PROGRAM

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Monday, August 3

Salish Kootenai College – Pablo, Montana
Three Wolves Building (** Please note change in venue**)
Building #61 on campus map

9:30-10:00 Coffee and Registration
10:00-10:30 Welcoming Remarks
  CHAIR: Peter Jacobs (University o British Columbia/Squamish Nation)
10:30-11:00 Language Teaching Techniques
Native American Language Teacher Training Institute Staff
11:00-11:30 Academic-Community Collaboration: Data Collection, Linguistics Research, and Language Teaching
Mizuki Miyashita (UM) & Rosella Many Bears (Cuts Wood School, Piegan Institute)
11:30-12:00 Using Documentation to Revitalize Language
Susan Penfield (Documenting Endangered Languages - National Science Foundation)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (to be provided)
  CHAIR: April Charlo (Native American Language Teacher Training Institute)
1:30-2:00 Developing Blackfoot Language Teaching in Collaboration
Mizuki Miyashita & Annabelle Chatsis (University of Montana)
2:00-2:30 Nḱʷusm's Journey to Revitalize the Salish Language
Chaney Bell, Rosemary Matt, Melanie Sandoval (Nḱʷusm)
2:30-3:00 Salish Language Dictionary
Tachini Pete (Nḱʷus )
3:00-3:30 Break
  CHAIR: Joshua Brown (Native American Language Teacher Training Institute)
3:30-4:00 Funding Endangered Languages Projects
Susan Penfield (Documenting Endangered Languages - National Science Foundation)
4:00-5:00 Open discussion/language program and project reports
6:00 Dinner at the KwaTaqNuk Resort
(hosted by the Native American Language Teacher Training Institute)

 

Tuesday, August 4

The University of Montana – Missoula, Montana
3rd Floor University Center Room 330

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Registration
  CHAIR: Naomi Shin (University of Montana)
9:00-9:30 Free Relatives in St’át’imcets
Henry Davis (University of British Columbia)
9:30-10:00 An Approach to Blackfoot Argument Structure
Donald G. Frantz (University of Lethbridge)
10:00-10:30 What’s inside an Upriver Halkomelem nominalized clause
James Thompson (University of British Columbia)
10:30-11:00 Break
  CHAIR: Leora Bar-el (University of Montana)
11:00-11:30 The semantics of the St’át’imcets subjunctive
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
11:30-12:00 Transitivity in Skwxwú7mesh
Peter Jacobs (University of British Columbia /Squamish Nation)
12:00-12:30 Word-based word-formation in Halkomelem
Suzanne Urbanczyk (University of Victoria)
12:30-2:00 Lunch (on your own - please see dining guide in your registration package)
  CHAIR: Irene Appelbaum (University of Montana)
2:00-2:30 Visualizing a Lushootseed Dictionary Database
Dawn Bates (Arizona State University) & Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University)
2:30-3:00 An Interlinear Analysis of Seven Kalispel Texts from Hans Vogt
Kelsi Camp (University of Montana)
3:00-3:30 Action on Parts of Wholes in Nɬeʔkepmxcín
Patrick Littell (University of British Columbia)
3:30-4:00 Break
  CHAIR: Suzanne Urbanczyk (University ov Victoria)
4:00-4:30 Non-Exhaustive Parsing: Phonetic and Phonological Evidence from St’át’imcets
Marion Caldecott (University of British Columbia)
4:30-5:00 The effect of /q/ on adjacent vowels in SENĆOŦEN: Phonetics or phonology?
Sonya Bird & Janet Leonard (University of Victoria)
5:00-5:30 Business Meeting CHAIR: Henry Davis (University of British Columbia)

 

Wednesday August 5

The University of Montana – Missoula, Montana
3rd Floor University Center Room 330

9:00-9:30 Coffee
  CHAIR: Tully Thibeau (University of Montana)
9:30-10:00 Okanagan Demonstratives and their Uses in Story
John Lyon (University of British Columbia)
10:00-10:30 WH-Quantifier Interactions in St’át’imcets
Henry Davis (University of British Columbia)
10:30-11:00 Grammar and Discourse Structure in KUTENAI TALES
Irene Appelbaum (University of Montana)
11:00-11:30 Salish Words for ‘Black Bear’ and ‘Grizzly Bear’
Jan P. van Eijk (First Nations University of Canada)
11:30-12:30 Coffee and Farewell!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Us

Linguistics Program
The University of Montana
Social Sience Building
32 Campus Drive
Missoula, MT 59812

Email: ICSNL44@umontana.edu

Conference Organizers

Leora Bar-el (UM Linguistics)
Joshua Brown (SKC NALTTI)

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