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WSCLA 16

16th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas
Feb. 11-13, 2011

All talks will take place in the Campus Center, room 163C

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

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Invited Speakers:

Emmon Bach
SOAS, U. of London

Benjamin Bruening
University of Delaware
 
Amy Rose Deal
Harvard University

Lisa Matthewson
University of British Columbia


The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.

This year's conference at UMass will include general sessions, a poster session, a special session on semantic field work and a special session on language revitalization in New England.  

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Conference organizers:
Seth Cable
Peggy Speas
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Friday, Feb. 11
9:00 Welcome from Dr. Julie Hayes, Dean, UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts
9-9:30 The syntax and semantics of Viewpoint aspect in M?bengokre
Ana Arregui, Maria Luisa Rivero and Andrés Salanova, University of Ottawa
9:30-10 Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo
Ryan Bochnak, Timothy Grinsell and Alan Yu, University of Chicago
10-10:45 Amy Rose Deal, Harvard University
A-thematic possessor raising
break
11-11:30

Question particles in Alsea, Paul Kroeber, Indiana University

11:30-12 Towards a Typology of Algonquian Relative Clauses
Sara Johansson, Memorial University of Newfoundland
lunch
2-2:30 Special Treatment for Stems and Closed Syllables: Tone in Arapaho
Eva Zimmerman and Jochen Trommer, University of Leipzig
2:30-3 The Stress System of Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara)
Niki Foster UCLA
3-3:45

Transitivity Restrictions in Passamaquoddy and other Languages, Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware

4-4:30 Numerals, coercion and the count-mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi)
Suzi Lima, University of Massachusetts
4:30-5 Semantic Evidence for Syntactic Structure: Bare nouns in Innu-aimun
Carrie Gillon, Arizona State University
5-5:30 Mass-count coercion with the Universal Sculptor in Seri
Carolyn O’Meara, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Jurgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo
Saturday Feb. 12
9-9:30 Mapping Opposite Polarities: A Semantics for Blackfoot Noohk-
Meagan Louie, UBC
9:30-10 Splitting POS: Evidence from Navajo for Two POS Morphemes
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, UMass
10-10:45 Modality and the Future in Gitxsan
Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia
break
11-11:30 Evidentiality distinctions in Nivaclé determiners
Analia Gutierrez, UBC
11:30-12 The role of nominalization in Northern Paiute embedding
Maziar Toosarvandani, UCLA
lunch
2-3:30 Language revitalization in New England
Loren Spears, Narragansett
Sherry Gould, Abenaki
Andrea Bear Nicholas, Maliseet
Philip Deering, Mohawk
break
3:45-4:30 Emmon Bach, UMass and University of London(SOAS)
Conjunct and Non-Indicative in Western Abenaki
4:30-5:00 Explaining Agent Extraction Asymmetries: A Sane Analysis Of The Q’anjob’al “Crazy Antipassive”
Jessica Coon and Pedro Mateo Pedro, Harvard University
5-5:30 First-come, First-serve: marker-sensitive blocking
Daniela Henze and Eva Zimmerman, University of Leipzig
6:30 --> Party at Bertucci's in Amherst
Sunday Feb. 13
9-9:30

Adjectives and adverbs as distinct lexical categories in Inuktitut
Richard Compton, University of Toronto


9:30-10 The "attenuated" meaning of undone valency changes in two lowland South American languages
Andres Salanova, University of Ottawa and Filomena Sandalo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
break
10:30-11:00 The syntax of Innu-aimun locatives
Will Oxford, University of Toronto
11:00-11:30 The Syntax of Second Position in Western Abenaki
Phil LeSourd, Indiana University