Report from MALC.

[Catherine Rudin]

Ardis!  You're alive!!   Actually, I've been at least as bad as you about keeping in touch, and with less of an excuse.  It's been a ridiculously busy semester, but still...

We are heading for Wisconsin tomorrow morning.  Then there will be just another 3 or 4 weekends before we disappear for the semester.   What's your schedule like?  I'd really like to get together sometime.  I still have that cd I made for Mrs. Clay's sisters, among other things - I was hoping to get the transcription closer to finished, but that's probably not going to happen this month, so I might as well just bring it to you as is.  It would be good just to see you, too.  

Are you definitely teaching the linguistics course here spring semester?  It's got a dozen students signed up but no instructor listed officially... I know Alan was putting off calling you, at one point, till he'd have an idea whether the class was going to make or not.  But by this time hopefully he has.  

Happy Thanksgiving to the whole family!    
Catherine

>>> "Ardis Eschenberg" <ardisrachel at gmail.com> 11/20/2007 3:29 AM >>>

Hmmm... I am just catching up on linguistic email.   I guess I should report the birth of my newest Siouanist, who helped prevent me from attending MALC.

CetaN KiNyaN Solomon Bad Moccasin
10 lbs. 1 oz.
23"
8-29-07

He's still huge; everything goes well.  sorry to clog mailboxes with clutter about personal things.  Hope to attend MALC this spring.  The only truly bad weekend this spring is May 17th (our graduation ceremonies). 
Kind regards,
Ardis


Ardis Bad Moccasin, PhD
Academic Dean
Nebraska Indian Community College
(402) 837-5078



 
On Oct 29, 2007 9:39 AM, Rankin, Robert L <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:

All:

I hope everyone agrees that the rather impromptu meeting with the Mid America Linguistics Conference in Lawrence was a success.  We had a number of very nice papers and it was, for me at least, a lot of fun.  The papers from the conference will appear at some point on the University of Kansas Linguistics Dept. website in the KU Working Papers series.  I'm assuming the organizers will communicate deadlines, style, etc. 

As for future meetings of the "real" SACC (= SCLC or whatever), everyone was enthusiastic about Mark's proposal for 2009, and he is working out the dates, etc. for that.

Jill Greer at Missouri Southern State Univ. in Joplin proposed hosting the conference this coming year, 2008, sometime in May or June.  This is quite close to the Quapaw population in NE Oklahoma.  I assume she will be contacting us with additional information if she gets agreement from her institution. 

John Boyle offered to host the 2010 meeting at his institution, and  we look forward to hearing more about that as time goes on.

In response to Johannes' question about the comparative grammar project, we discussed this a bit and I think everyone is eager to continue it.  Linda Cumberland, our designated editor, was fully occupied with her D.E.L. grant for work with her Assiniboine texts this past year, but that is over now and she has returned to her work with Justin at the Kaw Nation.  This means that people like me, who have been a bit lazy about revising their promised papers, will need to get busy and think about getting material to Linda. 

And speaking of my comparative verb morphology paper, although I did quite a bit of revision on my verbal prefix paper last Winter (and nothing at all since), I have about decided that the companion piece on post-verbal enclitics should be more of a co-authored work.  The post verbal morphology is so complex in the various languages, and so little of it is clearly cognate from group to group (as opposed to the prefixes, which are regularly cognate), that it would be best if each of us wrote up a (short?) survey of it for his/her language.  I'd be happy to work whatever comparative magic I can on the results, but there will be far less cognacy than among the prefixes.  (So the results should be all the more "interesting".) 

It was great fun seeing everybody again and hearing new research.  We missed some old friends that we hope to see again next Spring, and we had an excellent new contribution from one of John Boyle's students, whom we hope to see more of. 

Wiblahan everyone,

Bob
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