SCLC 45 was held in Crow Agency, MT from June 2 through June 3, 2025. It was organized by Edwin Ko and hosted at Little Big Horn College. The program from this year appears below:

Monday, June 2, 2025

  • “The Crow Language Consortium and Crow Language Initiatives”

    Janine Pease (Little Big Horn College & Crow Language Consortium)

  • “Two kinds of ia in Apsáalooke (Crow)”

    Josh Denney (University of the Basque Country)

  • “On expressing necessities, desires and time in the Apsáalooke (Crow) language: A non-technical sketch”

    Edwin Ko (Yale University)

  • “Hidatsa obstruents: Clusters vs. segments – evidence from morpho-phonology”

    John P. Boyle (California State University, Fresno), Keira Colleluori (California State University, Fresno), & Armik Mirzayan (University of Virginia)

  • “From independent clauses to post-positions: That pesky /kv/ particle in Catawba”

    Samiron Dutta (Independent Scholar)

  • “Siouan sonorants: A survey”

    Astrid Ayala (California State University, Fresno) & John P. Boyle (California State University, Fresno)

  • “Does Proto-Siouan have too many consonants?”

    Ryan M. Kasak (University of Oklahoma)

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

  • “Factors contributing to the endangerment of the Crow language 1980 to now”

    Jacob Brien (Rocky Mountain College & Crow Nation)

  • “NP-internal attributive words and their syntactic status in Lakota”

    Jan Ullrich (Lakota Lange Consortium)

  • “Proto Dakotan *khišká ‘bighorn sheep’: Innovation or loanword?”

    Vincent Collette (University of Quebec in Chicoutimi)

  • “Documenting the Umóⁿhoⁿ language: Bringing back words from old recordings”

    Julie Marsault (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

  • “Acoustic analysis of Umóⁿhoⁿ (Omaha) oral vowels”

    Rick Niska (University of Virginia)

  • “Transcription practices in linguistic fieldwork: Documenting connected speech in Apsálooke (Crow)”

    Edwin Ko (Yale University)

  • “Grammar writing, lexicography, and archival materials: The future of Siouan language studies”

    Ryan M. Kasak (University of Oklahoma)