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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
Anthony C Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin Imagined creolization: axing the language of ancestral identity
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William A Foley, University of Sydney Personhood and linguistic ideology, purism and variation in New Guinea
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E. Annamalai, Yale University Documentation of Language in Communication in a Multilingual Environment
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Emmon Bach, SOAS Deixis in the Pacific Northwest: Northern Wakashan ...abstract
Yaron Matras, Manchester UniversityThe 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