[etnolinguistica] Evento: simpósio sobre línguas ameaçadas (Seattle, fevereiro/2004)

[Linguistica no Museu]

To: etnolinguistica at yahoogrupos.com.br
From: Daniel Everett

A American Association for the Advancement of Science esta dedicando
uma sessao as linguas em perigo de extincao, na sua reuniao annual em
Seattle em Fevereiro. E equivalente a SBPC e tera milhares de
cientistas nas varias reunioes, simposios, etc. E uma boa oportunidade
de mostrar o lado cientifico da linguistica. O URL esta incluido abaixo
e o anuncio segue-se.

Daniel


http://php.aaas.org/meetings/MPE_01.php

 Documenting Endangered Languages: Goals, Methods and Strategy
DATE: Monday, February 16, 2004
TIME: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
ORGANIZERS: William J. Poser, University of Pennsylvania
PARTICIPANTS:   * = invited, not yet confirmed.
Daniel Everett (S4-Speaker), University of Manchester: How to Document
a Language
William J. Poser (S4-Speaker), University of Pennsylvania: What
Languages Should We Study First?
Anthony Woodbury (S4-Speaker), University of Texas: What Does It Mean
to Document a Language?


SYNOPSIS:
Languages are becoming extinct at a rate exceeding that of biological
species, with the extinction of 80-90% of the languages now extant
predicted within 100 years. For both social and scientific reasons this
is a matter of great concern, but there has been little discussion of
how best to approach this problem. This symposium will discuss what our
goals should be, what strategy is most likely to achieve them, and what
methods should be used. More specifically, the following questions will
be addressed: (a) What constitutes good documentation? We generally
consider small languages to be well served if there exist a decent
grammar, dictionary, and collection of narrative texts, by a single
person, yet there is much still unknown about major languages, for
which enormous resources exist and which have been studied by hundreds
of people. What does really complete documentation consist of? What
should we aim for in the case of endangered languages? (b) How can we
best go about obtaining good documentation? Is it possible, as some
linguists and funding agencies propose, to collect a large amount of
material in a fairly short time for subsequent long-term analysis, or
must data-collection and analysis be interwoven? (c) How can advanced
technology, including software developed for work with large corpora of
major languages, be of help? (d) How should resources best be
allocated? Which languages should we study first?

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Daniel L. Everett
Professor of Phonology
Postgraduate Programme Director
Postgraduate Admissions Officer
Department of Linguistics
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, UK M13 9PL
http://ling.man.ac.uk/info/staff/de
Fax: 44-161-275-3187
Office: 44-161-275-3158



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