All sessions will be in Dwinelle Hall, Room 370.
| Friday, July 17 | ||
| 9:00-11:00 | Phonology & Phonetics | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Gabriele Müller (Westfällische Wilhelms-Universität) | Intonation in Beaver (Athabaskan) |
| 9:30 | Patricia A. Shaw (University of British Columbia) | Default-to-Opposite Stress: Quantity Sensitivities in a Default-to-Right System |
| 10:00 | Erin Haynes (University of California at Berkeley) | Phonetic and Phonological Features of L2 Northern Paiute |
| 10:30 | Maria Burgess, Richard Wright and Guadalupe Lopez (University of Washington) | An Acoustic Description of Santiago Tamazola Lowlands Mixtec |
| 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Semantics in South American Languages | |
| 11:15 | Marine Vuillermet (CNRS / Université de Lyon II) | Multi-layered Imperfective Marking in Ese Ejja: From Aktionsart to Periphrasis |
| 11:45 | Wilson Silva (University of Utah) | Evidentiality and Clause Modality in Desano |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-3:30 | Mayan Syntax | |
| 2:00 | Stavros Skopeteas (Potsdam University) | Morphological demarcation of prosodic domains in Yucatec Maya |
| 2:30 | Marc Peake (Université de Lyon II) | Untangling argument marking in Tojol Ab’al Mayan complex sentences |
| 3:00 | Eladio (B’alam) Mateo Toledo (CIESAS Sureste) | Finiteness in Q’anjob’al (Maya): The Case of Nonverbal Predicates |
| 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:45-5:15 | Meso-American Discourse | |
| 3:45 | Elisabeth Verhoeven (Universität Bremen) | Animacy hierarchy and passive voice in Yucatec Maya |
| 4:15 | Penelope Brown, Olivier Le Guen and Mark Sicoli (Max Planck Institute Nijmegen) | Dialogic repetition in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversation |
| 4:45 | Telma Can (University of Texas at Austin) | The particle wi in K’ichee’: A focus marker |
| 5:15 | Dinner | |
| Saturday, July 18 | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | Dialectology | |
| 9:00 | Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) | The geography of Yokuts dialects: The northern San Joaquin Valley regrouped |
| 9:30 | Hannah J. Haynie (University of California at Berkeley) | A Computational Assessment of Deep Relationships Among California Languages |
| 10:00 | Luis Oquendo (University of Zulia) | La sintaxis dialectal en yukpa |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:45-12:15 | Historical Linguistics | |
| 10:45 | Sean O’Neill (University of Oklahoma) | Athabaskan Language Ecology: On the Comparative Impact of Geography, Contact, and Ideology |
| 11:15 | Karen Sue Rolph (Stanford) | Some evidence of instability in traditional indigenous toponyms in the Peruvian Andes |
| 11:45 | Simeon Floyd (University of Texas at Austin) | Stages in the development of Cha’palaa numerals |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-3:30 | Discourse | |
| 2:00 | Connie Dickinson (University of Oregon) | Reference Tracking and Evidential/Mirative Constructions in Tsafiki |
| 2:30 | Stavros Skopeteas (Potsdam University) and Elisabeth Verhoeven (University of Bremen) | Syntax and Discourse: Field experiments in Yucatec Maya |
| 3:00 | Andrej Kibrik (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science) and Olga Markus (Moscow State University) | Local discourse structure in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan |
| 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:45-5:15 | Morphology | |
| 3:45 | Jack Martin (College of William and Mary) | From switch reference to case marking in Muskogean |
| 4:15 | Siri Tuttle and James Kari (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) | U'eł Tay'tesdedzi: The Morphological Clamp |
| 4:45 | Richard Rhodes (University of California at Berkeley) | Construction morphology meets the Ojibwe verb |