LINGUIST List 17.511

Thu Feb 16 2006

Confs: General Ling/Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Directory         1.    Martina Wiltschko, Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 11
Message 1: Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 11
Date: 13-Feb-2006
From: Martina Wiltschko <wmartinainterchange.ubc.ca>
Subject: Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 11



Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 11 Short Title: WSCLA 11


Date: 31-Mar-2006 - 02-Mar-2006 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Contact: Martina Wiltschko Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/wscla

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The central objective of this workshop is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of the Aboriginal languages of the Americas so that they may exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and importantly, across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.

Friday, March 31st, 2006 St. Jones College 8:30-9:00 am Registration, Coffee 9:00-9:15 am Opening remarks 9:15-10:15 am Invited talk: Heather Bliss: Formalizing Point-of-View: Sentience and Obviation in Blackfoot's Direct/Inverse System

10:15-10:30 pm Break 10:30-12:00 pm Seth Cable: wh-movement in Lingít doesn't target wh-words Tanya Slavin: Referential and non-referential incorporated elements in Oji-Cree Blain, Eleanor & Rose-Marie Dechaine: Evidential domains

12:00 -2:00 pm Lunch

2:00-3:30 pm Koch, Karsten A: Against Antisymmetry: Possession Marking in Thompson River Salish McNamara, Amy: Nominalization and antisymmetry in Lushootseed relative clauses Klint, Ryan and Varela, Vianey: The ribbon sits on the candle's shin. The Acquisition of Basic Locatives Constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac

3:30-3:45 pm Break

3.45-4:45 pm Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa: Form and Function in the Nxa'amxcin Inchoative Shaw, Pat: Reduplicative Fixed Segmentism in Kwak'wala

4.45-5:00 Break

5.00-6:00 Invited talk: Marianne Milligan: The Need for Language Specific Constraints: Evidence from Menominee prosodic structure

Saturday, April 1st, 2006 Green College, Coach house 8:45-9:15 am Registration, Coffee

9:15-10:45 am Johannsdottir, Kristin: Tense and Aspect in Gitksan Hayashi, Midori:Syntax of tense in Inuktitut Kiyota, Masaru: Semantics of the particle kwlh and event representations in Saanich

10:45-11:00 pm Break

11:00-12:30 pm Poster Session: Benedicto, Elena: Innovating in the Family: Transitivity Alternations in Mayangna Caldecott, Marion: Parsed vs. Unparsed in St'át'imcets: Does phonetics affect phonological structure? Chávez-Peón, Mario E.: Aspect markers in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec (SLQZ): A morpho-phonological account Chin, Seok Koon: Unifying the meanings of ''begin'' and ''end'' for -akaa- in Blackfoot Derrick, Donald: Blackfoot Geminates and Affricates Leonard, Janet: Formalising the phonology of stress in SENCOTEN Peterson, Tyler: Grammaticalization and the Organization of Semantic Roles in the Tsimshian Languages.pdf Pittman, Christine M.: Restructuring the clause in Inuktitut Salanova, Andres Pablo: The sense of Mebengokre nominalizations Turner, Claire: The SENCOTEN Resultive Construction

12:30 -2:00 pm Lunch (& business meeting)

2:00 - 3:30 pm David Beck: Control of person and number agreement in multi-object constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac Ana Mueller, Luciana Storto, Thiago Coutinho- Silva: Number and the Count-Mass Distinction in Karitiana James Thompson: On the mechanics of verbal number: An upriver Halkomelem case study

3:30 - 3:45 pm Break

3.45 - 4:45 pm Invited talk: Andrea Wilhelm: Count, mass, and part structure of Dene Sulhine nouns

4:45 - 5:00 pm Break

5.00 - 6:30 pm Plenary discussion (chair: Martina Wiltschko): ''Quantization'' Dinner & Party

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 Green College, Coach house 8:30 - 9:00 am Registration, Coffee

9:00 -10:00 am Invited talk: Donna Gerdts: The Argument Structure of Halkomelem Verb Roots: Evidence from Intransitive/Transitive Alternations

10:00-11:00 am Matthewson Lisa: An unfamiliar proportional quantifier Barczak, Leszek, Rose-Marie Dechaine, Chris Wolfart: Open conditionals in Plains Cree

11:00 - 2:00 pm Plenary discussion (chair: Henry Davis: Issues in language teaching (includes a 'brown-bag-lunch'') participants: TBA