Report from MALC.

[willemdereuse at unt.edu]

Hi Bob:

Thanks for helpful report.  I am sorry I could not come, but I just got 
back from two months of fieldwork in the Alaska bush, so I had to be 
with my family for a while.  Missed you guys, and Kansas!

Best,

Willem

Quoting "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>:

> 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
>