Winter 2016 Meeting

January 7-10, 2016

Washington, D.C.

Business Meeting

The business meeting agenda for this year may be downloaded here.

Contents

• Thursday Evening

• Friday Morning

• Friday Afternoon

• Saturday Morning

• Saturday Afternoon

• Sunday Morning

Thursday Evening

Algonquian, Iroquoian

Chair: Willem de Reuse (University of North Texas)

• 4:00 – Language contact between Proto-Algonquian, Kutenai, and Salish

  • Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley)

• 4:30 – Neutralized position classes inhibit conflicting aspect values in Cherokee

  • Marcia Haag (University of Oklahoma)

• 5:00 – An interactive Cherokee dictionary interface

  • Chris Koops (University of New Mexico)

  • Evan Lloyd (University of Colorado at Boulder)

• 5:30 – The syntax and prosody of Onondaga interrogatives

  • Michael Barrie (Sogang University)

• 6:00 – Traveling further down the grammaticalization pathway: Evidence from the Coincident prefix in Wendat

  • Megan Lukaniec (University of California Santa Barbara)

• 6:30 – The Kinzie manuscript’s implications for Wyandot (Iroquoian)

  • Craig Kopris (Waⁿdat Yanǫhšetsih)

Oto-Manguean and Misumalpan

Chair: Ivy Doak (SSILA)

• 4:00 – Possession in Pame

  • Bernhard Hurch (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Graz)

• 4:30 – Twentieth century sound change in Zenzontepec Chatino and Tataltepec Chatino

  • J. Ryan Sullivant (University of Texas at Austin)

• 5:00 – Applying Kaufman’s model of Zapotec verb classification to Sierra Juárez Zapotec

  • Katherine Riestenberg (Georgetown University)

Pomoan, Miwok

Chair: Siri Tuttle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

• 4:00 – Proto Miwok intrusive *-Vˑ-

  • Catherine Callaghan (Ohio State University)

• 4:30 – The Kashaya language during the Russian period

  • Eugene Buckley (University of Pennsylvania)

• 5:00 – Northeastern Pomo as a relictual speech community

  • Neil Walker (San Joaquin Delta College)

• 5:30 – Layers in Patwin: Double case marking and the Miwok substrate

  • Lewis Lawyer (University of California, Davis)

Friday Morning

Algonquian

Chair: Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley)

• 9:00 – Pitch accent in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: An instrumental study

  • Philip Lesourd (Indiana University)

• 9:30 – Acoustic realization of a distinctive, frequent glottal stop: the Arapaho example

  • D. H. Whalen (CUNY, Haskins Laboratories Yale University)

  • Christian Dicanio (University of Buffalo, Haskins Laboratories)

  • Christopher Geissler (Yale University, Haskins Laboratories)

  • Hannah M. King (Haskins Laboratories)

• 10:00 – Phonetic investigation of vowel-consonant coalescence in Blackfoot

  • Mizuki Miyashita (University of Montana)

• 10:30 – On the pragmatic relationship indexed by Long Distance Agreement in Meskwaki

  • Amy Dahlstrom (University of Chicago)

• 11:00 – Animacy and event conceptualization in Mi’gmaq

  • Carol-Rose Little (Cornell University)

• 11:30 – Information structure conditioned word order in Potawatomi

  • Robert Lewis (University of Chicago)

Organized Session: Paradigms found: Dialogic syntax as a grammar discovery method for field linguistics

Organizers: John W. Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Mark A. Sicoli (Georgetown University)

• 9:00 – The pervasive parallelism of Mayan: Dialogic syntax before, during, and after the field

  • John W. Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• 9:30 – Contrasts and parallelisms: Focal and framing resonance in Lachixío Zapotec

  • Mark A. Sicoli (Georgetown University)

• 10:00 – Dialogic resonance as a window onto grammar and culture: a case study in Zenzontepec Chatino

  • Eric Campbell (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• 10:30 – Dialogic resonance, multilingual interaction, and grammatical change: A view from the Amazonian Vaupés

  • Patience Epps (University of Texas, Austin)

• 11:00 – Dialogic syntax as a method for linguistic analysis: Analysis by workshop participants of transcribed archival materials on languages of the Americas

  • John W. Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • Mark A. Sicoli (Georgetown University)

  • Eric Campbell (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • Patience Epps (University of Texas, Austin)

Mayan

Chair: Gabriela Perez-Baez (Smithsonian)

• 9:00 – A tale of two rats: Gender as differentiation in Mopan Maya

  • Ellen Contini-Morava (University of Virginia)

• 9:30 – Prosodic boundary marking in Ch’ol: Acoustic indicators and their applications

  • Cora Lesure (McGill University)

  • Lauren Clemens (McGill University)

• 10:00 – How many ‘antipassives’ are there? A typology of antipassive-type constructions in Kaqchikel

  • Raina Heaton (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

• 10:30 – Wh-Expressions in non-interrogative contexts in Kaqchikel

  • Harold Torrence (University of California, Los Angeles)

  • Philip Duncan (University of Kansas)

• 11:00 – Perfect ‘status’ and its relationship to morphosyntax in Kaqchikel

  • Raina Heaton (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

  • Judith Maxwell (Tulane University)

• 11:30 – The polyfunctionality of the particle ‘k’al’ in Q’anjobal

  • Junwen Lee (Brown University)

Friday Afternoon

Emmon Bach Memorial Symposium

Chair: Patricia Shaw (University of British Columbia)

• 2:00 – Welcoming remarks

  • Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

• 2:05 – Word formation and the use of paradigms in Young and Morgan’s A Navajo Language (1980,1987)

  • Joyce McDonough (University of Rochester)

• 2:30 – Meskwaki kek(i) particles and human hearts

  • Lucy Thomason (Smithsonian)

• 3:00 – On the development of North Wakashan

  • Emmon Bach

  • Darin Flynn (University of Calgary)

• 3:30 – A Haisla-Chinook Jargon-Tsimshian wordlist, ca. 1900

  • Sally Thomason (University of Michigan)

• 4:00 – Laryngeal architecture in Kwak’wala

  • Patricia A. Shaw (University of British Columbia)

• 4:30 – Announcement of the Emmon Bach Fellowship Fund

  • Alyson Reed (Linguistic Society of America)

  Other tributes and memories

Saturday Morning

Salishan, Souian, Caddoan, Tanoan

Chair: Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (University of Victoria)

• 9:00 – The semantics and pragmatics of Skwxwú7mesh evidentials

  • Carrie Gillon (Arizona State University)

  • Peter Jacobs (University of Victoria)

• 9:30 – On identifying an aspectual suffix in Sliammon

  • Honore Watanabe (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• 10:00 – Sluicing in Missouri River Siouan

  • Brittany Williams (UW-Madison)

• 10:30 – Falling tone in Tanoan

  • David L. Shaul (University of Arizona)

  • Scott Ortman (University of Colorado)

• 11:00 – A preliminary study on accentuation in Hidatsa

  • John Boyle (California State University, Fresno)

  • Ryan Kasak (Yale University)

  • Sarah Lundquist (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

  • Armik Mirzayan (University of South Dakota)

  • Jonnia Torres (University of Colorado, Boulder)

  • Brittany Williams (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Chibchan, Tupian, Zamucoan, Matacoan, Quechuan

Chair: Harriet Klein (Stony Brook University)

• 9:00 – Ergative and relativization in Bribri

  • Adriana Molina-Muñoz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Rolando Coto-Solano (University of Arizona)

• 9:30 – Memory as source of evidence in Paraguayan Guarani

  • Maura Velazquez (Colorado State University)

• 10:00 – Towards a critical edition of Ignace Chomé’s Vocabulario de la lengua zamuca

  • Luca Ciucci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

• 10:30 – A diachronic account of grammatical nominalization in Nivaĉle

  • Manuel Otero (University of Oregon)

  • Alejandra Vidal (CONICET / Universidad Nacional de Formosa)

• 11:00 – Negative imperatives and polarity items in Quechua

  • Liliana Sanchez (Rutgers University)

• 11:30 – The morphosyntax of Projective and non-Projective PPs in Mayangna

  • Elena Benedicto (Purdue University)

  • Elizabeth Salomón (The University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua)

Hokan and Uto-Aztecan

Chair: Carolyn MacKay (Ball State University)

• 9:00 – Examining language attrition through Chimariko texts

  • Carmen Jany (California State University, San Bernardino)

• 9:30 – Karuk verbal morphology

  • Clare Sandy (University of California, Berkeley)

• 10:00 – On the so-called “purposive” verbs in Nahuatl

  • Mitsuya Sasaki (University of Tokyo)

• 10:30 – An acoustic outlook on initial stops in Northern Shoshoni

  • Karee Garvin (University of Iowa)

• 11:00 – The vowel system of Southern Ute: A phonetic investigation

  • Stacey Oberly (University of Arizona)

  • Viktor Kharlamov (Florida Atlantic University)

• 11:30 – The evolution of lexical accent in Cupeño

  • Anthony Yates (University of California, Los Angeles)

Saturday afternoon

Muskogean

Chair: George Aaron Broadwell (University of Florida)

• 4:00 – Documentation and revitalization strategies for agglutinative languages: Lessons from Chickasaw inflectional paradigms

  • Colleen Fitzgerald (University of Texas at Arlington)

  • Joshua Hinson (Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program)

• 4:30 – Acquiring Chickasaw morphology through a master-apprentice program

  • Juliet Morgan (University of Oklahoma)

• 5:00 – The role of context in interpreting a versatile modal in Creek (Muskogean)

  • Kimberly Johnson (University of Texas at Arlington)

Digital domains, Barbacoan

Chair: Elena Benedicto (Purdue University)

• 4:00 – Emerging digital domains for Native American languages

  • Gary Holton (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

• 4:30 – Categorization–Similarities between nominal and verb/event classifying systems

  • Connie Dickinson (Universidad Regional Amazónica-Ikiam)

• 5:00 – Imbabura Quichua “impersonals” in the dictionary

  • Pamela Munro (University of California, Los Angeles)

Macro Je, Jivaroan

Chair: Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin)

• 4:00 – Toponymy as a historical tool: The linguistic past of the Chicham language family

  • Martin Kohlberger (Leiden University)

• 4:30 – Metrical tone, lexical tone and grammatical tone: On word prosody in Wampis

  • Jaime Pena (University of Oregon)

• 5:00 – Hearing as knowing in Macro-Jê: on the diachronic stability of conceptual metaphors

  • Eduardo Ribeiro (Smithsonian Institution)

Sunday Morning

Chitimacha, Timucua, and Piaroa-Saliban

Chair: Lucy Thomason (Smithsonian Institute)

• 9:00 – The extension of structure to discourse: Chitimacha participles in discourse and diachrony

  • Daniel W. Hieber (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• 9:30 – Active agreement in Timucua

  • George Aaron Broadwell (University of Florida)

• 10:00 – The origin of the Piaroa subject markers -sæ, -hæ, and -Ø

  • Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of British Columbia)

Dene, Unangam Tunuu (Aleut), Gitksan (Tsimshian)

Chair: Alice Taff (University of Alaska Southeast)

• 9:00 – Marking the unexpected: Evidence from Navajo to support a metadiscourse domain

  • Kayla Palakurthy (Eisman) (University of California Santa Barbara)

• 9:30 – Field research among a vanishing voice: Is the Navajo language thriving or endangered?

  • Melvatha Chee (University of New Mexico)

• 10:00 – Functions of the ‘future’ and ‘optative’ in Upper Tanana Athabascan

  • Olga Lovick (First Nations University of Canada)

• 10:30 – Lexical differentiation in Aleut (Unangam Tunuu)

  • Anna Berge (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

• 11:00 – Genitive/ergative in Gitksan

  • Colin Brown (McGill University)