Fifty-Second Algonquian Conference

Program

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 Zoom Link Zoom Link
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 Zoom Link Zoom Link
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

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.