Presenters

Ashlee Bailey

University of California, Berkeley

Wiyot Consonant Harmony and Symbolism

Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona

Proto-Zapotec *ty in Three Dialects of Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec

Troi Carleton

San Francisco State University

3rd-Person Topic Marking in Zenzontepec Chatino

Maria C. Chavarria

Purdue University

Ese Eja Toponymy:
A Way to Maintain Language and Indigenous History (Peru)

Raquel Guimarães,
Romankevicius Costa

University of California, Santa Barbara
and Museu Nacional/UFRJ

Case Marking in Marubo (Panoan): A Diachronic Approach

Ellen Courtney

East Carolina University

Child Acquisition of Quechua Change-of-State Verbs

Harold Crook

Nez Perce Language Program,
Nez Perce Tribe

Diachronic Explanations for Stem Asymmetries in Nez Perce

Luciana Dourado

University of California, Santa Barbara and
Universidade de Brasília/Unicamp/CAPES

The Advancement of Obliques in Panara

Desrey Fox

Rice University

Grammatical and Lexical Variation within the Akawaio Language in the Village of Waramadong

Donna B. Gerdts,
Thomas E. Hukari

Simon Fraser University and
University of Victoria

The Dual Structure of Halkomelem Motion Verbs

Spike Gildea

Rice University

The Innovative Progressive Construction in Akawaio

William Lewis

University of Victoria

Topic in Central Kalapuyan:
The Phonological Segments of John Hudson’s Santiam

Jay Lloyd

University of California, Santa Cruz

Optionally Optimal: Free Variation in a Dakota Dialect

Amy-Jocelyn Mandel-Muñoz

University of Arizona

Language Planning in the Andes:
A Case Study of the Mapudungun Language of Southern Chile

Dave McKercher

Stanford University

Switch Reference and Direct Quotation in Zuni

Mauricio J. Mixo

University of Utah

Switch Reference in Mandan: Implications for Siouan?

Regina Pustet

University of Colorado Boulder;
University of Munich

Lakota Postpositions

Willem J. de Reuse

University of North Texas

“Deferred Evidence” Marking and Evidential Typology in Western Apache

Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro

University of Chicago and
Museu Paraense Emílo Goeldi

[ATR] Vowel Harmony and Palatalization in Karajá

Anatol Stefanowitsch

Rice University

Akawaio Causitives

Rudolph Troike

University of Arizona

Relative Clauses in Coahuilteco

Maura Velazquez-Castillo

Colorado State University

Guaraní Causative Constructions

Pilar M. Valenzuela

University of Oregon;
Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology

Verb Classes and Degrees of Transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo

Alan Yu

On the Origins of the Chumash Sibilant Harmony