Current research projects:

• "Athabaskan Personal Histories of Climate Change in Alaska and Canada". National Science Foundation DEL 0651853. 2007-2010.

Some recent or forthcoming publications:

• (to appear, 2009) Virginia Beavert and Sharon Hargus. Ichishkiin Sinwit Yakama/Yakima Sahaptin Dictionary. Toppenish and Seattle: Heritage University and UW Press. [There is no colon in the title or other punctuation to separate the two languages for reasons related to maximization of search results.]
• (to appear) "Design Issues in Athabaskan Dictionaries." To appear in Proceedings of the 2007 Dene (Athabaskan) Languages Conference, ed. by Siri Tuttle. ANLC Working Papers.
• (2008) Review of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas, by William Frawley, Kenneth Hill and Pamela Munro. International Journal of American Linguistics 74:141-146.
• (2007) Witsuwit'en Grammar: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology. Vancouver:UBC Press. [There is a typo on the subtitle of the cover as printed by UBC Press. The correct subtitle is 'Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology', as shown here. (When it came time to print the cover, an older, uncorrected cover illustration was used.)]
• Hargus, Sharon and Virginia Beavert (2006) "High-ranking affix faithfulness in Yakima Sahaptin." Don Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville: Cascadilla Press. 177-185.
• Hargus, Sharon and Virginia Beavert (2006) "Initial clusters and minimality in Yakima Sahaptin." Phonology 23:21-58.
• Hargus, Sharon and Virginia Beavert (2006) "A note on the phonetic correlates of stress in Yakima Sahaptin." University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics.
• Hargus, Sharon and Keren Rice (eds.) (2005) Athabaskan Prosody. John Benjamins.
• (2005) "Prosody in two Athabaskan Languages of Northern British Columbia." In Hargus and Rice (eds.), 393-423.
• Rice, Keren and Sharon Hargus (2005) "Introduction." In Hargus and Rice (eds.), 1-45.
• Hargus, Sharon and Keren Rice (2005) "Preface to Michael Krauss' article." 47-49.

Handouts or slides of recent presentations:

• Hargus, Sharon (2009) "Causatives and transitionals in Kwadacha Tsek'ene." (slides) Presented at the Athabaskan Languages Conference, Berkeley, CA. [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853 and Kwadacha Education Society]
• Hargus, Sharon (2009) "A HL% boundary tone in Athabaskan?" Presented at SSILA meeting, San Francisco CA. (slides) [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853 and Kwadacha Education Society]
• Hargus, Sharon and Virginia Beavert (2009) "Sahaptin Intonational Phonology." Presented at SSILA meeting, San Francisco CA. (handout summarizing content of poster)
• Hargus, Sharon (2008) "A Master-Apprentice program as a component of language revitalization." Presented at Moricetown Language Authority Conference, Moricetown, BC. (slides)
• Hargus, Sharon (2008) "Vowel quality and duration in Deg Xinag." Presented at CAA meeting, Vancouver BC. (slides, manuscript) [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853 and OPP-0137483]
• Wright, Richard, Sharon Hargus, and Julia Miller (2008) "Using acoustics to resolve place controversies in Deg Xinag." Presented at CAA meeting, Vancouver BC. (slides) [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853 and OPP-0137483]
• Hargus, Sharon and Lillian Morris (2008) "Witsuwit'en perspectives on climate change in the Bulkley R. area (British Columbia)." Presented at Conference on Climate, Language and Indigenous Perspectives, Fairbanks AK. (slides) [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853]
• Hargus, Sharon and Mike Abou (2008) "Intonation in Kwadacha (Fort Ware Tsek'ene)." Presented at 2008 Dene Languages Conference, Cold Lake AB. (slides) [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853 and Kwadacha Education Society]
• Hargus, Sharon (2008) "Deg Xinag lateral affricates: Phonetic and historical perspectives." Poster presented at SSILA meeting, Chicago IL, January 2008. (handout summarizing content of poster) [Supported by NSF DEL-0651853 and OPP-0137483]
• Hargus, Sharon (2007) "Design issues in Athabaskan dictionaries." Presented at Dene Languages meeting, Tsaile AZ, June 2008. (slides)

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