Documenting Endangered Languages

[Margaret Ronkin]

Forward from GULinguist (Georgetown University Dept of Linguistics List serv)

Documenting Endangered Languages
URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04605
Type : Program Announcements & Information
Subtype : Social/Behavioral Sciences


Posted July 30, 2004

Synopsis of Program:
This multi-year funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages.  Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000 currently used human languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology.  Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve months.  At least half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork.

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) will participate in the partnership as a research host, a non-funding role.

Marianna Toce-Gerstein