ELAP Workshop:
Language contact and variation in language documentation
SOAS, Saturday 12th February 2005, 9.30am-5.30pm
Workshop:
This workshop examined issues related to the documentation of endangered languages in situations of contact between languages, covering topics such as:
- emergence and loss of new contact varieties
- how language contact phenomena relate to the theory and practice of language documentation
- purism and language ideology
- codification and standard languages in contact situations
Presenters and Topics:
| Speaker | Title
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| Anthony C Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin | Imagined creolization: axing the language of ancestral identity
...abstract |
| William A Foley, University of Sydney | Personhood and linguistic ideology, purism and variation in New Guinea
...abstract |
| E. Annamalai, Yale University | Documentation of Language in Communication in a Multilingual Environment
...abstract |
| Emmon Bach, SOAS | Deixis in the Pacific Northwest: Northern Wakashan ...abstract |
| Yaron Matras, Manchester University | The documentation of Domari, or 'Are endangered languages always contact languages?'...abstract |
| Peter K. Austin, SOAS | 'But it doesn’t sound like that on the tape' - editing and language documentation ...abstract |
| Anju Saxena, Uppsala University | 'It takes two to tango: Linguistic and cultural (co)variation in digital
documentation' ...abstract |
| Colette Grinevald, Lyon-2 University | Why the Tiger language and not Rama Cay Creole? Language revitalization made harder ...abstract |
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