CoLang 2014

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About

Archived Original Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20150623134229/http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/

CoLang 2014, the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (formerly InField) will occur in June and July 2014, hosted by The University of Texas at Arlington, with Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald as Director. CoLang 2014 is funded by a National Science Foundation grant, BCS#1263939 and by various units at UT Arlington. The theme of CoLang 2014 is Native American languages, but participants and instructors from countries all over the world are expected to attend.

CoLang offers an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students, practicing linguists, and indigenous community members to develop and refine skills and approaches to language documentation and revitalization. The Institute is designed to provide an opportunity for a diverse range of participants to become trained in a wide range of skills in community-centered language documentation.

The institute consists of two parts: the Workshops - two weeks of intensive workshops on practices, principals and models of language documentation and revitalization, followed by a four-week field methods course, working with speakers of select indigenous languages applying hands-on techniques in language documentation. Participants may choose to enroll only in the two-week Workshops.

Workshops: June 16-27 2014

Field Methods/Practicum: June 30 – July 25, 2014.

The two parts are integrated, as students who enroll in the field training are required to enroll in the preceding Workshops, thereby receiving an intensive course in documentary best practices before putting these skills to use.

Registration is now open. Click here to register online today or here for the paper registration form.

Register by May 8 to get the early bird rate. After May 8, anyone who is not paid in full will be dropped from their registered courses.

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Partners and Sponsors

The Linguistic Society of America is also an official sponsor of CoLang 2014. (For full list of sponsors, click here.)

Thanks to the generosity of our many sponsors, UT Arlington will host CoLang 2014.

• The National Science Foundation, grant BCS#263939

• Linguistic Society of America

• Endangered Language Fund

• Native Voices Endowment

At The University of Texas at Arlington, a number of units are supporting CoLang 2014.

• Office of the President, UT Arlington

• Office of the Provost, UT Arlington

• Office of Research Administration, UT Arlington

• College of Liberal Arts, UT Arlington

• College of Education and Health Professions, UT Arlington

• Honors College, UT Arlington

• College of Nursing and the Center for Nursing Research

• Office of Graduate Studies, UT Arlington

• UT Arlington Libraries

• Charles T. McDowell Center for Critical Languages & Area Studies

• Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, UT Arlington

• Center for Mexican American Studies

• Dept. of Linguistics and TESOL, UT Arlington

• Dept. of Modern Languages, UT Arlington

• Native American Student Association

Thank you to the following individuals and universities for their support toward CoLang 2014 scholarships.

• Alice Taff and Associates

• American Indian Language Development Institute

• Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas

• Carleton University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and School of Linguistics and Language Studies

• Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

• First Peoples Cultural Council

• Karen S. Coates in honor of her part Cherokee Grandfather Ernest Rains

• Susan Smythe Kung

• Monica Macaulay, University of WI-Madison

• Linguistic Dynamics Science Project 2 (LingDy2)

• Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre

• Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College.

• Dr. and Mrs. James Campbell Quick

• Patricia A. Shaw, Chair, First Nations Languages Program (FNLG), UBC

• Linguistics Department, Swarthmore College

• Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne

• The University of Virginia Linguistics Program

• Yukon Education

• Anonymous (multiple)

Organizers

Co-Conveners:

Mary Linn (2014; CELP Liaison); Toshihide Nakayama (2014); Other Members:Kennedy Bosire; (2016); Jenny Davis (2014); Arienne Dwyer (2016); Colleen Fitzgerald (2018); Margaret Florey (2014); Susan Gehr (2016); Spike Gildea (2014); Brad McDonnell (2014); Daryn McKenny (2016); Carlos Nash (2016); Keren Rice (2014); Patricia Shaw (2014; SSILA Liaison); and Eno-Abasi Urua (2014)

Local Organizing Committee
Colleen Fitzgerald - CoLang 2014 Director - Professor, Department of Linguistics & TESOL
Lori McLain Pierce - CoLang 2014 Assistant Director - PhD student, Department of Linguistics & TESOL
Les Riding-In, Osage/Pawnee Nations - Assistant Dean & Director of Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Donna Akers, Choctaw Nation - Associate Professor & Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Urban and Public Affairs
A. Raymond Elliott - Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages
Suwon Yoon - Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics & TESOL
Robert Caldwell, Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb - Doctoral Student, Department of History

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Advisory Circle

Workshops

Practica

To attend the four weeks of field methods (June 30-July 25, 2014), you must attend the preceding two weeks of workshops (June 16-27, 2014).

Course Information
The Field Methods courses will be four-week courses based on the idea of a traditional doctoral course in field methods. It will differ from other workshop classes in being intensive, with multiple linguistic consultants per language, and will directly build off the technological skills taught in the workshops. We anticipate offering three sections of Field Methods simultaneously depending on student demand, with each section working on a different language.

Prerequisites
Ideally, participants in the Field Methods course should have completed, at a minimum, one university-level course in phonetics/phonology and one university-level course in morphology/syntax, or the equivalent. It is expected that most participants will have had training beyond this level, but under some circumstances, participants without this background may be permitted to enroll. If you do not come from a linguistics background, we ask that you register forIntroduction to Linguistics 1,Introduction to Linguistics 2andTranscriptionduring the two-week workshops.

Applicants who are actively involved in fieldwork and documentation or can demonstrate a clear intention to undertake linguistic fieldwork or documentation will be given priority. Students enrolled in Field Methods will be required to attend the CoLang workshops as well, as the course will draw directly on the workshop curriculum.

Costs to Attend Entire Six Weeks
Meals and housing are calculated for arrival on June 15, 2014 and departure on July 26, 2014. (Total estimate, excluding transportation: $4300.00.)

Registration (tuition):$2250.00On-Campus lodging:$1200.00Food costs (campus dining plan)$850.00Transportation costs(your responsibility)

Note: These costs include the two week workshop session preceding the Field Methods courses.

Housing and food costs are based on double room occupancy (2 people to a shared in room restroom) in the newer dorms on campus for the nights listed. If you plan to arrive a day early or stay a day late, additional days will be charged at $30 per night. You will be responsible for your own meals during any additional days outside of the date range listed above.

A limited number of single occupancy rooms will be available, but at a higher rate of $2125 for the entire six weeks of workshops.

Field Methods Courses:
There will be three field methods options with the possibility of adding a fourth, depending on interest.

Innu(Cree; Algonquian language family) - Dr. Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apoala Mixtec(Oto-Manguean language family) - Dr. Christian Dicanio, Haskins Laboratories / Yale University (Note: Class elicitations will be conducted in Spanish)
Alabama(in the Muskogean language family) - Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, University of Texas at Arlington
Ngambai(Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family) - Dr. Amanda Miller, Ohio State University

Posters

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