SUPPORT
The conference is supported generously by the Department of Linguistics, the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, for which we are grateful.
SCHEDULE (
Please note that all times are in Mountain Standard Time (MDT: UTC/GMT -6h).
All non-plenary presentations are allocated a 30-minute block, of which 20 minutes is intended for the presentation, 5 minutes for questions and comments, and another 5 minutes for transition to the next presentation.
(R) : Fully remote presentation (always in TELUS 134)(R) : Partially remote presentation (also in TELUS 134)
| Room at the Top (RATT) Student Union Building (SUB) |
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| 17.00-21.00 | Welcome reception |
| TELUS 134 | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Welcome (University of Alberta) |
| 9.30-10.30 | Keynote 1: Lisa Crowshoe, Piikani School Board
The Piikani (Blackfoot) journey of language learning |
| 10.30-11.00 | Break |
| TELUS 134 | TELUS 131 | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Noun Gender in Miami-Illinois (David J. Costa) | Preferred Argument Structure in Northern East Cree child and child-directed speech (Julie Brittain, Ryan E. Henke, Shanley Allen) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Prenominal vs. postnominal relative clauses in Meskwaki (Amy Dahlstrom) | Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey modals (Peter Grishin) |
| 12.00-12.30 | Relative Roots: Form and Function (Hunter Lockwood, Monica Macaulay, Vivian Nash) | Gidozhibii’amawaanaanig Gidoshkigiminaanig – The Importance of Phonemic Awareness in Ojibwemowin to Support Early Literacy (Angela Mesic, Tessa Culleton, Nathon Breu) |
| 12.30-13.00 | Differing Semantics in Ojibwe Verbs with Medials and VII Finals /-aa/ vs. /-ad/ (Anna Whitney, Cherry Meyer) (R) | When central suffixes agree with peripheral participants (Peter Grishin, Will Oxford) |
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch break | |
| TELUS 134 |
| 14.30-15.30 | Keynote 2: Carla Badger, Rose Makinaw, Ida Bull, and Jolene Rain (Maskwacîs Curriculum Dep’t, Maskwacîs Education Schools Commission) A Self-Determined Maskwacîs Education |
| 15.30-16.00 | Break |
| TELUS 134 | TELUS 131 | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Blackfoot Words database: Reflecting on our methods and projects (Natalie Weber) | LDA in L2 Potawatomi (Corinne Kasper) |
| 16.30-17.00 | A Computational Model for Blackfoot Demonstratives (R) (Inge Genee, Dominik Kadlec, Katherine Schmirler, Antti Arppe) | A preverb stemmer for Potawatomi (Robert E. Lewis, Jr.) |
| 17.00-17.30 | First results of collaboration with Innu-aimun translators to initiate the development of translation assistance tools (Fatiha Sadat, Antoine Cadotte) (R) | A computational model of Plains Cree inflectional morphology (Antti Arppe, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Arok Wolvengrey) |
| 17.30-18.00 | Le pluriel nominal préfixé d’un parler cris. (Stéphane Goyette) (R) | Notes on measurement and mathematics in Miami-Illinois (Hunter Lockwood) |
| 18.00- | Unprogrammed evening |
| TELUS 134 | |
| 9.00-10.00 | Keynote 3: Wayne Jackson (University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills) Researching nêhiyaw Language Methods: Which Method Works Best, An Overview of nêhiyaw Language Instruction |
| 10.00-10.30 | Break |
| TELUS 134 | |
| 15.00-15.05 | 56th Algonquian Conference |
| 15.05-17.00 | Business meeting |
| Art Gallery of Alberta | |
| 17.00-18.00 | Individual or collective transfer to Art Gallery of Alberta (LRT/taxi) |
| 18.00-21.00 | Access to Art Gallery |
| 19.00-21.00 | Conference banquet |
| TELUS 134 | TELUS 131 | |
| 9.30-10.00 | The sky was even the color of flame’: The use of color terms in Michelson’s Meskwaki literature (Lucy Thomason) | A Phonological Reanalysis of Ojibwe Nominal Inflection Classes (Reed Steiner, Christopher Hammerly) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Initial Change in Sheshatshiu Innu-Aimûn: Infixation and feature packing (Shanti Ulfsbjorninn) (R) | Animacy as a semantic restriction (Sonja Fougère) |
| 10.30-11.00 | On the historical relationship between Cheyenne and Arapahoan (Richard A. Rhodes, Wayne Leman) | Blackfoot views of the Blackfoot language (Kristy Eagle Bear, Inge Genee) |
| 11.00-11.30 | Break | |
| TELUS 134 | TELUS 131 | |
| 11.30-12.00 | What Do Chocolate and Dogs Have in Common in Innu? (Jérémie Ambroise) (R) | |
| 12.00-12.30 | An initial analysis of story sequences in Arapaho (Andrew Cowell) (R) | |
| 12.30-12.45 | Conclusion |