Papers of the Fiftieth Algonquian Conference

MONICA MACAULAY is a professor of language sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and on the board of the Endangered Language Fund, a nonprofit organization that funds language revitalization and preservation projects around the world.MARGARET NOODIN is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where she also serves as the director of the Electa Quinney Institute and teaches Anishinaabemowin.

• Contents Preface 50th Algonquian Conference Retrospective | Richard Preston Algonquian Studies: Where We Came from and Where We Are Going | Mary Ann Naokwegijig-Corbiere The Importance of Being Not-Obviative | Irene Appelbaum The Benign Neglect of Language Materials by Historians: A Northeastern Oklahoma Case Study | Amy Dianne Bergseth A Meskwaki Construction in Narrative Texts: Independent Pronoun + Full NP | Amy Dahlstrom The Syntax of (ir)realis in Innu | Rose-Marie Déchaine and Monique Dufresne A Ditransitive Analysis of Possessor Raising in Mi’kmaw: Distinct Licensing for Possessor and Possessum | Yvonne Denny, Arlene Stevens, Elizabeth Paul, Barbara Sylliboy, and Dianne Friesen Nominalization Strategies in Plains Cree: An Analysis of the -win Sufffijix | Lex Giesbrecht and Jordan Lachler The Acquisition of Obviation in Northern East Cree: Evidence from Possessive Constructions | Ryan E. Henke Derivational Functions of Theme Signs in Oji-Cree Sarah Hofffman and Will Oxford Gatherings: The Transformation of Algonquin Settlement Patterns in the 19th Century | Leila Inksetter The Bible in “Plain” Cree: A Look at the Language of the 1862 Translation | Bill Jancewicz Denominative and Quantitative Verbs of Possession in Plains Cree | H. C. Wolfart Contributors