Endangered language is topic of Humanities Fellow's research (fwd link)

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Endangered language is topic of Humanities Fellow's research
by Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu - September 2, 2008

Some 250 years ago, the Itelmen language spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula in
the Russian far east was in decline and expected to survive no more than a
generation. It proved more tenacious than predicted, but it is now on the verge
of extinction.

Jonathan Bobaljik, professor of linguistics, has spent a decade and a half
studying Itelmen. This academic year, thanks to a Humanities Institute
fellowship, he hopes to develop a grammatical description of the language and
explore related theoretical issues.

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