Call for Papers - Humanities Of The Lesser-Known

[Margaret Florey]

The Second Conference in Linguistics within the Birgit Rausing Language
Program



HUMANITIES OF THE LESSER-KNOWN

http://konferens.sol.lu.se/hlk-2010/



New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered
languages and musics



Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden



September 10-11, 2010



Deadline for registration and abstract: February 28, 2010



This conference will bring together leading international expertise in the
fields of language documentation and description, linguistic typology, and
musicology. It draws its inspiration from the idea that the field of
humanities is concerned with humankind in all its cultural and linguistic
richness, and that the study of lesser-known language settings is crucial to
our understanding of the true scope of cross-cultural constraints and
diversity in language and thought.



Until recently, documentation and description of lesser-known and endangered
languages largely amounted to studying formal grammar. However, a number of
theoretical, methodological and technical advances have transformed the
field researcher’s agenda and now allow for detailed exploration and
comparison of a wider set of aspects of language and culture. The general
aim of the conference is to focus on some such fields of investigation and
to find ways of integrating them to a more comprehensive and coherent
program of description and documentation. Four fields will form general
conference themes:

1.     Grammar

2.     Prosody

3.     Semantics and cognition

4.     Music



The themes will be cross-cut by a set of theoretical, methodological and
technical topics, which will allow for greater integration of themes and
facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas across fields. These
cross-cutting topics can be collapsed under three main headings: (1)
description, (2) documentation, and (3) comparison and typologization.



The host department, the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund
University, together with the adjacent Humanities Laboratory, provides a
unique research environment, ideal for advancing technical aspects of
documentation and description. Our department boasts a long-standing
tradition of research on lesser-known languages and cultures, with a focus
on fields which have traditionally received limited attention in endangered
languages research, especially prosody, semantic typology, and musicology.

-- 
Margaret Florey
Director, Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity <www.rnld.org/>

Email: Margaret.Florey at gmail.com
Ph: +61 (0)4 3186-3727 (mob.)
skype: margaret_florey
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