<div dir="ltr">Dear Dorothea,<div><br></div><div>This seems to be a hot topic these days! There were two symposia on archival research at the annual LSA meeting earlier this month:</div><div><ol><li>The Committee for Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP) hosted a symposium on the use of archives in linguistic research, revitalization, and documentation. The slides and posters are going to be available soon on the AILLA website, I hear. Look for an announcement on the CELP website soon:<br><a href="http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/committees/endangered-languages-and-their-preservation-celp">http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/committees/endangered-languages-and-their-preservation-celp</a><br>You can also read the abstracts from the symposium and contact information here:<br><a href="http://www.linguisticsociety.org/system/files/abstracts/Archives.pdf">http://www.linguisticsociety.org/system/files/abstracts/Archives.pdf</a><br></li><li>Another interesting symposium addressed automated techniques in the analysis of audio and video archival material. The abstracts from that symposium are here:<br><a href="http://www.linguisticsociety.org/system/files/abstracts/Making%20the%20Most.pdf">http://www.linguisticsociety.org/system/files/abstracts/Making%20the%20Most.pdf</a><br>I don't know offhand whether the slides and posters will be hosted somewhere, but I hope so!</li></ol><div>I myself am doing an in-depth descriptive study of Patwin (Wintuan, California) using archival materials from a variety of different archives in the United States, and interfacing also with Indigenous communities. I have also been involved with language revitalization for a few other languages of California, also using archival sources. I would be happy to tell you about my project(s) if that interests you---feel free to email me.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Hope it helps!</div><div>-Lewis C. Lawyer</div><div><a href="mailto:lclawyer@ucdavis.edu">lclawyer@ucdavis.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>PhD Candidate in Linguistics</div><div>UC Davis</div><div><a href="http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/People/lclawyer">http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/People/lclawyer</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Dorothea Hoffmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hoffmann.dorothea@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoffmann.dorothea@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Dear LingTyp members, </div><div><br></div><div>together with Ryan Henke I am currently preparing a paper about the use of language documentation archives for linguistic research. Do any of you have any experience with such studies or are involved in any projects?</div><div><br></div><div>We are particularly interested in learning more about the approach taken to use these archives, e.g. for cross-linguistic studies, for in-debth research into individual languages, as follow-up projects to language documentation carried out by the same or different researchers than the original documentation project, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>I found a brief overview of completed and ongoing DobeS-funded projects (<a href="http://dobes.mpi.nl/research-projects/" target="_blank">http://dobes.mpi.nl/research-projects/</a>):</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="color:rgb(17,17,17);margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px">The following research projects for data analysis on existing DOBES documentation material have been funded within the DOBES programme:</p><ul style="color:rgb(17,17,17);margin:0px 0px 2em 2.5em;padding:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Cross-linguistic patterns in the encoding of three-participant events</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Demonstratives with exophoric reference. A functional study based on discourse data from five languages</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/projekte/discourse_and_prosody/index.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,159,238);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Discourse and prosody across language family boundaries</a>: two corpus-based case studies on contact-induced syntactic and prosodic convergence in the encoding of information structure.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/index.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,159,238);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Referentiality project</a>: a research project in the corpus-based typology of referential strategies in twelve different languages.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/research/typological-surveys/the-relative-frequencies-of-nouns-pronouns-and-verbs-cross-linguistically.html?Fsize=0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,159,238);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs cross-linguistically</a>. This project investigates the relative frequencies of core parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, and pronouns, in spoken language corpora of seven languages that represent a wide range of areal and typological diversity. </li></ul><div>Are they similar projects for other language archives, e.g. ELAR, Paradisec, CLA or AILLA? Are there any projects spanning different archives?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your help!</div><div><br></div><div>Yours sincerely, </div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div>Dorothea Hoffmann</div><div><a href="mailto:dorohoffmann@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">dorohoffmann@uchicago.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Postdoc and Lecturer<br>University of Chicago </div><div>Rosenwald 205G</div><div><br><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/</a></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>Lewis C. Lawyer<br>PhD Candidate in Linguistics<br>University of California, Davis<br><a href="mailto:lclawyer@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">lclawyer@ucdavis.edu</a></div></div>
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