Julia Sallabank talks at Lancaster University. Julia Sallabank has been invited to be a keynote contributor at a one-day workshop
'Observing and Documenting Language Revitalisation' at the Centre for Language in Social Life, Lancaster University,
Friday 16th May 2008.
April 18th 2008
Julia Sallabank talks in Amsterdam. Julia Sallabank gave a paper entitled 'Endangered language maintenance and social networks' on Friday 4th April 2008 at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 17 held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. April 8th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Irina Nikolaeva speaks at Manchester. Irina Nikolaeva is presenting a seminar on Tuesday 8th April 2008 at the University of Manchester Department of Linguistics and English Language. The title of her talk is ‘Topicality and nonsubject marking‘, details available here. April 7th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
First two ELAP PhD students complete. The first two ELAP PhD students have completed their studies at SOAS. Henrik Bergqvist passed the examination of his dissertation on Temporal Reference in Lakandon Maya in January and Serge Sagna passed the examination of his dissertation on Noun classification in Gújjolaay Eegimaa in March. Serge has been awarded an ELDP post-doctoral fellowship to work on “The documentation of the Gújjolaay Eegimaa, an Atlantic-BAK Jóola Language of Senegal” at the University of Manchester Department of Linguistics. April 5th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Peter Austin on TV. The documentary "In Languages We Live: Voices of the World" which includes interviews with Prof Peter K. Austin was shown on SBS Television in Australia at 7:30pm on Friday 4th April 2008. April 5th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Peter Austin visits Hawaii. Professor Peter K. Austin visited the Linguistics Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the week of 10th to 14th March 2008 and gave a series of talks on endangered languages and language documentation. You can download a poster showing the events.
April 2nd 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Gerardo De Caro talks in Tehran. On 23rd February PhD student Gerardo De Caro gave a talk on the Taleshi language at the Iranian Institute for the National Encyclopaedia in Tehran. Gerardo discussed his current PhD research, the ELAP programme and the research tools and methods used by ELAP researchers. February 24th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Gerardo De Caro presents a conference paper in Tehran. PhD student Gerardo De Caro presented a paper on 'Alignment in Taleshi' at a conference at the Iranian National Heritage Institute in Tehran. He notes that Iranian linguists have adopted the expression zabanha-ye darxatar ‘endangered languages’ and mostanadsazi-e zabani ‘language documentation’ and the Director of the Linguistics Section made explicit reference to the necessity of ehiya ‘revitalisation’. After Gerardo's talk he was interviewed by the Iranian TV network Kanal 2. February 23rd 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Oliver Bond speaks at Lancaster University. Oliver Bond has been invited to give a seminar in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University on Thursday 28th February 2008. His talk, entitled 'Negation within canonical typology' reflects work carried out as part of his current NegTyp research project in ELAP. February 13th 2008, contributed by Oliver Bond
Australia's parliament apologises to Indigenous peoples. On Wednesday, 13 February 2008, the Prime Minister of Australia apologised to the Indigenous peoples of Australia for previous policies, especially those responsible for what is known as the Stolen Generations. These policies have also done enormous damage to Australian Indigenous languages. February 13th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
Aboriginal languages back on mainstream agenda. Aboriginal languages are back on the agenda in Australia's mainstream media, reflecting the change of sentiment after the last national election.
This article from the ABC links languages to the survival of indigenous heritage and praises NSW state government policies. February 4th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
Training Course in Japan. Peter Austin and David Nathan will be going to Japan 10th to 18th February to present an intensive training course on Language Documentation at ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The course will be attended by 18 staff and post-graduate students and cover topics such as audio and video recording, annotation, metadata, ethics and intellectual property rights, applying for research funding and software tools for language documentation.
February 1st 2008, contributed by Peter Austin & David Nathan
ELDP Singhpo project. There is a report about the research work of Dr Stephen Morey in Assam funded by ELDP in The Telegraph newspaper published in Calcutta on 13th April with the title "Chronicles of a vanishing tongue
- Australian linguist documents endangered Singpho language in Assam" -- see http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070413/asp/northeast/story_7639745.asp April 15th 2007, contributed by Peter Austin
Interview with Nick Ostler, President of FEL. There is an interview with Nick Ostler, President of the Foundation of Endangered Languages recorded on 11th September 2006 at http://audio.wbez.org/wv/2006/09/wv_20060911a.mp3 He discusses world language ecology and the loss of languages. December 22nd 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
SOAS Director launches OREL. Prof Paul Webley, the Director of SOAS, today officially launched OREL, Online Resources for Endangered Languages (http://www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/). OREL is a new and unique resource - a library of over 200 annotated and categorised links to websites for people interested in endangered language documentation and revitalisation.
OREL also includes specialist endangered languages pages in Arabic. November 22nd 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
Researchers and language revitalisation. There is an article by Tony Tysome entitled "Drop 'raiders of the lost argot' act" published on page 7 of the 20th October issue of The Times Higher Education Supplement which discusses the role of researchers in language documentation and revitalisation work. After presenting contrasting view from Yaron Matras (Manchester University) and Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages) Peter Austin is quoted to the effect that: "A lot of work needs to be done to understand the values of the communities whose languages are dying. We need to find a balance between those who say let the languages die and those who want to save everything".
The full text of the article is available at
http://www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=2033312
Non-subscribers will need to sign up for a free 30-day trial in order to read it. October 26th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
Aboriginal language course wins national Teaching Award. A team from Charles Darwin University with Yolngu Aboriginal community leaders has won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year; see http://www.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/story.php?nID=627
David Nathan of ELAR was co-author of the course's multimedia CD Gupapuyngu and developed the software. The CD teaches and tests pronunciation, spelling, grammar at thirteen different levels, and presents three hundred stories of staged difficulty, a dictionary, and a kinship chart, which interactively links the 44 Yolngu kinship terms from the point of view of gender and group; text throughout is connected to sounds. August 30th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth. Peter Austin appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Word of Mouth broadcast on Monday 14th August 2006 at 11pm discussing linguistic purity and minority languages - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/wordofmouth.shtml August 15th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
British Academy Research Grant. The British Academy has awarded a grant to Professor Peter Austin for research on the Iraqi Jewish language. The project extends over a year beginning in July 2006 and involves preparing an annotated corpus of audio-visual recordings of speakers living in London, Canada and Israel through collaboration with Mr Eli Timan, a member of the London Iraqi Jewish community. July 28th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
Linguamón – Casa de les Llengües. Peter Austin visited Barcelona 10th to 13th July at the invitation of the Catalonia government to participate in the innaugural meeting of the Scientific Committee of Linguamón – Casa de les Llengües "House of Languages", a new initiative to develop a gallery of languages and to highlight linguistic diversity around the world - for more information see http://www10.gencat.net/www.linguamon.cat/ July 13th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
Research Grants Funding Round Open. The latest grant funding round is now open. See http://www.hrelp.org/grants/ June 26th 2006, contributed by Jean Tullett
Peter Austin speaks at LENCA-3 Symposium. Peter Austin was an invited speaker at the International Symposium on the Grammar and Pragmatics of Complex Sentences (Subordination and Coordination) LENCA-3 (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/LENCA/LENCA-3/lenca-3.html) held in Tomsk, Siberia, 27-30th June 2006. He presented a paper on "Hierarchies of clause linkage" June 5th 2006
HRELP participates in DoBeS workshop. Peter Austin, as Chair of the DoBeS Linguistics Advisory Board, attended the DoBeS 2006 workshop 14-15th June 2006 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (http://www.mpi.nl/world/OLDDOBES/workshop/DoBeSWorkshop2006.pdf)
At the Workshop DoBeS teams discussed current issues and challenges in their research projects. The Workshop was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
June 5th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
ELDP training course June 2006. A training course for ELDP grantees will be held at SOAS 21-27th June 2006 (http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2006_6/). The course will be attended by 17 grantees and will be taught by staff from ELAP, ELAR, and ELDP grantee K. David Harrison, along with other specialists in film and video recording and editing.
June 4th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP co-sponsors Austronesian conference. HRELP and the Surrey Morphology Group are sponsoring the second Austronesian Languages and Linguistics conference held at St Catherine's College 2-3 June 2006 (see http://www.surrey.ac.uk/lcts/bill.palmer/UKARG_site/2006_conf/call.htm).
ELAP PhD student Mary Raymond presented a paper on "Volcanoes, migrations and the south-east wind: directional
verbs in Arop-Lokep and Karnai". June 1st 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP participates in LREC conference. David Nathan, representing ELAR, attended the LREC 2006 conference (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/) and gave a paper with colleagues from The Netherlands and Sweden on the collaborative DAM-LR project.
Daan Broeder, Freddy Offenga, Peter Wittenburg, Peter van der Kamp, David Nathan, Sven Strömqvist "Technologies for a Federation of Language Resource Archives"
David also attended a workshop on annotation.
May 30th 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
UK Premiere of In Language We Live - voices of the world. The UK Premiere of the film In Language We Live - voices of the world;
was hosted by HRELP.
See: http://www.hrelp.org/events/inlanguageswelive/ February 6th 2006, contributed by Robert Munro
Endangered African Languages on BBC. The BBC Africa Service broadcast a programme on endangerment of indigenous African Languages on 4th January 2006 - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4536450.stm
Peter Austin was a studio guest for this programme.
January 3rd 2006, contributed by Peter Austin
Endangered languages film on Scandanavian television. The 59 minute film "I sproget er jeg" (In language we live) produced by the Voices of the World project (http://www.olestig.dk/endangered-languages/films.html#vow) was broadcast on 21st November (repeated 27th November) on television in Sweden and Denmark. It features interviews with Peter Austin and David Crystal, along with documentary coverage of 42 countries and 20 languages. Contact Final Cut Productions (byrge@final-cut.dk)
Forbindelsesvej 7; DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark for more information. December 5th 2005, contributed by Peter Austin
Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant. The Wenner-Gren Foundation has awarded a grant of $9,000 to JC Smith, Oxford University, in collaboration with Prof Peter Austin, ELAP, to aid the third Oxford-Kobe Linguistics seminar entitled "The Linguistics of Endangered Languages" - for more details see http://www.kobeinst.com/3lg01.htm November 17th 2005, contributed by Peter Austin
Leverhulme Visiting Professorship awarded. The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a Visiting Professorship to Assoc Prof David Bradley, La Trobe University (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/linguistics/stbradley.htm), to carry out research at SOAS for four months from February 2006. Prof Bradley is an expert on sociolinguistics and the languages of South-East Asia and will present a series of lectures and participate in workshops and seminars during his visit. November 17th 2005, contributed by Peter Austin
ELAR accessions first deposit. After a long wait for building works and equipment installation to be completed, ELAR began data archiving on 28 October by accessioning its first deposit, from Dr Knut Olawsky (see http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=34).
October 28th 2005, contributed by David Nathan
PhD students win scholarships. Four students have been awarded scholarships to undertake PhD studies in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme beginning in October. Sophie Salffner (who will work on a Nigerian language) and Gerardo de Caro (who will work on Talyshi, a northern Iranian language of Azerbaijan) received SOAS PhD scholarships, Mary Raymond (who will work on an Austronesian language) received an AHRC PhD award and Stuart McGill (who will work on a language of northern Nigeria) was awarded an ELAP scholarship. These students will join the five PhDs already enrolled in ELAP (see http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/students/). September 23rd 2005, contributed by Peter Austin
BBC Radio Broadcast. 28th September 7-10:30pm, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a special programme on language in Africa. Peter Austin was a studio guest during the broadcast. September 14th 2005, contributed by Peter K. Austin
Exhibition on endangered languages. Endangered Voices, an exhibition exploring the themes of language endangerment opens at SOAS. Details:
http://www.hrelp.org/events/endangeredvoices/ June 28th 2005, contributed by Robert Munro
ELDP Grants 2005 Announced. ELDP announces the first batch of grants awarded in 2005. Further FTG grants will be announced by June. see http://www.hrelp.org/grants/grants2005.html April 20th 2005, contributed by Najma Hussain
The HRELP Annual Public Lecture. HRELP's annual public lecture was delivered by Colette Grinevald.
See http://www.hrelp.org/events/publiclecture/ February 10th 2005, contributed by Robert Munro
