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Proceedings of WAIL 25 (2023)
Editors: Jordan A.G. Douglas-Tavani and Guillem Belmar Viernes
Articles:
Morphology-sensitive Stress in Southern Hill Nisenan by Skye J Anderson & Jonathan A Geary
Justicia Social de Intérpretes de Lenguas Originarias: estamos aquí para proveer el apoyo para un cambio by Salustia Ávila, Javier García, Abigail Hernández, José Mendoza, Jeremías Salazar, Guillem Belmar, & Eric W. Campbell
A Sketch of Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Piipaash by Luis Barragan, Ron Carlos, Isabella Dockerty, Saki Gejo, Christina Lopez, Tyler Peterson, Sierra Ward, & Kelly Washington.
Reanalyzing K’iche’ as a Tensed Language by Maša Bešlin
Short and long past tense in Choctaw by George Aaron Broadwell
Nasalization in Otomi by Gabriela De la Cruz-Sánchez
A Phonetic Description of Kanyen’kéha (Western Dialect) by Martin Renard
Proceedings of WAIL 24 (2022)
Editors: Jordan A.G. Douglas-Tavani and Guillem Belmar Viernes
Articles:
Antipossession and nominalization in Mam by Noah Elkins
Stress-based truncation of loanwords in the Yuman languages by Jonathan Geary
Word order variation in interrogative sentences in Northwest Sahaptin texts by Jonathan Geary & Gretchen Kern
Sketching Infant Grammars by Cliffton Pye
Pronombres personales en Sà'án Sàvǐ ñà Yukúnanǐ by Jeremías Salazar, Guillem Belmar Viernes, Alonso Vásquez-Aguilar & Eric W. Campbell
Proceedings of WAIL 15 (2012)
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Editors: Elliott Hoey & Dibella Wdzenczny
Articles:
Evidence for Language Contact in Numeral System of Quechuan, Aymaran, Cavineña, and Chipaya by Aaron W. Marks
Proceedings of WAIL 14 (2011)
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Editors: Stephanie Gamble Morse & Elliott Hoey
Temporal expression in Wichí nominals by Dibella Wdzenczny
Negation and focus in K'iche' by Murat Yasavul
On the syntax of coordination in Menominee by Meredith Johnson & Bryan Rosen
Topics in Chukchansi Yokuts Phonology and Morphology by Peter Ara Guekguezian
Proceedings of WAIL 13 (2010)
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Editors: Daisey Rosenblum & Stephanie Gamble Morse
Articles:
Ejectives in Nez Perce by Katherine Nelson
Assimilatory Processes in Chuxnabán Mixe by Carmen Jany
The Role of Homophony Avoidance in Morphology: A case study from Mixtec by Mary Paster
Hiaki Pronominals and Typology of Deficiency by Heidi Harley and Alex Trueman
Tense and Evidentiality in Sirionó and Yuki by Östen Dahl
Complement Clause Types in Northern Tepehuan: A continuum of semantic and syntactic complexity by Stefanie Ramos Bierge
Categorical Restrictions of Positional Verbs in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec by Keiko Beers
"There is no thermostat in the forest": Talking about temperature in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) by Susanne Vejdemo and Hunter Lockwood
Building an Intergenerational, Home-Based Language Nest by Melissa Borgia and Sandy Dowdy
Proceedings of WAIL 12 (2009)
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Editors: Daisy Rosenblum & Carrie Meeker
Articles:
Ablaut and reduplication in Dakota: Revisiting the phonology-morphology relationship by Jesse Saba Kirchner
Grammaticalization of the generalized Kampan applicative -ako (Arawak) by Elena Mihas
Orthography and ideology: Examining the development of Kaw writing by Justin T. McBride
Updating the Sauk lexicon: Strategies and implications for language revitalization by Olivia N. Sammons
Proceedings of WAIL 6 (2003)
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Editor: Jeanie Castillo
Articles:
Floating Moras and Features in Southern Sierra Miwok by J.C. Brown
Causation in Warihio by Rolando Félix Armendáriz
Salish Psych Applicatives by Donna B. Gerdts & Kaoru Kiyosawa
Pragmatics of Word Order in South Conchucos Quechua by Diane M. Hintz
The Representation of Oral Literature and its Role in Language Revitalization by Gary Holton
Syntactic and Semantic Development of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec Languages by Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
Investigating Focus in Noun Phrases by Pamela Munro & Larry Gorbet
Inverse Agreement, Argument Structure, and Hierarchy-Driven Phenomena in Ojibwe by Alexis Palmer
On the Syntax and Semantics of Content Questions in Yucatec Maya by Judith Tonhauser