Keynote Speaker

Leanne Hinton

University of California, Berkeley

Orthography Wars

Presenters

Rosemary Beam de Azcona

University of California, Berkeley

Formal vs. informal tonal morphology in Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec

J. C. Brown

University of British Columbia

Floating moras and features in Southern Sierra Miwok

Phillip Cash Cash

University of Arizona

Language documentation by American Indian intellectuals: An example from the Columbia Plateau

Suzanne Cook

University of Victoria

Volkswagen/DOBES model for language documentation: A Lacandon (Maya) illustration

Rolando Felix

Rice University

Causation in Warihio

Donna Gerdts &
Kaoru Kiyosawa

Simon Fraser University

Salish psych applicatives

Diane Hintz

University of California, Santa Barbara,
SIL Int'l

Pragmatics of word order in South Conchucos Quechua

Gary Holton

Alaska Native Language Center

Oral literature, ethnopoetics, and language maintenance (in Alaska Athabascan): Toward an appreciation of transcribed oral literature

Darya Kavitskaya

Yale University

Sahaptian vowel harmony revisited

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen

University of California, Los Angeles

Syntactic and semantic development of body part prepositions in Valley Zapotec languages

Deryle Lonsdale

Brigham Young University

Type-logical semantics for Salish

Ricardo Maldonado &
Enrique Nava

Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas-UNAM

Middle voice patterns in Tarascan

David Margolin

University of New Mexico

Tanoan, Tawahka, and Tlingit: Three examples of top-down revitalization efforts

Mizuki Miyashita

University of Kansas

Determining moraicity: Phonetics phonology interaction

Pamela Munro &
Larry Gorbet

University of California, Los Angeles
University of New Mexico

Investigating focus in noun phrases

Enrique L. Palancar

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

Middle voice in Otomi

Alexis Palmer

University of Texas at Austin

Inverse agreement, argument structure, and hierarchy-driven phenomena in Ojibwe

Judith Tonhauser

Stanford University

On the syntax and semantics of content questions in Yucatec Maya