SCLC 41 was held virtually from May 20 through May 22, 2021. It was organized by Edwin Ko and hosted via Zoom through the University of California. This was the second year where the SCLC was fully online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program from this year appears below:

Thursday, May 20, 2021

  • “Nakhota dialects”

    Vincent Collette (University of Quebec in Chicoutimi)

  • “(Para-)adpositional morphosyntax in Siouan: A case study of Lakhota-Dakota-Nakota, Catawba, and Crow”

    Noah Coen (University of Oklahoma)

  • “Witchita pitch and stress: A preliminary description with acoustic correlates”

    Armik Mirzayan (University of Virginia)

  • “r-Nasalization in Hoocąk”

    Sean Panick (California State University, Long Beach)

  • “An acoustic analysis of Ho-Chunk accent”

    Cameron Duval (California State University, Long Beach) & Nancy Hall (California State University, Long Beach)

Friday, May 21, 2021

  • “Relative clauses in Hoocąk”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • “Relativization in Hidatsa”

    John Boyle (California State University, Fresno)

  • “Relative clauses in Omaha-Ponca”

    Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College) & Julie Marsault (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

  • “Origin of Lakota relative clause marker čha”

    Jan Ullrich (Language Conservancy)

  • “A beginner’s guide to Baxoje-Jiwere”

    Jill Greer (Missouri Southern State University)

  • “The Great Bear Share”

    Geoffrey Sea (Adena Core)

Saturday, May 22, 2021

  • “Topic and focus in Mandan”

    Ryan Kasak (University of Oklahoma)

  • “Topics, new topics, topic change, and resumed topics in Hoocąk discourse”

    Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)

  • “Some non-prototypical properties of applicative constructions in Umóⁿhoⁿ verbs”

    Julie Marsault (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

  • “Formal and colloquial speech in Stoney: Initial observations”

    Lloyd Buddy Wesley (Stoney Nakoda Nation) & Corey Telfer (University of Calgary & Language Conservancy)

  • “Animacy in Hidatsa”

    Indrek Park (Mandan-Hidatsa Language and Culture Project)

  • “A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Siouan language family using typological data”

    Edwin Ko (University of California)