LSoRB Final Program

Final Schedule for Language South of the Rio Bravo
A Parasession to the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,
at Tulane University, Exhibition Room of the Annex to Hebert Hall,
on Jan. 9-10, 1995.
Monday, Jan. 9th, 1995

9:00 - 9:40am: Bret Gustafson, "Andean Languages: Autonomy and Standardization"
9:40 - 10:00: Robin Schafer, "Word Order and Negation in Nahuatl: A Cross-Dialect Study"
10:00 - 10:20: Robert Hamrick, "Classical Kaqchikel Morphophonology"

10:20 - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 10:50: Rosa Rodriguez, "Nominalizations in Kaqchikel"
10:50 - 11:10: Doris Payne, "Word Order, Aspect, and Lexical vs. Pronominal Argument Status in Panare (Carib)"
11:10 - 11:30: Lyle Campbell, "A Reevaluation of the Quechumaran hypothesis"
11:30 - 11:50: Veronica Grondona Ceria and Filomena Sandalo, "A Preliminary Reconstruction of Proto-Waikuruan with Special Reference to Pronominals and Demonstratives"
11:50 - 12:10: Cari Spring, "What's Underlying? Comparative Evidence from Asheninca"
12:10 - 12:30: Sidney da Silva Facundes, "Possession and Unpossession in Apurina (Maipuran, Arawakan)"

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 - 2:40: Salikoko Mufwene, "Language Shift and Language Death: Perspectives from Creoles"
2:40 - 3:00: Catherine Bereznak, "Language Contact and Language Death: the Impact of Spanish on Texistepec Popoluca"
3:00 - 3:20: Martha Swearingen, "Object Clitics and the Anterior Marker in Palenquero"
3:20 - 3:50: Heliana R. de Mello, "Arcaismos e contactolinguistico no portugues vernaculo do Brasil"
3:50 - 4:10: Marleen Haboud, "Lenguas en contacto y cambios gramaticales: El caso del castellano andino ecuatoriano"

4:10 - 4:30 BREAK

4:30 - 5:00: Judie Maxwell, "Kaqchikel Metalanguage for Linguistic and Cultural Change"
5:00 - 5:20: Kimberly A. Soto, "Documenting Indigenous Language Use: A Community Effort (Mexico, North Pame)"
5:20 - 5:50: M. Paul Lewis, "Language Maintenance in Six K'iche' Communities"
5:50 - 6:10: Robert McKenna Brown & Lori Henn, "Retamaxik ri ka'i' ch'ab'al: How to raise bilingual children in highland Guatemala"
6:10 - 6:30: Jill Brody, "Cooperation and competition as mutually dependent processes in Tojolab'al women's speech"
6:30 - 6:50: Marliny Son, "Estandarizacion en los idiomas mayas"

9:00 - 9:40am: Harry Howard, "Economy and Optimality in Spanish Grammar"
9:40 - 10:00: Javier Gutierrez and Luis Silva, "Prosodic and Morphological Focus in Spanish Bare Plurals"
10:00 - 10:20: Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux, "Syntactic Innovation in Caribbean Spanish: Verb movement and word order in infinitivals"
10:20 - 10:40: Marianna Pool, "On the Morphology of `no' in Spanish"

10:40 - 11:00 BREAK

11:10 - 11:30: Claudia Parodi, "The Origins of Latin American Spanish Pronunciation. The New Spain in 1523"
11:30 - 11:50: Viola G. Miglio, "Evolution of the Spanish Passive: Evidence from the Mexican Colonial Period"
11:50 - 12:10: R. M. Chandler-Burns et al., "ESPANOL-92: el primer analisis computacional del espanol contemporaneo"

12:10 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 - 2:40: Maria Beatriz Fontanella de Weinberg, "El voseo en Argentina y Uruguay"
2:40 - 3:00: Diane Ringer Uber, "Social Change and Discourse Style in Island and Mainland Puerto Rican Spanish"
3:00 - 3:20: Stuart Stewart, "The Multiple Function of Laughter in Conversation"

last revised 12/17/94, HH