Past presentations in the SIL-UND Colloquium Series

The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) sponsors a colloquium series each summer as part of its program at the University of North Dakota. Following is a list of speakers and titles from past summers.

See also:

• Announcement for the current summer
• Past guest speakers

2010

• June 10: Mark Karan, SIL-UND
  Understanding and Forecasting Ethnolinguistic Vitality
• June 24: Michael Beard, UND Department of English
  Two Pairs of Eyes
• July 1: Adam Baker, SIL-UND
  Lingual Implementation of a Labial Feature
• July 8: Regina Blass, SIL-UND
  Resemblance Markers and Concept Formation
• July 14: Special guest speaker
  Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds (UK)
  Ideological Choice in the Translation of Latin American Literature
• July 15: Special guest speaker
  Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds (UK)
  Why do Translations Differ?
• July 22: Keith Slater, SIL-UND
  What Is a Particle? On the use and abuse of the term particle with some modest recommendations for improving a mildly lamentable situation
• July 29: Mary Morgan, SIL-UND
  Take Your Dictionary Off the Shelf: Use it for literacy!

2009

• June 11: Keith Snider, SIL International
  Orthography and Phonological Depth: The Lexical Orthography Hypothesis
• June 17-18: Special Guest Lecturer
  Ken Rehg, University of Hawaii
  The Art and Craft of Making Dictionaries
• June 25: John Roberts, SIL International
  How to Find Serial verbs in English
• July 9: Bettina Revilla
  Place Names in Sign Languages
• July 16: Douglas Fraiser, SIL International
  Culture Change as Active Adaptation: An Illustration from the Manobo of the Philippines
• July 23: Virgil Benoit, UND
  Language Content We Hardly Think About as We Conjugate
• July 30: John Clifton, Stephen Marlett, and Hugh Patterson
  Lasting Linguistics: Making a Meaningful Mark

2008

• June 12: Cathy Marlett, SIL International
  Mollusks in the Seri culture
• June 19: Tom Headland, SIL International
  Population Instability and Injustice in a Philippine Hunter-Gatherer Society: How Demographic Data Can Tell the Story in Cyberspace
• June 26: Steve Parker, SIL International and GIAL
  The naturalness and density of phonological rule interactions
• July 10: Steve Parkhurst, SIL International
  The Ebb and Flow of Linguistic Forces
• July 17: Xiaozhau Huang, UND
  A Case of Sociolinguistic Significance of Academic Discourse
• July 24: Inga McKendry, SIL International
  Where do floating tones come from and where do they go?
• July 30 (Wed) and July 31 (Thu): Special Guest Lecturer
  John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  An introduction to Optimality Theory

2006

• June 15: Ken Olson, SIL International
  The (inter)dental approximant
• June 22: Jan Allen, SIL International
  The ubiquitous, anomalous -om- infix in Kankanaey
• June 29: Adam Baker, SIL-UND and University of Arizona
  Do bad, ban, and bang all have the same vowel?
• July 6: Tom Headland, SIL International
  Pythons and people as predators and prey
• July 20: Chen Yi-Ting, Arizona State University
  ESL program or TOEFL?
• July 27: Elizabeth Parks, SIL International
  “He’d Rather Kill Himself Than Go Back To School”: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Homeschoolers
• August 2 (Wed): Gary Simons, SIL International
  Ensuring that digital data last
• August 3: Gary Simons, SIL
  Empowering digital data to interoperate

2005

• June 9: Stephen Parkhurst, SIL
  Optimality Theory and the Formational Constraints of Signed Languages
• June 16: Susan Hasselbring
  It is for us! The Acceptance of Written Standards
• June 23: Emma Pavey
  Basically, what it is is this
• June 30: Steve Parker, SIL
  Rhinoglottophilia and the affirmation grunt—a universal tendency
• July 7: Steve and Kelly Walter, SIL
  English Instruction in the Schools of Eritrea
• July 14: Dan Everett, University of Manchester
  Ethnogrammar—Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognitioni n Pirahã
• July 20: Dan Everett, University of Manchester
  Plato’s Problem vs. Aristotle's Problem in Theories of Language
• July 21: Dan Everett, University of Manchester
  Ethnophonology: On culture and the sound system of Pirahã
• July 28: Keith Snider, SIL and CanIL
  Pitch and Vowel Quality in Chumburung: An Instrumental Study

2004

• June 10: Diana Weber, SIL and UND
  The Permanent Forum in Indigenous Issues
  Special Focus: Indigenous Women
• June 17: Albert Bickford, SIL and UND
  1-Handed Persons and ASL Morphology
• June 24: Adam Baker, University of Arizona
  Physiology of the Tongue
• July 1: Michael Beard, UND Department of English
  Z is for Saffron: From a Study of the Arabic alphabet
• July 8: Larin Adams, SIL
  Doing Structural Semantics in a Cognitive World
• July 15: Stephen Parkhurst, SIL
  How the Iconic Nature of Signed Languages Affects Sociolinguistic Survey
• July 22: David Weber, SIL, UND, and
  Curso Internacional de Lingüística, Traducción y Alfabetización, Universidad Ricardo Palma
  Site of attachment and trajectory in Quechua and Bora
• July 29: Mary Morgan, SIL
  Community-Based Literacy in Nepal

2003

• June 12: Adam Baker, University of Arizona
  Reduplication As Minimal Copying to Fill Empty Prosodic Structure
• June 19: Albert Bickford, SIL
  The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe
• June 26: Thomas Headland, SIL
  Hunter-Gatherer Peoples of the Philippines: Their Rain Forest Is Gone:  What Now?
• July 2: Diana S. Weber, SIL
  A mixed-method study of constructivist learning in pre-service teachers in Huánuco, Peru
• July 10: Alan D. Boydell, University of Colorado
  Ludlings and Secret Languages: A Case Study of French ‘Verlan’
• July 17: Bill Bright, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and University of Colorado
  Writing systems: Origins, types, choices
• July 24: Keith Snider, SIL and Trinity Western University
  Tonal Phenomena in Chumburung: An Instrumental Study
• July 31: Greg Thomson
  What Makes L2 Speech Appear Grammatical?

2002

• June 18: David Weber, SIL
  A Tale of Two Translation Theories
• June 25: Steve Parker, SIL
  Quantifying the Sonority Hierarchy
• July 2: Mike Cahill, International Linguistics Coordinator, SIL
  Some Universals of Tone
• July 9 (Gamble 1): Mary Morgan, SIL
  Languages Worth Writing
• July 16: Claire Ramsey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Deaf Infants in the Modern World: Newborn Screening, Cochlear Implants, Full Inclusion, and Bilingualism
• July 23: Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
  The Structure and Intonation of WH-Questions in American Sign Language
• July 30: Dennis Malone, SIL
  Stabilizing Indigenous Languages: Can it be Done, Should it be Done?
• August 6: Richard Swanson, University of Minnesota
  The Concept of ‘person’ or ‘human being’ among the Gourmantche of Burkina Faso

2001

• June 14: Susan Malone, SIL
  Mother tongue education for social integration / language maintenance
• June 21: Thomas Headland, SIL
  Did anthropologists cause deadly epidemic in Amazon tribe?
• June 28: Daniel Everett, SIL
  Asymmetrical embedding in Wari and the ontology of syntax
• July 5: Stephen Marlett, SIL
  Reanalysis of passive and negative prefixes in Seri
• July 12: Joan Baart, SIL
  Modeling the melody of speech: the analysis-by-synthesis approach to the study of intonation and tone
• July 19: Peter Ladefoged, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles
  The linguistic use of different types of phonation
• July 26: Carolyn Miller, President SIL International
  The Tiger Mother’s Child and the Cow Mother’s Child: exploring cultural values through folk literature
• August 2: Lars Dyrud, SIL
  Stress in Hindi-Urdu: are there any acoustic correlates of stress apart from the effects of intonation?

2000

• June 20: Stephen A. Marlett, SIL
  Quantification with ‘all’ in Seri
• June 27: Jan Buckwalter, Ph.D. student, Language Education, Indiana University
  But ‘b’ is not ‘Book’: Emergent Biliteracy in Chinese and English
• July 6 (Thursday): J. Albert Bickford, SIL
  Academic Publication on the Web: the SIL-Mexico Experience
• July 11: Greg Thomson, University of Alberta
  Do Adults Acquire Second Language Inflectional Morphology?
• July 18: Daniel L. Everett, SIL
  Grammar & Evolution: Problems for the Darwinian Model
• July 25: Steve Walter, SIL and Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
  Theory and Practice in Bilingual Education: How extensible?
• Aug 1: David Marshall, UND
  A Conversation About Linguistic Configuration and Its Utilization for Research

1999

• June 15: Stephen Levinsohn
  Three Ways of Reporting Speech in Koine Greek
• June 22: Steve Parker
  Bora Vowels and Distinctive Feature Theory
• June 29: Greg Thomson
  Language Learning from a Processing Perspective
• July 6: Aaron Shryock
  Language Classification and Subclassification
• July 13: Lindsay Whaley
  What’s Cross-linguistic about Quantifier Float?
• July 20: Dr. James Emejulu and Dr. Nzang-Bie Yolande
  Linguistic Perspectives in Gabon
• July 22: Lindsay Whaley
  Reduplication in Oroqen in an Altaic Context
• July 27: Heather Walker
  Student Participation in the Academic Discourse Community
• August 3: Steve Walter
  After the Decade of Literacy, What Next?

1998

• June 9: John Clifton
  Problems in Testing Russian Bilingualism
• June 16: Steven Bird
  When Marking Tone Reduces Fluency: An Orthography Experiment in Cameroon
• June 23: Stephen J. Barber
  The adaptation of Literacy to Social Environment
• June 30: Mark Karan
  Language Vitality Assessments
• July 7: David Weber
  Bora Classifiers: Their Use and Grammatical Status
• July 14: Alla Yeliseyeva
  Bilingualism and Language Planning in Ukraine
• July 21: Dick Montag
  Ethnography--They Will Tell You
• July 28: Yasuko Nagai
  Community-Based Curriculum and Staff Development in the Recent Education Reform in Papua New Guinea