SCLC 30 was held in Chicago, IL from June 2 through June 5, 2010. It was organized by John Boyle, and hosted at Northeastern Illinois University. This year’s conference was also held alongside the Workshop on Comparative Siouan Syntax. The program from this year appears below:

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

  • “Resurrecting the Siouan languages archive: A case study using Mandan texts”

    George Wilmes (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Valency and verb classes in Hoocąk”

    Iren Hartmann (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • “Hidatsa (in)definiteness markers”

    Lewis Gebhardt (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Objectification and the discourse structure of Siouan grammars”

    Bryan Gordon (University of Arizona)

  • “How different are Omaha and Ponca? A preliminary investigation based on the Dorsey slip files”

    Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)

Thursday, June 3, 2010

  • “The place of Mandan in the Siouan language family”

    Robert L. Rankin (University of Kansas)

  • “An analysis of Mandan’s verbal template”

    Heather Roddy (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Open-syllable reduplication in Mandan”

    Michael Jankowski (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Modality affixes and adverbials in Mandan”

    Jacquiline Cunningham (Harol Washington College & Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Mandan positional verbs: sit, stand, lie”

    Ashley B. Carter (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Mandan causatives”

    Silvana Karin Torres (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Mandan motion verbs and narrative structure”

    Beth Conry (Northeastern Illinois University)

Friday, June 4, 2010

  • “DP coordination in Biloxi”

    Bozena S. Zenes (Northeastern Illinois University

  • “The Mandan nominal template: A Minimalist analysis of functional layers in the determiner phrase”

    Erica Sosa (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Mandan possessive constructions”

    Jessica Urgo (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Two kinds of definiteness in Lakhota”

    Tim O’Gorman (University of Colorado)

  • “A noun by any other name: A preliminary account of Jiwere nouns and related creatures”

    Jill D. Greer (Missouri Southern State University)

  • “Possession in Siouan languages”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • Workshop on Comparative Siouan Syntax

Saturday, June 5, 2010

  • “Incorporation in Mandan: A preliminary investigation”

    John P. Boyle (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Shedding new light on Dorsey’s Law”

    Michael Jankowski (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Teaching Kanza literacy by means of a graded reader”

    Linda A. Cumberland (Kaw Nation)

  • “Moonstruck: Some observations on Omaha clan names and other moonlore”

    Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland (University of Nebraska)