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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Second Conference in Linguistics within
the Birgit Rausing Language Program</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">HUMANITIES OF THE LESSER-KNOWN</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://konferens.sol.lu.se/hlk-2010/">http://konferens.sol.lu.se/hlk-2010/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">New directions in the description,
documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund
University, Sweden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">September 10-11, 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for registration and abstract:
February 28, 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This conference will bring together leading
international expertise in the fields of language documentation and
description, linguistic typology, and musicology. It draws its inspiration from
the idea that the field of humanities is concerned with humankind in all its cultural
and linguistic richness, and that the study of lesser-known language settings
is crucial to our understanding of the true scope of cross-cultural constraints
and diversity in language and thought.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Until recently, documentation and
description of lesser-known and endangered languages largely amounted to
studying formal grammar. However, a number of theoretical, methodological and
technical advances have transformed the field researcher’s agenda and now allow
for detailed exploration and comparison of a wider set of aspects of language
and culture. The general aim of the conference is to focus on some such fields
of investigation and to find ways of integrating them to a more comprehensive
and coherent program of description and documentation. Four fields will form
general conference themes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Grammar</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Prosody</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Semantics and cognition</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Music</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The themes will be cross-cut by a set of
theoretical, methodological and technical topics, which will allow for greater
integration of themes and facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas across
fields. These cross-cutting topics can be collapsed under three main headings:
(1) description, (2) documentation, and (3) comparison and typologization.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The host department, the Centre for
Languages and Literature at Lund University, together with the adjacent
Humanities Laboratory, provides a unique research environment, ideal for
advancing technical aspects of documentation and description. Our department
boasts a long-standing tradition of research on lesser-known languages and
cultures, with a focus on fields which have traditionally received limited
attention in endangered languages research, especially prosody, semantic
typology, and musicology.</span></p>
<br>-- <br>Margaret Florey<br>Director, Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity <<a href="http://www.rnld.org/">www.rnld.org/</a>><br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:Margaret.Florey@gmail.com">Margaret.Florey@gmail.com</a><br>
Ph: +61 (0)4 3186-3727 (mob.)<br>skype: margaret_florey<br>