Conference Program
| Friday, May 23 | ||
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration & breakfast | |
| 8:45 | Intro/Welcome | |
| 9:00-10:45 | Session 1 | Carmen Jany: "Relativization versus nominalization strategies in Chimariko" Ryan Denzer-King: "Neologisms in indigenous languages of North America" Joshua Birchall: "Determining gender markedness in Wari'" |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 2 | Caleb Everett: "Temporal indeterminacy of velar aperture in Tupí-Karitiâna" Naomi Fox: "Tonogenesis: Evidence from Mocho'" Christopher S. Doty: "Tonogenesis in Pacific Coast Athabascan: Another look" |
| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15-2:45 | Special Session | Erin Flynn Haynes: "An implicit policy: the effects of the no child left behind act on the Warm Springs Language Revitalization Program" Janne L. Underriner, Tony A. Johnson, Christopher S. Doty: "State certification for speaker-teachers: triumphs, pitfalls and challenges in Oregon" Melvatha R. Chee, Jalon Begay, Steven Menefee: "Saad naalkaah t’áá dinék’ehjí bee nida’niitingo bóhoo’aah" |
| 2:45-3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00-4:45 | Session 4 | Ken Shibushita: "Writing and language change in Q'eqchi'" Michael Hughes, William Blunk Fernández: "Repetition in formal discourse in Ixil Maya" Jean Mulder: "Oral performance and rhetorical structure in Sm’algyax" |
| 6:00 | Meet downtown | |
| Saturday, May 24 | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 5 | Ellen H. Courtney: "Child acquisition of Quechua -mi and -si" Cristina Monzón García: "The P'urhépecha perception of the world; Basic forms and codified internal partitions by the morphology" Marine Vuillermet: "Ese Ejja posture verbs do not just sit there: an inquiry into other ways they stand out" |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 6 | Jaime Dubé: "On so-called incorporation in Innu" Logan Dean Sutton: "Information flow in Skiri Pawnee" Brook Danielle Lillehaugen: "Word order and focus in Tlacolula de Matamoros Zapotec" |
| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15-2:15 | Keynote Address | Keren Rice: "What's in a middle?" |
| 2:15-2:30 | Break | |
| 2:30-4:00 | Session 7 | Quinn McCoy Hansen: "A distributed morphology view of Kaqchikel Mayan ergativity" Kaoru Kiyosawa, Donna B. Gerdts: "Cross-linguistic perspectives on Salish applicatives" Alexander Letuchiy: "Labile verbs in indigenous American languages" |
| 4:00-4:15 | Break | |
| 4:15-5:45 | Session 8 | David L. Shaul: "Tense and aspect in Sonoran O'otam" Leora Bar-el, Ryan Denzer-King: "Irrealis in Blackfoot" Claire K. Turner: "Restrictions on the SENĆOŦEN imperfective aspect" |
| 6:30 | WAIL Dinner Party! | Mithun/Chafe residence |
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