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

 

 

Current Program

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Registration Desk - 2:00-5:00 LinguisticsLibrary, South Hall 3607

 

Linguistics Colloquium - 3:30-5:00 South Hall 1430

Welcoming Reception-5:00 South Hall Courtyard

 

Friday, April 22, 2005

McCune Conference Room

 

Registration Desk - 8:30-5:00

 

Breakfast and Snacks 8:30

 

Opening remarks - 8:55-9:00

Session I - 9:00-10:30

Rosa Vallejos

University of Oregon

Conditioning selection of pronominal forms in Kokama-Kokamilla: The role of syntax and information structure

Rolando Félix

Rice University, Universidad de Sonora

What is a passive?: The case of Yaqui and Warihío

Lilian Guerrero

Universidad de Sonora

Yaqui relative clauses

Break - 10:30-10:45

Session II - 10:45-12:15

Joana Jansen

University of Oregon

Bipartite verb stems in Yakima Sahaptin

Marlene Socorro

Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela

Roots and stem suffixes in the verbal morphology of Baniva

James J. Thompson

University of British Colombia

Generalized plural in Upriver Halkomelem

Lunch Break - 12:15-1:15

Panel Discussion - 1:15-2:45

Fieldwork on Endangered Languages

Wallace Chafe
University of California, Santa Barbara
Spike Gildea
University of Oregon
Marianne Mithun
University of California, Santa Barbara
Pamela Munro
University of California, Los Angeles

Break - 2:45-3:00

Session III - 3:00-4:30

Danielle E. Cyr

York University, Toronto

Had Aristotle been Algonquian

Robert A. Papen
Université du Québec, Montréal

The Canadian Metis: Language, status
and politics

Daniel Suslak

Indiana University

The Lengueros of Ayapa

Break - 4:30-4:45

Session IV - 4:45-5:45

Jesse Blackburn Morrow
University of Oregon

Factors in selection of the 'pragmatic inverse' in Umatilla Sahaptin

Tania Granadillo
University of Arizona

Nominal possessives in the Ehe dialect of Kurripako: Morphology, phonology, and semantics

 

Dinner Reception 6:00-7:00

 

Poetry and Storytelling - 7:00-8:30
Marilyn Notah
Navajo poetry
Salome Gutiérrez Morales
Storytelling in Sierra Popoluca

 

Saturday, April 23, 2005

McCune Conference Room

 

Registration Desk - 8:30-5:00

 

Breakfast and Snacks - 8:30

Session V - 9:00-10:30

Rocio M. Fuentes

University of Pittsburgh

The construction of intercultural education in the official, academic, and unofficial discourses in Mexico

Sonia Lenk

University of Pittsburgh

Examining the psychological milieu to determine the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Quichua language and predict language maintenance or shift

Mary Antonia Andronis

University of Chicago

Language revitalization and language shift in Salasaca, Ecuador

Break - 10:30-10:45

Session VI - 10:45-12:15

Simeon Floyd

University of Texas, Austin

The poetics of evidentiality in South American storytelling

Gwendolyn Lowes

University of Oregon

Tonogenesis in Zapotec: A case study with Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec

Spike Gildea

University of Oregon

Akawaio (Cariban) and typologies of nonverbal predication

Lunch Break - 12:15-1:15

Keynote Speaker - 1:15-2:15

Lyle Campbell

University of Utah

Mesoamerican languages: Historical stocktaking with a view to the future

Break - 2:15-2:30

Session VII - 2:30-4:00

José Alvarez

Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela

Vocalic mora augmentation in the morphology of Guajiro / Wayuunaiki

Jeanie Castillo

University of California, Santa Barbara

Fieldwork experiences and difficulties in the Navajo Speech Community

Daniel Hintz

University of California, Santa Barbara and SIL

Imperfectivity in Quechua:The status of -yka

Break - 4:00-4:15

Session VIII - 4:15-5:45

Salome Gutiérrez Morales

University of California, Santa Barbara

Kueteero, where are you?: The Spanish suffix -ero in Sierra Popoluca

Zarina Estrada Fernández

Universidad de Sonora

Derivational morphology and changing valency devices in Pima Bajo

Patrick Midtlyng

University of Chicago

Washo Morphology: A case of two hiatus repair strategies

Closing remarks - 5:45-5:50

Dinner Party - 6:30

At the home of Marianne Mithun and Wallace Chafe