2024 SSILA Annual Meetings
New York City
January 4-6, 2024
Following discussion at the 2023 Business Meeting, the Executive Committee voted to hold the 2024 annual meeting in person jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in New York, January 4-7, 2024, at the Sheraton New York Times Square.
We will celebrate the LSA's centennial, to support Natives4Linguistics, CELP, and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, and to continue to make your work more visible to others.
SSILA encourages scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages.
SSILA 2024 Program
Note on Rooms
Liberty 3: Holds 60 people and will have projection and audio (including microphones).
Liberty 4: Holds 40 and will have no projection or audio. Speakers in this room will have handouts. Please reserve the front rows for people with hearing needs.
THURSDAY, January 4th
Afternoon
Organized Session: Ideophones and Expressives in Mayan Languages
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Jaime Pérez González
1:15pm-1:45pm Pedro Mateo Pedro (University of Toronto): The acquisition of ideophones in Chuj
1:45pm-2:15pm Hugo Héctor Vázquez López: Los expresivos e ideófonos en tojol-ab’al
2:15pm-2:45pm Jose del Carmen Osorio May (Secretaria de Educación en Tabasco): Morfosintaxis de los predicados afectivos en yokot’an (maya) de Tabasco
2:45pm-3:15pm Margarita Martínez Pérez (Universidad de Ciencias Artes de Chiapas): La multimodalidad en la producción de predicados expresivos
3:15pm-3:45pm Nicolás Arcos López (Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Tabasco): El conocimiento y el uso de palabras afectivas en narraciones en ch’ol (maya)
3:45pm-4:15pm Jaime Pérez González (University of California, Santa Barbara): Where did Moocho’ Ideophones Go?
Organized Session: Stress and Archival Materials
Room: Liberty 3; Moderators: Jordan Douglas-Tavani; Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada; Shahar Shirtz
4:45pm-5:15pm Jordan A.G. Douglas-Tavani (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Shahar Shirtz (Arizona State University): Deciphering Jacobs’ Judgements on Stress: Insights from and for miluk tɬiis (miluk)
5:15pm-5:45pm Skye J. Anderson (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians) & Jonathan A. Geary (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians): Quantitative and qualitative analysis of stress placement in a written corpus of Nisenan
5:45pm-6:15pm Jaeci Hall (Tututni, Coquille Indian Tribe): Archival Investigations of Stress to Support Language Use of Nuu-wee-ya’
6:15pm-6:45pm Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta): Discussion
FRIDAY, January 5th
Morning
Sociolinguistics
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Alexander Rice
9:00am-9:30am Max Jensen (Brigham Young University): Linguistic Perspectives from Native Amazonian Kichwa Speakers
9:30am-10:00am Lauren Clemens (University at Albany, State University of New York), Jamilläh Rodriguez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Douglas A. Kowalewski (University at Albany, State University of New York) & Ronald S. Friedman (University at Albany, State University of New York): Language Use by Copala Triqui speakers living in Diaspora
10:00am-10:30am Olga Lovick (University of Saskatchewan), Dagmar Jung (University of Zurich), Allison Lemaigre (Clearwater River Dene Nation), Olga Kriukova (University of Saskatchewan) & Barbara Hannah (Clearwater River Dene Nation): Variation and change in Dene Suline verbs
Syntax 1
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Jack Martin
9:00am-9:30am Colin Brown (University of California Los Angeles), Noah Elkins (Haverford College) & Harold Torrence (University of California Los Angeles): Movement of Obliques in San Juan Ostuncalco Mam
9:30am-10:00am Hunter Johnson (University of California Los Angeles): Relative clause formation in Guarani
10:00am-10:30am Jaime Peña (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): Word Order Patterns in Wampis Narrative Discourse
Organized Session: Toward the Future of the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang): Sharing our Multidimensional Experiences – Part I
Room: Sutton Place, Lower Lobby; Moderators: Mizuki Miyashita; Joe Dupris; Martin Renard
9:00am-9:10am Mizuki Miyashita (University of Montana): Passing the torch of the CoLang Spirit
9:10am-9:30am Carol Genetti (NYU Abu Dhabi), Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) & Carlos Nash: The Origin Story of InField/CoLang: Laying the Foundation for a Valuable Institution
9:30am-9:45am Adrienne Tsikewa (Zuni Pueblo; University of California, Santa Barbara) & Carly Tex (Western Mono; Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival): Cultivating Academic Leadership at CoLang Through Capacity Building
9:45am-10:00am Sean Chandler (Aaniiih; Aaniiih Nakoda College): CoLang Experiences on the Next Generation of White Clay Immersion School Leadership
10:00am-10:15am Samantha Prins (University of Arizona): Learning Directly from Practitioners: The CoLang Experience Through a Student Lens
10:15am-10:30am Luis Barragan (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community) & Tyler Peterson (Arizona State University): Discussion
Morphology 1
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: John W.W. Powell
10:30am-11:00am Ivette Gonzalez (University of New Mexico): Reconstruction of the Proto-Yuman person indexation system
11:00am-11:30am Seth Katenkamp (Yale University): A Cross-Linguistic Survey of a Class of Derivational Affixes in the Muskogean Family
11:30am-12:00pm Jordan Touglas-Tavani (University of California, Santa Barbara): Lean on Me: Complex Clitic Cluster Construction in Two Languages of the PNW
Nasality
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Myriam Lapierre
10:30am-11:00am Alexia Fawcett (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Martin Kohlberger (University of Saskatchewan): An acoustic investigation of nasal phenomena in Wao Terero
11:00am-11:30am Marisabel Cabrera (University of California Los Angeles): Suffix independence in Paraguayan Guarani nasal harmony
11:30am-12:00pm Jeffrey Bourns (Northeastern University): Diachronic effects of nasalization in Cherokee
Organized Session: Toward the Future of the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang): Sharing our Multidimensional Experiences – Part II
Room: Metropolitan West; Moderators: Mizuki Miyashita; Joe Dupris; Martin Renard
10:30am-12:00pm Posters:
Arienne M. Dwyer (University of Kansas; University of Washington): CoLang 2012: Innovative community involvement in the searing heat of the Kansas plains
Samantha Cornelius (Division of Language Preservation, Chickasaw Nation) & Colleen Fitzgerald (North Dakota State University): Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) 2014
George Aaron Broadwell (University of Florida): Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) 2018
Carolyn O’Meara (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Jean-Luc Pierite (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana; Massachusetts Institute of Technology/North American Indian Center of Boston) & Samantha Prins (University of Arizona): CoLang 2020 Web Series: Keeping the community connected during the pandemic
Richard Littlebear (Northern Cheyenne) & Madeleine Shek (University of Montana): CoLang 2022: Increased Indigenous Representation
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (University of Victoria) & Jean-Luc Pierite (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana; Massachusetts Institute of Technology/North American Indian Center of Boston): CoLang Signature Workshop: Blurring the Lines - Balancing needs, interests, and world views
Susan Kung (AILLA, University of Texas at Austin): CoLang Signature Workshops: Archiving and Intellectual Property
Luis Barragan (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community) & Tyler Peterson (Arizona State University): CoLang 2024 Arizona: Creating Partnerships, Honoring Neighbors, Building Capacity
FRIDAY, January 5th
Afternoon
Language Revitalization 1
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Susan Gehr
12:00pm-12:30pm Juliet Morgan (Chickasaw Nation) & Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinston) (Chickasaw Nation): Chikashsha Asilhlha: documenting and describing Chikashshanompaꞌ positional verbs
12:30pm-1:00pm Robert Lewis (BODWEWADMIMWEN ETHE TEK, INC.): Bodwéwadmimwen Ėthë ték, Inc.’s Potawatomi Digital Language Archive
Syntax 2
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Jack Martin
12:00pm-12:30pm Kalen Chang (University of California Los Angeles): Existential questions and verb doubling in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec
12:30pm-1:00pm Hunter Johnson (University of California Los Angeles) & Marisabel Cabrera (University of California Los Angeles): Wh-question formation strategies in Paraguayan Guaraní
Language Documentation
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Susan Gehr
1:45pm-2:15pm Uboye Gaba (Nacionalidad Waorani del Ecuador): Los efectos inesperados de la documentación: responsabilidad política, cambio social y métodos de comunicación
2:15pm-2:45pm Kimberly Johnson (Chickasaw Nation), Samantha Cornelius (Chickasaw Nation), Juliet Morgan (Chickasaw Nation) & Joshua D. Hinson (Chickasaw Nation): Documenting Chickasaw Conversation: Our Implementation
2:45pm-3:15pm Andrew Garrett (University of California, Berkeley): Alfred Kroeber’s documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)
Morphology 2
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Jordan A.G. Douglas-Tavani
1:45pm-2:15pm Jennifer Brunner (University of Graz): Non-verbal predication of property concepts in Central Pame [pbs] (Cancelled)
2:15pm-2:45pm Pamela Munro (University of California Los Angeles): Garifuna Men’s Speech
2:45pm-3:15pm Martin Renard (University of Toronto): Kanien’kéha Noun Incorporation: A Categorization and Excorporation Reanalysis
Organized Session: Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Language Revitalization – Part I
Room: New York West (3rd floor); Moderators: Melvatha R. Chee; Ryan E. Henke; Sophie Pierson; Amalia Skilton; Tamera Yazzie
1:45pm-2:00pm Ryan E. Henke (University of Wisconsin–Madison): A further look at properties of verbs in Northern East Cree child-directed speech
2:00pm-2:15pm Šišóka Dúta (Dakhódiapi Wahóȟpi) & Justis Brokenrope (Dakhódiapi Wahóȟpi): Dakhód’iapi Wahóȟpi—Dakhota Language Nest
2:15pm-2:30pm Pedro Mateo Pedro (University of Toronto): Child language acquisition and language revitalization in Mayan languages
2:30pm-2:45pm Sophie Pierson (University of Texas at Austin): Variation sets as a means to bolster the acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök
2:45pm-3:15pm Question and answer period
Phonetics/Phonology of Stops
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: TBC
3:30pm-4:00pm Sydney Ludlow (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa): Voiceless Stops and their Variants: a Lenition Continuum in Pastaza Quichua?
4:00pm-4:30pm Guillem Belmar (University of California, Santa Barbara), Eric W. Campbell (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Jeremías Salazar (University of California, Santa Barbara): Phonology and morphology of prenasalized stops in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec)
4:30pm-5:00pm Gillian Gallagher (New York University) & Noemy Condori Arias (University of California, Santa Barbara): Morphological, prosodic and individual variation in South Bolivian Quechua /q/
Semantics
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Martin Kohlberger
3:30pm-4:00pm Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara): Learning from speech in context: The place of reality amidst ability, duty, volition and purpose
4:00pm-4:30pm Olga Kriukova (University of Saskatchewan): The unspecified person prefix use across Northern Dene languages
4:30pm-5:00pm Zachary O’Hagan (University of California, Berkeley): Distinguishing Polarity Focus from Verum in Caquinte
Organized Session: Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Language Revitalization – Part II
Room: New York West (3rd floor); Moderators: Melvatha R. Chee; Ryan E. Henke; Sophie Pierson; Amalia Skilton; Tamera Yazzie
3:30pm-3:45pm Melissa E. Lewis (Little Cherokee Seeds Program) & Phyllis Sixkiller (Little Cherokee Seeds Program): Growing speakers: The Little Cherokee Seeds program
3:45pm-4:00pm Amalia Skilton (Cornell University): Interactional functions of prompting in Ticuna (tca)
4:00pm-4:15pm Warlance Chee (Saad K'idilyé Diné Language Nest) & Cheryl Yazzie (Saad K'idilyé Diné Language Nest): Diné child language revitalization and research at the Saad K’idilyé Diné Language Nest
4:15pm-4:30pm Melvatha R. Chee (University of New Mexico) & Tamera Yazzie (University of New Mexico): Comparing child-produced verbs to the adult input: Simplicity, productivity, and frequency of Navajo third person verb constructions
4:30pm-5:00pm Question and answer period
Tone and Intonation
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: TBC
5:00pm-5:30pm Yuan Chai (University of California Los Angeles), Adrián Fernández & Briseida Mendez: The role of phonation and tone in TAM in Yateé Zapotec
5:30pm-6:00pm Anna Björklund (University of California, Berkeley): Towards a transcription system of Patwin intonation (PaToBI)
6:00pm-6:30pm Bruce Nevin (The Endangered Language Fund): Pit River Verb Stems and Shastan Prehistory
6:00pm-6:30pm Jamilläh Rodriguez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The predictability of grammatical tone in Copala Triqui (Cancelled)
Grammaticalization and Change
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Spike Gildea
5:00pm-5:30pm Alexander Rice (University of Alberta): The grammaticalization of speech reports as purpose clauses in Northern Pastaza Kichwa
5:30pm-6:00pm Bernat Bardagil (Ghent University): Internal and external pressures in Northern Jê morphosyntactic change
6:00pm-6:30pm Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta): Purpose clauses with ‘saying’ in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban)
SATURDAY, January 6th
Morning
Language Resources
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Juliet Morgan
9:00am-9:30am Sonya Bird (University of Victoria), Maida Percival (University of Toronto), Randeana Peter (Simon Fraser University) & Henny Yeung (Simon Fraser University): Hul’q’umi’num’ listening quizzes: Blending research and pedagogy
9:30am-10:00am Shannon Biscoff (Purdue University Fort Wayne), Amy Fountain (University of Arizona), John Ivens (University of Arizona) & Audra Vincent (Coeur d’Alene Tribe): A case study in digital language resource development: 15 years of the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center
10:00am-10:30am Yanfei Lu (University of Toronto): Digital Tool for Revitalization of the Oneida Language: Verb Conjugator
Organized Session: An areal exploration of plural systems of the Indigenous languages of Northwest Mexico and the Southwest United States
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderators: Robert Henderson; Heidi Harley; Jérémy Pasquereau
9:00am-9:25am John W.W. Powell (University of Arizona): Morphology of Piipaash (Yuman) Number, Part III
9:25am-9:50am Ella Hannon (University of British Columbia): Number-neutral nouns and a preliminary semanitics for bare numerals in Neji Tiipay
9:50am-10:15am Albert Álvarez González (University of Sonora): The grammaticalization of nominal plurality morphology in Taracahitan languages (Uto-Aztecan, Northwestern Mexico)
10:15am-10:40am Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) & Meg Harvey (University of Arizona): Kinetic body part counting in numeral etymologies in Hiaki
10:40am-11:05am Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey): Verbal number and argument marking in Salinan
11:05am-11:30am Carlos Ivanhoe Gil Burgoin (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California): Plural participants and verbal class allomorphy in San José de la Zorra Kumiay
11:30am-11:55am Robert Henderson (University of Arizona) & Jérémy Pasquereau (CNRS – Nantes Université): Pluralia tantum nouns in Seri
Orthography
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Jordan A.G. Douglas-Tavani
10:30am-11:00am Myriam Lapierre (University of Washington): Orthography development in the Amazonian indigenous context: The case of Panãra
11:00am-11:30am George Aaron Broadwell (University of Florida): The historical development of the Colonial Valley Zapotec orthography
11:30am-12:00pm nxaʔamxčín Dictionary Team (University of Victoria, Indigenous Education; Colville Confederated Tribes, nxaʔamxčín Language Program): Spelling in dictionary construction: principles and process for nxaʔamxčín nwwáwlxtnt
SATURDAY, January 6th
Afternoon
Language Revitalization 2
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Susan Gehr
1:00pm-1:30pm Addie Sayers (University of North Carolina Wilmington), Ellie Passmore (University of North Carolina Wilmington) & Julien Bradley (University of North Carolina Wilmington): Reviving Waccamaw Siouan: Reconciling Ethics, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Colonial Data Archives
1:30pm-2:00pm Megan Lukaniec (Huron-Wendat Nation; University of Victoria): Interpreting and encoding historical variation in a modern Wendat dictionary
Phonetics and Phonology
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: TBC
1:00pm-1:30pm Michael Galant (California State University Dominguez Hills): Phonological Adaptations of Spanish Loanwords in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec
1:30pm-2:00pm John Boyle (California State University Fresno), Armik Mirzayan (University of Virginia) & Briar Scott (University of Virginia): Pre-aspiration in Hidatsa is not pre-aspiration
Syntax 3
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Kimberly Johnson
2:00pm-2:30pm Lauren Schneider (Simon Fraser University) & Rosemary Webb (University of Victoria): Analyzing the argument structure of three MVCs in Hul’q’umi’num’ Salish
2:30pm-3:00pm Hannah Lippard (University of California Los Angeles): Demonstratives in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec
3:00pm-3:30pm John Foreman (University of Texas Rio Grande), Paula Margarita Foreman & Jaquelina Martínez Pérez: Personal Pronoun Distribution in Macuiltianguis Zapotec
Morphology 3
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: Martin Kohlberger
2:00pm-2:30pm Madeleine Stewart (University of Texas at Arlington), Eutropia Rodriguez & Philip Duncan (University of Kansas): On the face of it: A first look at body-part grammar in Meꞌphaa
2:30pm-3:00pm Skye Anderson (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Language Department): Revitalizing the graded past tense system of Southern Hill Nisenan
3:00pm-3:30pm Tyler Dickenson (University of Texas at Austin) & Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin): ‘Deceased referent’ as a grammatical category in languages of Amazonia
Phonology
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Moderator: Amalia Skilton
3:45pm-4:15pm Jesús González Franco (University of Arizona, California State University Dominguez Hills): The Syllable Structures of Santa Ana Zegache Zapotec
4:15pm-4:45pm Jessica Holtz (University at Albany, State University of New York): The Phonological Behavior of the Coda /z/ in Copala Triqui
4:45pm-5:15pm Jonah Wolf (University of Florida): Prosodic Words and Syntactic Clause Boundaries: A Case Study from Choctaw
Historical Linguistics
Room: Liberty 4 (3rd floor); Moderator: John W.W. Powell
3:45pm-4:15pm Bruce Nevin (The Endangered Language Fund): Pit River Verb Stems and Shastan Prehistory
4:15pm-4:45pm Josh Holden (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) & Michelle Voyageur (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation): Dialect Evolution in Fort Chipewyan Denesųłiné from 1928 to 2023
4:45pm-5:15pm Hannah J. Haynie (University of Colorado Boulder) & Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California Santa Cruz): Testing models of dialect diffusion using legacy language materials
SSILA Annual Business Meeting
Room: Liberty 3 (3rd floor); Jack B. Martin & Mary S. Linn
Saturday 5:30pm-7:00pm
Members and non-members are invited.
Contact for Questions
Dr. Martin Kohlberger (SSILA Program Committee Administrator)
E-mail: conferences@ssila.org
Telephone (mobile): 306-371-8328
Image: Myaamia Ribbonwork, mitemhsa ataahsema. Woman's Leggings. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Karen Baldwin