Fifty-Second Algonquian Conference

Program

Photo: Jeff Miller/UW-Madison. About this canoe.

Welcome

The 52nd Algonquian Conference was held October 23–25, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held entirely online.

 

 

 

 

 

Program

Time (CT) Friday October 23, 2020

Mendota room Monona room
9:00-9:30 Set up, tech support
9:30-9:40 Welcome
9:40-9:55 Gordon Jourdain: Opening Blessing
Gakijiwanong (Lac La Croix) First Nation in the Boundary Waters
10:00-10:30 Henke: Marking number and obviation for possessors: Child and child-directed speech in Northern East Cree Weber: Phonological domains within Blackfoot: Towards a family-wide comparison
10:35-11:05 Schmirler & Arppe: A quantitative look at Plains Cree text types Vogel: The phonology of multiple types of vowel devoicing in Cheyenne
11:05-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Cowell: The Nawathinehena Language Murray et al.: Cheyenne demonstratives: A corpus study
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Geniusz et al.: Ozhibii’amaang Remedios: Writing the Story of Remedios Rice: The Preterit Mode and Counterfactuality
1:35-2:05 Whitney: Linguistic Landscapes: Ojibwe Signage in Northern Minnesota Windsor: Two Standard Negation Constructions in Oji-Cree
2:05-2:30 Break
2:30-3:00 Lewis: A History of Potawatomi Language Planning and Policy: Education Funding from 1819 to 1848 Schenck: An Alternate View Of Ojibwe Ethnogenesis
3:05-4:05 Business meeting
4:05-5:05 Social Hour
Time (CT) Saturday, October 24, 2020

Mendota room Monona room

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9:00-10:00 Set up, tech support
10:00-10:30 Sylliboy et al.: Causative construction in Mi’kmaw Junker et al.: The Online Learning Platform for Algonquian Languages
10:35-11:05 Xu: The cline of the peripheral agreement and its implication about object types Huggins-Daines et al.: Readalongs: Automatic alignment of speech and text for Indigenous language audiobooks
11:05-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Collette: Siouan and Algonquian Linguistic Interference Junker: ᒋᓵᒋᐦᐄᑎᓐ chisâchihîtin ‘I love you’: How to teach and learn the infamous Algonquian Transitive Animate Verb
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Whitney et al.: A Survey of “Classificatory Medials” in Ojibwe: Classifiers versus Incorporation Wilson: Quantitative Analysis of Negation in Two Cree Corpora
1:35-2:05 Vaala: Numeral Classifiers in Menominee Schmirler: Infrequent morphosyntactic phenomena in Plains Cree
2:05-2:30 Break
2:30-3:00 Genee & Li: Measuring the VOT of Blackfoot oral stops Dahlstrom: Ditransitive Licensing of Long Distance Agreement in Meskwaki
3:05-3:35 Hammerly: Processing obviation and voice in Border Lakes Ojibwe Thomason: The sound in the sky of cranes approaching: II verbs with animate adjuncts in Meskwaki

HANDOUT

3:35-4:35 Social Hour
Time (CT) Sunday, October 25, 2020

Mendota room Monona room

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9:00-10:00 Set up, tech support
10:00-10:30 Mazzoli: Productivity, polysynthesis and the Algonquian languages Harrigan & Arppe: Leveraging English Translations for an automatic Semantic Classification of Plains Cree Verbs and Nouns
10:35-11:05 Odribets & Oxford: Algonquian languages are not ergative Johnson: A morphological parser for Meskwaki
11:05-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 LeSourd: Explaining an Unusual Agreement Pattern in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Lockwood: Survey of wh-questions in Miami-Illinois
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Holmstrom: Discourse Particles in Menominee Ambroise & Junker: From Online Dictionary to Living Online Dictionary: The Innu dictionary in 2020
1:35-2:05 Kasper: Revisiting the Potawatomi é-conjunct Arppe et al.: Towards a morphologically intelligent and user-friendly on-line dictionary of Plains Cree
2:05-2:30 Break
2:30-3:00 Oxford: Direct, inverse, and neutral: Refining the description of Algonquian transitive verb forms Rhodes: The nature of Algonquian bipartite verbs and implications for borrowing
Photo: Jeff Miller/UW-Madison. 2014 UW-Madison spring powwow, organized by Wunk Sheek.

We are grateful to the following for their support of the 52nd Algonquian Conference: The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC), Language Sciences, and American Indian Studies.