Papers of the Fifty-Fifth Algonquian Conference

Inge Genee is coeditor of the Blackfoot Digital Dictionary and director of the Blackfoot Language Resources Lab, which conducts collaborative research in support of Blackfoot language revitalization. She received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Amsterdam. She is a professor at the University of Lethbridge, where she teaches courses in linguistics and Blackfoot grammar.Monica Macaulayis the Ada Deer Professor of Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and on the advisory board of the Endangered Language Fund, a nonprofit organization that funds language revitalization and preservation projects around the world. She also works closely with the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin on language reclamation and revitalization.Natalie Weber is assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. Their main interests lie in phonology and the interfaces between phonology and other components of grammar. Since 2011 their empirical focus has been Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken in Alberta and northern Montana.

• Preface, Antti Arppe misi-mîkiwâhp pêsêkinosa ohci: A Corpus of Miscellaneous Plains Cree Texts, Daniel Dacanay and Antti Arppe Prenominal vs. Postnominal Relative Clauses in Meskwaki, Amy DahlstromA Divided Tribe Is a Colonized Tribe: Reexamining Meskwaki Patrilineal Tribal Membership (before and after 1937), Erik D. Gooding and Lily Lee GoodingLe Pluriel Nominal Préfixé d’un Parler Cri, Stéphane GoyettePreverb Order in Potawatomi, Robert E. Lewis Jr.Semantic Effects of Two VII Finals and a New Diagnostic for Medials as Verbal Classifiers in Ojibwe, Cherry Meyer and Anna Whitney A Computational Model for Blackfoot Demonstratives, Katherine Schmirler, Dominik Kadlec, Inge Genee, and Antti ArppeRefining the Phonological Analysis of Ojibwe Nominal Inflection Classes, Reed Steiner and Christopher Hammerly Variation in Prosodic Structure across Algonquian, Natalie Weber, Antti Arppe, Ksenia Bogomolets, Andrew Cowell, Rose-Marie Déchaine, Christopher Hammerly, Sarah E. Murray, Katherine Schmirler, and Rachel VogelContributors