Oct. 20-22, 2011
In Honor and in Memory of Mickey Noonan
Symposium Program
UWM Union Ballroom
Thursday, October 20
| 8:15-8:45 | Registration | |
| 8:45-9:00 | Johannes Britz, UWM Provost Opening Remarks |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Elena Mihas, UWM Mickey's Legacy |
General Session
| 9:45-10:45 | K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College and National Geographic Society Endangered Languages: Local and Global Perspectives |
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| 10:45-11:15 | Break | ||
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| 11:15-11:45 | Salih Jamaan Alzahrani, University of Newcastle Zahrani Spoken Arabic: it is endangered? What shall we do? |
John M. Clifton, Summer Institute of Linguistics International; University of North Dakota Colonialism, nationalism and language vitality in Azerbaijan |
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| 11:45-12:15 | Boglárka Janurik, Szeged University An "endangered" transitory phase in a contact situation |
Jay A. Babcock, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hening D. Paramita, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Jaman Sekarang - today's Indonesian language. Shifting language preferences in Indonesian metropolitan centres |
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| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch Break (See list of nearby restaurants in conference folder.) | ||
General Session
General Session
| 4:45-5:45 | Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages |
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Friday, October 21
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration |
General Session
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| 11:30-12:00 | Ricard Viñas-de-Puig, East Carolina University Community-internal and external calls to the promotion of indigenous languages within the immigrant population in Eastern North Carolina |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Lisya Seloni and Yusuf Sarfati, Illinois State University The place of Ladino among the Turkish-Jewish community members in Turkey |
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| 12:30-1:00 | Hilary Barnes, Fayetteville State University Identity as a tool in language maintenance: the case of Veneto in Mexico |
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| 1:00-2:15 | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:15-3:15 | Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago Unanswered questions about language revitalization: New directions for research |
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| 3:15-3:45 | Takashi Tanaka, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Revitalization of North-Western Mari |
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| 3:45-4:15 | Janne Underriner, University of Oregon, Northwest Indian Language Institute Roger Jacob, Yacoma Nation, Northwest Indian Language Institute Joana Jansen, University of Oregon Revitalizing languages through place- and culture-based language curriculum |
Elena Mihas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Subcontracting language consultants for data gathering: process, benefits, and pitfalls |
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| 4:15-4:45 | Olga B. Yanush, Kazan State Power Engineering University Minority languages preservation and the development of regional programs (the Finno-Ugrian languages of Russia as an example) |
Ben Levine, SpeakingPlace. Northeast Historic Film Archive Julia Schulz, Former Director of Penobscot School The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal: a new direction for endangered language documentation |
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| 4:45-5:15 | Break | ||
General Session
| 5:15-6:15 | Daryl Baldwin, Miami University, Ohio neetawaapantamaanki iilinwiaanki: Searching For Our Talk |
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Saturday, October 22
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration |
General Session
| 8:30-9:30 | Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara What can revitalization work teach us about scholarship? |
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Break-out Sessions |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Kristine A. Hildebrandt, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Adventures in "describing everything": two approaches to language documentation in Nepal |
Timothy McKinnon, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta Consonant phonation and vowel splits in endangered Malay varieties |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Jesus Federico C. Hernandez Louward M. Zubiri, University of the Philippines Documenting Iriga Agta |
Kumiko Murasugi, Carleton University Morphological complexity in Inuktitut speakers |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Shoichi Iwasaki, University of California, Los Angeles Toshide Nakayama and Tsuyoshi Ono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Inadvertent contextualization: Japanese speaking space in gathering Ikema data |
Carmen Jany, California State University, San Bernadino Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko: differences and similarities |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Break | ||
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| 11:30-12:00 | Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus, University of Tartu, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Field research on endangered language: Ingrian |
John Olstad, University of Newcastle The "gavagai problem": not even wrong? Demonstrative reference on the Atolls of Bougainville |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Isara Choosri, Mahidol University The hungry and the full: documenting and analyzing Mlabri discourse on food |
Keiko Beers, University of New Mexico Anaphora and the discourse functions of the applicative e- in Ainu |
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| 12:30-1:00 | David Huenlich, University of Texas Education advocacy in the field - a case study |
Shuiping (Heather) Chi, University of Pennsylvania Passing on the parcel – a proposal for the revitalization of the Fuzhou dialect of Chinese |
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| 1:00-2:15 | Lunch Break | ||
General Session
26th Linguistics Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation and Revitalization - October 20-22, 2011 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
