SSILA Summer Meeting
Berkeley, California, July 17-19, 2009
The SSILA Summer Meeting will be held at the University of California, Berkeley from July 17 through July 19, 2009 during the LSA Summer Institute (
http://lsa2009.berkeley.edu). The registration fee will be $35, discounted to $15 for students enrolled in the Summer Institute.
Here is
the program.
SSILA has made arrangements for conference rates at the Hotel Durant for the nights of 7/16, 7/17, 7/18, and 7/19. The rate is $145 per night. Parking costs $16 per night per vehicle. Bookings should be made prior to June 16, 2009. Indicate that you are affiliated with SSILA.
Hotel Durant
2600 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-845-8981
| Friday, July 17 |
| 9:00-11:00 | Phonology & Phonetics |
|---|
| 9:00 | Gabriele Müller | Intonation in Beaver (Athabaskan) |
| 9:30 | Patricia A. Shaw | Default-to-Opposite Stress: Quantity Sensitivities in a Default-to-Right System |
| 10:00 | Erin Haynes | Phonetic and Phonological Features of L2 Northern Paiute |
| 10:30 | Maria Burgess, Richard Wright and Guadalupe Lopez | An Acoustic Description of Santiago Tamazola Lowlands Mixtec |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15-12:45 | Semantics in South American Languages |
|---|
| 11:15 | Marine Vuillermet | Multi-layered Imperfective Marking in Ese Ejja: From Aktionsart to Periphrasis |
| 11:45 | Françoise Rose | Temporal reference in Mojeño Trinitario demonstratives |
| 12:15 | Wilson Silva | Evidentiality and Clause Modality in Desano |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 2:30-4:00 | Mayan Syntax |
|---|
| 2:30 | Stavros Skopeteas | Morphological demarcation of prosodic domains in Yucatec Maya |
| 3:00 | Marc Peake | Untangling argument marking in Tojol Ab’al Mayan complex sentences |
| 3:30 | Eladio (B’alam) Mateo Toledo | Finiteness in Q’anjob’l (Maya): The Case of Nonverbal Predicates |
| 4:00 | Break |
|
| 4:15-5:45 | Meso-American Discourse |
|---|
| 4:15 | Elisabeth Verhoeven | Animacy hierarchy and passive voice in Yucatec Maya |
| 4:45 | Penelope Brown, Olivier Le Guen and Mark Sicoli | Dialogic repetition in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversation |
| 5:15 | Telma Can | The particle wi in K’ichee’: A focus marker |
| 5:45 | Dinner |
| |
| Saturday, July 18 |
| 9:00-10:30 | Dialectology |
|---|
| 9:00 | Norval Smith | The geography of Yokuts dialects: The northern San Joaquin Valley regrouped |
| 9:30 | Hannah J. Haynie | A Computational Assessment of Deep Relationships Among California Languages |
| 10:00 | Luis Oquendo | La sintaxis dialectal en yukpa |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Historical Linguistics |
|---|
| 10:45 | Sean O’Neill | Athabaskan Language Ecology: On the Comparative Impact of Geography, Contact, and Ideology |
| 11:15 | Karen Sue Rolph | Some evidence of instability in traditional indigenous toponyms in the Peruvian Andes |
| 11:45 | Simeon Floyd | Stages in the development of Cha’palaa numerals |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 | Discourse |
|---|
| 2:00 | Connie Dickinson | Reference Tracking and Evidential/Mirative Constructions in Tsafiki |
| 2:30 | Stavros Skopeteas and Elisabeth Verhoeven | Syntax and Discourse: Field experiments in Yucatec Maya |
| 3:00 | Andrej Kibrik and Olga Markus | Local discourse structure in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:45-4:45 | Syntax |
|---|
| 3:45 | Amy Dahlstrom | Argument structure of Meskwaki ‘AI+O verbs |
| 4:15 | Jack Martin | From switch reference to case marking in Muskogean |
| 4:45 | Break |
| 5:00-6:00 | Morphology |
|---|
| 5:00 | Siri Tuttle and James Kari | U'eł Tay'tesdedzi: The Morphological Clamp |
| 5:30 | Richard Rhodes | Construction morphology meets the Ojibwe verb |
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