SCLC 32 was held in Lawrence, KS from June 15 through June 17, 2012. It was organized by David Kaufman and Robert Rankin, and hosted at at the University of Kansas. The program from this year appears below:

Friday, June 15, 2012

  • “Moses Merrill’s Otoe books”

    Saul Schwartz (Princeton University)

  • “Marsh’s Jiwere texts”

    Jill Greer (Missouri Southern State University)

  • “Vegreville manuscript”

    Mary Marino (University of Saskatchewan)

  • “Early Presbyterian transcriptions in Omaha”

    Rory Larson (University of Nebraska)

  • “Omaha language teaching demo”

    Alison Saunsoci (University of Nebraska) & Alice Saunsoci (Nebraska Indian Community College)

  • “Verb morphology in Omaha”

    Alice Saunsoci (Nebraska Indian Community College)

  • “Reduplication in Omaha”

    Catherine Rudin

  • “Creeping crawling critters: When we lose the bugs, we lose the language (Omaha)”

    Mark Awakuni-Swetland (University of Nebraska)

  • “Grammaticalization of * ʔų• ‘be’ and *ʔo• ‘be.PL’ in Siouan languages”

    Robert Rankin (University of Kansas)

  • “Tutelo songs”

    Marty Richardson (University of North Carolina)

  • “Bundling Siouan dictionary resources”

    Iren Hartmann (Max Planck University of Evolutionary Anthropology)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

  • “Spatial relations in Hocąk”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • “A preliminary sketch of Hocąk syntax”

    Meredith Johnson (University of Wisconsin), Hunter Thompson Lockwood (University of Wisconsin), Bryan Rosen (University of Wisconsin), & Mateja Schuck (University of Wisconsin)

  • “Beads, pearls, and camels: Which of these are not present in Crow?”

    Matt Szulc (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “State of the Crow language”

    Randolph Graczyk (St. Charles Parish & OFMCap)

  • “Crow clause chaining, structure and scope”

    Zachary Gordon (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Topic/focus markers in Crow”

    Lewis Gebhardt (Northeastern Illinois University) & John Boyle (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Wichita conversations”

    David Rood (University of Colorado)

  • “Subordination in Pawnee and Arikara”

    Logan Sutton (Indiana University)

  • “Pawnee personal names”

    Doug Parks (Indiana University)

  • “Lakota personal names”

    Ray DeMallie (Indiana University)

Sunday, June 17, 2012

  • “Vowel length in Mandan”

    Jonnia Torres (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “Sound symbolism in Hidatsa”

    Indrek Park (Indiana University)

  • “Positional auxiliaries in Biloxi”

    David Kaufman (University of Kansas)

  • “Past applications of Optimality Theory to Siouan language data and phenomena: A review of the literature”

    George Wilmes (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • “What’s in a word?”

    Linda Cumberland (Kaw Nation Language Program)

  • “Treatment of vertitivity in Siouan”

    Ryan Kasak (Northeastern Illinois University & Yale University)