The Center for Indian Community Development (Brero House, Building 93; 826-3711) will be open for Conference regisration from 9 am to 5 pm. In addition to other conference materials, a booklet with information on self-guided tours of local Native American sites will be provided to registrants.

Friday, June 6th

All Conference activites will take place in the Kate Buchanan Room, located at the north end of the second floor of the University Center. The registration table will be outside the room.

9:30 - 10:00 am Welcoming Address

Victor Golla (Humboldt State U), The View from Northwestern California: Hupa, Tolowa and the History of Athabascan Studies

10:00 - 11:30 am Athabascan Grammar and Discourse

Martin Thiering & Valerie Wood (U of Alberta), Semantic Loss in the Encoding of Spatial Predications: Language Attrition and its Impact on the Encoding of Spatial Expressions in Dene

Leslie Saxon (U of Victoria), The Nominalizing and Adverbial Suffixes in Proto-Athabascan: Grammar and Meaning

Ted Fernald (Swarthmore College), Ellavina Perkins (Flagstaff, Arizona) & Carlota Smith (U of Texas), Generalizing in Navajo

Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm Athabascan Prehistory

John W. Ives (Alberta Provincial Archaeologist) & Sally Rice (U of Alberta), The Apachean Departure from the Subarctic: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Human Biological Evidence

Sally Rice (U of Alberta) & John W. Ives (Alberta Provincial Archaeologist), The Comparative Athapaskan Lexicon Project

3:15 am - 5:00 pm Special Presentations

James Kari (Dena'inaq' Titaztunt, Alaska), Shem Pete's Alaska

William Anderson (Indiana U), The Cahto/California Athabascan website

6:00 - 9:00 pm Conference Banquet and Cultural Presentations

Saturday, June 7th

9:00 am - noon Athabascan Phonetics and Phonology

Joyce M. McDonough (U of Rochester), The Current State of Phonetic Research in Athabascan

Sharon Hargus (U of Washington). Compensatory Lengthening in Deg Xinag

Julia Colleen Miller (U of Washington), An Acoustic Analysis of Tone in Doig River and Blueberry River Beaver

Patrick J. Moore (U of British Columbia), Kaska Vowel Harmony

Jacob Wegelin (UC Davis), Quantitative Analysis of Intonation in Endangered Languages

Aliki Marinakis (U of Victoria), Reduction of Syllables in Dogrib

Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center), Tone Marking, Literacy, and Language Revitalization

12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-3:00 pm Linguists and Language Work in Athabascan

James Kari (Dena'inaq' Titaztunt, Alaska), 30 Years of Language Work and Linguistic Prehistory in Athabascan

MaryAnn Willie (U of Arizona), At the Crossroads: Linguistics and American Indian Languages

3:15-5:00 pm Revitalizing Athabascan Languages

David Engels (Fairbanks, Alaska), Revitalizing Lower Tanana

Patrick J. Moore (U of British Columbia), UBC Kaska Course

Mia Kalish (Red Pony Heritage Language Team), TOTs for Language Revitalization