Clases Verbales en el Zapoteco de Santa Ana del Valle 
Cheryl A. Black, SIL International and University of North Dakota: An Autosegmental Analysis of Tlapanec Noun Inflection 
4-4:50 Invited talk by Enrique L. Palancar, UAQ: Minimizing morphology, maximazing function: nasal morphemes in Otomí 
5-6:15 Case 
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, UCLA: Is Valley Zapotec lohoh a Dative Marker? 
Soren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & the University of Copenhagen: Tlapanec cases 
Maurizio Gnerre, University of Rome: Some cases in Huave 
6:30 Dinner 

Saturday, March 20 
9-9:50 Invited talk by Pamela Munro, UCLA: Teaching Grammar(s): Balancing Acts for Linguists (The Case of Cali Chiu?) 
10-11:15 Language and Society 
Rosemary Beam de Azcona, UC Berkeley: The top ten reasons why you should study an endangered Otomanguean language (with examples from Southern Zapotec). 
Olivia V. Martínez, UCLA: Two Orthographies One San Juan Guelavía Zapotec Dictionary. 
Daniel Barragán Trejo, Universidad de Guadalajara: Una lengua, dos ecologías: el mi'phaa en La Montaña y La Perla. 
Martha Muntzel, INAH: Ocuiltec Toponyms, a community revitalization project. 
11:25-12:15 Invited talk by Alejandro de Ávila, Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca: The classification of life in the Otomanguean family and the non-OM languages of Oaxaca. 
12:15 Lunch 
1:30-2:20 Discourse & Narrative 
Victor M. Franco Pellotier & Modesta Cruz Hernández, CIESAS-México, D.F.: Oralidad y ritual matrimonial entre los amuzgos de Oaxaca. 
Edgar Martín del Campo, SUNY Albany: An Ethnopoetic Approach to a Copala Triqui Folklore Narrative. 
2:30-3:20 Invited talk by Eugene Hunn, University of Washington, Seattle: Mixtepec Zapotec Biological Vocabulary 
3:30-5:10 Phonetics & Phonology 
Cindy Williams, SIL: An analysis of Amuzgo nominal tone. 
Mary Paster and Rosemary Beam de Azcona, UC Berkeley: Aspects of tone in the Yucunany dialect of Mixtepec Mixtec. 
Heriberto Avelino, UCLA: Gender and Individual Differences in Voice Quality. Evidence from Yalálag Zapotec. 
Scott Berthiaume, SIL-Mexico: An OT Account of Prestopped Nasals in Xi'iùy. 
5:20-6:10 Invited talk by Thomas Smith-Stark, El Colegio de México: Ethnobiological vocabulary in San Baltazar Chichicapan Zapotec 
6:30 Dinner 

Sunday, March 21 
9:00-9:50 Invited talk by Terrence Kaufman, University of Pittsburg: Reconstructing Oto-Manguean Morphosyntax 
10:00-11:40 Historical Linguistics 
Michael Swanton, Universiteit Leiden: Philology and the Historical Dialectology of Chochon. 
Natalie Operstein, UCLA: Spanish loan-words and the historical phonology of Zaniza Zapotec. 
Aaron Huey Sonnenschein, USC: The evolution of the phonemic inventory from Proto-Zapotec to present-day Zoogocho Zapotec. 

Registration: We recommend that you pre-register as this will help us to accurately estimate attendance for our caterers etc. More than one meal will be provided with the proceeds from your registration fees which are the following: 
Early registration $35
On-site registration $45
To pre-register please send a check or money order made payable to "UC Regents" to: 
COOL Registration
c/o Paula Floro
Linguistics Dept.
1209 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Lodging: COOL participants will be given a discount at: 
Hotel Shattuck Plaza
2086 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 845-7300
The discounted rate will be: 
1 person $70
2 people $80
Plus 12% room tax and $10 for each additional person 
This rate is guaranteed for those who make reservations by February 18th and is subject to availability following that date. 
Please call for reservations as the website is not set up to recognize discounts. Mention the block code "COOL" when making a reservation in order to receive the discount. 

COOL is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Graduate Assemby, Center for Latin American Studies, and the departments of Linguistics, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.


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