LINGUIST List 9.1338

Mon Sep 28 1998

FYI: CSDL-4 abstracts, Endangered Language Fund

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. csdl-4, CSDL-4 abstracts online
2. whalen, Endangered Language Fund

The abstracts for most of the paper and poster presentations for the
Fourth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language
(CSDL-4) are now posted to the conference web site. You can access them
by clicking on the titles in the conference program at
http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/LINGUISTICS/CSDL/program.html
The conference will be held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
on October 10-12.
For further information, please contact
Alan Cienki
Chair of the organizing committee
csdl-4learnlink.emory.edu
+1-404-727-2689

 The Endangered Language Fund is pleased to announce the appointment 
of Karl V. Teeter to its board of directors. Karl began his work in 
linguistics by studying Wiyot, an Algonquian language of California. 
Wiyot was, at the time, one of those most endangered languages, being 
down to a single speaker. Between the time of the field work and the 
writing, this speaker passed away, making Karl's work the last best 
record of the language. During his years as a professor of 
linguistics at Harvard University, he continued to work on Algonquian 
languages, especially Maliseet/Passamaquoddy. Though he has been 
emeritus since 1989, he is as active as ever, working on several books 
and organizing the upcoming 30th Algonquian Conference in Boston 
(October 22-25). Karl's expertise and dedication to endangered 
languages will serve the Fund well, and we are grateful for his 
participation.
 The Endangered Language Fund is a nonprofit organization dedicated 
to the support of linguistic survival efforts, the scientific study of 
endangered langugages, and the dissemenation of the results of both 
efforts to the linguistic community and to the speakers of endangered 
languages. The amount of support we can give is directly related to 
the support we receive from our members. For information on becoming 
a member, please contact us:

The Endangered Language Fund
Dept. of Linguistics
Yale University
P. O. Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520-8236 USA
Tel: 203-432-2450
FAX: 203-432-4087
web: http://www.ling.yale.edu/~elf
email: elfhaskins.yale.edu