Program
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Sessions will include a 30 minute talk by each presenter with discussion and questions at the end of each session.
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Friday, 4 May 2012 700 Clark Hall |
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| 8:30 - 9:30 | Registration and breakfast |
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| Session 1 | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Jürgen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo - SUNY) In the Mood for Status: Subjunctive and Irrealis in Yucatec |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Kirill Shklovsky (MIT) Expletive Negation and Polarity Focus in Tseltal (Mayan) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Generation of alternatives in Navajo: The case of daats'í |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Comments and discussion: Mats Rooth (Cornell University) |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee break |
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| 11:45 - 12:45 | Invited speaker: Meagan Louie (University of British Columbia) Two Strategies for Accommodating Blackfoot Conditional Antecedents |
| Chair: Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University) | |
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| 12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch |
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| Session 2 | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Ana Müller (University of São Paulo) Karitiana: A Language with no DPs |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Domain Restriction and the Expression kar in the Kaingang Language |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Comments and discussion: Miloje Despic (Cornell University) |
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| 3:20 - 3:30 | Coffee break |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 | Invited speaker: Richard Littlebear (Chief Dull Knife College) The Significance of Learning and Teaching the Cheyenne Language |
| Chair: Sarah Murray (Cornell University) | |
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| 4:30 - 4:45 | Coffee break |
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| Session 3 | |
| 4:45 - 5:15 | Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Distributive Numerals in Tlingit: Pluractionality and Distributivity |
| 5:15 - 5:45 | Rebecca Laturnus (University of British Columbia) Future Modals in Ktunaxa |
| 5:45 - 6:05 | Comments and discussion: Jürgen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo - SUNY) |
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Saturday, 5 May 2012 120 Physical Sciences Building |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Breakfast |
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| Session 4 | |
| 9:30 -- 10:00 | Julia Thomas and Timothy Grinsell (University of Chicago) Finna as a Socially Meaningful Modal in African American English |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Stacey Menzies (University of British Columbia) Nsyilxcen Epistemic Modals |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Comments and discussion: Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University) |
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| 10:50 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 | Invited speaker: Maria Bittner (Rutgers University) Perspectival Discourse Referents for Indexicals |
| Chair: Dorit Abusch (Cornell University) | |
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| 12:00 - 12:15 | Coffee break |
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| Poster Session | |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Poster overviews |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | Posters and lunch |
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| Fábio Bonfim Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais) On the Semantics of Affectedness in the Ka'apor Language |
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| Carlos A. Fasola (Rutgers University) Time in Mapudungun |
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| Jo Johnson (Cornell University) Pragmatic underspecification of tag question evidentials in Mi'kmaq |
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| Aviva Shimelman (San José State University) Yauyos Quechua Evidentials and Evidential Modifiers |
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| Bettina Spreng (University of Toronto) Default Viewpoint Aspect without Tense: The Case of Inuktitut |
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| Invited poster: Mia McKie (Cornell University, Department of Development Sociology) Visualizing Skarù:rę' |
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| Session 5 | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Denis Paperno (University of California, Los Angeles) Comitative Coordination in Q'anjob'al |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Teresa Galloway (Cornell University) Distinguishing Correlatives from Internally Headed Relative Clauses in ASL |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Comments and discussion: Jeff Runner (University of Rochester) |
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| 3:20 - 3:30 | Coffee break |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 | Invited speaker: Theodore Fernald (Swarthmore College) Theoretical, Descriptive and Practical Applications of Navajo Linguistics |
| Chair: Molly Diesing (Cornell University) | |
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| 4:30 - 4:45 | Coffee break |
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| Session 6 | |
| 4:45 - 5:15 | Judith Tonhauser (The Ohio State University) Reportative Evidentiality in Paraguayan Guaraní |
| 5:15 - 5:45 | Patrick Littell and Scott Mackie (University of British Columbia) Further Dimensions of Evidential Variation: Evidence from Nɬeʔkepmxcín |
| 5:45 - 6:05 | Comments and discussion: Sarah Murray (Cornell University) |
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| 6:30 - 9:00 | Dinner at the A. D. White House |
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Sunday, 6 May 2012 120 Physical Sciences Building |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Breakfast |
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| Session 7 | |
| 9:30 -- 10:00 | Claire K. Turner (University of British Columbia) Perfective Readings in Saanich: The ET ⊆ RT account |
| 10:00 -- 10:30 | Guillaume Thomas (MIT) Towards a Unified Analysis of Nominal and Sentential Tense in Mbyá |
| 10:30 -- 10:50 | Comments and discussion: Daniel Altshuler (Swarthmore College) |
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| 10:50 -- 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| Session 8 | |
| 11:00 -- 11:30 | Amy Rose Deal (University of California, Santa Cruz) Nez Perce Embedded Indexicals |
| 11:30 -- 12:00 | Dan Velleman (University of Texas, Austin) Projection and Belief in K'ichee': Two Examples of Crosslinguistic Semantic Variation |
| 12:00 -- 12:20 | Comments and discussion: William Starr (Cornell University) |
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| 12:20 -- 12:30 | Coffee break |
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| 12:30 -- 1:30 | Invited speaker: Robert Henderson (University of California, Santa Cruz) A Scalar Account of Mayan Positional Roots |
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| 1:30 -- 2:30 | Lunch |
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