Publications

See also Selected (unpublished) manuscripts

Dahlstrom, A. (under review) The syntax of adverbial clauses in Meskwaki. Submitted to Papers of the 56th Algonquian Conference, ed. by Inge Genee, Monica Macaulay, and Natalie Weber. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (in press) Pronominal vs. postnominal relative clauses in Meskwaki. Papers of the 55th Algonquian Conference, ed. by Inge Genee, Monica Macaulay, and Natalie Weber. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (in press) The syntax of Meskwaki adverbs: A preliminary survey. Papers of the 54th Algonquian Conference, ed. by Inge Genee, Monica Macaulay, and Natalie Weber, 61-80. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf of penultimate proofs; contains a few formatting errors]

Dahlstrom, A. (to appear) Antitopics and episode structure in Meskwaki. To appear in a special issue of Text and Talk in memory of Wallace Chafe, edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Michael Bamberg. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (to appear) Polysynthesis. To appear in the Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar, edited by Mary Dalrymple. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. [pdf of initial submission; currently being revised]

Dahlstrom, A. (2024) The Meskwaki past tense enclitic =iyo·we in relation to an affixal past tense strategy. Papers of the 53rd Algonquian Conference, ed. by Inge Genee, Monica Macaulay, and Margaret Noodin, 107-124. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2023a) Clause combining: Syntax of subordination and complementation. The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America, ed. by Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice, 347-364. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2023b) Ditransitive licensing of Long Distance Agreement in Meskwaki. Papers of the 52nd Algonquian Conference, ed. by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin, 19-35. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf ]

Goddard, Ives, and Amy Dahlstrom. (2022) Meskwaki (Algonquian) Evidence against basic word order and configurational models of argument roles. Language Change and Linguistic Diversity: Studies in Honour of Lyle Campbell, ed. by Thiago Costa Chacon, Nala H. Lee and W.D.L. Silva, 242-259. Edinburgh University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2021) The historical semantics of past tense and irrealis in Meskwaki. Webs of Relationship and Words from Long Ago: A Festschrift Presented to Ives Goddard on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, edited by David J. Costa, Amy Dahlstrom, and Lucy Thomason, 99-117. Petoskey, Mich: Mundart Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2021) A Meskwaki construction in narrative texts: Independent pronoun + full NP. Papers of the Fiftieth Algonquian Conference, edited by Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin, 37–52. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2020) An overview of Meskwaki evidentiality. Papers of the Forty-ninth Algonquian Conference, Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin, eds., 81–98. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Buccini, Anthony, and Amy Dahlstrom. (2020) Culinary change, disruption, and death: Do traditional cuisines have a future? Proceedings of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. Dublin: Technical University of Dublin. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2019) Embedded questions in Meskwaki: syntax and information structure. Papers of the Forty-Eighth Algonquian Conference, Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin, eds. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2017). Obviation and information structure in Meskwaki.  Papers of the Forty-sixth Algonquian Conference 2014, Monica Macaulay and Margaret Noodin, eds., 39-54. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2017). Seeking consensus on the fundamentals of Algonquian word order.  Papers of the Forty-fifth Algonquian Conference 2013, Monica Macaulay, ed., 59-72. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2015). Highlighting rhetorical structure through syntactic analysis: An illustrated Meskwaki text by Alfred Kiyana.  New Voices for Old Words: Algonquian Oral Literatures, David J. Costa, ed., 118-197. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.  [NB: the first run of copies contained errors introduced by the press.  Later print-on-demand orders will be correct, but in the meantime please find a correct version of my chapter here or download an errata sheet here.]

Dahlstrom, A. (2015). Meskwaki comparatives: A first look. Papers of the Forty-third Algonquian Conference 2011, Monica Macaulay and J. Randolph Valentine, eds., 15-27. Albany: State University of New York Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2014). Multiple oblique arguments in Meskwaki.  Papers of the Forty-second Algonquian Conference 2010, J. Randolph Valentine and Monica Macaulay, eds., 56-68. Albany: State University of New York Press. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2014). Plains Cree Morphosyntax. London: Routledge. [link to Routledge catalog] (Reprint of 1991 Garland edition.)

Dahlstrom, A. (2013). Argument structure of quirky Algonquian verbs. From Quirky Case to Representing Space: Papers in Honor of Annie Zaenen, T.H. King and V. de Paiva, eds., 61-71. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2009). OBJ_θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects. Proceedings of the LFG09 Conference, Miriam Butt and Tracy H. King, eds., 222-239. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2006). The syntax of Algonquian ethnopoetics.  Actes du 37e Congrès des Algonquinistes, H.C. Wolfart, ed., 131-147. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2003). Focus constructions in Meskwaki (Fox).  Proceedings of the LFG03 Conference, Miriam Butt and Tracy H. King, eds., 144-163. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2003). Owls and cannibals revisited: Traces of windigo features in Meskwaki texts.  Papers of the Thirty-fourth Algonquian Conference, H.C. Wolfart, ed., 81-114. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2003). Warrior powers from an underwater spirit: Cultural and linguistic aspects of an illustrated Meskwaki text. Anthropological Linguistics, 45(1), 1-56. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (2000). Morphosyntactic mismatches in Algonquian: Affixal predicates and discontinuous verbs. Proceedings from the Panels of the Chicago Linguistic Society’s Thirty-sixth Meeting, Arika Okrent and John Boyle, eds., 63-87. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1997). Fox (Mesquakie) reduplication. International Journal of American Linguistics 63:203-26. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1996). Affixes vs. clitics in Fox. Contemporary Linguistics 2, 47-58. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Linguistics. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1996). Edition and translation of esamegamata.menetowita.sakimewa [Mosquito, who fasted too long and became a spirit]. Contemporary Linguistics 2, 121-130. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Linguistics.  [pdf] Better formatted and revised translation (January 2024): [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1996). Narrative structure of a Fox text.  nikotwâsik iskwâhtêm, pâkihtêpayih! Studies in Honour of H.C. Wolfart, J.D. Nichols and A.C. Ogg, eds., 113-162. Algonquian and Iroquoian Memoir 13. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1995). Motivation vs. predictability in Algonquian gender. Papers of the Twenty-sixth Algonquian Conference, David H. Pentland, ed., 52-66. Winnipeg. University of Manitoba. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1995). Topic, Focus, and Other Word Order Problems in Algonquian. The Belcourt Lecture, delivered before the University of Manitoba on 25 February 1994. Winnipeg: Voices of Rupert’s Land. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1994). An analog to tough movement in Fox.  Actes du vingt-cinquième congrès des algonquinistes, William Cowan, ed., 59-71. Ottawa: Carleton University. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1993). The syntax of discourse functions in Fox. Berkeley Linguistics Society 19. Special Session on Syntactic Issues in Native American Languages, David A. Peterson, ed., 11-21. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1993). Diversity and the connotations of universals. Modern Philology, vol. 90 supplement. S39-S45. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1991). Plains Cree Morphosyntax. (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics series). New York: Garland Publications.

Dahlstrom, A. (1989). Morphological change in Plains Cree verb inflection. Folia Linguistica Historica. IX.2. pp. 59-72. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1988). Independent pronouns in Fox.  In Honor of Mary Haas, William Shipley, ed., 165-194. Berlin: Mouton. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1987). Discontinuous constituents in Fox. Native American Languages and Grammatical Typology, Paul Kroeber and Robert Moore, eds., 53-73. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1986). Weak crossover and obviation.  Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, V. Nikiforidou, et al., eds., 51-60. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1983). Agent-patient languages and split case marking systems. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Amy Dahlstrom et al, eds., 37-46. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]

Dahlstrom, A. (1982). A functional analysis of switch-reference in Lakhota discourse. In K. Tuite, et al. (Eds.), Papers from the Eighteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Kevin Tuite, et al., eds. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

Edited volumes

Webs of relationship and words from long ago: A festschrift presented to Ives Goddard on the occasion of his 80th birthday, edited by David J. Costa, Amy Dahlstrom, and Lucy Thomason. Petoskey, Mich: Mundart Press, 2021.

Contemporary Linguistics 2, 1996. Special issue on Fox.

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1983. [link]