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Dene Languages Conference
Program
The conference will take place in room DSB C112 on the University of Victoria campus. Presentations will be approximately 20 minutes long with a 10-minute question period.
[download program as pdf file]
Monday, June 6
| 8:30-9:00 | registration |
| 9:00-9:15 | welcome |
| 9:15-9:30 | Allison Benner (University of Victoria), 'The Slave particle gha: A case of grammaticalization' |
| 9:45-10:15 | Nicholas Welch (University of Victoria), 'Roles of auxiliary verbs in Kaska and their interaction with the aspectual and modal systems' |
| 10:15-10:30 | break |
| 10:30-11:00 | Patrick J. Moore (University of British Columbia), 'Language shift and conceptual systems: The case of Kaska directionals' |
| 11:00-11:30 | Alessandro Jaker (Stanford University), 'Number is a parasitic feature: Split subject agreement in northern Athabaskan' |
| 11:30-11:45 | break |
| 11:45-12:15 | Sharon Hargus (University of Washington), 'Deg Xinag third person pronouns and pronominal prefixes' |
| 12:15-2:15 |
lunch |
| 2:15-2:45 | Sally Rice (University of Alberta), 'Dene verb stem polysemies' |
| 2:45-3:15 | Hishinlai' (Kathy Sikorski) (University of Alaska Fairbanks), 'An indigenous classroom: Assisting and provoking language performance' |
| 4:00-4:30 | Marie-Lucie Tarpent (Mount Saint Vincent University), 'Some areal footnotes to Boas' Tsetsaut vocabulary' |
| 3:45-4:00 |
break |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Business Meeting: brain-storming on Dene Languages Conference for 2006 |
Tuesday, June 7
| 8:30-9:00 | registration and welcome back |
| 9:00-9:30 | Siri G. Tuttle (University of Alaska Fairbanks), 'Phonology and phonetics in Ahtna syllable codas' |
| 9:30-10:00 | Aliki Marinakis and Leslie Saxon (University of Victoria), 'History of a history: Perspectives on Petitot's transcription of Tłįchǫ Godiì' |
| 10:00-10:15 | break |
| 10:15-10:45 | Linda Smith (University of Victoria), TBA |
| 10:45-11:15 | Julia Miller (University of Washington), 'Tonal variation in Beaver (Athabaskan): The sociolinguistics of 'language', 'dialect', and band affiliation' |
| 11:15-11:30 | break |
| 11:30-12:00 | Sharon Hargus (University of Washington), 'Stress in polysyllabic morphemes: Sekani and Deg Xinag' |
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