Thursday, October 20, 2022
4:00 PM Registration Opens
Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room
5:00 PM Welcome by Conference by Andy Cowell (University of Colorado â Linguistics) and (University Colorado â Law)
5:15 PM Introduction to the IDIL, Aleksei Tsykarev , Vice Chair, United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and University of Colorado â Linguistics 6:00 PM Light Reception
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Friday, October 21, 2022
8:00 Registration Opens
8:45 Land Acknowledgement and Welcome on behalf of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
People (Billie Sutton, Southern Arapaho)
Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room
9:00 - 10:30 Linguists engage the IDIL
Linguists Engage the IDIL: Panel Hosted by Joe Dupris (University of Colorado â Linguistics)
âSuccessful collaborations between Indigenous activists and academic linguists: How IYIL led to three projects for the IDIL.â Shannon Bischoff, Monica Macaulay, D.H. Whalen PDF
âThree Algonquian Community Revitalization Projects: Community Commonalites and Differences, and Current Challenges for Effective Academic Support.â Andy Cowell PDF
10:30 - 12:00 Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies and the IDILâ
Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies and the IDIL: Academic and Community Interactions. Panel Discussion Moderated by Alexis Palmer (University of Colorado - Linguistics)
Marie-Odile Junker (remote), Antti Arppe, Mary Hermes (remote), Nora Livesay, Michael Running Wolf (remote)
Wolf Law Building, Room 207
9:00 - 10:30 Syntax 1
âUnderstanding the e- conjunct in Northwestern Ojibwe.â Aandeg Muldrew PDF
âSubordinative long distance agreement in Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey and the syntax of the inverse.â Peter Grishin PDF
âThe Potawatomi Complementizer System.â Corinne Kasper and Robert Eugene LewisÌęPDF
10:30 - 12:00 Morphosyntax 1: Prefixes and Initials
âA New Look at Prenouns in Menominee.â Leksi Scarr PDF
âMenominee Preverb Ordering Revisited.â Andrew Kline, Monica Macaulay, and Jennifer Stoughton PDF
âAccounting for the variation in use of Algonquian relative roots.â Ying Gong PDF
Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room: General Sessions on IDIL, 2022-3
1:15 - 2:00 PM Keynote Address by Ben Barnes, Chief of the Shawnee Tribe (United States)
2:15 - 4:00 PM Indigenous Language Leaders: Roundtable Discussion
Rosalyn LaPier (Blackfeet), Justin Neely (Potawatomi), Billie Sutton (Southern Arapaho),
Richard Kistabish (Algonquin)
4:15 - 5:00 PM Keynote Address by Paul John Murdoch, Secretary, Cree Nation Government (Canada) Keynote Address
Reception
6:30 PM Reception at CafĂ© Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave (adjacent to campus, on Broadway, north from the Law School) (heavy hors dâoeuvres; beer and wine served)
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Saturday, October 22, 2022
Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room
9:00-10:30 Language Contact and Diachronics
âWhat Do Chocolate and Dogs Have in Common in Innu?â Jeremie Ambroise (remote) PDF
âLoanwords between Iroquoian and Algonquian languages.âÌę Vincent Collette (remote) PDF
âLingua algonquiana cum nominibus gallicis : Du pluriel nominal prĂ©fixĂ© du cri de lâĂźle-Ă la-crosse.â Stephane Goyette PDF
âHow synchronic analysis informs subgrouping: Against Proto-Algonquian-Blackfoot.â Natalie Weber PDF
10:30 - 12:00 Language and Culture 1
âTales of Abenaki Romance in New York State.â Christopher A. Roy (remote) PDF
âLouis Tahamont in Masardis, Maine, June 8, 1860.â Daniel G. Nolett, Philippe Charland, Christopher A. Roy (remote) PDF
âGrammatical Diversity as Means to Tellership Rights in Arapaho Conversational Storytelling,â Irina Wagner PDF
1:00 - 2:30 PM Phonetics/Phonology 1
âInitial Short Vowels, Dialect Variation, and Language Change in Illinois.â David J. CostaÌęPDF
âVariable realization of the Arapaho glottal stop, despite its being distinctive and frequent.â D.H.Whalen,Ìę Christian DiCanio, Wei-Rong Chen PDF
âPhonological and Morpho-Phonological Properties of Vowel Harmony in Arapaho.â Ksenia Bogomolets (remote) PDF
3:00 - 4:30 PM Morphology 1: Inflections
âPatterns of portmanteau robustness across Algonquian.â Will Oxford and Peter GrishinÌęPDF
âCree Theme Sign is a Portmanteau.â Polina Kasyonova PDF
âA comparison of formative elements in Nishnaabemwin, Plains Cree, and Kickapoo.â Yadong Xu (remote) PDF
Wolf Law Building, Room 207
9:00 - 10:30 Acquisition 1
âA first look at the child acquisition of relational verbs in Northern East Cree.â Ryan Henke PDF
âAn integrated learning platform for Border Lakes Ojibwe.â Chad Quinn, Mike Parkhill, Christopher Hammerly PDF
âShawnee Prosody for Pedagogy.â George Blanchard, Anastasia Miller-Youst, Joel Barnes, Carl Schaefer, Terry Hinsley PDF
10:30 - 12:00 Computational and Technological Methods 1
âA text-to-speech system and indigenous avatar for Border Lakes Ojibwe.â Christopher Hammerly, Sonja FougĂšre, Giancarlo Sierra, Scott Parkhill, Harrison Porteous, Chad Quinn PDF
âResampling a Small Corpus to Build a Neural Model of Plains Cree.âAtticus G. Harrigan, Miikka Silfverberg, Antti Arppe PDF
âDeveloping a computational model of Blackfoot morphology: Why it is important and how we can learn from it.â Dominik Kadlec, Antti Arppe, Katie Schmirler and Natalie Weber PDF
âThe Colorado Indigenous Geographies Project: Challenges of Multi-lingual Geographical Documentation and Public Presentation.â Joe Bryan, Seth Greer, Andy Cowell PDF
1:00-2:30 PM Semantics
"Animacy by Analogy: A Review of Grammatical Animacy in Plains Cree/ nĂȘhiyawĂȘwin Nominalizing Suffixes." Daniel Dacanay PDF
âRelational Meanings in Ojibwe.â Richard Rhodes PDF
âTemperature Expressions in the Miami-Illinois Corpus.â Hunter Lockwood PDF
3:00 - 4:30 PM Computational and Technological Methods 2
âĂȘkosi ĂȘ-nĂȘhiyawi-pĂźkiskwĂȘcik maskwacĂźsihk â Towards a Spoken Dictionary of MaskwacĂźs Cree.â Antti Arppe, Jolene Poulin, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Dacanay, Rose Makinaw PDF
âitwĂȘwina: Towards a morphologically intelligent and user-friendly on-line dictionary of Plains Cree.â Jolene Poulin, Antti Arppe, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Dacanay, Eddie Antonio Santos, Ansh Dubey,Ìę Andrew Neitsch, Daniel Hieber, Arok Wolvengrey PDF
âDigitizing, Translating, and Standardizing Pr. Albert Lacombeâs Dictionnaire de la languedes Cris (1874).â Daniel Dacanay and Antti Arppe PDF
Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room
5:00 PM Business Meeting
5:45 PM Continuing the Discussion, 2022 : âAlgonquian Conference: Our Community of Practice.â Discussion led by Mskwaankwad Rice and Chris Hammerly.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022
Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room
9:00-10:30 Morphosyntax 2: Discourse and Narrative
âThe Discourse Status of Sole Third-Person Proximates.â Irene Applebaum (remote) PDF
âObviation in First Person Narrative in South East Cree.â Maude Harvey (remote) PDF
âA Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, But Does A Skull? Applying MuÌhlbauerâs (2008) Analysis to Ditibitigwaan: The Rolling Skull.â Sonja FougĂšre (remote) PDF
âDiscourse Syntax of an Ojibwe Narrative.â Rose-Marie DĂ©chaine and Sonja FougĂšre PDF
10:30 - 12:00 Phonetics/Phonology 2 -- A special organized session: âMicroparametric approach to prosodic variation: case studies from Algonquian.â
- a general overview of the research project, followed by a discussion of Blackfoot
- Central Algonquian languages (Ojibwe, Plains Cree)
- other Plains Algonquian languages (Cheyenne, Arapaho)
Natalie Weber, Antti Arppe, Ksenia Bogomolets, Andy Cowell, Rose-Marie DĂ©chaine,Christopher Hammerly, Sarah Murray, Katie Schmirler, Rachel Vogel (semi-remote) PDF
Wolf Law Building, Room 207
9:00 - 10:30 Morphology 2
ââAs soon as he set eyes on one, he started pretending that one is his motherâ: inflectional indefinites and derived indefinites in Meskwaki.â Lucy Thomason PDF
âAdverbs and other particles in Meskwaki syntax.â Amy Dahlstrom PDF âMichipicoten Anishinaabemowin: Steps to Understanding an Under-documented Dialect.â John-Paul Chalykoff. PDF
10:30 - 12:00 Morphosyntax 3: Stems and Stem Formation
âSemantic Effects of VII Finals /-aa/ and /-ad/ on Medials.â Cherry Meyer and Anna Whitney (remote) PDF
âIncorporation and Classification in Ojibwe Syntax: Key Distinctions and Potential Explanations.â Anna Whitney (remote) PDF
âTowards a psycholinguistically grounded analysis of stem structure in Algonquian languages: incorporated nouns, medials, concrete finals and their cognitive reality.â Maria Mazzoli (remote) PDF
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This conference is hosted by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) and the University of Colorado Law School, with support from an Innovative Seed Grant from the Research and Innovation Office (RIO). Additional support is provided by the Department of Linguistics.