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Time |
Presentation
Title / Event |
Speaker |
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8.00-9.00 |
Saturday March 22,
2008
REGISTRATION &
BREAKFAST (1 hr) |
ROOM BL313 |
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9.00-9.15 |
Opening speech |
Alana Johns |
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Syntax |
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|
9.15-9.45 |
Possessor
Splits in South Baffin |
Susana Bejar |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
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9.45-10.15 |
On the Use of
Ergative in Some Baffin Dialects |
Alana
Johns |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
|
10.15-10.30 |
BREAK ( 15 mins) |
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Morphosyntax |
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10.30-11.00 |
Affixation by Phase: Evidence from Inuktitut |
Richard Compton and Christine Pittman |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
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11.00-11.30 |
Is
–ta really passive? Distributional Considerations of Passive
Marking in Inuktitut |
Ailis
Cournane and Sandrine Tailleur |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
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11.30-12.00 |
Two
Types of Nominalization in Inuktitut |
Colin Gorrie |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
|
12.00-1.00 |
LUNCH (1 hour) |
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Phonology |
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|
1.00-1.30 |
What happened to the fourth vowel in Inuit? A historical change and
its remaining manifestations
|
Lawrence Kaplan |
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[abstract] |
University of
Alaska Fairbanks |
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1.30-2.00 |
Palatalization
and ‘Strong’ /i/ across Inuit Dialects |
Richard Compton and Elan Dresher |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
|
2.00-2.15 |
BREAK (15 mins) |
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Semantics &
Literature |
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2.15-2.45 |
On
the semantics of an aspectual suffix –lik- in Labrador
Inuktitut |
Marina Sherkina-Lieber |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
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2.45-3.15 |
Bare nouns in Inuktitut: Referential properties or just properties? |
Carrie Gillon and Douglas Wharam |
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[abstract] |
Memorial
University of Newfoundland |
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3.15-3.45 |
‘They
made each one of us think, made us think hard’: Approaches to Inuit
Literature |
Keavy Martin |
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[abstract] |
University
of Toronto |
|
3.45-4.00 |
BREAK (15 mins) |
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Phonetics and
Phonology |
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4.00-4.30 |
An Acoustic
Analysis of the Vowel Space of Inuktitut |
Mark Pollard and Derek Denis |
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[abstract] |
University of
Toronto |
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4.30-5.00 |
Explaining Inuktitut Consonant Alternations Using Contrastive
|
Richard
Compton |
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Underspecification |
University of
Toronto |
| |
[abstract] |
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7.00 pm |
PARTY - with dinner |
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|
10.30-11.00 |
Sunday
March 23, 2008
BRUNCH (30 mins) |
Room BL313 |
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Language Maintenance |
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|
11.00-11.30 |
Where
will the stories go? |
Ewan Dunbar
and Alana Johns |
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11.30-12.00 |
TBA |
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|
12.00-1.00 |
General discussion: Language Maintenance
Issues |
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