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) | Saturday, October 24, 2020
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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 | ||||
3:35-4:35 | Social Hour |
Time (CT) | Sunday, October 25, 2020
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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 |

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.