confs american indigenous languages wail wail 98 workshop american indigenous languages university california santa barbara may 910 1998 linguistics department university california santa barbara presents first annual workshop american indigenous languages wail workshop forum discussion theoretical descriptive linguistic studies indigenous languages americas registration 15 information available workshop website http humanitas ucsb edu depts linguistics wail contact workshop coordinator wail humanitas ucsb edu workshop program friday may 8 evening time tba welcoming reception saturday may 9 early morning session 8 30 10 00 invited speaker wallace chafe university california santa barbara verbal artistry james kari alaska native language center dena inaq titaztun notes mnemonic devices strategy northern athabaskan geographic names kathleen martin university california santa barbara translation analysis lakota woman story late morning session 10 1511 45 jack b martin college william mary switch reference temporal distance creek matthew davidson state university new york buffalo inversion makah janne underriner university oregon nonconfigurationality klamath keynote address 1 00 1 45 p nicola bessell university texas austin university california santa barbara phonetic naturalness phonology early afternoon session 2 00 3 30 p madelaine plauche university california berkeley glottalized sonorants yowlumne yawelmani rosemary g beam de azcona university california berkeley preliminary remarks tone coatlan loxicha zapotec carrie weiman georgetown university constraint reranking plains cree late afternoon session 3 30 5 15 p loretta oconnor university california santa barbara active casemarking chontal david beck university toronto eliding obvious zero subjects lushootseed pilar valenzuela university oregon grammaticalization nominative case wariapano panoan saturday evening dinner party invited 6 30 9 00 p chafe mithun residence sunday may 10 early morning session 9 0010 30 invited speaker marianne mithun university california santa barbara noun verb possession troi carleton rachelle waksler san francisco state university pronominal system zenzontepec chatino donna gerdts simon fraser university double life halkomelem suffixes late morning session 10 4512 15 aaron broadwell state university new york albany university california los angeles directionals complex predicates choctaw suzanne wash university california santa barbara constituency dependent marking barbareno chumash tim thornes university oregon secondary verbs northern paiute early afternoon session 1 30 3 00 p veronica grondona university pittsburgh location direction mocovi jordan lachler university new mexico sense development grammaticization west virginia mingo ferdinand de haan university new mexico grammaticalization visual evidentiality late afternoon session 3 15 4 45 p christiane cunha de oliveira university oregon functions apinaje diachronic perspective heidi johnson university texas austin serial verb constructions zoque anna berge university california berkeley language reacquisition cherokee semispeaker evidence clause construction