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[Rebekka Siemens]

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Linguists, Students of Linguistics, Language Activists

INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION
UC Santa Barbara

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ 

Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008
Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008

Application Deadline:  February 29, 2008

The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed for field linguists, 
graduate students, and language activists to receive training in current techniques and issues in 
language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization.

WORKSHOPS 
Steps in language documentation
Models of language documentation and revitalization
Language activism
Introduction to linguistics for language activists
Language resources and the community
Grant writing for language activists or linguists
Web and WIKIs for language documentation
Audio recording
Video recording
Lexicography
Orthography 
Discourse Transcription
Principles of archiving, metadata, media, file formats
Principles of database design
Toolbox
Field phonetics
Life in the field
Problematizing the field experience
Intellectual property rights

FIELD TRAINING (Intensive field methods) 
Patricia Shaw      University of British Columbia Language: Kwakwala
Tucker Childs    Portland State University  Language: Mende
Carol Genetti      UC Santa Barbara            Language: TBA

FOR APPLICATION AND COMPLETE INFORMATION, POINT YOUR BROWSER TO:
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ 

SPONSORS 
U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities: 
Documenting Endangered Languages Program    

University of California, Santa Barbara: Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Interdisciplinary 
Humanities Center, and the Department of Linguistics