Papers of the Fifty-Fourth 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 Macaulay received her PhD in linguistics from the University of California–Berkeley. She is the Ada Deer 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. 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.