University of California, Santa Barbara
April 21–April 22, 2006

 

 

2006 Program

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Registration Desk - 2:00-5:00 Linguistics Library, South Hall 3607

 

Linguistics Colloquium - 3:30-5:00 Building 347; Rm 104

Welcoming Reception-5:00 TBA

 

Friday, April 21, 2005

McCune Conference Room

 

Registration Desk - 8:45 am -5:00 pm

 

Breakfast and Snacks 8:45 am -3:30 pm

 

Welcoming remarks - 9:10 am

Session I - 9:15 am -10:45 am

Salomé Gutiérrez Morales

University of California, Santa Barbara

Conditional and Reason Clauses in Sierra Popoluca: The Effect of Language Contact

Jason Brown & James J. Thompson

University of British Columbia

The Emergence of Determiner Clisis in Upriver Halkomelem

Donna B. Gerdts & Thomas E. Hukari

Simon Fraser University / University of Victoria

The Argument Structure of Halkomelem Verb Roots: Evidence from Intransitive/Transitive Alternations

Break - 10:45 am -11:00 am

Session II - 11:00 am -12:30 pm

Melissa Axelrod & Jule Gómez De García

University of Arizona / California State University, San Marcos

Toward a Discourse-Related Classification of Clause Combining and Embedding Morphology in Jicarilla Apache

Jocelyn C. Ahlers

California State University, San Marcos

Word Formation in Elem Pomo

Stefanie Adams, Melvatha Chee, Grandon Goertz, Katy Lente, Margaret Motulewicz

University of New Mexico

Use of Causatives in Navajo: Syntax and Morphology

Lunch Break - 12:30 pm - 1:30pm

Special Session on Cultural Preservation - 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Diane M. Hintz

University of California, Santa Barbara / SIL

Songbook development and recording: helping Quechua people to make it happen

Gerardo Aldana

University of California, Santa Barbara

Vowel Disharmony, Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, and Indigenous Education: cultural catalysts and responsible ethnographic research

Juanita L. Watters

SIL

Ownership through knowledge: introducing a hands-on literacy method to the indigenous peoples of Mexico

Break - 3:15-3:30

Session III - 3:30-5:30

Carmen Jany

University of California, Santa Barbara

Vowel Length and Phonation Contrasts in Chuxnabán Mixe

Jeanie Castillo
University of California, Santa Barbara & University of New Mexico

The Phonetic Correlates of Intonation Units in Navajo

Jose Elias-Ulloa

SUNY, Stony Brook

Positional Effects and Glottal Coalescence in Capanahua

Erin O'rourke

University of Pittsburgh

An Instrumental Analysis of Quechua Intonation

 

Dinner Reception (pizza and a film) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

 

Saturday, April 23, 2005

McCune Conference Room

 

Registration Desk - 8:45 am -5:30 pm

 

Breakfast and Snacks - 8:45 am - 3:30 pm

Session IV - 9:15 am -10:45 am

Joey Alexanian, Jalon Begay, Ruth E. Cisneros, Megan Goldberg

University of New Mexico

The Language of Humor

Anna Clawson

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

How to say 'we' in Aleut: Choices in a topic-tracking language

Steven Menefee, Lisa Pacheco, Katy Pieri, Heather Cowan, Bernadette Archuleta, Megan Hoffman

University of New Mexico

Áádóó: An Analysis of a Navajo Discourse Marker

Break - 10:45 am -11:00 am

Session V - 11:00 am -12:30 pm

Pamela Bunte

California State University, Long Beach

Narrative, Place and Identity in a Southern Paiute Community

James K. Watters

SIL

Obstacles to dialect intelligibility: examples from Tepehua (Totonacan) and some implications

Evan Ashworth

University of New Mexico

On Nanbé Tewa Language Ideologies

Lunch Break - 12:30 pm -1:30 pm

Keynote Speaker - 1:45 pm -2:45 pm

Scott Delancey

University of Oregon

Inland Penutian: Problems and Possibilities in Mid-range Comparison

Break - 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Session VI- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Harold D. Crook

Lewis - Clark State College

Nez Perce Detransitivization: Indefinites, Generics, Defocus, and Possessives

Kayo Nagai

Kyoto University

Passive Construction in St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Simoni Maria Benicio Valadares

University of New Mexico & Universidade Federal do Amapá

Some Notes on Possessive Constructions in Palikur
Language

Verónica Vázquez Soto SLI - UNAM & CIESAS - México

The Expression of Number in Cora

Closing Remarks - 5:00 pm

Dinner Party - 6:00 pm

At the home of Marianne Mithun and Wallace Chafe