UA projects to preserve Indian tongues given funding (fwd)

[phil cash cash]

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
UA projects to preserve Indian tongues given funding

PAUL L. ALLEN
pallen at tucsoncitizen.com
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=052505a6_grantswfile_art

Three University of Arizona projects aimed at saving endangered American
Indian languages have received a total of $528,253 in federal grants and
two doctoral students in linguistics have been granted fellowships.

The grants and fellowships were provided through the National Science
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The projects
the grants are funding are:

Mohave and Chemehuevi Language Documentation Project, English department
lecturer Susan Penfield, $200,000.

Database of Mutsun, an Extinct California American-Indian Language,
linguistics department Natasha Warner, $168,261.

The Morphosyntax of Verbs in Arizona Yaqui, assistant professor of
linguistics Heidi Harley, $159,992.

The fellowships went to:

A Filmic Language Documentation of Nez Percé and Sahaptin, by Phillip
Cash Cash.

Documenting Mountain Pima Traditional Narratives by Luis Barragan.

Penfield and Cash Cash have been working on a different project to help
tribal members around the state use modern technology and computer
software to preserve their languages, the Tucson Citizen previously
reported.

"These grants and fellowships are a reflection of the department's and
the institution's commitment to documenting, preserving and
revitalizing endangered Native American languages," said Michael
Hammond, head of the linguistics department.