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>From: Fiona Whalen <6500frw0@UCSBUXA.UCSB.EDU>
>Subject:      Announcement: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
>To: FUNKNET@LISTSERV.RICE.EDU
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>            WORKSHOP ON AMERICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
>                        Santa Barbara, CA
>                         May 14-16, 1999
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>
>The linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
>announces its second annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
>(WAIL), a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive
>linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas.
>
>               ** Invited Speaker: Sara Trechter **
>
>   * Roundtable Discussion led by Wallace Chafe and Marianne Mithun
>   * Presentation by the UCSB American Indian Student Association
>   * Reception and dinner
>
>Registration: $20 (see form at end of message)
>
>For further information check out our web site at:
>        http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/wail.html
>
>or contact conference coordinator at:
>        wail@humanitas.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776
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>                     PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Friday
>
>Session 1
>Matthew Gordon                          Intonational properties of
>                                        Chickasaw
>
>Eugene Buckley                          On the naturalness of unnatural
>                                        rules
>
>Graham Horwood                          Anti-faithfulness and Subtractive
>                                        Morphology
>
>Session 2
>Loretta O'Connor                        Classificatory verbs of transfer
>                                        in Lowland Chontal
>
>James Copeland                          Marking of Semantic Roles and
>                                        Grammatical Relations in Tarahumara
>
>Robert Cromack                          Simple Forms and Multiple
>                                        Functions in Cashinawa Narrative
>
>UCSB American Indian Students Association
>
>
>Saturday
>
>Session 3
>William Weigel                          Referential Tracking in Yokuts
>                                        Languages
>
>Anna Berge                              Preliminary Studies of the
>                                        Distribution of Aamma in West
>                                        Greenlandic
>
>Timothy  Thornes                        Demonstratives in Northern Paiute
>
>Session 4
>                        Keynote Address
>                         Sara Trechter
>
>Session 5
>Pilar Maritza Valenzuela                Transitivity, Case-Marking, and
>                                        Switch-Reference in Shipibo-Konibo
>
>Nancy Mattina                           Toward a history of the
>                                        inflectional future in
>                                        Colville-Okanagan Salish
>
>Session 6
>Rosa Yanez Rosales                      Language Replacement in a Nahuatl
>                                        Speaking Community: Testimonies of
>                                        the Speakers and Their Children
>
>Fred Field                              A quantitative look at borrowing
>                                        patterns in Malinche Mexicano
>
>John Nichols                            Incorporative and Hyperbolic
>                                        Variation in Severn Ojibwe
>
>Session 7
>Roundtable Discussion
>
>Party
>
>
>Sunday
>
>Session 8
>Randy Rightmire                         Native vs. borrowed grammar:
>                                        Relative clauses in Santa Maria
>                                        Chimalapa Zoque
>
>Jeff Rasch                              The grammaticization and
>                                        lexicalization of Yaitepec Chatino
>                                        '7o'
>
>Sergio Meira de Santa Cruz Oliveira     Nominalizations in Tiriyo
>
>
>Session 9
>Ellen Courtney                          Child Acquisition of the Quechua
>                                        Affirmative Suffix
>
>Connie Dickinson                        Mirativity, Evidentiality and
>                                        Semantic Verb Classes in Tsafiki
>                                        (Colorado)
>
>Session 10
>Rosemary G Beam de Azcona               Ablaut in Coatlan-Loxicha Zapotec,
>                                        a diachronic explanation
>
>Darin Howe and Patricia Shaw            Prosodic Faithfulness: Vowel
>                                        Syncope and Reduction as
Output-Output
>                                        Correspondence
>
>Suzanne Wash                            Immitative Sound Symbolism in
>                                        Miwok Languages
>
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>
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>Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Registration Form
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Name:        _____________________________________
>
>Affiliation: _____________________________________
>
>Address:     _____________________________________
>             _____________________________________
>             _____________________________________
>
>Phone:       _____________________________________
>
>E-mail:      _____________________________________
>
>
>Would you be interested in purchasing a copy of
>the conference procedings?
>
>Yes ___     No ___
>
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>
>Registration for the conference is $20 per person.
>Make checks payable to WAIL. Send check or money
>order and form to:
>
>Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
>Department of Linguistics
>University of California
>Santa Barbara, CA 93106
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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