Winter 2018 Meeting
January 4–7, 2018
Grand America Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
The annual winter meeting of SSILA was held jointly with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, January 4–7, 2018.
Business Meeting
The minutes from the 2018 Business Meeting may be viewed here.
Contents
Thursday afternoon
Friday morning
Friday afternoon
Saturday morning
Saturday afternoon
Sunday morning
Thursday Afternoon
Evidentiality (4:00 – 5:00): Milano
Chair: Katarzyna Wojtylak (James Cook University)
4:00 – The synchrony and diachrony of evidentiality in Tuparí (Tupían, Brazil)
Adam Singerman (University of Chicago)
4:30 – Egophoricity and evidential-epistemic morphemes in Nam Trik
Geny Gonzales Castaño (Université Lumière Lyon 2, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage)
Revitalization (5:00 – 6:30): Milano
Chair: Laura Cranmer (Vancouver Island University)
5:00 – On the relevance of community-centered archival research to language revitalization
Patricia A. Shaw (University of British Columbia)
5:30 – Los efectos inesperados de la documentación: Responsabilidad política, cambio social y métodos de comunicación
Uboye Gaba (Waorani, Ecuador)
6:00 – The dynamic state of the Brunca language: An analysis of vitality
Aroline Seibert Hanson (Arcadia University)
Lexicography (5:00 – 6:30): Audubon
Chair: Olga Lovick (First Nations University of Canada)
5:00 – Expressing movement in Copala Triqui
Michael Stoop (University of Florida)
5:30 – Negation strategies in Itunyoso Triqui: Evidence from experimental and corpus data
Richard Hatcher (University at Buffalo)
Christian DiCanio (University at Buffalo)
6:00 – Lexicological parameters for synonym series of Denesu̜ɬiné emotion verbs
Josh Holden (Blue Quills First Nations University)
8:30 – Sister Society Meet & Greet Reception: Lobby Lounge
Friday Morning
Special Session: Dene (Athabascan) Languages in Story, Poem, & Song (9:00 – 12:00): Milano
Organizers: Olga Lovick (First Nations University of Canada) & Siri Tuttle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Western Apache literature in the Fort Apache Scout newspaper CANCELED
Willem de Reuse (University of North Texas; The Language Conservancy)
On the quest for a non-bossy translation: The Navajo poetry of Rex Lee Jim CANCELED
Anthony K. Webster (University of Texas at Austin)
10:00 – Welcome & Introduction
Olga Lovick (First Nationas University of Canada)
Siri Tuttle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
10:05 – Reading performativity: Exceptional prosody in transcribed Hupa narratives
Justin Spence (University of California, Davis)
10:25 – Vocables and vowel inventories in Lower Tanana Dene
Siri Tuttle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
10:45 – Questions & Discussion
11:00 – The Kwadacha Tseke’ene Nats’oodalh stories
Sharon Hargus (University of Washington)
11:20 – The Che’ t’iin iin (Tailed People) of Tetlin: Between human and animal
Olga Lovick (First Nations University of Canada)
11:35 – Questions & Discussion
Genealogical & Areal Linguistics (9:00 – 12:00): Audubon
Chair: Raina Heaton (University of Oklahoma)
9:00 – A historical glottometric account of Enlhet-Enenlhet genetic relations
Jens Van Gysel (University of New Mexico)
9:30 – Enlhet-Enenlhet alignment in the Chaco areal context
John Elliott (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
10:00 – Language contact in Caquetá and Putumayo river basins in Northwest Amazonia
Katarzyna Wojtylak (James Cook University)
10:30 – Amazonian areal features in Sáliban grammar
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta)
11:00 – Lexical evidence for the former presence of Unangam Tunuu in currently Alutiiq areas
Anna Berge (Alaska Native Language Center)
11:30 – The Kalapuyan formant st in internal and areal perspective CANCELED
Marie-Lucie Tarpent (Mount Saint Vincent University)
Acquisition (9:00 – 10:30): Vienna
Chair: Marianna Di Paolo (University of Utah)
9:00 – Periphrasis in the first-language acquisition of possession in Northern East Cree CANCELED
Ryan E. Henke (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
9:30 – Asymmetries in the L2 acquisition of Macuiltianguis Zapotec tones
Katherine Riestenberg (Smithsonian Institution)
10:00 – Attrition and reconfiguration of evidential marking in Southern Quechua and Andean Spanish
Susan Kalt (Brown University)
Presented by Anna Babel (Ohio State University)
Morphology (10:30 – 12:30): Vienna
Chair: Martin Kohlberger (Leiden University)
10:30 – The elaboration of similative case in Quechua
Dan Hintz (SIL International)
11:00 – Development units and their morphological marking in Quechua narrative discourse
Diane Hintz (SIL International)
11:30 – Máíhɨ̃ki noun classification and the general-specific split
Stephanie Farmer (Macalester College)
12:00 – Clitic distribution in Nxaʔamxcín Salish
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (University of Victoria)
Friday Afternoon
Special Session: Language Change & Documentation in the Americas: Studies in Honor of Lyle Campbell (2:00 – 5:00): Milano
Chairs:
Wilson Silva (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Thiago Chacon Thiago Chacon (University of Brasilia)
Nala H. Lee Nala H. Lee (National University of Singapore)
2:00 – Introduction
Wilson Silva (Rochester Institute of Technology)
2:05 – Continuity and change in a northern Dene language area: reconsidering change
Keren Rice (University of Toronto)
2:25 – Variation and change in the distribution of *-(V)n and *-(V)w in Kaqchikel
Raina Heaton (University of Oklahoma)
2:45 – Alienability and affectedness
Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
3:05 – Place names of Eastern Algonquian origin and what their study can tell us
Ives Goddard (Smithsonian Institution)
3:25 – Day names of Greater Lowland Mayan divinatory calendars
John Justeson (University at Albany, SUNY)
3:45 – Adventures in decipherment
Terrence Kaufman (University of Pittsburgh)
4:05 – Contextualizing language data in documentary linguistics
Chris Rogers (Brigham Young University)
4:25 – Discussion
4:55 – Final Remarks
Semantics (2:00 – 3:30): Fontainbleau
Chair: Bruce Mannheim (University of Michigan)
2:00 – Lexical semantics and Caquinte frustrative constructions
Zachary O’Hagan (University of California, Berkeley)
2:30 – The San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec andative and venitive
Carolyn Jane Anderson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3:00 – The constrastive particle nesh in Potawatomi CANCELED
Robert Lewis (University of Chicago)
Syntax 1 (2:00 – 4:00): Audubon
Chair: Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta)
2:00 – How to swear in Zapotec: The grammar of Tlacolula Valley Zapotec expletives
Pamela Munro (University of California, Los Angeles)
2:30 – The Sayuleño middle suffix
Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley)
3:00 – Absolutive antipassives in Ch’orti’ (Mayan): A historical / comparative view
Robin Quizar (Metro State University of Denver)
3:30 – Clause types and directive speech acts in Nasa Yuwe
Esteban Diaz Montenegro (Université Lumière Lyon 2, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage)
Demonstratives & Determiners (3:30 – 5:00): Fontainbleau
Chair: Zachary O’Hagan (University of California, Berkeley)
3:30 – Determiners and demonstratives in Pilagá (Gran Chaco, Argentina)
Doris Payne (University of Oregon)
Alejandra Vidal (CONICET)
4:00 – Perceptual meanings in Ticuna demonstratives
Amalia Skilton (University of California, Berkeley)
4:30 – Syntax and semantics of demonstratives in Southern Sierra Miwok
Irina Wagner (University of Colorado Boulder)
Andrew Cowell (University of Colorado Boulder)
Historical Linguistics (4:00 – 5:30): Vienna
Chair: Anthony Yates (University of California, Los Angeles)
4:00 – Verbal person markings in Chayma: Old data, new insights
Tania Granadillo (University of Western Ontario)
4:30 – Lessons from an isolate: Chitimacha diachrony in areal perspective
Daniel W. Hieber (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Saturday Morning
Phonetics / Phonology 1 (8:30 – 10:30): Milano
Chair: Christian Koops (University of New Mexico)
8:30 – Fricatives and stratification of Spanish loanwords in Imbabura Quichua
Michael Galant (California State University Dominguez Hills)
9:00 – The emergence of consonant-vowel metathesis in Karuk
Andrew Garrett (University of California, Berkeley)
Tyler Lau (University of California, Berkeley)
9:30 – Fortis and lenis consonants in Potawatomi (and Ojibwe): Converging lines of evidence
Hunter Lockwood (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
10:00 – Sociolinguistic variation in Diné stops
Kayla Palakurthy (University of California, Santa Barbara)
10:30 – Reconstructing the phonetics of a dormant language: Remapping audio recordings onto manuscripts
Megan Lukaniec (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Syntax 2 (9:00 – 11:00): Audubon
8:30 – Additive focus in Lakota CANCELED
Jan Ullrich (Lakota Language Consortium)
9:00 – Expletive voice: Another look at the causative in Creek
Kimberly Johnson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
9:30 – French borrowings within the Michif VP
Carrie Gillon (University of Manitoba)
Nicole Rosen (University of Manitoba)
10:00 – Discontinuous noun phrases in Karuk
Erik Hans Maier (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30 – Greenlandic negation might not be in the syntax
Jerry Sadock (University of Chicago)
Ideophones (9:30 – 11:00): Vienna
Chair: Diane Hintz (SIL International)
9:00 – Grammatical integration of ideophones in Tsafiki (Barbacoan) CANCELED
Connie Dickinson (Universidad Regional Amazónica, Ikiam)
9:30 – Ideophone integration and expressiveness in Wao Terero
Alexia Fawcett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
10:00 – Sense relations and sensory clustering in Pastaza Quichua ideophones
Janis Nuckolls (Brigham Young University)
10:30 – Sound symbolism alive in Naso ideophones (Chibchan, Panama)
Natalia Bermudez (University of Texas at Austin)
SSILA Business Meeting (Saturday 11:00 – 12:30)
Saturday Afternoon
Special Session: Sharing Our Views: Native Americans Speak about Language & Linguists (2:00 – 5:00): Imperial A
Chair: Wesley Leonard (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; University of California, Riverside), co-sponsored with LSA
2:00 – Towards a Native American linguistics
Wesley Y. Leonard (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; University of California, Riverside)
2:30 – Supporting Native and Indigenous linguists in academia
Megan Lukaniec (Huron-Wendat Nation; University of California, Santa Barbara)
3:00 – Categorizing language: Reconsidering the category of mood in Unangam Tunuu
Christina Laree Newhall (Native Village of Unga; University of California, Los Angeles)
3:30 – Weaving words: Understanding Chickasaw language reclamation through culturally significant metaphor
Kari A. B. Chew (Chickasaw Nation; University of Arizona)
Sherrie Begay (Fani’ Iskanno’si)
4:00 – Keeping vital: A Karuk community perspective
Crystal Richardson (Karuk, Yurok; University of California, Davis)
4:30 – Chemenankatem: Re-culturating Cahuilla language revitalization and elucidating the role of allyship with linguistics
William Madrigal, Jr. (Cahuilla; Páayish Néken; University of California, Riverside)
Raymond Huaute (Cahuilla, Chumash, Páayish Néken)
Interfaces (2:00 – 4:30): Milano
2:00 – The morphophonology of aspect in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec
Iara Mantenuto (University of California, Los Angeles)
Brice Roberts (University of California, Los Angeles)
2:30 – The role of morphosyntax in Karuk prefix accentability
Clare Sandy (University of California, Berkeley)
3:00 – NP coordination, lists, etc. in Hul’q’umi’num’ Salish
Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University)
Zachary Gilkison (Simon Fraser University)
3:30 – Prosody and intonation in Cayuga
Michael Barrie (Sogang University)
4:00 – Pronouns in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec
Iara Mantenuto (University of California, Los Angeles)
Brice Roberts (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sunday Morning
Phonetics / Phonology 2 (9:30 – 11:30): Milano
Chair: John E. McLaughlin (Utah State University)
9:00 – Reconstructing weight-sensitive stress in Southern Pomo CANCELED
Neil Alexander Walker (California State University, Fullerton)
9:30 – On the diachrony of word stress in the Cupan languages
Anthony Yates (University of California, Los Angeles)
10:00 – Pitch accent in Mandan
Indrek Park (Indiana University)
10:30 – A case for musicolinguistics: Melody and lexical tone in Tlahuapa Tu’un Sàví
Morgan Sleeper (University of California, Santa Barbara)
11:00 – Tunica vowel coalescence: Constraints for quality
Brett C. Nelson (University of Calgary)
Morphology / Syntax Interface (9:00 – 11:00): Audubon
Chair: Michael Barrie (Sogang University)
9:00 – Guerrero Nahuatl and the polysynthesis parameter
Zahra Alzebaidi (California State University, Fresno)
9:30 – Three (hidden) obliques in Gitksan
Colin Brown (McGill University)
Clarissa Forbes (University of Toronto)
10:00 – Relativization and finiteness in Yukuna
Magdalene Lemus Serrano (Université Lumière Lyon 2, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage)
10:30 – Complementation and reported speech in Chuxnabán Mixe
Carmen Jany (California State University, San Bernardino)