International Summer School in Language Documentation and Description
 23 June - 4 July 2008
University of Lyon
Organised by the 3L Consortium Lyon |
Leiden |
London
Locally run by the CNRS Laboratory Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), University
of Lyon
Programme details
This summer school aims at introducing the concepts and practices
of language documentation and its links to language description
for future and novice field linguists. It will draw upon
the extensive expertise of the three organizing universities
involved in these domains.
It is co-organised by the Africa
Latin America Endangered Languages (AALLED) program of the Agence Nationale de
la Recherche (ANR) of the University of Lyon, the Leiden
University Centre of Linguistics, and the Endangered
Languages Academic Programme (ELAP) of the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS), University of London.
This international summer school on Language Documentation
and Description will include general presentations and
workshops in English, with the possibility of group discussions
in French for linguists working in francophone countries.
Mornings will include keynote talks of general interest
followed by group discussions; afternoons will alternate linguistics
fieldwork sessions and workshops on new methods and technologies
used in the Documentation - Description - Archiving. Access
to group discussions and work sessions will be restricted
to 50 selected participants. There will be evening co-events
with open admission including talks by international
guests, public debates on selected topics, exhibitions on
endangered languages, and film screening.
A student conference
will take place at mid-point of the summer school and one
of the AALLED program major conferences on issues of work
on endangered languages organised by the University of
Lyon will take place at the end of this summer school.
This summer school will launch the collaboration of the three
participating universities within the context of developing
and running together a European International Master
in language description and documentation to start academic
year 2008-9. Watch the participating institutions websites
for more information
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