Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, SCLC 40 was held online from May 21 through May 23. Over the three day conference, attendees heard presentations on a variety of topics, ranging from semantics, syntax, phonetics, and historical linguistics that involved Siouan languages.
A lot of good ideas came up during the business meeting. Some of these ideas appear below:
Future SCLC locations and procedures
Meeting locations for the next two years have been proposed for Crow Agency in Montana for 2021 and somewhere on the East Coast such as Virginia in 2022, due to the fact that SCLC has never been held on land traditionally held by Siouan- and Catawban-speaking peoples there.
Not dates have been set yet, but mid- to late May was the most agreeable date range.
Interest in
Informal monthly meet-ups online
Informal monthly meet-ups online that can involve people bringing up a general topic (e.g., demonstratives) with the ability to have break-out sessions or discussions related to a particular language or branch of the language family.
These discussions should be advertised ahead of time to be accessible to community members and other scholars and minutes of these meetings will be posted online.
The topics and languages brought up during these meet-ups is open to community feedback, and anyone interested should be on the lookout for messages about this on the Siouan Listserv.
Proceedings of the 40th Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference
The SCLC 39 Proceedings should be released by the middle of next month (June 2020), and a call for papers for the Proceedings of the 40th Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference, with a deadline for submissions and subsequent key dates to be determined.
Anyone interested in assisting with the publication process (i.e., editing, proofreading, and/or typesetting in LaTeX) should contact ryan.kasak at gmail.com for additional information.
In the comings weeks and months, we hope that this website becomes a more active resource on what is going on in Siouan and Caddoan linguistics, such as conference presentations, published papers and books, workshops, and other items or events related to Siouan and Caddoan languages. More long-term, we also hope to flesh out the bibliographies for both Siouan and Caddoan languages to make sure that this information is available to anyone, where possible.
Please feel free to go to the Contact page with feedback or suggestions.