29.3425, FYI: Opening of AILLA's Terrence Kaufman Collections

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3425. Thu Sep 06 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3425, FYI: Opening of AILLA's Terrence Kaufman Collections

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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:21:17
From: Susan Kung [skung at austin.utexas.edu]
Subject: Opening of AILLA's Terrence Kaufman Collections

 
With great pleasure, we announce the opening of the Terrence Kaufman
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
(AILLA, https://www.ailla.utexas.org/), a digital repository at The University
of Texas at Austin. In 2012, AILLA was awarded the NSF grant BCS-1157867
''Archiving the Terrence Kaufman Collection'' (Anthony C. Woodbury, PI;
Patience Epps and Susan Kung, co-PIs), and the archive staff began the work of
organizing, digitizing, ingesting and curating the vast assemblage of American
indigenous language materials in the possession of Terrence Kaufman. Kaufman
collected and compiled his extremely large collection of materials over the
course of his 50-plus-year career as a linguistic anthropologist who not only
conducted his own research and fieldwork, but who also directed two
large-scale, multi-year, multi-researcher language documentation projects, the
Francisco Marroquín Linguistic Project (PLFM) in Guatemala in the 1970s and
the Project for the Documentation of the Languages of MesoAmerica (PDLMA) in
Mexico in the 1990s and 2000s. As the final result of this NSF grant, AILLA
staff have organized this vast assemblage of materials into 12 separate
collections in the digital repository. The 12 collections include data on 119
distinct languages, as well as approximately 70 dialectal varieties. These
languages and varieties represent 26 languages families, 4 isolates, and 1
pidgin, and they come from 22 countries extending from Canada to Argentina.
Language families with the highest representation of materials are Mayan
(Mexico and Guatemala), Mixe-Zoquean (Mexico), Otomanguean (Mexico), and
Uto-Aztecan (Mexico and USA). Please see the official announcement on AILLA
for descriptions of and direct links to the 12 collections:
https://www.ailla.utexas.org/node/174.
 
These 12 collections represent a treasure-trove of data that can be utilized
for countless purposes. If you use any of these materials in your own
researcher or for other non-commercial purposes, please follow and respect
AILLA's Conditions of Use
(https://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/rights/use_conditions), including citing
the materials and the archive. For guidance on how to cite these materials,
please see AILLA's Citation Guidelines
(https://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/rights/citation). Finally, make sure to get
permission from the copyright owner if you want to create any kind of
derivative product. Nothing in AILLA may be used for commercial purposes. We
hope that you are able to enjoy and make use of these materials. If you do,
please write to us at ailla at ailla.utexas.org and let us know!
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Typology
                     Writing Systems

Language Family(ies): Uto-Aztecan





 



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