<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">forwarded (below), an announcement from Irina Nikolaeva (<a href="mailto:irina_a_nikolaeva@yahoo.com" class="">irina_a_nikolaeva@yahoo.com</a>). Sorry for the delay in posting it; the message body was too big for the settings of our mail server. Please avoid large attachments and pictures in your messages, rather store them elsewhere and just include a link.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best </div><div class="">jl<br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">--</div><div class="">Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso</div><div class="">Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)</div><div class="">Abteilung Finno-Ugristik</div><div class="">Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7</div><div class="">A-1090 Wien</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at" class="">johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at</a> • <a href="http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/" class="">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/</a></div><div class="">Project ELDIA: <a href="http://www.eldia-project.org/" class="">http://www.eldia-project.org/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><ul class="ydpeac41725hd_n ydpeac41725M_0 ydpeac41725X_0" data-test-id="cards" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li class="ydpeac41725ir_0 ydpeac41725ek_BB ydpeac41725D_F ydpeac41725m_Z12nDQf"><div data-test-id="message-view" data-test-expanded="true" class="ydpeac41725em_N ydpeac41725X_fq7 ydpeac41725I_52qC ydpeac41725it3_689y ydpeac41725p_R ydpeac41725N_6LEV ydpeac41725ir3_Z1tiXR3 ydpeac41725b_efTvb ydpeac41725message-view" data-iskeynav="true"><div data-test-id="message-body-container" class=""><div data-test-id="message-view-body" class="ydpeac41725I_52qC ydpeac41725D_FY ydpeac41725W_6D6F" style="width: 848px;"><div class="ydpeac41725msg-body ydpeac41725P_wpofO ydpeac41725mq_AS ydpeac41725iy_A" data-test-id="message-view-body-content"><div class="ydpeac41725jb_0 ydpeac41725X_6MGW ydpeac41725N_6Fd5"><div id="ydpeac41725yiv1659834298" class=""><div class="ydpeac41725yiv1659834298yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""><span class="">We are pleased to announce the release of a new multimedia collection of materials on the <b class="">Endangered Languages and Cultures of Siberia</b>. The collection was created as part of the projects </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">funded by a British Academy Small Research Grant (2011-2012, project number 9480 BX51), a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2012-2014, project number RF-2012-131), a SOAS Faculty of Languages and Cultures Strategy Fund award (2014) awarded to Irina Nikolaeva, a grant from the Academy of Finland awarded to Larisa Leisiö (2009-2012, project number 125225), and an AHRC-funded project ‘Prominent Possessors’ awarded to Irina Nikolaeva (PI), </span><span class="">Oliver Bond and Greville G. Corbett </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">(2015-2019, project reference AH/M010708/1).</span></font></div><p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""> </font></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">It is hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey (<span class="ydpeac41725yiv1659834298ydp43bd558dMsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/" class="">www.smg.surrey.ac.uk</a></span>).</font></span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""> </font></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b class=""><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">Endangered Languages and Cultures of Siberia</font></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class=""><a href="http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk%0D/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class=""><span class="" style="color: black;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk</font></span></a></span></div><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""> </font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="ydpeac41725yiv1659834298ydp43bd558dMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">This resource is a multimedia collection of linguistic and cultural information, which consists of a corpus of original audio and video texts in several minority languages of Siberia. The texts are accompanied by transcriptions, translations and analyses, as well as general information about the language, references, dictionaries, and images, all linked to present a flexible and interactive exploration space for a variety of users and to document a wide range of phenomena. <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The aim is to provide people from various backgrounds (linguists, anthropologists, speakers, language planners and the general public) with a database that can serve a variety of purposes.</span></font></span></p><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""> </font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">At present, the site hosts the data from seven languages: Even, Forest Enets, Kolyma Yukaghir, Northern Khanty, Tundra Nenets, Tundra Yukaghir and Udihe.</font></span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""> </font></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">The audio and video recordings on the site were collected during fieldwork in Siberia by a <span class="ydpeac41725yiv1659834298ydp43bd558dMsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class=""><span class="" style="color: black;">team of language specialists</span></a></span><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">, whose participation is </span>gratefully acknowledged.</font></span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class=""> </font></span></p><h3 class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">How to cite:</font></span></h3><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" class="">Nikolaeva, Irina, Edward Garrett & Oliver Bond. 2019. Endangered Languages and Cultures of Siberia. </font></span><a href="http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk</a></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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