About

Since 1981, the Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference (SCLC) has been an annual gathering of linguists, anthropologists, educators, and scholars, and other researchers to promote and advance the study and teaching of the Siouan and Caddoan language families. This year, SCLC will be hosted virtually via Zoom from Thursday, May 20 to Saturday, May 22.

If you wish to attend the virtual conference or have any questions, please write to Edwin Ko at eddersko@berkeley.edu.

Call for paper

The deadline for abstract submissions has ended. If you would still like to submit a paper, please contact Edwin Ko at eddersko@berkeley.edu.

Conference Program

Note that all times are given in PDT.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Time Title Speaker
9:00-9:15 Opening remarks and orientation to virtual conference 🎊🤖
9:15-9:45 Nakhota dialects Vincent Collette
9:45-10:15 (Para-)Adpositional Morphosyntax in Siouan: A Case Study of Lakhota-Dakota-Nakota, Catawba, and Crow Noah Coen
10:15-10:45 Wichita Pitch and Stress: a preliminary description with acoustic correlate
Armik Mirzayan
10:45-11:00 Coffee break ☕🍪
11:00-11:30 ɾ-Nasalization in Hoocąk
Sean Panick
11:30-12:00 An Acoustic Analysis of Ho-Chunk Accent
Cameron Duval & Nancy Hall
12:00-13:00 Social hour 🍻💬

Friday, May 21, 2021

Time Title Speaker
9:00-9:20 Relative clauses in Hoocąk
Johannes Helmbrecht
9:20-9:40 Relativization in Hidatsa
John Boyle
9:40-10:00 Relative Clauses in Omaha-Ponca
Catherine Rudin & Julie Marsault
10:00-10:30 Origin of Lakota relative clause marker čha Jan Ullrich
10:30-11:00 Discussion 🙋💬
11:00-11:15 Coffee break ☕🍪
11:15-12:00 A Beginner’s Guide to Baxoje-Jiwere
Jill Greer
12:00-12:30 The Great Bear Share Geoffrey Sea
12:30-13:30 Social hour 🍻💬

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Time Title Speaker
9:00-9:20 Topic and focus in Mandan Ryan Kasak
9:20-9:40 Topics, new topics, topic change, and resumed topics in Hoocąk discourse
Johannes Helmbrecht
9:40-10:15 Discussion 🙋💬
10:15-10:30 Coffee break ☕🍪
10:30-11:00 Some non-prototypical properties of applicative constructions in Umóⁿhoⁿ verbs
Julie Marsault
11:00-11:30 Formal & Colloquial Speech in Stoney: Initial Observations
Lloyd Buddy Wesley & Corey Telfer
11:30-12:00 Animacy in Hidatsa Indrek Park
12:00-12:30 A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Siouan language family using typological data
Edwin Ko
12:30-13:00 Business meeting & closing remarks 💼🎉