SCLC 35 was held in Marksville, LA from June 12 through June 14, 2015. It was organized by David Kaufman and Ryan Kasak, and hosted at by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe at the Paragon Casino Resort. The program from this year appears below:

Friday, June 12, 2015

  • “How many ‘y’ phonemes were there in Proto-Siouan?”

    Rory Larson (University of Nebraska)

  • “Governments, communities, and linguists in language revitalization: A case study of Nakoda on Carry-the-Kettle First Nation”

    Christina Mickleborough (First Nations University of Canada) & Iris O’Watch (Cary the Kettle First Nation & First Nations University of Canada)

  • “Making the Revised Biloxi Dictionary”

    David Kaufman (University of Kansas)

  • “Democratizing language and culture preservation through technology”

    Jean-Luc Pierite (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe)

  • “Caddo inflectional morphology”

    Ryan Kasak (Yale University)

  • “Focus constructions in the re-elicitation of The First Ioway Reader”

    Josh Wayt (University of Virginia)

  • “Overlooking ‘the’ obvious: Recognizing a definite article in Jiwere-Baxoje”

    Jill Greer (Missouri Southern State University)

  • “The journey of revitalization: The ongoing work of the Otoe-Missouria Language Department”

    Sky Campbell (Otoe-Missouria Language Department)

Saturday, June 13, 2015

  • “Phonology and function of reduplication in Hoocąk”

    Sarah Lundquist (University of Wisconsin)

  • “Hoocąk demonstratives: Morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • “Allocutive agreement and root clause phenomena in Mandan”

    Ryan Kasak (Yale University)

  • “Omaha language teaching demonstration”

    Alice Saunsoci (Nebraska Indian Community College)

  • “Pitch in Wichita”*

    Armik Mirzayan (University of South Dakota)

  • “The distribution of functional material in Crow noun phrases”

    Lewis Gebhardt (Northeastern Illinois University) & Scott Langston (Northeastern Illinois University)

  • Remembrance of Mark Awakun-Swetland

  • Marksville Mounds tour

*The exact title of this talk may not be correct, as its title was listed as “tentative” in the program distributed through the Siouan Listserv.