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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">We are now less than three weeks away from the kickoff of CoLang 2014, the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Language
Research, which takes place in June and July 2014, hosted by <a href="http://www.uta.edu/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">The University of Texas at Arlington</span></a>, with <a href="http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald</span></a> as
Director. CoLang, which only
occurs once every two years, offers an opportunity for undergraduate and
graduate students, practicing linguists, language professionals and indigenous community members to
develop and refine skills and approaches to language documentation and revitalization.
The Institute is designed to provide an opportunity for a diverse range of
participants to become trained in a wide range of skills in language documentation
and revitalization.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">The institute
consists of two parts: the Workshops - two weeks of intensive workshops on
practices, principals and models of language documentation and revitalization,
followed by a four-week field methods course, working with speakers of select
indigenous languages applying hands-on techniques in language documentation.
Participants may choose to enroll only in the two-week Workshops.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Workshops: June 16-27 2014</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Field Methods/Practicum: June 30 – July 25, 2014.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;letter-spacing:0pt">We
have four field methods classes, each of which still has room for additional people
to enroll. The four languages for
this year are Alabama (a Muskogean language spoken in Texas), Enya (a Bantu language
spoken in the Democratic Reuplic of Congo), Innu (or Cree, an Algonquian
language spoken in Canada), and Apoala Mixtec (an Otomanguean language of
Mexico). The Mixtec section will
be a Spanish-medium course, so people must have sufficient proficiency in Spanish
to do all elicitation and other class work with the speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">In order to make CoLang 2014 prices
affordable to as many people as we can, we have decided to keep early bird
registration prices in effect up until the first day of CoLang 2014, June 16. Onsite
registration will be possible with a cashier’s check or credit card, or a wire
transfer made by June 10. (Contact us for details on a wire transfer.) Registration
is $750 for the two weeks session, and $2250 for the six weeks session. We
still have room in the field methods sections. We’re also in the process
of opening additional second sections in various topics, including </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Orthography,
Grantwriting, Transcription,</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Life in Communities, </i><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">among others. For
housing and/or meal purchases to be guaranteed, they must be purchased and paid
in full by Wednesday, June 4. With participants and instructors numbering
around 200 people, representing over 20 different North American tribes and 15
different countries worldwide, we expect a lively and engaging environment for
all who attend. In addition to the many workshops scheduled for
registered participants, we will also have a number of public talks on language
documentation and revitalization projects, including from First Nations
projects in British Columbia, the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program,
Wuqu’ Kawoq in Guatemala, Yunnan Province in China, and northeast India. CoLang
2014 will feature the Texas-premiere of two movies, Navajo Star Wars (the
sci-fi classic dubbed into the Navajo language, with English subtitles), and “Language
Healers,” with award-winning director Brian McDermott on hand for a q&a. Full
information on CoLang activities can be found online at
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/colang2014">http://tinyurl.com/colang2014</a> and our registration site is at
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/Register4CoLang">http://tinyurl.com/Register4CoLang</a> , with links to paper registration if
needed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";letter-spacing:0pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">For more questions, email us at </span><a href="mailto:uta2014institute@gmail.com" style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">uta2014institute@gmail.com</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"> or
phone us at 817-272-7608.</span></p>
<!--EndFragment--><div apple-content-edited="true"> ****************************<br>Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald <br>Professor<br>Dept. of Linguistics & TESOL<br>The University of Texas at Arlington<br><br>Native American Languages Lab <br><a href="http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal">http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal</a><br>http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz<br>Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Native.American.Languages.Lab<br><br><br><br><br><br>
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