Presentations
[with Jordan Lachler] Towards a Best Practices Model in Skills-Training for Language Revitalization.
First International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages, Barcelona, Spain,
April 19-20, 2017.
[with Sally Rice and Michaela Stang]Linguistic Relationships between the Apachean Subgroup and Northern Athapaskan.
Symposium: Implications of the Promontory, Dismal River, and Franktown Archaeological Records for Apachean Prehistory,
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, April 1st, 2017.
[with Jordan Lachler and Layna Aschenmeier]Fostering Emotional Resiliency in Language Revitalization: Training insights from social work and
trauma recovery. 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. Honolulu, Vancouver, BC, April 1st, 2017.
Talk audio
From ‘sight’ to ‘lightning’: On the cultural basis for metonymy. “Familiar Strange” 114th Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Denver, Colorado, 18-22 November 2015. Poster
[with Dorothy Thunder, Antti Arppe] Literacy and language learning tools for Plains Cree. Prairies Workshop on Language and Linguistics, Brandon, Manitoba, 1 March 2014.
A Cognitive Linguistics approach to studying language relationships in Athapaskan. 12th Internation Cognitive Lingusitics Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, 23-28 June 2013.
Visualizing dialect geography in Northern Athapaskan through Kinship terms. High Desert Linguistics Society Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1-3 November 2012.
Historical Language Relationships and Lexicalization in Athapaskan. Athabaskan (Dene) Languages Conference.
Western Washington University, Bellingham 15-17 August 2012. Video [begins at 00:36]
Tendencies of Semantic Change in Athapaskan BEETs. Conceptual Discourse, Structure and Language Conference.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver 17-20 May 2012.
PACL: A database for linguistic research and language revitalization. Alberta Graduate Conference. University of Alberta, 3-5 May 2012.
Poster
Semantically restricted wordlists: classifying Athapaskan Languages with semantic and phonetic data. Workshop
on
comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences. University of Gothenburg, 24-25 October 2011.
Semantic differences in body-part, effluvia, and ephemera terms in Athapaskan. The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar and Culture. University of Warsaw (Pałac Kazimierzowski), 21-22 October 2011.
Tendencies of semantic change in Dene body-part, effluvia and ephemera terms. Workshop on Cognitive and Usage-Based Approaches to Language (with Joan Bybee). University of Alberta, 6 October 2011.
[with Sally Rice] Event metonymies in Northern Athapaskan. Dene (Athapaskan) Languages Conference.
University of Oregon, 26-27 June 2010.
Variation in the occurrence of the transitive suffix in a corpus of Tok Pisin.
Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. University of Alberta, 8-11 October 2009.
[with Sally Rice] Lexicalization patterns in body-part and effluvia terms in Athapaskan.
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. University of California Santa Barbara, 8-9 May 2009.
Metonymic meaning extension: two case studies in Tok Pisin.
Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association, Jagiellonian University, 15-20 July 2007.
[with Dagmara Dowbor] Metonymy in a construction-based account of indirect speech acts. Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 5-7 October 2006.
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