FYI: 2002 Endangered Language Fund grant recipients

[smcginnis at nflc.org]

Twelve ELF Grants Awarded in 2002
The Endangered Language Fund is pleased to announce its grants for 
2002.  There were some coincidences in the number this year.  We had 
50 applications, 25 from U. S. institutions and 25 from others.  We 
were able to fund 12 in total, and half were from U. S. institutions. 
As you will see, much of the work (even for the U. S.-based 
proposals) happens to be outside the U. S. this year.  The rich and 
relatively undescribed Amazonian area received some deserved 
attention.  Five proposals deal with South American languages, while 
four are based in North America.  The others bring in Europe, Asia 
(Siberia) and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea).  Once again, it was a 
difficult task to select such a small number from such an impressive 
pool of proposals.  It is only thanks to the generosity of our 
members that we are able to offer these grants at all.  So, thanks to 
all of you who have donated; please visit our website for more 
information on joining the ELF 
(http://www.ling.yale.edu/~elf/join.html).

Valerio Luciani Ascencio (Kawki) - Preservation of the Kawki 
language.  

Susan Doty (Creek Tribe)  - Muskogee Creek language traditional song 
preservation.  

Thomas McIlwraith, Regina Louie, Angela Dennis and Sally Havard 
(Iskut First Nations) - Talking to the animals: Tahltan-language 
animal stories and forms of address.  

Maximilian Viatori (U. California, Davis) - A practical Zapara 
phonology and morphology.  

Rosalind Williams (Splatsin Tribe) --  Creation of Secwepenc Wordlist 
2002.  

Naomi Nagy (U. New Hampshire) - Preserving Faetar in the school. 

Chris Beier and Lev Michael (U. Texas, Austin) - Iquito language 
documentation project.  

Gessiane Lobato Picanço (U. British Columbia) - Documentation of 
Kuruaya, a moribund language of Brazil.  

Nikolai Vakhtin (European U. at St. Petersburg) - Siberian Yupik 
Eskimo conversation book.  

Pamela Bunte and Nikole Lobb (California State U., Long Beach) - 
Using San Juan Southern Paiute narratives in a language 
revitalization program.  

Connie Dickinson (U. Oregon) - Tsafiki dictionary project.  

Doug Marmion (Australian National U.) - Wutung language maintenance 
and literacy development.  

The Endangered Language Fund
Dept. of Linguistics, Yale University
P. O. Box 208366
New Haven, CT  06520-8366



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