September 19, 2019
The program for the upcoming 2020 winter meeting of SSILA, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, has just been released. SSILA will meet concurrently with the LSA. The program promises the following presentations by current department members and recent alumni:
- Brady Dailey (Boston University), Ethan Rimdzius (Boston University), Julia Nee (Berkeley), Edwin Ko (Berkeley), Jimmy Sbordone (Boston University), Erica Carson Jr. (Redwood Valley Rancheria; Pomo/Wappo), Catherine Connor (Boston University): Web-based Stories and texts promote learning engagement in language revitalization
- Zachary O'Hagan: Complex Temporal Relations in Caquinte: The Case of =ta and =ja
- Richard Rhodes: On the phonetic nature of Proto-Algonquian *θ
- Emily Clem (PhD '19): Distinguishing switch-reference and relativization in Amahuaca
- Amalia Skilton (PhD '19): Co-speech pointing gestures by Ticuna speakers: A corpus study
Congrats all!