Past Presentations

Conference Presentations

A Curious Case of Clausal Connectives: Main Event Line Management in miluk tɬiis. Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 26. 

Special Workshop on Stress and Archival Materials; 2024 Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting; Douglas-Tavani, Jordan AG, Rosés Labrada, Jorge Emilio, and Shirtz, Shahar. 

Deciphering Jacobs’ Judgements on Stress: Insights from and for miluk tɬiis (miluk); Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting; Douglas-Tavani, Jordan AG, & Shirtz, Shahar.

On the Qualities and Possession of Objects in miluk tɬiis: a Special Bipartite Construction, 2023 Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS) Conference, University of Toledo, Ohio. (2023). 

Historical phonological change in the Coosan language family: the complications of multilingualism and languages going silent, The Fifth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. (poster presentation; 2021)

A Lexical Class as Construction: On the Origins of Cariban Postpositions, Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 2021, University of California, Santa Barbara. (2021). 

A Lexical Class as Construction: On the Origins of Cariban Postpositions, WAIL 2020, University of California, Santa Barbara (Accepted, Conference Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic; 2020)

Creating Cariban Postpositions: A (Sometimes) Bipartite Lexical Class, Third Symposium on Amazonian Languages, University of California: Berkeley. (2019)

Colloquia

tɬə miluk tɬiis də ləmmya’wa tɬiis: the clitics of miluk tɬiis; UCSB. (2023).

A Lexical Class and Reconstruction: On the Origins of Cariban Postpositions; Douglas-Tavani, Jordan AG & Spike Gildea; University of Oregon Linguistics Department. (2023). 

Non-Conference Workshops

tɬə xaɬii luwe wen tɬə xaɬii x̣walx̣wal: Mood, Modality, and Evidentiality in miluk tɬiis. Language Documentation and Revitalization Workshop, University of Oregon. (2024). 

A Lexical Class and Reconstruction: On the Origins of Cariban Postpositions, Language Documentation and Revitalization Workshop, University of Oregon. (2021)

Peer Tutoring Pedagogy and Methods Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of California: Santa Barbara (Organizer, Presenter; 2021 Winter)

Peer Tutoring Pedagogy and Methods Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of California: Santa Barbara (Organizer, Presenter; 2020 Fall)

Peer Tutoring Pedagogy and Methods Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of California: Santa Barbara (Organizer, Presenter; 2020 Winter)

Miscellaneous Presentations

Underrepresented New Graduate Student Finalist Q&A Panel, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (Invited Panelist; 2020-2023)  

Phonological Inventory of miluk, New Approaches in Indigenous Linguistics (NAIL), Fall 2020 Session, University of California, Santa Barbara. (2020).

Diachronic and Synchronic Perspective on Cariban Postpositions, NAIL, Spring 2020 Session 1, University of California, Santa Barbara. (2020). 

Working to Being Welcome with the Miluk: The Establishment of Responsibilities and Research Roles for Language Documentation and Revitalization in Southern Oregon, NAIL, Winter 2020 Session, University of California, Santa Barbara. (2020).

Introduction to Conlanging,  UCSB Undergraduate Linguistics Club, University of California: Santa Barbara. (Invited Talk; 2019)

Guest Lectures

The Pacific Northwest Sprachbund. Languages of the World (LING 181); UC Santa Barbara. (2023)

Lingít (Tlingit) and the Na-Dene Family. Languages of the World (LING 181); UC: Santa Barbara. (2023)

Community-Led Applied Linguistics Research and Revitalization: Southern Oregon Coast. North American Indigenous Languages (LING 134); UC: Santa Barbara. (2022)

Linguistic Appropriation, Ownership, and Native American Languages; Language, Race, and Ethnicity (LING 180); UC: Santa Barbara. (2022)

Practical Outcomes of Applied Linguistics: From Michoacán to Oregon, Introduction to Language and Linguistics (LING 20), UC: Santa Barbara. (2022)

A Case Study of Reconstructing Syntax: On the Origins of Cariban Postpositions, Introduction to Historical & Comparative Linguistics (LING 115), UC: Santa Barbara. (2022)

The Mechanisms of Morphosyntactic Change, Introduction to Historical & Comparative Linguistics (LING 115), UC: Santa Barbara. (2022)