LINGUIST List 3.419

Wed 20 May 1992

Confs: Athapaskan

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 1992 ATHABASKAN LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
 July 4-5, Flagstaff Arizona

 Preliminary Program

Saturday, July 4

 9-10 coffee and registration

 10:00 Sharon Hargus, University of Washington
 title TBA

 10:30 John Files, University of Texas, Austin

 AUTOSEGMENTAL ANALYSIS OF TONE IN NAVAJO VERBS

 coffee

 11:30 Martha Wright, Syracuse University

 ANOTHER LOOK AT WORD-FORMATION WITH CLASSIFIERS IN
 NAVAJO

 12:00 Gloria Emerson

 ASPECTS OF A NAVAJO LANGUAGE PROGRAM


 12:30-2 lunch

 2:00 Brian Potter, University of Arizona

 NAVAJO COMPOUNDING: AN INTERACTION BETWEEN SYNTAX AND
 MORPHOLOGY

 2:30 Peggy Speas, University of Massachusetts

 MAPPING INDEFINITE NPS IN NAVAJO

 3:00 Eloise Jelinek, University of Arizona

 PRONOUN ATTACHMENT TO THE VERB IN ATHAPASKAN

 break

 4:00 Ann Beck, Northern Arizona University

 DEVELOPING A TEST OF LANGUAGE DOMINANCE FOR NAVAJO
 CHILDREN

 4:30 Alyce Neundorf, Northern Arizona University

 FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR NAVAJO LANGUAGE STUDY


Sunday, July 5

10:00 Jim Kari, title TBA


10:30 Siri Tuttle, University of Washington

 NASAL HARMONY IN GALICE ATHABASKAN

 coffee break

11:30 Chad Thompson, Indiana Univ. and Purdue Univ. at Fort
 Wayne

 THE METRICS OF KOYUKON VERB PREFIXES

12:00 Sally Midgette

 ASPECT AND TRANSITIVITY IN NAVAJO

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00 Robert Young, University of New Mexico
 Title to be announced

2:30 Willem deReuse, University of Arizona

 TESTING THE DEGREE OF MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY BETWEEN NAVAJO
 AND WESTERN APACHE

3:00 Report on the Workshops at Navajo Community College


 All talks will be held at the Northern Arizona University
Center for Excellence in Education. A block of rooms has been
reserved at the Inn at Northern Arizona University, which is a
motel located on campus. You may reserve a room by calling (602)
523-9011. Some accommodations in the NAU dormitories will also
be available. For information on this, contact Alyse Neundorf at
the Center for Excellence in Education, (602) 523-9528. For
information by email, contact Peggy Speas. (speascs.umass.edu)