Dr Friederike Lüpke awarded

Friederike Lüpke has been awarded £21,600 for a period of research leave funded by the AHRC in order to create a first corpus of the Gunyaamolo variety of the endangered Atlantic language Bainouk of Senegal. Earlier this year she spent 10 weeks in a Bainouk Gunyaamolo speech community in Senegal during an ELDP-funded pilot project to collect first data on this language.

The AHRC research leave enables her to compile these data into an electronic corpus. The AHRC funds postgraduate training and research in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. The quality and range of research supported not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK . For further information on the AHRC, please see the website www.ahrc.ac.uk.

• For further information, see Dr Lüpke's page, and a workshop she is organising at http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/mande_atlantic/index.html.