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Thursday, October 20, 2022

4:00 PM Registration Opens

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

5:00 PM Welcome by Conference by Andy Cowell (�Թ��� of Colorado – Linguistics) and (�Թ��� Colorado – Law)

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

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and �Թ��� of Colorado – Linguistics 6:00 PM Light Reception

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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 (�Թ��� of Colorado – Linguistics)

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

“Three Algonquian Community Revitalization Projects: Community Commonalites and Differences, and Current Challenges for Effective Academic Support.” Andy Cowell PDF

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

Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies and the IDIL: Academic and Community Interactions. Panel Discussion Moderated by Alexis Palmer (�Թ��� 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

“Understanding the e- conjunct in Northwestern Ojibwe.” Aandeg Muldrew PDF

“Subordinative long distance agreement in Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey and the syntax of the inverse.” Peter Grishin PDF

“The Potawatomi Complementizer System.” Corinne Kasper and Robert Eugene Lewis��PDF

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

“A New Look at Prenouns in Menominee.” Leksi Scarr PDF

“Menominee Preverb Ordering Revisited.” Andrew Kline, Monica Macaulay, and Jennifer Stoughton PDF

“Accounting for the variation in use of Algonquian relative roots.” 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 Café Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave (adjacent to campus, on Broadway, north from the Law School) (heavy hors d’oeuvres; beer and wine served)

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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

9:00-10:30 Language Contact and Diachronics

“What Do Chocolate and Dogs Have in Common in Innu?” Jeremie Ambroise (remote) PDF

“Loanwords between Iroquoian and Algonquian languages.”�� Vincent Collette (remote) PDF

“Lingua algonquiana cum nominibus gallicis : Du pluriel nominal préfixé du cri de l’île-àla-crosse.” Stephane Goyette PDF

“How synchronic analysis informs subgrouping: Against Proto-Algonquian-Blackfoot.” Natalie Weber PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Language and Culture 1

“Tales of Abenaki Romance in New York State.” Christopher A. Roy (remote) PDF

“Louis Tahamont in Masardis, Maine, June 8, 1860.” Daniel G. Nolett, Philippe Charland, Christopher A. Roy (remote) PDF

“Grammatical Diversity as Means to Tellership Rights in Arapaho Conversational Storytelling,” Irina Wagner PDF

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

“Initial Short Vowels, Dialect Variation, and Language Change in Illinois.” David J. Costa��PDF

“Variable realization of the Arapaho glottal stop, despite its being distinctive and frequent.” D.H.Whalen,�� Christian DiCanio, Wei-Rong Chen PDF

“Phonological and Morpho-Phonological Properties of Vowel Harmony in Arapaho.” Ksenia Bogomolets (remote) PDF

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

“Patterns of portmanteau robustness across Algonquian.” Will Oxford and Peter Grishin��PDF

“Cree Theme Sign is a Portmanteau.” Polina Kasyonova PDF

“A comparison of formative elements in Nishnaabemwin, Plains Cree, and Kickapoo.” Yadong Xu (remote) PDF

Wolf Law Building, Room 207

9:00 - 10:30 Acquisition 1

“A first look at the child acquisition of relational verbs in Northern East Cree.” Ryan Henke PDF

“An integrated learning platform for Border Lakes Ojibwe.” Chad Quinn, Mike Parkhill, Christopher Hammerly PDF

“Shawnee Prosody for Pedagogy.” George Blanchard, Anastasia Miller-Youst, Joel Barnes, Carl Schaefer, Terry Hinsley PDF

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

“A text-to-speech system and indigenous avatar for Border Lakes Ojibwe.” Christopher Hammerly, Sonja Fougère, Giancarlo Sierra, Scott Parkhill, Harrison Porteous, Chad Quinn PDF

“Resampling a Small Corpus to Build a Neural Model of Plains Cree.”Atticus G. Harrigan, Miikka Silfverberg, Antti Arppe PDF

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

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

1:00-2:30 PM Semantics

"Animacy by Analogy: A Review of Grammatical Animacy in Plains Cree/ nêhiyawêwin Nominalizing Suffixes." Daniel Dacanay PDF

“Relational Meanings in Ojibwe.” Richard Rhodes PDF

“Temperature Expressions in the Miami-Illinois Corpus.” Hunter Lockwood PDF

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

“êkosi ê-nêhiyawi-pîkiskwêcik maskwacîsihk – Towards a Spoken Dictionary of Maskwacîs Cree.” Antti Arppe, Jolene Poulin, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Dacanay, Rose Makinaw PDF

“itwêwina: Towards a morphologically intelligent and user-friendly on-line dictionary of Plains Cree.” Jolene Poulin, Antti Arppe, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Dacanay, Eddie Antonio Santos, Ansh Dubey,�� Andrew Neitsch, Daniel Hieber, Arok Wolvengrey PDF

“Digitizing, Translating, and Standardizing Pr. Albert Lacombe’s Dictionnaire de la languedes Cris (1874).” Daniel Dacanay and Antti Arppe PDF

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

5:00 PM Business Meeting

5:45 PM Continuing the Discussion, 2022 : “Algonquian Conference: Our Community of Practice.” Discussion led by Mskwaankwad Rice and Chris Hammerly.

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Wolf Law Building, Wittemeyer Court Room

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

“The Discourse Status of Sole Third-Person Proximates.” Irene Applebaum (remote) PDF

“Obviation in First Person Narrative in South East Cree.” Maude Harvey (remote) PDF

“A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, But Does A Skull? Applying Mühlbauer’s (2008) Analysis to Ditibitigwaan: The Rolling Skull.” Sonja Fougère (remote) PDF

“Discourse Syntax of an Ojibwe Narrative.” Rose-Marie Déchaine and Sonja Fougère PDF

10:30 - 12:00 Phonetics/Phonology 2 -- A special organized session: “Microparametric approach to prosodic variation: case studies from Algonquian.”

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 Déchaine,Christopher Hammerly, Sarah Murray, Katie Schmirler, Rachel Vogel (semi-remote) PDF

Wolf Law Building, Room 207

9:00 - 10:30 Morphology 2

“‘As soon as he set eyes on one, he started pretending that one is his mother’: inflectional indefinites and derived indefinites in Meskwaki.” Lucy Thomason PDF

“Adverbs and other particles in Meskwaki syntax.” Amy Dahlstrom PDF “Michipicoten Anishinaabemowin: Steps to Understanding an Under-documented Dialect.” John-Paul Chalykoff. PDF

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

“Semantic Effects of VII Finals /-aa/ and /-ad/ on Medials.” Cherry Meyer and Anna Whitney (remote) PDF

“Incorporation and Classification in Ojibwe Syntax: Key Distinctions and Potential Explanations.” Anna Whitney (remote) PDF

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

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This conference is hosted by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) and the �Թ��� 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.