The Conference on Otomanguean and Oaxacan Languages (COOL)
Department of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
March 19-21, 2004
PROGRAM
All talks will take place in the Murray B. Emeneau conference room (370 Dwinelle Hall), UC Berkeley
Friday
Noon Registration & snacks
1-1:20 Welcome and opening remarks
1:20-2:10 Zapotec Syntax
- Michael Galant, UCLA: Nature of the Standard of Comparison in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec Comparatives
- John Foreman, UCLA & Cal State LA: Experiencer Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec
2:10-3 Invited talk by George Aaron Broadwell, SUNY Albany: The morphology of Zapotec pronominal clitics.
3:15-4:55 Morphology
- Cheryl A. Black, SIL International and University of North Dakota: An Autosegmental Analysis of Tlapanec Noun Inflection
- Søren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & the University of Copenhagen: Tlapanec cases
- Maurizio Gnerre, University of Rome: Some cases in Huave
- Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, UCLA: Is Valley Zapotec lohoh a Dative Marker?
5:10-6 Invited talk by Enrique L. Palancar, UAQ: Minimizing morphology, maximazing function: nasal morphemes in Otomí
6-ish Catered dinner, on-site
Saturday
9-9:50 Invited talk by Pamela Munro, UCLA: Teaching Grammar(s): Balancing Acts for Linguists (The Case of Cali Chiu?)
10-11:15 Language and Society
- Rosemary Beam de Azcona, UC Berkeley: The top ten reasons why you should study an endangered Otomanguean language (with examples from Southern Zapotec).
- Olivia V. Martínez, UCLA: Two Orthographies –One San Juan Guelavía Zapotec Dictionary.
- Daniel Barragán Trejo, Universidad de Guadalajara: Una lengua, dos ecologías: el mi'phaa en La Montaña y La Perla.
- Martha Muntzel, INAH: Ocuiltec Toponyms, a community revitalization project.
11:25-12:15 Invited talk by Alejandro de Ávila, Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca: The classification of life in the Otomanguean family and the non-OM languages of Oaxaca.
12:15 Catered lunch, on-site
1:30-2:20 Discourse & Narrative
- Victor M. Franco Pellotier & Modesta Cruz Hernández, CIESAS-México, D.F.: Oralidad y ritual matrimonial entre los amuzgos de Oaxaca.
- Edgar Martín del Campo, SUNY Albany: An Ethnopoetic Approach to a Copala Triqui Folklore Narrative.
2:30-3:20 Invited talk by Eugene Hunn, University of Washington, Seattle: Mixtepec Zapotec Biological Vocabulary
3:30-5:10 Phonetics & Phonology
- Cindy Williams, SIL: An analysis of Amuzgo nominal tone.
- Mary Paster and Rosemary Beam de Azcona, UC Berkeley: Aspects of tone in the Yucunany dialect of Mixtepec Mixtec.
- Heriberto Avelino, UCLA: Gender and Individual Differences in Voice Quality. Evidence from Yalálag Zapotec.
- Scott Berthiaume, SIL-Mexico: An OT Account of Prestopped Nasals in Xi’iùy.
5:20-6:10 Invited talk by Thomas Smith-Stark, El Colegio de México: Ethnobiological vocabulary in San Baltazar Chichicapan Zapotec
Dinner---on your own
Sunday
9:00-9:50 Invited talk by Terrence Kaufman, University of Pittsburgh: Reconstructing Oto-Manguean Morphosyntax
10:00-11:40 Historical Linguistics
- Michael Swanton, Universiteit Leiden: Philology and the Historical Dialectology of Chochon.
- Natalie Operstein, UCLA: Spanish loan-words and the historical phonology of Zaniza Zapotec.
- Aaron Huey Sonnenschein, USC: The evolution of the phonemic inventory from Proto-Zapotec to present-day Zoogocho Zapotec.
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