Program | 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas

	Friday April 21 (Totem Field Studios)
8.30	Registration and breakfast
9.30	Invited talk: Nicholas Welch (UoT) Person and personlessness in Dene languages
10.30	Coffee Break
11.00	Suzi Lima & Guillaume Thomas (UoT) Person sensitive switch reference in Yudja
11.30	Emily Hanink & Karlos Arregi (Chicago) Switch reference in Washo as inverse marking
12.00	Karin Vivanco (University of São Paulo) The morpheme ti- in Karitiana
12.30-2.30	Lunch (on your own)
2.30	Rebecca Tollan (UoT) & Will Oxford (Manitoba) Algonquian unergative subjects: Voice or v?
3.00	Brandon Fry (Ottawa) Locality via feature inheritance: contextual allomorphy in Ojibwe theme-signs
3.30	Michael Hamilton & Miloje Despić (Cornell) Algonquian Theme signs: a markedness account
4.00	Coffee Break
4.30	Irene Appelbaum (Montana) A Discourse Use of the Passive in Kutenai
5.00	Elise McClay (UBC) Word order and information structure in Ktunaxa
5.30	John Lyon (UVic) Contrastive Topic and Focus, and Question/Answer Congruence In Nsyílxcən
6.00	Coffee Break
6.15 -7.15	Invited talk: Clarissa Forbes (UoT) Consequences of long-distance extraction morphology in Gitksan

	Saturday April 22 (Totem Field Studios)
9.00	Registration & breakfast
9.30	Will Oxford & Eun Bi Won (Manitoba) A case for Case in Algonquian
10.00	Michelle Yuan (MIT) Why ABS objects are exceptional in Inuktitut: Clitic doubling and cross-dialectal variation
10.30	Steven Foley, Nick Kalivoda & Maziar Toosarvandani (Santa Cruz) Gender Case Constraints in Zapotec
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	Matthew Schuurman (Concordia) Stranded numerals and quantifiers in Mi’gmaq relative clauses
12.00	Jason Ostrove (Santa Cruz) Severing PRO from its Silence
12.30 -2.30	Lunch (on your own)
2.30	Emily Kudlak, Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre & Richard Compton (UQAM) Collaborating on a Kangiryuarmiutun dictionary: lessons from a speaker-linguist and linguist duo
3.00	Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig) Avoiding an intruder: Tone association in Zacatepec Chatino
3.30	Natalie Weber (UBC) Motivating a Prosodic Stem constituent in Blackfoot nominals
4.00-6.00	Posters & COFFEE
6.00-7.00	Invited talk: Alana Johns (UoT) A Consideration of Transitivity in Inuktitut
8.00	WSCLA PARTY

	Sunday, April 23 (Totem Field Studios)
9.00	Registration and breakfast
9.30-10.30	Invited talk: Amy Rose Deal (Berkeley) Shifty Asymmetries: Universals and Variation in Shifty Indexicality
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Adam Singerman (Chicago) Syntactic disharmony in finite embedded clauses in Tuparí, a Tupían language of Brazil
11.30	Marcus Berger (Michigan) Overt Movement as a Marker of (Ir)realis in Iquito
12.00	Zoë McKenzie (UoT) Processes affecting the imperative paradigm in Labrador Inuttut
12.30	Heather Bliss (UVic) Disentangling the Syntax of Blackfoot’s ‘Invisible’ and ‘Reportative’ Suffixes
1.00	Good byes