SCLC 40 was held virtually from May 21 through May 23, 2020. It was organized by Edwin Ko and hosted via Zoom through the University of California. This was the firstyear where the SCLC was fully online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The original plan was to hold the conference at Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, MT before being forced to move online. The program from this year appears below:

Thursday, May 21, 2020

  • “Hu Matthew’s contributions to Crow research and revitalization, and his broader work on Siouan languages”

    Randolph Graczyk (Crow Language Consortium & Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum)

  • “On the origins of multiple exponence in Crow”

    Edwin Ko (University of California)

  • “Clause structure in Proto-Siouan: From words to clitics and affixes”

    Ryan Kasak (University of Oklahoma)

  • “The lost (and complicated) obstruents of Siouan”

    John Boyle (California State University, Fresno)

  • “Streamlining dictionary word collection through technology for the Apsáalooke language Crow Methodology”

    Bob Rugh (Language Conservancy) & Tim McCleary (Little Big Horn College)

  • “Developing a Stoney Nakoda dictionary: Adapting rapid word collection for First Nations languages”

    Dorothea Hoffmann (Language Conservancy) & Corey Telfer (Language Conservancy)

Friday, May 22, 2020

  • “A morphological evaluation metric for adjectives in Osage”

    Marcia Haag (University of Oklahoma)

  • “Property words in Hoocąk and Crow: A contrastive morphosyntactic study on parts of speech in Siouan”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • “Adjectives and other categories in Omaha-Ponca (Siouan)”

    Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College)

  • “Property words in Lakota

    Jan Ullrich (Language Conservancy)

  • “One word at a time? Notes on lexical reconstruction in Tutelo-Saponi”

    Corey Roberts (University of Arizona)

Saturday, May 23, 2020

  • “Demonstratives, determiners, and phrasal structure in Hidatsa narrative discourse”

    Laura Hendricksen (California State University, Fresno)

  • “Noun incorporation in Umóⁿhoⁿ”

    Julie Marsault (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

  • “Conditional clauses in Lakota”

    Jan Ullrich (Language Conservancy)

  • “Anna Barker’s ‘Vocabulary of the Mountain Stoney Indians’ (1883-1886)”

    Willem de Reuse (Language Conservancy) & Corey Telfer (Language Conservancy)

  • “A new look at the Hidatsa obstruent system”

    John Boyle (California State University, Fresno)

  • “A very preliminary look at some acoustic properties of Osage”

    Dylan Herrick (University of Oklahoma)