Date: 23-Apr-2010
From: Stephanie Morse <wail.ucsbgmail.com>
Subject: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
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Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Short Title: WAIL 2010
Date: 30-Apr-2010 - 01-May-2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA Contact: Stephanie Morse Contact Email: wail.ucsbgmail.com Meeting URL: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 30th-May 1st, 2010
The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.
The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.
Friday, April 30th Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building
Registration 8:00 - 5:00
Breakfast 8:00 - 9:00
9:00 Welcome and opening remarks
Session I: 9:15-11:15
How We Will Write Our Grammar: Ixil Maya Speakers Decide What their Book is About, Melissa Axelrod, Jule Gomez de Garcia, Maria Luz Garcia and Michael Hughes (University of New Mexico, California State University - San Marcos, University of Texas at Austin)
The Making of a Q'anjob'al-Spanish-English Click-and-hear Dictionary, Allison Bitter, Nicolas Cristobal Aparicio (California State University - San Marcos)
A Morphological Parser for Blackfoot, Joel Dunham (University of British Columbia)
Building an Intergenerational, Home-based Language Nest, Melissa Borgia & Sandy Dowdy (Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Seneca Nation of Indians)
Break 11:15-11:30
Session II: 11:30-1:00 Evidentiality in South American Languages
Tense and Evidentiality in Two Tupí-Guaraní Languages, Östen Dahl (Stockholm University)
Evidentiality and Involvement in the Native Languages of South America, Martine Bruil (Leiden University)
Children's Interpretation of Quechua Validational and Evidential Suffixes, Ellen H. Courtnet (University of Texas at El Paso)
1:00-2:00 Lunch Frybread lunch provided by the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Indian Movement
Keynote Talk - Sally Rice 2:00-3:00 ''Turning Evidence: Field Linguistics in the 21st Century.''
Break 3:00-3:15
Session III: Semantics 3:15-4:45
Categorical Restrictions of Positional Verbs in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, Keiko Beers (San Francisco State University)
''There's No Thermostat in the Woods'': Talking about Temperature in Anishinaabemowin, Hunter Lockwood & Susanne Vejdemo (Eastern Michigan University)
Critical mass in Michif, Carrie Gillon & Nicole Rosen (Arizona State University; University of Lethbridge)
Break 4:45-5:00
Session IV: Alignment 5:00-6:30
A Corpus Study of Switch-reference Markers in Chickasaw, Niki Foster (University of California, Los Angeles)
Hiaki Pronominals and the Typology of Structural Deficiency, Heidi Harley & Alex Trueman (University of Arizona)
An Unusual Development: the Dual Demonstrative in Eyak, Chris Donlay (University of California, Santa Barbara)
6:30-8:30 Native Plants Walk & Marine Touch Tank Visit
Saturday, May 1st Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building
8:30-9:00 Registration & Breakfast
Session V: Syntax 9:00-10:30
Clause Linking Constructions in Omagua, Vivian Wauters (University of California, Berkeley)
Complement Clause Types in Northern Tepehuan: A Continuum of Syntactic and Semantic Complexity (Stefanie Ramos Bierge), Universidad de Sonora
The Particle VA and Biclausal Sentences in Ixil Maya, Melissa Axelrod, Jule Gomez de Garcia, Maria Luz Garcia (University of New Mexico, California State University - San Marcos, University of Texas at Austin)
Break 10:30-10:45
Session VI: Historical Inquiries 10:45-12:45
Diversity and Deviation: Evaluating Language Groups in the Americas, Mark Donohue (Australian National University)
Proto-Kampan Reconstruction and the Internal Classification of the Kampan Branch of Arawak, Lev Michael, Robin Alcorn, Lisa Fann, Birana van Epps, Mona Zarka (University of California, Berkeley)
Grammaticalization of Polyfunctionality in Omagua, Tammy Stark (University of California, Berkeley)
Pre-Columbian Language Contact and Cultural History in the Southern Andes-Gran Chaco, Mark Donohue, Lev Michael, Patience Epps, Frank Seifart (Australian National University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Texas at Austin; Max Planck Institute - Leipzig)
Lunch 12:45-2:00
Special Panel 2:00-3:30 Dual Footings: Native Scholars, Native Linguistics
Uso del Maya Yucateco: El Caso Concreto de Dos Jovenes, Ismael May May (Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la UNAM)
Yawenda': Rediscovering the Voice of the Huron Wendat People, Megan Lukaniec Wendake Huron Reserve; Université Laval
Sibling Rivalry: Ideological Differentiations of Chickasaw and Choctaw, Jenny L. Davis (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Break 3:30-3:45
Session VII: Phonetics and Phonology 3:45-5:15
Ejectives in Nez Perce, Katherine Nelson (Rice University)
Assimilatory Processes in Chuxnabán Mixe, Carmen Jany (California State University, San Bernardino)
The Role of Homophony Avoidance in Morphology: A Case Study from Mixtec, Mary Paster (Pomona College)
5:30 Closing
Dinner at Mithun/Chafe Residence 6:30-9:00
Sunday, May 2nd Special side trip to the Channel Islands
We are planning to make arrangements for a trip to the Channel Islands on the Sunday following the conference (5/2/2010). We will be taking the 8:00 am trip to East Santa Cruz Island, with options of returning by 1:00 pm or 5:00 pm. To reserve a spot, please call Island Packers. For information on the tour as well as contact information, please see their website:
http://www.islandpackers.com/isltrips.html
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