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Karin Michelson

University:Department of Linguistics Home: 2 Elm Court University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 Snyder, NY 14226 716-645-2463 716-645-4956 [email protected]

EDUCATION 1983 Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University. Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Accent in the Five Nations Iroquoian Language. 1975 B.A. First Class Joint Honours in Linguistics and Russian, McGill University. Thesis: Mohawk Aspect Suffixes.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1979-82 Research Director, Centre for the Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages, and Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Western . 1982-83 Instructor, Linguistics, Harvard University. 1983-88 Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Harvard University. 1988-89 Associate Professor, Linguistics, Harvard University. 1989-90 Instructor, Native Language Teacher Training program (summer programs), University of Western Ontario and Lakehead University. 1989-2003 Associate Professor, Linguistics, University at Buffalo. 2003- Professor, Linguistics, University at Buffalo. 2011 Instructor/Professor, LSA Linguistic Institute 2011 (Language in the World), Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder. (July 7-August 2)

AWARDS 2017 Exceptional Scholars Award for Sustained Achievement, University at Buffalo. 2018 Recognition by the Oneida of the Thames for linguistic service, Workshop, June 4.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Linguistics Society of America The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Editorial board Associate Editor, International Journal of American Linguistics, 2002-2005.

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Conferences/Workshops Co-organizer (Christian DiCanio, organizer), Tonal Aspects of Language, 5th International Symposium, University at Buffalo, May 2016. Organizer, Annual Workshop for Teachers of , University of Western Ontario, 1979-82. Organizer (with Michael K. Foster) Principles of Dictionary Construction in Native American Languages, organized session at the XXXVIIth Conference on American Indian Languages, November 1998. Member, Program Committee, The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2008-2009.

Consulting/Reviewing Linguistic partner (Oneida), The Breath of Life Archival Institute, Washington, D.C. 2015. Language expert (Oneida) for the World Atlas of Language Structures, ed. by B. Comrie, M. Dryer, D. Gil, and M. Haspelmath, Oxford University Press, 2005. Occasional reviewer of manuscripts or proposals for the McGill-Queen’s University Press, University of Toronto Press, Syracuse University Press, University of California Publications in Linguistics, University of Nebraska Press, and Cambridge University Press, and the journals Language, Phonology, International Journal of American Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, Anthropological Linguistics. Occasional reviewer of grant proposals for National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of , National Science Foundation. Consultant on language curricula and other materials for Ontario Ministry of Education, Oneida-Nation-of-the-Thames, and Oneida Territory, .

University Service 1991-93 Faculty Senate, University at Buffalo 1993-94 Program Evaluation Committee, Graduate School, University at Buffalo 1994-95 Personnel Committee, Faculty of Social Science, University at Buffalo 1994-95 University Fellowships Committee, University at Buffalo 1996-98 ad hoc Graduate School Committee on Transfer Credit/Multiple Degrees, University at Buffalo 1993- American-Canadian Studies Committee, University at Buffalo 1996-04 College of Arts and Sciences Divisional Committee, University at Buffalo 1998-02 Graduate School Fellowships Committee, University at Buffalo 2000-03 Graduate School Executive Committee, University at Buffalo 2010-11 Member, Search Committee, CAS Dean, University at Buffalo 2013 Chair, CAS Dean's Grievance Committee 2013-18 Member, CAS Appointments, Promotions and Tenures Committee

Departmental Service 1983-88 Head Tutor, Linguistics, Harvard University 1990-93 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Linguistics, University at Buffalo 3

1996-04 Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics, University at Buffalo 2005-11 Chair, Linguistics, University at Buffalo 2011-12 Advocate, Tenure and Promotion for Dr. Doug Roland, University at Buffalo 2013-17 Member, Admissions Committee, Linguistics, University at Buffalo 2016 Member, Ad-hoc Bylaws Committee, Linguistics, University at Buffalo 2016 Member, VAP Search Committee, Linguistics, University at Buffalo 2017- Member, Graduate Committee, University at Buffalo 2017- Mentor, Assistant Professor Christian diCanio

THESIS AND POSTDOCTORAL SUPERVISION Postdoctoral Carrie Dyck. 1994-96. Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (jointly supervised with K. Rice and E. Dresher of the University of Toronto)

Ph.D. (University at Buffalo, and major advisor, unless otherwise specified) Hatcher, Richard. In progress. The Phonetics and Phonology of Cayuga Prosody Hill, Montgomery. 2020. A Revitalization Grammar of Tuscarora Cornelius, Samantha. 2018. Prosodic Phonology in . External committee member. University of Texas, Arlington Lukaniec, Megan. 2018. The elaboration of verbal structure: Wendat (Huron) verb morphology. External committee member, UC Santa Barbara Uchihara, Hiroto. 2013. The Suprasegmental System of Oklahoma Cherokee. (Published by Oxford University Press, 2016) Sugiyama, Yukiko. 2008. The Nature of Japanese Pitch Accent: An Experimental Study Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier. 2007. The Perception of Vowel Quantity: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation. (Co-advised with Doug Whalen, Haskin Laboratories, Yale University) Percy Abrams. 2006. Onondaga Pronominal Prefixes Ameyo Awuku. 2006. Physio-psychological concept expressions in Ewe: a syntax- semantics lexicon Matthew Davidson. 2002. Topics in Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) Grammar Craig Kopris. 2001. A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot Yongnam Um. 2001. Tone and related phonological aspects of Middle Korean and Modern Korean dialects with special reference to Fengxian Li. 1993. Diachronic study of -V compounds in Chinese Harry Bochner. 1988. The forms of words: A theory of lexical relationships. (Co-supervised with Jill Carrier) Harvard University. Published by Foris (1993) Norman Janis. 1987. A grammar of Biblical accents. Harvard University Wendy Lewis. 1986. The loss of the strong conjugation in Middle Irish. (Co-supervised with Calvert Watkins) Harvard University

M.A./QP (University at Buffalo, Advisor) Hatcher, Richard. 2017. Word Order in Iroquoian (Oneida) Diaz, Thomas. 2016. An Information-based Morphology Approach to Pronominal Prefixes in Oneida 4

Hill, Monty. 2015. Measuring Newsworthiness: Towards a Rigorous Model of Discourse Phenomena in Tuscarora Lehnert, Heike. 2002. Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Liquid Devoicing in Thai, Hungarian, and Cori Grimm. 1997. The Phonetic realization of Pitch Accent in the Ontario Dialect of Oneida Alissa Melinger. 1997. Syllabification, Foot Structure and Accent in Seneca Jordan Lachler. 1994. Seneca aspect suffixes and the Alternating Base Hypothesis Anna Keusen. 1994. The focus on Ne:’ in Cayuga Craig Kopris. 1994. An RRG account of the distribution of Seneca pronominal affixes Kathy Binns. 1994. To be or not to be: zero in linguistic description Ryang-Sang Oh. 1991. Syllable Structure in Korean

B.A. (University at Buffalo unless otherwise specified) Julia Cordani. 2019. A Single-Speaker Profile of the Sounds of the . Hadley Houck. 2019. Are Trumpets Really Arrogant? Instruments as . Jacob Morse. 2016. Variation between Utterance-initial /h/ and /ʔ/ in Oneida Christian T. DiCanio. 2001. Prosodic Domains in Co-constructed Speech: Intonational Overlay Rolf Noyer. 1988. Formal problems in the phonology and morphology of Welsh and Irish consonant mutation (Summa cum laude). Harvard University David Silva. 1986. New perspectives on the Portuguese vowel shift. Harvard University Greg Maggs. 1985. Rules of synchronic metathesis (Summa cum laude). Harvard University George Aaron Broadwell. 1983. Against metrical feet in Hebrew (Summa cum laude) Harvard University

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 1976-77 Quebec Government Bourse. 1976-79 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship. 1978-79 Phillips Fund Grant, American Philosophical Society. $1,000. 1979-82 Oneida Language Teaching Development Project. Secretary of State, Ottawa. $60,000. (with Jim Freedman) 1980 Algonquian and Iroquoian Language Teachers Conference. Secretary of State. With Roberta Miskokomin and John Nichols. $4,000. 1980-81 Oneida Language Teaching Development Project. Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. $24,500. 1980-81 Oneida texts. Urgent Ethnology Contract 1630-1-054. Ethnological Research Contract Programme, National Museum of Man, Ottawa. $4,620. 1981 National Museum of Man, Summer Youth Employment Project. $17,000. 1981-82 Oneida Language, Teaching Development Project. Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. $16,500. 1981-83 Comparative Mohawk-Oneida stem list with notes. Urgent Ethnology Contract 1630-1-54. Ethnological Research Contract Programme, National Museum of Man, Ottawa. $4,690. 1982 National Museum of Man, Summer Youth Employment Project. $22,150. 5

1982 Oneida Dictionary. Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, Native Community Branch. $5,000. (with Elda Antone and Jim Freedman) 1982-85 Oneida syntax. Urgent Ethnology Contract 1630-5-476. Ethnological Research Contract Programme, National Museum of Man, Ottawa. $2,780. 1986 A textbook for Oneida. Faculty Enrichment Programme, Public Affairs Division, Canadian Embassy, Washington. $3,000. 1986-88 A textbook for Oneida. Committee on Faculty Research Support, Harvard Graduate Society Fund. $1,000. 1989-90 Prosodic structures in Iroquoian. Canada Research Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $35,000. 1993-95 Oneida prosodic categories above the world. National Science Foundation #150- 4744A. $49,208. 1992-95 Development of spoken language capacities. With Juszcyk et al., P. Jusczyk, Director, Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. $807,836. 1995-98 Oneida Grammar and Dictionary. Ministry of Education and Training. Project Coordinator for co-sponsorship agreement between the Ontario Oneida Band and the Ministry. $68,200. 2008 Phonetic Properties of Oneida (Iroquoian) . Canadian-American Studies, UB. (with Tsan Huang). $750. 2008 Research on Oneida. UUP Individual Development Award. $224. 2009 Addressing issues of materials access for digital language archives. With Jeff Good. NSF. $30,000. Received but subsequently withdrawn by applicants. 2010 Annotation of Oneida Texts. Small Research Project, DHIB, UB. ($2400) 2010 Oneida Community Life 1920-present from the perspective of stories told by speakers of the Oneida Nation of the Thames (Ontario). UUP Individual Development Award. $319. 2016 Revival of a Mohawk Dictionary. UUP Individual Development Award. $623. 2018-21 Collaborative Research: Deep learning speech recognition for documenting Seneca (SEE) and other acutely under-resourced languages (with RIT). NSF 1761477 (038633251). UB portion: $89,368.

PUBLICATIONS (* co-authors are listed alphabetically, + primary author) Books 1981 Three Stories in Oneida, told and translated by Georgina Nicholas. The Mercury Series, Ethnology division, paper no. 73. Ottawa: National Museum of Man. 1988 A Comparative Study of Lake-Iroquoian Accent. Dordrecht: Reidel. 2002 + Michelson, Karin, and Mercy Doxtator. Oneida-English/English Oneida Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2016 + Michelson, Karin, Norma Kennedy, and Mercy Doxtator. Glimpses of Oneida Life. University of Toronto Press.

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Books edited 1989 *Gerdts, Donna, and Karin Michelson. Theoretical Perspectives on Native American Languages. New York: SUNY Press.

Chapters in books 1980 The edge of the forest revisited. In International Journal of American Linguistics, Native American Texts Series 4 (=Northern Iroquoian Texts), ed. by M. Mithun and H. Woodbury, 26-40. 1986 Ghost r’s in Onondaga: an autosegmental analysis of *r-stems, in Studies on Compensatory Lengthening, ed. by L. Wetzels and E. Sezer, 147-166. Dordrecht: Foris. 1989 Invisibility: Vowels without a timing slot in Mohawk, in Theoretical Perspectives on Native American Languages, ed. by Donna B. Gerdts and Karin Michelson, 38-69. New York: SUNY Press (refereed) 1991 Compensatory lengthening, in W. Bright, ed., Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 2000 Utterance-final phenomena in Oneida, in Item Order in Language and Speech, Proceedings of LP ’98, ed. by Osamu Fujimura, Brian D. Joseph and Bohumil Palek, 31-45. Prague: Charles University Press. 2006 Oneida, in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Native American Languages, ed. by D.R. Preston. Indiana University Press. (Invited 1000 word entry) 2011 Iroquoian Languages, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics, ed. by Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press. (invited, and refereed) 2012 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The (non)-universality of syntactic selection and functional application, in Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 9, ed. by C. Pinon, 185-205. (refereed) 2014 *Koenig, Jean and Karin Michelson. Deconstructing SYNtax, in Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, ed. by Stefan Müller, 114-134. CSLI Publications. 2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Morphological complexity à la Oneida, in Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity, ed. by Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, and Greville Corbett, 69-92. Oxford University Press. (refereed) 2015 Gender in Oneida, in Gender Across Languages, Volume 4, ed. by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher, 277-301 John Benjamins. (refereed) 2016 Iroquoian Languages. in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. (invited, refereed) 2019 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Extended agreement in Oneida (Iroquoian), in Prominent Internal Possessors, ed. by András Bárány, Oliver Bond, & Irina Nikolaeva, 131-62. Oxford University Press. 2020 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Quantification in Oneida, in Constraint-based Syntax and Semantics, Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard, ed. by Anne Abeillé and Olivier Bonami, 128-55. CSLI Publications. 7

accepted Word classes in Iroquoian, in Oxford Handbook of Word Classes, ed. by Eva van Lier. Oxford University Press. submitted Negation in Oneida, in Negation in the World’s Languages (tentative title), ed. by Ljuba Vaselinova and Matti Miestamo. Language Science Press. (with Jean-Pierre Koenig) submitted Reflexives in Oneida, in Reflexives in the World’s Languages, ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Katarzyna Janic, andNicoletta Puddu. SiDL series of Language Science Press.

Refereed journal articles 1981 A philological investigation into 17th-century Mohawk. International Journal of American Linguistics 47, 91-102. 1991 Possessor stranding in Oneida. Linguistic Inquiry 22, 756-771. 1998 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Review Article: The Polysynthesis Parameter (Mark C. Baker), Language 74, 129-136. 2002 Emotions in Oneida. Pragmatics and Cognition 10, 179-200. 2010 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Argument Structure of Oneida Kinship Terms. International Journal of American Linguistics 76: 169-205. 2012 Gick, B, H. Bliss, K. Michelson, and R. Radanov. Articulation without acoustics: “Soundless” vowels in Oneida and Blackfoot. Journal of Phonetics 40, 45-63. 2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Invariance in Argument Realization: The case of Iroquoian. Language 91, 1-47. 2019 Diaz, Thomas, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Karin Michelson. Oneida preponominal prefixes in Information-based Morphology. Morphology 29, 431–473. In press *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Specialized-domain grammars and the architecture of grammars: Possession in Oneida. Journal of Linguistics (accepted 04-12-20). In press *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Derived nouns and structured inflection in Oneida. Lingue e Linguaggio: Special issue on Inflectional Morphology 1-25. ms. *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The exponence of quantity in Oneida: A study in syntax and semantics variation.

Other Monographs 1981 *Michelson, Karin, and Mercy Doxtator. Oneida Language Drills, ed. by Mary Pepper. University of Western Ontario: Centre for the Research and Teaching of Canadian Native Languages, University of Western Ontario. 2011 Michelson, Karin (linguist) and Catharine Price (writer, editor) Native Languages Resource Guide: Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawk. Ontario Ministry of Education.

Other Articles 1978 Evidence from Mohawk against an unordered rule hypothesis. Harvard Studies in Phonology I, ed. by G.N. Clements, 335-47. Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University. 8

1981 , epenthesis, and syllable structure in Mohawk., Harvard Studies in Phonology II, ed. by G.N. Clements, 311-353. Bloomington, IA: Indiana University Linguistics Club. 1990 The Oneida lexicon. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (Special Session on General Topics in American Indian Linguistics), 73-85. 1991 Semantic features of agent and patient core case marking in Oneida. In Buffalo papers in Linguistics 091-II, ed. by R. Van Valin, 114-146. Buffalo, NY: Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo.

Reviews 1995 Review of Heinz. J. Giegerich. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction. Language 71, 166-169. (invited) 1998 Review of Christjohn and Hinton, edited by C. Abbott. 1996. An Oneida Dictionary, Ukwehuwehneha Tekaww√nate÷nyése. International Journal of American Linguistics 64, 298-302. 2001 Review of Demus Elm and Harvey Antone, edited by Bryan Gick and Floyd G. Lounsbury. 2000. The Oneida Creation Story. Anthropological Linguistics 43:508-509. 2020 Review of Hanni Woodbury. Onondaga reference grammar. Linguistic Typology. (invited)

PRESENTED PAPERS (* co-authors are listed alphabetically) Conference Presentations 1978 Mohawk epenthesis and accent. XVIIth Conference on American Indian Languages. Anthropological Association of America. Los Angeles. 1978 Mohawk epenthesis. Cherokee-Iroquois Conference. Museum of the Cherokee Indian, NC. 1982 Two feminine prefixes in Oneida stories. Association for the Anthropological Study of Play. University of Western Ontario. 1984 The representation of vowel length in Seneca. 59th Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Baltimore. 1984 Oneida dialectology (with C. Abbott). Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1986 Template morphology in Oneida. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Winnipeg, Manitoba. 1987 A Mohawk dictionary using dBaseIII. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1987 Lexical versus postlexical properties of utterance-final phenomena in Oneida. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Hamilton, Ontario. 1988 A ‘Base-Affix’ dictionary for Iroquoian (with M.K. Foster and H. Woodbury). Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1989 A Base-Affix dictionary for Iroquoian II (with M.K. Foster and H. Woodbury). Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 9

1989 OCP effects in Iroquoian: The role of the Obligatory Contour principle in historical change. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Workshop in phonology. Ottawa, Canada. 1990 Utterance in Oneida backformations. Conference on Explanation in Historical Change, Milwaukee, WI. 1991 Oneida locatives. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1992 Oneida aspect. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1993 Aspectual distinctions in Motion verbs. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1993 Oneida incorporations with English nouns. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1994 Oneida Intonation. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1995 Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Oneida Stress. Conference on Iroquois Research. Rensselaerville, NY. 1995 Identifying Words in Oneida. Workshop on Early Word Learning. University at Buffalo. 1996 Formal and Functional Domains in Oneida Intonation. Functionalism/ Formalism in Linguistics, 23rd Annual UWM Linguistics Symposium, University of -Milwaukee, WI. 1996 (poster) Glottal Lengthening in Oneida. LabPhon V, Northwestern University. (with Cori Grimm). 1997 *Grimm, Cori, and Karin Michelson. The Acoustic Correlates of Oneida Accent Patterns”, Annual Conference on Iroquois Research, Rensselaerville, NY. 1997 Oneida aspect and verbs of motion, Annual Conference on Iroquois Research, Rensselaerville, NY. 1998 A Base Dictionary of Oneida. XXXVIIth Conference on American Indian Languages, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. 2000 Oneida Dictionary and Grammar. 7th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference, Toronto, Ontario. 2006 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. úhka÷ ok. Sixth Annual Workshop on Iroquoian Linguistic Research, Norwich, VT (with Jean-Pierre Koenig). 2006 Gick, Bryan, Karin Michelson, and Bosko Radanov. Articulation without Acoustics: A case study of Oneida utterance-final forms. Poster presented at 152nd Meeting of the ASA, Honolulu, HI. 2007 *Huang, Tsan, and Karin Michelson. Phonetic Properties of Oneida Plosives. Seventh Annual Workshop on Iroquoian Linguistic Research, Norwich, VT. 2007 Gender in Oneida. Seventh Annual Workshop on Iroquoian Linguistic Research, Norwich, VT. 2007 *Huang, Tsan, and Karin Michelson. Phonetic Voicing in Oneida Plosives. The 13th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Columbus. . 2008 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Revisiting the realization of arguments in Iroquoian. The 82nd Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois. 10

2008 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Argument structure of Oneida kin terms. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, Illinois. 2008 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Noun Phrases in Oneida? Eighth Annual Workshop on Iroquoian Linguistic Research, Norwich, VT. 2009 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The structure of nominal expressions in Oneida. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, San Francisco, CA. 2009 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The semantics of polysynthesis in Iroquoian. 5th meeting of the Semantics of Understudied Languages of the Americas. Cambridge, MA. 2010 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. How to Quantify Over Entities in Iroquoian (Oneida). Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Baltimore, Maryland. 2010 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The Semantics of Pronominal Affixes in Iroquoian. The 84th Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland. 2010 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Invariance in argument realization: the case of Iroquoian. HPSG 10. Paris, France. 2011 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Why Incorporated Pronouns are Neither Pronouns nor Incorporated. Toronto-Buffalo Morphology Workshop. University at Buffalo. 2011 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Modes of Semantic Composition. Semantic Fest. University at Buffalo. 2012 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Oneida pronominal complexity: An upper-bound on morphological complexity? Conference on Morphological Complexity. London, England. 2012 Iheh! Oneida Stories from Southwestern Ontario. Symposium on Haudenosaunee Research, University at Buffalo. Nov. 9, 2012 2013 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. How complex can the paradigm for a single position class be? Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Boston, MA. 2013 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Counting nouns is not always the right question. The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs in discourse: An international workshop. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Leipzig, Germany 2013 What's in an Oneida Verb. Haudenosaunee Research Symposium 2013, University at Buffalo. Nov. 1, 2013 2014 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Deconstructing SYNtax. HPSG 14. Buffalo, NY 2014 One, two, three and more. 3rd Annual Haudenosaunee Research Symposium, University at Buffalo. Nov. 14, 2014 2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Fractured domain-dependent grammars: The grammar of possession in Oneida. HPSG 15, Paris. 11

2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Parts Unknown—Nontraditional parts of speech in Oneida. 4rd Annual Haudenosaunee Research Symposium, University at Buffalo. Nov. 13, 2015 2016 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The Grammar of Oneida—Less is More. Symposium on American Indian Languages. Rochester Institute of Technology. 2016 A Story about Oneida Paradigms. 5th Annual Haudenosaunee Research Symposium, University at Buffalo. Nov. 11, 2016 2017 Diaz, Thomas, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Karin Michelson. Oneida prepronominal prefixes in Information-Based Morphology. 4th European Workshop on Head- Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Paris, France. 2017 Diaz, Thomas, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Karin Michelson. Oneida prepronominal prefixes in Information-Based Morphology, 24th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexington, . 2017 Michelson, Karin, Thomas Diaz, and Jean-Pierre Koenig. Negation in Oneida, Maybe Yes, Maybe No. Symposium on American Indian Languages. Rochester Institute of Technology. 2017 Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Disagreement between nouns and verbs in Oneida. 6th Annual Haudenosaunee Research Symposium, University at Buffalo. Nov. 3, 2017. 2018 Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Negation in Oneida. Syntax of the World’s Languages VIII. Paris, France. 2018 Michelson, Karin. Grammar as Bricolage. 7th Annual Haudenosaunee Research Symposium, University at Buffalo. Nov. 2, 2018. 2019 Michelson, Karin, and Jacob Morse. Utterance-initial h in Oneida. 2nd Annual Buffalo-Toronto Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives on Variation. Toronto, Canada. Mar. 16, 2019. 2019 Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Conversion and structured inflection in Oneida. 4th American International Morphology Meeting. Stony Brook University. 2019 Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Conversion, structured inflection, and the ontological/semantic organization of the lexicon in Oneida, 2nd International Symposium of Morphology, University Paris-Diderot.

Invited colloquia and conference speaker 1981 Rule generalization: A case from Mohawk. Toronto Linguistic Atelier. University of Toronto. 1982 Compensatory lengthening in Onondaga and Seneca. Minifestival on Compensatory Lengthening. Harvard University. 1984 The trill is gone but the memory lingers on. Cornell Linguistics Circle. Cornell University. 1984 Nunggubuyu reduplication. Cornell Linguistics Circle. Cornell University. 1985 Extrametricality versus invisible bowels in Mohawk. Symposium on Canadian Native Languages in Theoretical Perspective. SUNY at Buffalo. 12

1988 Invisible vowels in Mohawk. Department of linguistics, University of Quebec at Montreal. 1989 Lexical vs. sub-lexical in Iroquoian dictionary entries. Department of Linguistics, SUNY at Stony Brook. 1989 Antigemination and the history of sub-phonemic vowel length in Seneca. Harvard University. 1990 Antigemination versus the evolution of long vowels in Seneca. Cornell Linguistics Circle. Cornell University. 1990 Backformation versus rule generalization. Cornell Linguistics Circle. Cornell University. 1990 Current trends in Linguistics at UB, Panel Session, Niagara Linguistics Society. 1990 Oneida utterance-final phonology. Toronto Linguistics Atelier. 1990 Does Oneida have morphemes? Department of Linguistics, Syracuse University. 1991 Aspects of syllable structure, Spoken Language Group, University at Buffalo. 1992 The Oneida lexicon. Cognitive Science Graduate Club, University at Buffalo. 1993 Oneida utterance-final prosody. Spoken Language Group. University at Buffalo 1994 Oneida intonation. Dartmouth College, NH. 1994 Seneca stress: Implications for metrical theory. Dartmouth College, NH. 1997 Cognitive Area Brown Bag, UB. Oneida stress and pitch accent (with Cori Grimm) 1998 Foot to Utterance in Oneida, Department of Linguistics, Un. of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1998 Oneida utterance-final phenomena. Workshop: The Rest is Silence: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Utterance-final Phenomena, Fourth International Linguistics and Phonetics Conference, The Ohio State University. 2000 The Lexical Status of Utterance-final Forms in Oneida. Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas. University of Toronto. 2008 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. La Syntaxe argumentale en Iroquois et la notion de polysyntheétisme. University of Paris 7. Paris, France. 2010 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Invariance in argument realization: The case of Iroquoian. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX 2011 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. The (non)-universality of syntactic selection and functional application. Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris. Paris, France. 2014 Words in Oneida: The long and short of it. Symposium on American Indian Languages. Rochester Institute of Technology. 2014 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Direct syntax meets information structure: The case of Iroquoian. Workshop on Information Structure in Head- Marking Languages. Max-Planck-Institute für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Strong and weak lexical categories in Oneida. LingLunch, University Denis Diderot, Paris, France. 13

2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Exploring the Limits of Syntactic Structure. University of Rochester. 2015 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Exploring the nature of syntax. Grammar development: Multilingual aspects of the syntax-semantics interface, Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation Beit Daniel, Zichron Ya’akov, Israel. 2016 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Are languages really that different? Center for Cognitive Science. University at Buffalo. 2016 Non-identity of indices in Oneida (Iroquoian) possessive structures. Workshop on Prominent Internal Possessors, SOAS. 2017 *Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Quantification in Iroquoian. Constraint-based Syntax and Semantics Workshop in Honor of Danièle Godard, Paris, France. 2019 Prud’hommeaux, Emily, Robbie Jimerson, Richard Hatcher, Raymond Ptucha, and Karin Michelson. On The Promise And Pitfalls Of Repurposing Existing Language Technologies For Endangered Language Documentation. International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All). Paris, France. 2019 Koenig, Jean-Pierre, and Karin Michelson. Specialized-domain grammar and the architecture of grammars: Possession in Oneida, Worksop on the Grammar of Regularity and Idiosyncrasy. 2019 Linguistic Linguistic Institute. UC Davis.