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ualberta.ca>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 *********************************************************** 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 WSCLA7Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue