LINGUIST List 19.269

Tue Jan 22 2008

Confs: General Linguistics/USA

Editor for this issue: Stephanie Morse <morselinguistlist.org>

        1.    Rebekka Siemens, Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation

Message 1: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation
Date: 21-Jan-2008
From: Rebekka Siemens <siemensrebekkayahoo.com>
Subject: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation E-mail this message to a friend

Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation Short Title: InField

Date: 23-Jun-2008 - 03-Jul-2008 Location: Santa Barbara, California, USA Contact: Carol Genetti Contact Email: infieldlinguistics.ucsb.edu Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce the first:

Institute Field Linguistics and Language Documentation (InField)

Workshops: June 23 - July 3, 2008 Field Training: July 7 - August 1, 2008 UC Santa Barbara Campus

The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive training in current techniques and issues in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization.

We encourage linguists, students of linguistics, and language activists to apply for the:

Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation UC Santa Barbara

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/

Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008 Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008

Application Deadline: February 29, 2008

The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive training in current techniques and issues in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization.

Workshops:

Steps in language documentation Models of language documentation and revitalization Language activism Introduction to linguistics for language activists Language resources and the community Grant writing for language activists or linguists Web and WIKIs for language documentation Audio recording Video recording Lexicography Orthography Discourse Transcription Principles of archiving, metadata, media, file formats Principles of database design Toolbox Field phonetics Life in the field Problematizing the field experience Intellectual property rights

Field Training (Intensive field methods):

Patricia Shaw University of British Columbia, Language: Kwakwala

Tucker Childs, Portland State University, Language: Mende

Carol Genetti, UC Santa Barbara, Language: TBA

For application and complete information, point your browser to: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/

Sponsors:

U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities: Documenting Endangered Languages Program

University of California, Santa Barbara: Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Department of Linguistics