The following changes have been made to the SSILA 2017 program. Any additional changes will also be posted on this page, and you can always view the most up-to-date program here, and download the latest PDF version here.
- Cancelled: First thoughts about the prehistory of Tlacolulita Zapotec - Rosemary Beam De Azcoma (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia), originally at 3:00 Friday.
- Change of Time: Jeffrey Davis' (University of Tennessee) talk titled 'Historical and contemporary evidenve for a signed lingua franca among American Indian Nations' is now Friday @ 3:00 rather than 3:30.
- Change of Time: The session on Ideophones now begins Friday @ 3:30 rather than 4:00. This session includes the following talks:
- Rethinking mono-sensory, implicational approaches to ideophones in Pastaza Quichua - Janis Nuckolls (Brigham Young University), Sydney Jensen (Brigham Young University), Emily Peterson (Brigham Young University), & Matthew Millar (Brigham Young University)
- The onomatopoeic ideophone-gesture relationship in Pastaza Quichua - Sarah Hatton (Brigham Young University)
- Cancelled: Rosetta Stone Chickasaw - Juliet Morgan (University of Oklahoma) & Joshua Hinson (Chickasaw Nation), originally at 4:00 Friday.
- Cancelled: Copular Clauses in Cherokee and Baker’s Theory of Agreement - Faruk Akkus (University of Pennsylvania), originally at 4:00 Friday.
- Cancelled: Non-Topical Pragmatic Functions of Bribri Intermittent Ergative Marking - Rolando Coto-Solano (University of Arizona) & Adriana Molina-Muñoz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), originally at 11:00 Saturday.
- Cancelled: Phonetics or phonology: The interaction between pitch and Dorsey’s Law vowels in Mandan - Ryan Kasak (Yale University) & Jonnia Torres (University of Colorado, Boulder), originally at 11:30 Saturday.
- Cancelled: A reinterpretation of "independent" transitive clauses in Tsimshianic - Marie-Lucie Tarpent (Dalhousie University), originally at 11:00 Friday.
- Change of Title: Eladio (B'alam) Mateo Toledo's (CIESAS - Sureste) talk title has been updated to, 'The status of prenominal adjectives in Q’anjob’al / La ausencia de adjetivos modificadores en q’anjob’al y otras lenguas mayas'. His talk is Saturday @ 4:30.
- Typo: Timothy Henry's talk (Friday @ 8:30 a.m.) should be titled, 'Typological contributions of Ventureño Chumash possessive constructions'.
- Typo: The special session on the Terrence Kaufman archival collection should be titled, 'The relevance of language documentation to the field of linguistics: Case studies based on the Terrence Kaufman Collection at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America'.