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 鈥 Linguistics) and (University Colorado 鈥 Law)

5:15 PM Introduction to the IDIL, Aleksei Tsykarev , Vice Chair, United Nations

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and University of Colorado 鈥 Linguistics 6:00 PM Light Reception

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 鈥 Linguistics)

鈥淪uccessful collaborations between Indigenous activists and academic linguists: How IYIL led to three projects for the IDIL.鈥 Shannon Bischoff, Monica Macaulay, D.H. Whalen PDF

鈥淭hree Algonquian Community Revitalization Projects: Community Commonalites and Differences, and Current Challenges for Effective Academic Support.鈥 Andy Cowell PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies and the IDIL鈥

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

鈥淯nderstanding the e- conjunct in Northwestern Ojibwe.鈥 Aandeg Muldrew PDF

鈥淪ubordinative long distance agreement in Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey and the syntax of the inverse.鈥 Peter Grishin PDF

鈥淭he Potawatomi Complementizer System.鈥 Corinne Kasper and Robert Eugene Lewis听PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Morphosyntax 1: Prefixes and Initials

鈥淎 New Look at Prenouns in Menominee.鈥 Leksi Scarr PDF

鈥淢enominee Preverb Ordering Revisited.鈥 Andrew Kline, Monica Macaulay, and Jennifer Stoughton PDF

鈥淎ccounting for the variation in use of Algonquian relative roots.鈥 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 Caf茅 Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave (adjacent to campus, on Broadway, north from the Law School) (heavy hors d鈥檕euvres; beer and wine served)

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

9:00-10:30 Language Contact and Diachronics

鈥淲hat Do Chocolate and Dogs Have in Common in Innu?鈥 Jeremie Ambroise (remote) PDF

鈥淟oanwords between Iroquoian and Algonquian languages.鈥澨 Vincent Collette (remote) PDF

鈥淟ingua algonquiana cum nominibus gallicis : Du pluriel nominal pr茅fix茅 du cri de l鈥櫭甽e-脿la-crosse.鈥 Stephane Goyette PDF

鈥淗ow synchronic analysis informs subgrouping: Against Proto-Algonquian-Blackfoot.鈥 Natalie Weber PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Language and Culture 1

鈥淭ales of Abenaki Romance in New York State.鈥 Christopher A. Roy (remote) PDF

鈥淟ouis Tahamont in Masardis, Maine, June 8, 1860.鈥 Daniel G. Nolett, Philippe Charland, Christopher A. Roy (remote) PDF

鈥淕rammatical Diversity as Means to Tellership Rights in Arapaho Conversational Storytelling,鈥 Irina Wagner PDF

1:00 - 2:30 PM Phonetics/Phonology 1

鈥淚nitial Short Vowels, Dialect Variation, and Language Change in Illinois.鈥 David J. Costa听PDF

鈥淰ariable realization of the Arapaho glottal stop, despite its being distinctive and frequent.鈥 D.H.Whalen,听 Christian DiCanio, Wei-Rong Chen PDF

鈥淧honological and Morpho-Phonological Properties of Vowel Harmony in Arapaho.鈥 Ksenia Bogomolets (remote) PDF

3:00 - 4:30 PM Morphology 1: Inflections

鈥淧atterns of portmanteau robustness across Algonquian.鈥 Will Oxford and Peter Grishin听PDF

鈥淐ree Theme Sign is a Portmanteau.鈥 Polina Kasyonova PDF

鈥淎 comparison of formative elements in Nishnaabemwin, Plains Cree, and Kickapoo.鈥 Yadong Xu (remote) PDF

Wolf Law Building, Room 207

9:00 - 10:30 Acquisition 1

鈥淎 first look at the child acquisition of relational verbs in Northern East Cree.鈥 Ryan Henke PDF

鈥淎n integrated learning platform for Border Lakes Ojibwe.鈥 Chad Quinn, Mike Parkhill, Christopher Hammerly PDF

鈥淪hawnee Prosody for Pedagogy.鈥 George Blanchard, Anastasia Miller-Youst, Joel Barnes, Carl Schaefer, Terry Hinsley PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Computational and Technological Methods 1

鈥淎 text-to-speech system and indigenous avatar for Border Lakes Ojibwe.鈥 Christopher Hammerly, Sonja Foug猫re, Giancarlo Sierra, Scott Parkhill, Harrison Porteous, Chad Quinn PDF

鈥淩esampling a Small Corpus to Build a Neural Model of Plains Cree.鈥滱tticus G. Harrigan, Miikka Silfverberg, Antti Arppe PDF

鈥淒eveloping a computational model of Blackfoot morphology: Why it is important and how we can learn from it.鈥 Dominik Kadlec, Antti Arppe, Katie Schmirler and Natalie Weber PDF

鈥淭he Colorado Indigenous Geographies Project: Challenges of Multi-lingual Geographical Documentation and Public Presentation.鈥 Joe Bryan, Seth Greer, Andy Cowell PDF

1:00-2:30 PM Semantics

"Animacy by Analogy: A Review of Grammatical Animacy in Plains Cree/ n锚hiyaw锚win Nominalizing Suffixes." Daniel Dacanay PDF

鈥淩elational Meanings in Ojibwe.鈥 Richard Rhodes PDF

鈥淭emperature Expressions in the Miami-Illinois Corpus.鈥 Hunter Lockwood PDF

3:00 - 4:30 PM Computational and Technological Methods 2

鈥溍猭osi 锚-n锚hiyawi-p卯kiskw锚cik maskwac卯sihk 鈥 Towards a Spoken Dictionary of Maskwac卯s Cree.鈥 Antti Arppe, Jolene Poulin, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Dacanay, Rose Makinaw PDF

鈥渋tw锚wina: Towards a morphologically intelligent and user-friendly on-line dictionary of Plains Cree.鈥 Jolene Poulin, Antti Arppe, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Dacanay, Eddie Antonio Santos, Ansh Dubey,听 Andrew Neitsch, Daniel Hieber, Arok Wolvengrey PDF

鈥淒igitizing, Translating, and Standardizing Pr. Albert Lacombe鈥檚 Dictionnaire de la languedes Cris (1874).鈥 Daniel Dacanay and Antti Arppe PDF

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

5:00 PM Business Meeting

5:45 PM Continuing the Discussion, 2022 : 鈥淎lgonquian Conference: Our Community of Practice.鈥 Discussion led by Mskwaankwad Rice and Chris Hammerly.

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

9:00-10:30 Morphosyntax 2: Discourse and Narrative

鈥淭he Discourse Status of Sole Third-Person Proximates.鈥 Irene Applebaum (remote) PDF

鈥淥bviation in First Person Narrative in South East Cree.鈥 Maude Harvey (remote) PDF

鈥淎 Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, But Does A Skull? Applying Mu虉hlbauer鈥檚 (2008) Analysis to Ditibitigwaan: The Rolling Skull.鈥 Sonja Foug猫re (remote) PDF

鈥淒iscourse Syntax of an Ojibwe Narrative.鈥 Rose-Marie D茅chaine and Sonja Foug猫re PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Phonetics/Phonology 2 -- A special organized session: 鈥淢icroparametric approach to prosodic variation: case studies from Algonquian.鈥

  1. a general overview of the research project, followed by a discussion of Blackfoot
  2. Central Algonquian languages (Ojibwe, Plains Cree)
  3. other Plains Algonquian languages (Cheyenne, Arapaho)

Natalie Weber, Antti Arppe, Ksenia Bogomolets, Andy Cowell, Rose-Marie D茅chaine,Christopher Hammerly, Sarah Murray, Katie Schmirler, Rachel Vogel (semi-remote) PDF

Wolf Law Building, Room 207

9:00 - 10:30 Morphology 2

鈥溾楢s soon as he set eyes on one, he started pretending that one is his mother鈥: inflectional indefinites and derived indefinites in Meskwaki.鈥 Lucy Thomason PDF

鈥淎dverbs and other particles in Meskwaki syntax.鈥 Amy Dahlstrom PDF 鈥淢ichipicoten Anishinaabemowin: Steps to Understanding an Under-documented Dialect.鈥 John-Paul Chalykoff. PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Morphosyntax 3: Stems and Stem Formation

鈥淪emantic Effects of VII Finals /-aa/ and /-ad/ on Medials.鈥 Cherry Meyer and Anna Whitney (remote) PDF

鈥淚ncorporation and Classification in Ojibwe Syntax: Key Distinctions and Potential Explanations.鈥 Anna Whitney (remote) PDF

鈥淭owards a psycholinguistically grounded analysis of stem structure in Algonquian languages: incorporated nouns, medials, concrete finals and their cognitive reality.鈥 Maria Mazzoli (remote) PDF

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.