recent presentations (please email me for a copy of a presentation or handout not available here)

 

2010

Snoek, Conor & Sally Rice. “Event metonymies in Northern Athapaskan”. Athapaskan/Dene Languages Conference; University of Oregon, 26 June 2010.

Rice, Sally. “Turning evidence: Field linguistics in the 21st century (from informant to collaborator, from word list to corpus, from linguist to colleague).” Keynote lecture at the Workshop on American Indian Languages (WAIL); UC, Santa Barbara, 30 April 2010. [pptx]

Rice, Sally. “Mother tongues and Mother Earth:  How the extinction of small languages threatens our planet.” Invited lecture for 2009-2010 Dimic Lecture Series: Green Thoughts in Green Shades; University of Alberta, 17 March 2010. [pptx]

Abdulrahim, Dana & Sally Rice. “Orthographically motivated spatial biases in the conceptual representation of events: Evidence from Arabic and English.” Poster presentation at the Motivation in Linguistics Conference; University of Tübingen, Germany, 11-13 February 2010.

2009

Dana Abdulrahim & Sally Rice. “Evidence for cross-linguistic spatial biases in the conceptual representation of events.” Canadian Linguistics Association (ACL/CLA). 23-25 May 2009. University of Ottawa.

Conor Snoek & Sally Rice. “Lexicalization patterns in body part and effluvia terms in Athapaskan.” Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL). 8-9 May 2009. University of California, Santa Barbara.

Joyce McDonough, Jordan Lachler, & Sally Rice. “An interactive speech atlas of the Dene languages of the Mackenzie Basin.” Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA). 27-29 March 2009. University of Utah.

Sally Rice, Benjamin Tucker, Christopher Cox, & Bruce Starlight. “Linguistic training in an endangered language community: The University of Alberta’s Community Linguist Certificate program and the Tsuu T’ina Nation.” Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA). 27-29 March 2009. University of Utah.

Joyce McDonough, Jordan Lachler, & Sally Rice. “Aspiration as phonation: an acoustic analysis of aspirated affricates in the Dene languages.” SSILA Annual Meeting; January 9-11. San Francisco.

2008

Miwa, Koji, Gary Libben, R. Harald Baayen, & Sally Rice. “Lexical activation in picture comparison: A cross-linguistic approach to the relation between language and thought in the mental lexicon.” 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (Yonsei University; Seoul, Korea), 27-29 July 2008.

Rice, Sally. “Received and not-so-received wisdom about Athapaskan linguistics for archaeologists.” Society for American Archaeology 73rd Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC), 26-30 March 2008. [ppt]

Rice, Sally & John Newman. “Beyond the lemma: Inflection-specific constructions in English.” American Association of Corpus Linguistics (Brigham Young U), 13-15 March 2008. [ppt]

2007

Rice, Sally & Susanne Borgwaldt. “A cross-linguistic experimental study of the spatial semantics of verbs: How writing system directionality and metaphor impinge on event structure.” 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Jagiellonian University, Krakó, Poland), 15-20 July 2007.

2006

Rice, Sally. “Radical Construction Grammar meets the Dene verb.” Keynote address to the 7th High Desert Linguistics Society Meeting (U New Mexico), 9-11 November 2006. [pdf]

Rice, Sally & Susanne Borgwaldt “Where do spatial associations for non-spatial verbs come from and how language-specific are they?” 8th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference (UC, San Diego), 3-5 November 2006.

Newman, John & Sally Rice. “English adjectival inflection: A radical Radical Construction Grammar approach.” 8th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference (UC, San Diego), 3-5 November 2006.

Borgwaldt, Susanne & Sally Rice. PUSH goes right and ADMIRE goes up: Where spatial associations for English verbs come from.” Cognitio (UQAM), 19 Aug 2006.

Thiering, Martin & Sally Rice. “Language on the land: Video-based elicitation materials for Dene languages.” Dene Languages Conference (Yellowknife, NT), 15-16 June 2006.

2005

Rice, Sally & John Newman. “Inflectional islands.” 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Yonsei U; Korea), 17-22 July 2005.

Newman, John & Sally Rice. “Event schemas in multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach.” 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Yonsei U; Seoul, Korea), 17-22 July 2005.

Rice, Sally. “Dene verb stem polysemies.” Dene Languages Conference (U Victoria), 6-7 June 2005. [pdf]

Ives, John W. & Sally Rice. “Language and technological thresholds in Na-Dene prehistory.” 38th Annual Canadian Archaeological Association (Association Canadienne d'Archéologie) Conference (Malaspina University College; Nanaimo, BC), 11-15 May 2005.

2011
Rice, Sally. “Corporeal incorporation and extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) lexicalization.” Presentation at the Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar, and Culture; University of Warsaw, Poland, 21-22 October 2011.  [pptx]

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