Conference in Paris. Julia Sallabank and James Costa (U. Lyon) co-rganised a panel discussion on the role of linguists in endangered languages at the French Society for the History of Ideas in Linguistics at INALCO in Paris, 26-28 January. February 1st 2012, contributed by Julia Sallabank
LDD sale ends 31 January. The special GBP 10 sale price for LDD 10 (330 pages of linguistic goodies plus CD-ROM with referenced sound files) ends TOMORROWTODAY!
Order your copies by secure credit card payment online before it is too late. January 30th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
Andaman research in the news. The research work of Anvita Abbi and her deposit on Great Andmanese in ELAR are mentioned in this recent article by Survival International. January 27th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
David Nathan on YouTube. Part 1 is now available of an interview about endangered languages with David Nathan made by Julian Lang of the Center for Indian Community Development (CICD). January 17th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
Conferences at SOAS. ELAP staff are co-organising two upcoming conferences: 5th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference (APLL5) and 7th European Australianists Workshop. January 16th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP at LSA meeting. David Nathan and Mandana Seyfeddinipur are attending the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland, OR, 5-8 January 2012 January 5th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
LDD 10 now available. Volume 10 of Language Documentation and Description is now available to order online at 25% off for orders placed before 31 January 2012. December 21st 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Jobs in ELAR. There are two job advertisements one for a Digital Content Curator and one for a Software Developer to work in ELAR - closing date 12th January 2012
December 7th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Seminar in Scotland. Peter Austin gave a seminar at the University of Aberdeen on 24th November. November 22nd 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Prof Anvita Abbi in the news. See the recent article on BBC News and the post in The Independent about ELDP grantee, ELAR depositor and ELAP Leverhulme Visiting Professor Anvita Abbi and her work with the Great Andamanese. November 17th 2011, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Activities this week. Tuesday: Chris Lucas' seminar, Thursday: Anvita Abbi's public lecture, Friday: LDLT-3 workshop and Saturday-Sunday: LDLT-3 conference. November 12th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Potentials of Language Documentation workshop, Leipzig, 3-4 Nov 2011. Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Sophie Salffner and Julia Sallabank attended this workshop. Julia Sallabank presented on the use of documentary material in language planning. October 31st 2011, contributed by Julia Sallabank
Alumni award to Linguistics students. SOAS Alumni and Friends has made an award to students in the department to develop a website for their Language Landscapes project. October 26th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
ELDP grant round opens. The 2012 grant application round for the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) opens on 17th October 2011. The closing date for receipt of applications is 16th January 2012. Further information is available here or email eldp@soas.ac.uk.
October 16th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
ELDP grantee wins award. ELDP grantee Rosa Vallejos has won the highly prestigious Mary Haas award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) for her PhD dissertation "that makes a significant substantive contribution to our knowledge of Native American languages". October 4th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Leiden talks. Stuart McGill presented on the Laru language of NW Nigeria at the 41st Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden on the 29th August. Talks were also given by two SOAS PhD students, Anja Choon and Hannah Gibson, as well as former MA student Steve Pepper. September 1st 2011, contributed by Stuart McGill
New book publication. The 4 volume 1792 page Endangered Languages collection of essential readings edited by Peter K. Austin and Stuart McGill has just been published by Routledge. August 31st 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
LDLT programmes available. Programmes for the LDLT conference and archive workshop now available. August 11th 2011, contributed by David Nathan
Gresham College talk . Peter Austin talked about language documentation and revitalisation at a symposium on "Rare and Endangered Languages" on 15th June at Gresham College, London June 15th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Endangered Languages and Social Media. This article about endangered languages being used on Twitter and Facebook quotes Peter Austin June 14th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
SOAS Alumni Weekend. Stuart McGill, David Nathan and Candide Simard talked about Endangered Languages at the SOAS Alumni Weekend on Friday 10 June
June 9th 2011, contributed by Alison Kelly
FFLR grant awarded for Kainji research. Elena Perekhvalskaya
(St Petersburg State University), Kirill Babaev (Russian State University for Humanities) and Stuart McGill have been awarded a grant of $7600 from the Foundation of Fundamental Linguistic Research. This is to fund a joint project on the reconstruction of the Kainji languages of northern Nigeria, 2012-2013, as part of a wider Niger-Congo project. May 26th 2011, contributed by Stuart McGill
SOAS student podcast. London's linguistic diversity is the topic of a podcast by two SOAS MA students, Samantha Goodchild and Nicholas Stallman. May 6th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Eitt þúsund tungumál. The latest SOAS e-News has an article about Peter Austin's visit to Iceland and the publication of his book in Icelandic. May 6th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Talk in Cambridge. Julia Sallabank gave a presentation on 'Language revitalisation: issues and outcomes' to the Cambridge Group for Endangered Languages and Cultures on Tuesday May 3rd. April 27th 2011, contributed by Julia Sallabank
Workshop talk at MPI, Nijmegen. Oliver Bond presented a talk entitled 'Cognate Nominal Constructions and focus manipulation' at a workshop on Information Structure and Subordination: South America and Beyond at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen on 28th April 2011. April 12th 2011, contributed by Oliver Bond
Audio workshop in Jos. Stuart McGill ran a workshop on 'Audio recording for Language Documentation' on Monday 4th April at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria, University of Jos. April 5th 2011, contributed by Stuart McGill
HRELP at NWO conference. Jean McGarry and Mandana Seyfeddinipur attended the NWO conference on 'Language Documentation and Description in the Netherlands', 8-9 April at Leiden University. April 2nd 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Conference talk in Netherlands. Julia Sallabank is giving a talk on
"What is meant by 'resilience' in
endangered languages? A critical
discussion of the situation on the
island of Guernse" on 8 April at the Language of the Wider World conference in Leeuwarden, Netherlands April 2nd 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP at Cambridge conference. Peter Austin, David Nathan and Julia Sallabank presented talks at the Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment on 25 March 2011. March 12th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
ELAR at Audiovisual Archiving Conference. Tom Castle and David Nathan attended the Screening the Future 2011 conference at Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, 14-15 March March 11th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Seminar at CSEAS. Peter Austin presented a seminar on 8 March at the Centre of South East Asia Studies. March 8th 2011, contributed by Alison Kelly
Leverhulme Visiting Professor. Professor Anvita Abbi has just arrived at SOAS to be Leverhulme Visiting Professor from 1st March to 31st December 2011. March 3rd 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
LDD now available for online purchase. All LDD volumes are now available for purchase by credit card securely online here. Postage and packaging is free (saving 20%) from now to 1st June. February 19th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
ELDP 2011 grant round now open. The ELDP grant round for 2011 has opened. Applications must be
submitted by 28 March 2011. See the ELDP grants page for further
information.
February 10th 2011, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Lecture in Canterbury on language revitalisation. Julia Sallabank gave a guest lecture on Tues 1st February 2011 at Canterbury Christ Church University on 'Endangered language maintenance and revitalisation'. January 31st 2011, contributed by Julia Sallabank
East African Summer School in Language Documentation. East African and German students are invited to apply for a 2-week
East African Summer School in Language Documentation: Methods and
Technology, 4-16 July at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Read more ... January 21st 2011, contributed by Friederike Luepke and Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Annual training course in Japan. Peter Austin and David Nathan co-convened with Anthony Jukes and Hideo Sawada, DocLing2011, training course, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 18-24th February 2011. See also this report. January 15th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Indonesian languages workshop. Peter Austin presented a paper on Sasak at the Workshop on TAM and Evidentiality in Indonesian Languages, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 17-18th February January 14th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
UCGAL keynote. Peter Austin was a keynote speaker at the launch of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics at the British Academy on 27th January 2011. January 10th 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Ed Garrett on language archiving. Ed Garrett gave a talk about language archiving at the London Linguistics Circle at the University of Greenwich on 19 January. January 9th 2011, contributed by David Nathan
ELAR & Metadata at LSA. David Nathan, Tom Castle and Ed Garrett presented a poster (also downloadable) on ELAR metadata at the LSA annual conference. January 8th 2011, contributed by David Nathan
HRELP at LSA annual meeting. Peter Austin and David Nathan presented talks at the annual meeting of Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, 6-9 January. Mandana Seyfeddinipur also attended. January 1st 2011, contributed by Peter Austin
Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities. David Nathan reported on ELAR access at this Cambridge WOLP workshop on 10 December. Peter Austin will chair a session at the workshop. December 4th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
LDLT-2 papers available. Papers from the second Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory conference held at SOAS in 2009 are now available here. November 29th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
Student award. PhD student Kay Johnson has been awarded a grant by The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund for her research on the Ske language of Vanuatu. November 12th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
ELAR in Singapore. David Nathan is presenting a talk on ELAR at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on 9th November. November 9th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
ELAR at RCLT. David Nathan is presenting a talk on ELAR at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University on 4th November. October 29th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
Visitors to HRELP. Prof Tania Kouteva, Dusseldorf University, is Humboldt Visiting Professor from 1st October 2010 to 1st April 2011. Prof John Haiman, Macalester college, St. Paul, USA, is visiting from 1st October 2010 to 1st February 2011.
Prof William Foley, University of Sydney, Australia, is visiting in November 2010.
These visitors will be presenting talks in the Linguistics Department. October 19th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
ELAR at ANU. David Nathan is presenting a talk on ELAR at the Australian National University on 15th October. October 12th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
New York talk. David Nathan of ELAR is presenting a talk on 4th October entitled "Archiving for the future, today: the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS" at the Endangered Language Alliance in New York City. September 28th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP in the news. Several ELDP grantees and an ELAP staff member appear in the video clip of this BBC story September 15th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
15 language documentations now available. There are now 15 deposits available for access on the Endangered Languages Archive website. See here for information on how to access the deposits. August 10th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
Arapaho language research. This story discusses the work by University of Colorado student Finn Thye on an ELDP-funded research project on Arapaho, a highly endangered language spoken in Wyoming, USA. August 8th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
British Council grant awarded. Dr Sophie Salffner, a recent graduate from the PhD in Field
Linguistics, has been granted a £20,000 award by the British Council
together with Dr Imelda Udoh (University of Uyo, Nigeria) and Dr
Francis Oyebade (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Nigeria). ...read more August 4th 2010, contributed by Alison Kelly
Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization. The First Cambridge International Conference on Language Endangerment will be held at University of Cambridge on Friday, 25 March 2011. Peter Austin will be one of the plenary speakers. July 27th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
Grant for developing African language teacher training. Friederike Luepke, Julia Sallabank, Itesh Sachdev and Noriko Iwasaki received GBP22,800 from the SOAS Knowledge Transfer Fund to conduct a survey of the needs of African language teachers in an number of West African countries and develop a training package for teacher trainers. The project involves partnership with the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), and will be piloted with teacher trainers for the West African vehicular cross-border languages Hausa, Manding and Fulfulde. The package will be of great use to teachers of major African languages, and also help support minority languages. July 19th 2010, contributed by Friederike Luepke
16th Himalayan Languages Symposium . will take place at SOAS from 2-5 September 2010. The Himalayan Languages Symposium was first held at Leiden University in 1995 and is now well-established as an annual open forum for scholars of all aspects of Himalayan languages. Peter Austin will be presenting a paper at this event.
...read more July 1st 2010, contributed by Alison Kelly
Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium . will be taking place on 1 September 2010 at SOAS. A major aim of this meeting is to stimulate interaction among scholars working on different languages in Tibeto-Burman and approaching them from different perspectives.
...read more July 1st 2010, contributed by Alison Kelly
Archive website opens access. At 4pm on Wed 30 June ELAR launches the new version of our social-networking style website, enabling access to selected deposits. Come and join us if you are nearby! ...read more June 29th 2010, contributed by DJN
HRELP on hand in Ghana. David Nathan and Sophie Salffner will be teaching at this year's Summer School on Documentary Linguistics, organised by Felix Ameka and held in Winneba, Ghana 18-31 July. June 29th 2010, contributed by DJN
ELDP funded research in the news. Read about ELDP grantee Laura Dimock's research here June 4th 2010, contributed by Jean McGarry
Review of Zoom H2 . Bernard Howard and Stuart McGill have written a review of the Zoom H2 audio recorder from the language documenter’s perspective. June 2nd 2010, contributed by David Nathan
FirthDay to be held at SOAS. The 17th June will be a day of talks and rememberances in honour of J. R. Firth, the UK's first Professor of General Linguistics (born on 17th June 1890). May 14th 2010, contributed by Stuart McGill
Language Contact, Change, Maintenance and Loss. Dr Friederike Luepke will give a keynote address at a one day research conference on language contact, maintenance and change at Westminster University. The programme is available here
. Full event details and information on pre-registration for this free event can be found on the
Westminster University website May 13th 2010, contributed by Friederike Luepke
ELDP Director begins. Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur has joined HRELP in the new post of ELDP Director. HRELP staff warmly welcome her and look forward to the experience and exciting new directions she will bring. May 11th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
Palatography workshop. Dr Sophie Salffner will be organising a Palatography workshop at SOAS on 24 May. May 7th 2010, contributed by Alison Kelly
British Academy grant. Julia Sallabank has been awarded a British Academy travel grant to present conference papers at ICLASP 12 in Brisbane and ICA 2010 in Singapore. April 29th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
Cicipu orthography workshop. On 3rd April 2010 Stuart McGill ran an orthography workshop for the Cicipu language (northwest Nigeria). April 23rd 2010, contributed by Stuart McGill
Guernsey Field Trip. Julia Sallabank and a group of MA students are currently on a two-week fieldtrip to Guernsey documenting Dgernesiais -- see their blog. April 16th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
DoBeS grant awarded. Friederike Luepke and colleagues Moustapha Sall and Mathieu Gueye from Dakar, Senegal, have been awarded 246,500 euros by the Volkswagen DoBeS programme for the research project 'Pots, plants and people - a documentation of Bainouk knowledge systems" - see here for more details. April 6th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
ELDP Training . HRELP welcomes participants to London for ELDP grantee workshop 22-26 March. March 21st 2010, contributed by David Nathan
2nd West Kainji Languages Workshop. Stuart McGill co-organised the 2nd West Kainji Languages Workshop together with Roger Blench, from 8th-10th March 2010 in Kontagora, northwest Nigeria. Twenty-five linguists and language workers attended representing eight West Kainji languages. March 11th 2010, contributed by Stuart McGill
ELDP 2010 grant round opens. The ELDP grant round for 2010 has opened. Applications must be submitted by 1 April 2010. See the Application page for further information and application forms. February 15th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
Documentation training course in Tokyo. Peter Austin and David Nathan, together with former ELAP post-doctoral fellow Anthony Jukes, ran an intermediate level training course on language documentation at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2-5 February 2009. February 5th 2010, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP welcomes Jean McGarry. Jean McGarry has joined ELDP as its new Administrator. Some people will know her from her previous dedicated work with ELDP. Welcome back Jean! January 18th 2010, contributed by David Nathan
KWEF grant. Stuart McGill has been awarded a field trip grant by the Kay Williamson Educational Foundation to conduct research on a number of West Kainji languages of northwest Nigeria from January-April 2010. January 11th 2010, contributed by Stuart McGill
February Workshop on Sustainability. Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge & Sustainability will explore sustainable approaches to endangered languages and to research practices. 27 Feb 2010 at SOAS. Keynote speaker: Lenore Grenoble. See call for papers and details. December 23rd 2009, contributed by David Nathan
Launch of LDD-R centre at Lyon . On 25 November Julia Sallabank represented HRELP/SOAS at the launch of a new cross-disciplinary research centre on 'Endangered languages: fieldwork, documentation, revitalisation' (LED-TDR) at the University of Lyon, one of our 3L partners. The programme is available via the Lyon DDL website. December 18th 2009, contributed by Julia Sallabank
HRELP at WOL Workshop. Peter K. Austin and David Nathan are both presenting papers at the World Oral Literature workshop, Cambridge University 15-16th December. The programme is available here. December 2nd 2009, contributed by Peter Austin
Point Sud launch. Friederike Luepke participated in the launch of the Point Sud Centre for Research on Local Knowledge in Bamako, Mali from 23rd to 27th November. The Centre plans to promote the establishment of a truly postcolonial academic community in Africa. November 29th 2009, contributed by Peter Austin
HRELP at ELIIP workshop. David Nathan represented the Endangered Languages Project at the Endangered Languages Information and Infrastructure (ELIIP) workshop. David also gave a talk in the Utah Linguistics Department on multimedia in endangered languages research. November 29th 2009, contributed by Peter Austin
Linguamon launches House of Languages. Peter Austin attended the launch on 20th November of the LinguamonHouse of Languages at Can Ricart and participated in the scientific committee meeting. November 29th 2009, contributed by Peter Austin
Dawes Notebooks online launched in Sydney. David Nathan of ELAR spoke together with the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Darug elders to launch the website and book of the Dawes manuscripts held at SOAS Special Collections and digitised by ELAR. See www.williamdawes.org. October 28th 2009, contributed by David Nathan
1000 Languages goes multilingual. The book 1000 Languages edited by Peter K. Austin has been translated into several languages, including German, Dutch Italian, Japanese, Estonian, Icelandic, Polish, Rumanian and Spanish. July 1st 2009, contributed by David Nathan
Peter Austin podcast. Peter Austin was interviewed by Patrick Cox on The World in Words number 23 on 26 September 2008
http://www.theworld.org/pod/language/WIWpodcast23.mp3 September 28th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
David Nathan & Sophie Salffner at Summer School in Ghana. ELAR's David Nathan and ELAP PhD student Sophie Salffner were teachers at the recent West African Summer School on Documentary Linguistics, held at Winneba in Ghana and organised by Prof Felix Ameka of Leiden. For information about the event, see this page. August 19th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
Peter Austin talks in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prof Peter K. Austin is visiting Argentina 12th-20th August and presenting talks at a Symposium on Language Contact and Language Documentation, a workshop on language documentation, and a public lecture at the Biblioteca Nacional. August 9th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
ELDP Funding Review. Professor Graham Furniss, chair of the ELDP panel is conducting a review of all ELDP grants and administrative procedures. The Board of Arcadia will discuss the report resulting from the review in November 2008. We are planning to change the timetable to allow candidates more time to submit their grant applications. It is also possible that certain types of grant will be modified and some new grant types added.
This means that we are not advertising a funding round in July/August of this year, as has happened in previous years. There will be a further notice on this website at the end of November 2008 when we have heard the decision of the Arcadia Board.
July 17th 2008, contributed by Anna Greedharee
HRELP out in force in Lyon. Peter Austin, Friederike Lüpke and David Nathan are all giving lectures and classes at the "3L" Summer School at University of Lyon 2 ... see details June 25th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
Peter Austin speaks in Paris. Peter Austin is an invited speaker at the conference Sorosoro - let the languages live! organised by the Chirac Foundation at the Musee du quai Branly in Paris on 9th June. The title of his talk is "How linguists and communities work together to document, archive and support endangered languages"
June 8th 2008, contributed by Peter Austin
Edward Garrett joins ELAR. The Endangered Languages Archive is delighted to announce the arrival of Dr Edward Garrett, who joins the team as Software Developer. See Ed's page for further details. May 30th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
David Nathan speaks at NTU in Taipei. David gave a seminar to staff and postgrad linguistics students in the Graduate Institute of Linguistics and Dept of Foreign Languages and
Literatures at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. The talk had two topics: history of endangered languages archives, and a gentle introduction to XML. May 30th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
David Nathan talks in Taipei. David was an invited speaker at The 7th Annual Wenshan International Symposium, held at National Chengchi University in Taipei on 19th May. The conference theme was spoken corpora ... conference web page May 30th 2008, contributed by David Nathan
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
