Program
All sessions meet in 370 Dwinelle Hall: Friday | Saturday | Sunday. For a printable (PDF) version of the program, click here. For the workshop booklet (PDF), click here.
The workshop is free and open to the public; all are welcome. If you plan to attend, please let us know (wscla18@socrates.berkeley.edu) so we can plan accordingly.
Friday, April 5
Morning session
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee, tea, pastries |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Vincent Medina (Chochenyo Ohlone) |
| 9:05 – 10:05 |
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (Victoria) Decolonizing a linguist: Towards collaborative practice in two Salish language projects |
| 10:05 – 10:35 |
Sunghwa Lee (Victoria) Non-inflectional multiple exponence in Nuu-chah-nulth |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Break: Coffee and tea |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Kyumin Kim (Calgary) The instrument linker iiht-/oht- in Blackfoot as a functional p |
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Nico Baier (Berkeley) Separating Case and agreement in Montana Salish |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Leslie Saxon (Victoria) Relative clauses as arguments or adjuncts |
Afternoon session
| 2:00 – 3:00 |
Joyce McDonough (Rochester) What the phonetics can tell us about structure |
| 3:00 – 3:30 |
John Sylak-Glassman (Berkeley) An Agreement-by-Correspondence analysis of Máíhɨki nasalization harmony |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Break: Coffee and tea |
| 4:00 – 4:30 |
Donna B. Gerdts & Kevin Baetscher (Simon Fraser) Variation and change in Hul'q'umi'num' and their impact on language maintenance |
| 4:30 – 5:30 |
Lorna Williams (Victoria) Nuk'wantwal' I kws zum'inum ti nqwelutinlhkalha: Helping each other to save our languages |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Reception (in 371 Dwinelle) |
Saturday, April 6
Morning session
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee, tea, pastries |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Maziar Toosarvandani (Mass. Institute of Technology) Clause chaining in Northern Paiute |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Meagan Louie (British Columbia) Licensing different kinds of if-clauses in Blackfoot |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break: Coffee and tea |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Kevin Baetscher & Donna B. Gerdts (Simon Fraser) Basic (and not so basic) locative constructions in Hul'q'umi'num' Salish |
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Suzi Lima (U. Mass. Amherst) & Pikuruk Kaiabi (Projeto de Documentação de Línguas Indígenas, Museu do
Índio) The count/mass distinction in Kawaiwete (Tupi; Brazil) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Ryan Bochnak (Chicago) Underspecified modality in Washo |
Afternoon session
| 2:00 – 3:00 |
Andrés Salanova (Ottawa) On the character of languages of active typology: A reconsideration of Klimov's approach to split-intransitivity |
| 3:00 – 3:30 |
Daisy Rosenblum (Santa Barbara & Berkeley) Revisiting argument structure in Kwak'wala |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Break: Coffee and tea |
| 4:00 – 4:30 |
Tammy Stark (Berkeley) Garifuna copular clauses: Evidence for a mapping between syntax and information structure |
| 4:30 – 5:30 |
Meredith Johnson & Monica Macaulay (Madison) Why not bi? A monoclausal analysis of Menominee wh-questions |
Sunday, April 7
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee, tea, pastries |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Eladio Mateo Toledo (B'alam) (CIESAS-Sureste) Destinative constructions in Q'anjob'al (Maya): Complex clause or complex predicate? |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Tammi Stout (Austin) The proleptic possessive construction in Kaqchikel |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break: Coffee and tea |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Murat Yasavul (The Ohio State University) Definiteness in K'iche' |
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Judith Aissen (Santa Cruz) Locality and partial agreement in Tzotzil |