SSILA 2002 Meeting Program

In addition to the papers listed below, the schedule includes the SSILA business meeting which will occur on Saturday, 5 January, 12:15 PM.

Friday, 4 January

Phonology: Prosody & Words
9:00 Colleen M. Fitzgerald (U at Buffalo, SUNY): Prosodic variation as constraint reranking: Evidence from Tohono O'odham
9:20 Matthew Gordon (UC-Santa Barbara): An acoustic investigation of stress in Hupa
9:40 Leanne Hinton (UC-Berkeley) & Herb Luthin (Clarion U): Stress & syllable weight in Yahi
10:00 Lev Michael (U TX-Austin): Sonority-driven stress in Nanti (Arawak)
10:20 Marcia Haag (U OK) & Durbin Feeling (U OK): Interactions of meter & tone in Cherokee nouns & clitics
10:40 Eugene Buckley (Penn): Alsea metathesis & syllable structure
11:00 Cathlin M. Davis (U WI-Madison/Edgewood C): Metathesis & epenthesis in Sierra Miwok: Building syllable structure
11:20 Juliette Blevins (U Luton, England/UC-Berkeley): Prosodic words in Yurok
11:40 John Stonham (U Newcastle upon Tyne, England): On the nature of the prosodic word in Nuuchahnulth

Rethinking Older Analyses & Exploiting Older Sources
9:00 Anna Berge (AK Native Lang Ctr): Poul Egede wasn't really fluent in Greenlandic...
9:20 William F. Weigel (UC-Berkeley): The interaction of theory & description: The Yokuts canon
9:40 Wallace Chafe (UC-Santa Barbara): A 17th-century Seneca dictionary
10:00 Mary L. Clayton (IN U): Evidence for a Nahuatl-speaking author in an early trilingual manuscript dictionary
10:20 Yolanda Lastra (UNAM) & Martha C. Muntzel (INAH): Colonial toponyms from Guanajuato, Mexico
10:40 Natalie Operstein (UCLA): Spanish loans & the fortis/lenis contrast in early Zapotec

Syntactic Morphology & Morphological Syntax
10:00 Ives Goddard (Smithsonian Institution): Post-syntactic stem derivation in Fox
10:20 Marianne Mithun (UC-Santa Barbara): The polysynthetic riddle [Mohawk]
10:40 David S. Rood (U CO): Wichita syntax?
11:00 Paul D. Kroeber (IN U): Position of subordinating & extraction morphology in Comox
11:20 Masiel Matera (U Zulia, Venezuela): Preposition incorporation in Wayuunaiki (Arawak)
11:40 Raimundo Medina (U Zulia, Venezuela): The locality of verb movement in Kari'ña (Cariban)

Historical Linguistics & Sociolinguistics
2:00 John A. Dunn (U OK/UNBC): Coast & Southern Tsimshian lexical items with significant phonological relationships to PIE roots
2:20 Catherine A. Callaghan (OH SU): Proto Sierra Miwok case system
2:40 Sidney da S. Facundes (U Fed Pará/CNPq, Brazil): Arawak internal relationships in Southwestern Amazon
3:00 Marie-Lucie Tarpent (Mt. St. Vincent U): Alsea words for women: Cultural implications of their linguistic forms
3:20 Amy Miller (Santa Barbara Mus Ntrl His): Innovations in Yuma personal prefixation
3:40 Eleanor Blain (Brandon U): Future marking in Cree
4:00 Candace Maher (U NM): Mother-in-law language in the Jicarilla Apache community
4:20 Bill Poser (Penn): Dakelh (Carrier) babytalk
4:40 Yukihiro Yumitani (Sanyo Gakuen U, Japan): Spanish loanwords in Jemez Towa

Special Session: Denominal Verbs in the Languages of the Americas
2:00 Jason D. Haugen (U AZ): Denominal verbs in Yaqui
2:20 Kenneth C. Hill (U AZ): Denominal verbs in Hopi
2:40 Willem de Reuse (U N TX): Denominal verbs in Navajo & Western Apache
3:00 Jerrold M. Sadock (U Chicago): A survey of denominal verbs in Eskimo-Aleut
3:20 Stephen Marlett (SIL/U ND): Denominal verbs in Seri
3:40 Donna B. Gerdts (Simon Fraser U) & Thomas E. Hukari (U Victoria): Halkomelem denominal verbs
4:00 Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo U For Studies): Denominal verbs in Nuuchahnulth
4:20 Jürgen Bohnemeyer (Max Planck Inst-Nijmegen): Activity nouns, unaccusativity, & argument marking in Yukatekan
4:40 General discussion: Donna Gerdts & Stephen Marlett

Saturday, 5 January

Discourse
9:00 George Aaron Broadwell (U at Albany, SUNY): Preverbal positions & discourse functions in Zapotec
9:20 David Mora-Marin: The preferred argument structure of Classic Lowland Mayan texts
9:40 Lachlan Duncan (U at Albany, SUNY): Constituent word ordering in Ch'orti' discourse
10:00 Jeffrey Rasch (Rice U): Subject vs topic in expressions of cognition & emotion in Yaitepec Chatino
10:20 Jean Mulder (U Melbourne) & Christina Eira (Narunggga Lang Proj): Evidentiality & verbal art in Tsimshian (Sm'algyax)
10:40 Gary Holton (AK Native Lang Cntr): Clause-combining in Tanacross Athabascan
11:00 Akiyo Maruyama (UC-Santa Barbara): Navajo 'áko: A discourse marker
11:20 Petronila S. Tavares (Rice U): The organization of discourse information in Wayana historical narratives
11:40 Armik Mirzayan (U CO-Boulder): Information structure in Lakhota narratives

Special Session: Organizing American Indian Linguistics: A Session in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of SSILA
9:00 Introduction: Victor Golla
9:20 Melissa Axelrod (U NM), Jule Gómez de García (CSU-San Marcos), & Jordan Lachler (U NM): Developing a New Mexico Native Languages Center
9:40 Juliette Blevins (U Luton, England/UC-Berkeley) & Andrew Garrett (UC-Berkeley): Fieldwork & the archives: The Yurok Language Project at Berkeley
10:00 Victor Golla (Humboldt SU/UC-Davis): Organizing the transcription of American Indian languages
10:20 Kathryn A. Klar (UC-Berkeley): 'A serviceable system for writing Indian languages': Correspondence between Harrington & Sapir, 1910-1912
10:40 John D. Nichols (U MN-Mpls): Where did you put my language? Problems in North American linguistic bibliography
11:00 Discussion & reports on new projects

Classification & Lexical Semantics
2:00 Elena Benedicto (Purdue U): The verbal classifier system (VCS) of Mayangna
2:20 Laura Buszard-Welcher (UC-Berkeley): The semantics of Yana classificatory verb stems
2:40 Connie Dickinson (U OR): Predicate classification in Tsafiki
3:00 Sean P. O'Neill (U OK): Classificatory semantics in northwestern California
3:20 Jack Martin (C Wm & Mary): Classifying location in Creek
3:40 Mercedes Q. Hinkson (W WA U/NW Indian C): The semantics & productivity of the lexical suffix *wil in Ucwalmícwts (Lower Lillooet)
4:00 Luis Oquendo (U Zulia, Venezuela): Realis or irrealis in the Japreria language/mind

Grammatical Categories & Grammaticalization
2:00 Philip LeSourd (IN U): Second-position particles in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
2:20 Tim Montler (U N TX): Categories in Straits Salishan
2:40 Catherine Rudin (Wayne SC): Functional heads, directionality, & the identity of Omaha-Ponca constituents
3:00 Tim Thornes (U OR): Northern Paiute postpositions
3:20 Mary S. Linn (U Pittsburgh): Lexical affixation in Euchee (Yuchi): A missing link
3:40 Carolyn J. MacKay (Ball SU) & Frank R. Trechsel (Ball SU): Reciprocal /laa-/ in Totonacan
4:00 Sara Trechter (CSU-Chico): The value of -pi

Special Session: Papers from the Snake-Jaguar Project: The Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Meso-America
2:00 Introduction: Terry Kaufman & John Justeson
2:20 Rosemary Beam de Azcona (UC-Berkeley): A chain shift in Coatlán Zapotec
2:40 Giulia R. M. Oliverio (AK Native Lang Cntr): Verb stem alternations in Guichicovi Mixe
3:00 Susan Smythe (U TX-Austin): The loss of uvular stops in Huehuetla Tepehua
3:20 Thomas C. Smith Stark (CELL/COLMEX): The use of theoretically possible roots as an elicitation technique: The case of Chichicapan Zapotec
3:40 Richard A. Rhodes (UC-Berkeley): Spanish in Sayula Popoluca
4:00 Roberto Zavala (CIESAS-Sureste, Mexico): Depictive secondary predicates in Olutec (Mixean)
4:20 Troi Carleton (San Francisco SU) & Michelle Moosally (U Houston): Lo7o as an instrumental, comitative, or conjunctive morpheme in Zenzontepec Chatino
4:40 Craig Hilts (OH SU): This, that, & yonder on vowels in Atepec Zapotec

Phonetics
4:30 John H. Esling (U Victoria), Barry F. Carlson (U Victoria), & Jimmy G. Harris (U Victoria): A laryngoscopic phonetic study of Nootka & Salish glottal stop, glottalized resonants, & pharyngeals
4:50 Ian Maddieson (UC-Berkeley) & Pilar M. Valenzuela (Max Planck Inst-Leipzig): Phonetic aspects of Shipibo

Transitivity
9:00 José Álvarez (U Zulia, Venezuela): Split intransitivity & serial verbs in Baniva of Guainía
9:20 David Beck (U ALTA): Person-hierarchies & the origin of asymmetries in Totonac verbal paradigms
9:40 Lisa Conathan (UC-Berkeley): Inverses in northern California
10:00 Anna Hyun-Joo Do (Boston U) & Shanley Allen (Boston U): Antipassive constructions in Inuktitut

Negation & Other Syntactic Processes
10:40 Ivy Doak (U N TX): Coeur d'Alene negative constructions
11:00 Jane H. Hill (U AZ): Cupeño negative sentences
11:20 Marlene Socorro (U Zulia, Venezuela) & José Álvarez (U Zulia, Venezuela): Análisis comparativo de la construcción negativa en baniva y lenguas arahuacas cercanas (A comparative analysis of the negative construction in Baniwa & closely related Arawakan languages) [to be delivered in Spanish]
11:40 John Enrico: Internally-headed relative clauses & generalized quantifiers [Haida]
12:00 Ana Sánchez (U Zulia, Venezuela): Strategies of relativization in Yukpa (Cariban)

Language Preservation & Revitalization
10:00 Dennis Holt (Cntrl CT SU): Poetry in Pech & the aesthetic dimension of language loss [Honduras]
10:20 Chip Gerfen (U NC-Chapel Hill) & Kelley Vance (U NC-Chapel Hill): ka'u o: An orthography & picture dictionary for Coatzospan Mixtec
10:40 Jule Gómez de García (CSU-San Marcos), Melissa Axelrod (U NM), & Jordan Lachler (U NM): The roles of literacy & collaboration in documenting Native American languages: A report from the Jicarilla Apache Dictionary Project
11:00 Alice Taff (U AK-Fairbanks) & Donna Miller MacAlpine (Anvik Historical Society): Producing the Deg Xinag (Ingalik Athabascan Dene) Learners' Dictionary
11:20 Alice Taff (U AK-Fairbanks) & Beth Dementi Leonard (U AK-Fairbanks): A model for adult learners of indigenous languages [Deg Xinag Athabascan]
11:40 Brent Galloway (SIFC/U Regina): Language preservation & revival: Passing the torches for Upriver Halkomelem