2007 - Symposium on Endangered Languages of Amazonia


Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Friday, February 16
9:00 - 5:00
UTC 1.102

9:00-10:15
 
 
Keynote: Nilson Gabas Jr. (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil), Ideophones and evidentials in Karo (Tupi)
Abstract (pdf)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:15
 
 
Lev Michael (University of Texas at Austin), Mood and Negation in Nanti (Kampa, Arawak)
Abstract (pdf)
11:15-12:00
 
 
I-Wen Lai (University of Texas at Austin), Conditionals and Counterfactuality in Iquito
Abstract (pdf)
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15
 
 
Keynote: Mily Crevels (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), How a language without nominal number expresses plurality: The case of Itonama (isolate, Bolivia)
Abstract (pdf)
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15
 
 
Taryne Hallett (University of Texas at Austin), A paradigm of event modality: The Iquito continuum
Abstract (pdf)
4:15-5:00
 
 
Pattie Epps (University of Texas at Austin), Verb compounding and antigrammaticalization in Hup (Nadahup, Brazil)
Abstract (pdf)



Saturday, February 17
9:00 - 12:45
MEZ 1.120

9:00-9:45
 
 
Chris Beier (University of Texas at Austin), Putting the hunt into words: Formal features of Nanti hunting stories in Montetoni (Southeastern Peruvian Amazonia)
Abstract (pdf)
9:45-10:30
 
 
Cynthia I. A. Hansen (University of Texas at Austin), Hands, fingers, feet, and toes? Oh, brother. The numeral system in Iquito
Abstract (pdf)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30
 
 
Brianna Rauschuber (University of Texas at Austin), Tonal Accent in Iquito
Abstract (pdf)
11:30-12:45
 
 
Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) with Fl´via Castro Alves, Nominative-Absolutive alignment in Cariban and J�: Description and reconstruction
Abstract (pdf)

 

Sponsored by the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), and the Brazil Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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