Endangered Languages Projects

Grants awarded in 2010

Lead Applicants	Project title	Host Institution	Funding UK£
Major Documentation Projects
Xianming Xu	Linguistic and Cultural Documentation of Urgently Endangered Sadu Language in Yuxi City	Yuxi Normal University	35,763
Miriam Meyerhoff	Documentation of N'kep (north Vanuatu): Structure and variation	University of Auckland	55,651
Fedor Rozhanskiy	Documentation of Ingrian: collecting and analyzing fieldwork data and digitizing legacy materials	University of Tartu	77,078
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal	Documenting Tabaq, a Hill Nubian language of the Sudan, in its sociolinguistic context	University of Cologne	119,882
Swintha Danielsen	Paunaka documentation project (PDP)	University of Leipzig; Institute of Linguistics	117,789
Casey High	Waorani Documentation Project	Goldsmiths, University of London	128,042
Small Grants
Hiroko Sato	Documentation and Description of Kove	University of Hawai'i	9,999
Juliane Kabisch-Lindenlaub	The analysis of Golpa stories	Leipzig University	9,119
Eli Timan	Preservation of the spoken Jewish Iraqi – Phase 2	School of Oriental and African Studies	9,985
Tatiana Reid	Documentation and description of Thok Reel – a fieldwork trip to Southern Sudan.	The University of Edinburgh	9,969
Aung Si	Traditional biological and ecological information encoded in the Sholaga language	Australian National University	6,621
Greg Dickson	Stories from the Saltwater as told by the old Marra ladies	Australian National University	8,500
Martine Bruil	Documenting and describing Ecuadorian Siona	LUCL, Leiden University	7,454
Mark Post	A documentation of the Upper Belt variety of Minyong (Adi), Arunachal Pradesh, North East India	James Cook University	9,889
Yankee Modi	Documentation and establishment of a local archive for Milang, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of North East India	James Cook University	8,264
Ingeborg Fink	Dene Text Collection with a Special Focus on the Relationship between the Language and the Land	University of Cologne	9,497
Stuart McGill	Cicipu documentation: five festivals of the Acipu people	School of Oriental and African Studies	5,457
Individual Postgraduate Fellowships
Yvonne Treis	Documentation of Baskeet song, verbal art and ceremonial language	LLCAN	128,042
René Lacroix	A pan-dialectal documentation of Laz (South Caucasian)	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology	66,785
Jennifer Green	Narrative art: multimodal documentation of speech, song, sign, drawing and gesture in Arandic storytelling traditions from Central Australia	University of Melbourne	124,945
Individual Graduate Studentships
Ross Perlin	Documentation and Description of Dulong	Leiden University	13,129
Jessica Cleary-Kemp	Documentation and description of Papitalai, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea	University of California, Berkeley	59,397
Maïa Ponsonnet	A Culturally Informed Corpus of Dalabon: Descriptions of the Person as a Body and as Kin	Australian National University	18,133
Pierric Sans	Documentation of Bésiro, the endangered language of the Chiquitano people of Lowland Bolivia	Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL) UMR 5596 (CNRS/Université Lyon2)	14,029
Stéphanie Villard	Documentation of Zacatepec Chatino language and culture	The University of Texas at Austin	52,338
Aurélie Cauchard	Documenting Caac, an endangered language spoken in the north of New Caledonia	University of Manchester	54,055
Tom Honeyman	Documentation and Description of the Fas language of Papua New Guinea	Australian National University	16,216
Kibebe Tsehay	Documentation and Grammatical Description of the Shabo Language: A Very Endangered Isolate Language of Southwestern Ethiopia	Addis Ababa University	20,915
Stephanie Hasselbacher	Language Practices of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana: A Documentation of Koasati	The College of William and Mary Grants and Research Administration	28,270
Tano Angoua Jean-Jacques	Documentation and description of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire	University of Cocody at Abidjan	43,180
Total amount awarded:			1,268,393

The figures shown do not reflect any subsequent alterations to grants or any other commitments made by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme.