19.417, Confs: Language Documentation/Sweden

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Subject: 19.417, Confs: Language Documentation/Sweden

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Subject: Workshop on Language Documentation and Description

 

	
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Workshop on Language Documentation and Description 

Date: 30-Sep-2008 - 01-Oct-2008 
Location: Uppsala, Sweden 
Contact: Anju Saxena 
Contact Email: Anju.Saxena at lingfil.uu.se 
Meeting URL: http://www.lingfil.uu.se/personal/anjusaxena/scl/ws/ws1.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

The workshop has two goals. First, to discuss the recent advances in Language
Documentation - what it implies, how is it different from traditional language
description, how technological resources can be a tool in documenting
lesser-known languages. Second, to create a forum in Scandinavia for those who
are working on endangered and lesser-known languages. 

Keynote speakers

Peter Austin
Endangered Languages Academic Program, Department of Linguistics, SOAS London,
United Kingdom

Colette Grinevald
Université Lyon 2 and CNRS, France

David Nathan
Endangered Languages Archive, SOAS, London, England

Michael Noonan
Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Donald Stilo
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany






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