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)