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Subject: 22.1543, Confs: Language Documentation/Germany

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Date: 05-Apr-2011
From: Johannes Helmbrecht [johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de]
Subject: Theory and Methods of Language Documentation
 

	
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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:02:53
From: Johannes Helmbrecht [johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de]
Subject: Theory and Methods of Language Documentation

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Theory and Methods of Language Documentation 

Date: 19-Sep-2011 - 28-Sep-2011 
Location: Regensburg, Germany 
Contact: Johannes Helmbrecht 
Contact Email: johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-
kultur/allgemeine-vergleichende-
sprachwissenschaft/forschung/summerschool11/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

This international summer school will introduce advanced students of 
linguistics (BA, MA and doctorate level of linguistics) into the theory and 
methods of language documentation. The goal is to acquire the knowledge 
and competence to conduct one's own documentation projects with regard 
to endangered languages. 

Dear list members,

There will be an International Summer School on the 'Theory and Methods 
of Language Documentation' in September 2011 at the University of 
Regensburg, Germany. The major goal of this summer school is to 
introduce advanced students of linguistics (BA, MA and doctorate level of 
linguistics) into the theory and methods of language documentation. The 
goal is to acquire the knowledge and competence to conduct one's own 
documentation projects with regard to endangered languages. Funding of 
this summer school will be provided mainly by the Volkswagen Foundation. 
Additional support comes from the Vielberth Foundation of the University of 
Regensburg. 

What is language documentation?
Language documentation has become a sub-discipline of linguistics since 
the mid-90ies when linguists across the continents started to look for 
answers against the massive disappearance of minority languages all over 
the world of which no records and no descriptions such as grammars and 
dictionaries exist. The main goal of language documentation is to create a 
representative corpus of recordings or texts which are presented and 
processed in a way that non-speakers of this language can understand 
these recordings and texts. These corpuses of endangered languages 
allow linguists and other researchers of the humanities to understand how 
the language was used within the specific social and cultural context of the 
language community even when there are no fluent speakers left in the next 
decades.

Language documentation and corpus linguistics?
This Summer School will include a workshop 'Language Documentation 
meets Corpus Linguistics: how to exploit DOBES corpora for descriptive 
linguistics and language typology?' This workshop will take place at the end 
of the summer school (September 27-28, 2011). The goal of this workshop 
is to bring together documentation linguists and corpus linguists in order to 
discuss and explore the question how DOBES corpora - and there are more 
than 50 digital corpuses right now in the archive of the MPI in Nijmegen- can 
be used and exploited for descriptive (and typological) purposes by means 
of corpus linguistic methods. This workshop is open to all participants of the 
summer school. There will be a separate announcement for this workshop 
on DOBESList, LingTyp, and LinguistList.

Where and when?
The summer school will last 10 days (including the two days workshop) from 
September 19-28, 2011 at the University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 
31, D-93053 Regensburg. Details of the location and directions will be given 
on the official website of the summer school: 
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/allgemeine-
vergleichende-sprachwissenschaft/forschung/summerschool11/index.html.

Who and what?
The most important aspects of language documentation will be covered in 
seminar-like teaching units which alternate in focusing on more theoretical 
aspects and on more practical/ technical aspects of language 
documentation. For most of the topics to be dealt with there are practice 
units which allow students to apply the methods and tools on real language 
data and with real Native speakers of mostly non-Indo-European languages. 
The program can be summarized as follows (for details see the summer 
school website. 

Monday, 9/19: overviews will be given on a) language documentation, b) 
language endangerment and language death, c) what it means to work in 
the language community, and d) the technical side language documentation 
including archiving principles and tools.

Tuesday, 9/20: What has to be documented? and How to produce, process, 
and edit audio and video recordings?

Wednesday, 9/21: How to write a grammatical sketch? and How to create a 
lexical database?

Thursday, 9/22: How to transcribe the recordings with Praat, Elan, 
Transcriber etc.? and How to develop a practical orthography?

Friday, 9/23: How to annotate and gloss audio and video recordings in Elan 
and in Shoebox/ Toolbox?

Saturday, 9/24: How to upload/download data in the digital archive? and 
How to assign metadata to the sessions?

Sunday, 9/25: Regensburg highlights - sightseeing in and around 
Regensburg, and more...

Monday, 9/26: How to stabilize and revitalize an endangered language, and 
How to develop teaching materials?

Tuesday/Wednesday, 9/27-28: Workshop: 'Language Documentation Meets 
Corpus Linguistics'

All teaching units will be taught by experienced documentary linguists and 
experts in the field. The practice sessions will be held in small groups 
allowing the students to apply the methods and tools together with Native 
speakers of various Non-Indo-European languages.

Students/ participants:
The summer school will admit about 30 advanced students in linguistics (BA, 
MA or doctorate level). There is a tuition fee of 100 ? for each student. 
However, the Volkswagen Foundation has provided the summer school with 
the possibility to award 10 stipends of max. 600 ? to students who have 
unduly high travel expenses or an unduly low budget. The workshop is free 
of charge. 

Students who want to participate in the summer school have to apply. 
Please send an e-mail to the organizers Annette Endruschat 
(Annette.Endruschat at freenet.de) or Johannes Helmbrecht 
(Johannes.Helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de) containing the 
following information:

- Name, 
- Address and contact information,
- Position and academic affiliation,
- CV (as attachment), 
- if you intend to apply for a stipend, please add a short letter of motivation.

Detailed information with regard to accommodation, public transportation, 
cultural events and nightlife in Regensburg will be found later on on the 
summer school website:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/allgemeine-
vergleichende-sprachwissenschaft/forschung/summerschool11/index.html

Important dates:
May 31, 2011: application deadline
June 15, 2011: notification of admittance to the summer school and - if 
applicable - notification of the award of a stipend

Organizers:
Principal organizers are Annette Endruschat of the ''Institut für Romanistik'' 
and Johannes Helmbrecht, Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics. 

PD Dr. phil. habil. Annette Endruschat
Universität Regensburg
Institut für Romanistik
Universitätsstr.31
D-93053 Regensburg

Tel.:++49/0941/943-3378
Fax:++49/0941/943-813931
http://www.philologos.de/philologoi/ade/index.html
annette.endruschat at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de

Professor Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
Universität Regensburg
Universitätsstr. 31
D-93053 Regensburg

Tel.:++49/0941/943-3388
Tel.:++49/0941/943-3387 (Sekretariat)
Fax: ++49/0941/943-3329
johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/allgemeine-
vergleichende-sprachwissenschaft/avs/index.html

Questions, comments, etc. can be sent also to our student assistants 
Johanna Spieler (Johanna.Spieler at stud.uni-regensburg.de), 
Ilenia Tonetti (Ilenia.Tonetti at stud.uni-regensburg.de), 
Marina Leiger (Marina.Leiger at stud.uni-regensburg.de), 
Sarah Thanner (SarahThanner at gmx.net) and 
Katharina Knuffmann (katharina.knuffmann at web.de). 

The summer school website can be found under the following URL: 
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/allgemeine-
vergleichende-sprachwissenschaft/forschung/summerschool11/index.html



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