SCLC 42 was held in Charlottesville, VA from May 27 through May 29, 2022. It was organized by Armik Mirzayan and Corey Roberts and hosted at the University of Virginia. This was the first year where the SCLC had met in person since the beginning the COVID-19 pandemic, though it was a hybrid conference that allowed attendees and presenters to attend remotely via Zoom. The program from this year appears below:

Friday, May 27, 2022

  • “Crossing the strait: An Assiniboine legend”

    Vincent Collette (University of Quebec in Chicoutimi)

  • “To speak of bears: Tales, imagery, and landscape in Jiwere and Baxoje cultures”

    Jill Greer (Missouri Southern State University)

  • “Topic-based instruction for Dakota language courses”

    Joey Bird (Sisseton Wahpeton College), Akiṡ’a Peters (Sisseton Wahpeton College), & Kaleb Brushbreaker (Sisseton Wahpeton College)

  • “Lecture demonstration”

    Mihe Heyahenes Yattse (Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation)

Saturday, May 28, 2022

  • “Revisiting Iroquoian and Caddoan: Preliminary comparison from inflectional and derivational morphology”

    J. Drew Hancock-Mac Tamhis (University of Bern)

  • “The Siouan–Yuchi connection: Revisiting Sapir’s classification 100 years later”

    Ryan Kasak (University of Oklahoma)

  • “Truman Michelson’s field notes on Catawba”

    Samiron Dutta (Independent Scholar)

  • “Tutelo-Saponi Monacan Living Dictionary: A vehicle for collaboration, revitalization, and word creation”

    Marty Richardson (Independent Scholar) & David Kaufman (Independent Scholar)

  • “Ablaut or vowel alternations: Perspectives and observations in Tutelo”

    Corey Roberts (University of Arizona)

  • “A preliminary study of pre-aspirates in Crow”

    Brady Dailey (Boston University), Edwin Ko (University of California), Emma Kuykendall (University of California), & Dennis Phan (University of California)

  • “Sound ideophones and consonant gradation in Umóⁿhoⁿ”

    Julie Marsault (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

  • “A study of sound symbolic sets in Lakota”

    Armik Mirzayan (University of Virginia)

  • Tribute to Karenne Wood

Sunday, May 29, 2022

  • “The life cycle of suppletion in Crow”

    Edwin Ko (University of California)

  • “Coverbs in Lakota”

    Jan Ullrich (Lakota Language Consortium)

  • “Some observations regarding innovation in Stoney Nakoda: A closer look at Anna Barker’s vocabulary”

    Corleigh Powderface (Stoney Nakoda First Nation), Corey Telfer (University of Alberta), Alexandra O’Neil (Indiana University), & Willem de Reuse (Apache Language Consortium)