Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group
Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group
The Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group aims to provide an informal forum to discuss:
- Data and working hypotheses of linguistic analyses in the beginning stages
- Emerging field research methodologies in language description and documentation
- Ethical issues arising from linguistic and cultural fieldwork
- Software, equipment and annotation tools for fieldwork-based projects
- Possibilities of partnership with language revitalization initiatives
- Language field research projects in related disciplines taking place at UCSD
Upcoming meetings
Upcoming meetings
Meeting time and place: Mondays @ 12:30pm - Field Lab (AP&M 2452)
Fall 2018
- Oct 12: Néstor Hernández-Green (CIESAS) Studies of grammatical tone in Otomi languages (2pm - special time)
- Nov. 5: Wendy López (CIESAS)
Past meetings
Past meetings
Spring 2018
- June 4: Michael Obiri-Yeboa on nasal vowels in Gua
- May 14: practice MFM talk by Adam McCollum: "Locality, Transparency, and Uyghur backness harmony"
- May 7: practice LabPhon and Tonal Aspects of Language presentations
- April 9: discussion of 'Morphological H-tones in Macuiltianguis Zapotec' (Zimmermann to appear)
Winter 2018
- March 12: Eric Campbell (UCSB) on grammatical tone in Oto-Manguean languages
- March 5: Lynn Hou (UCSD) on fieldwork in San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language (SJQCSL)
- February 26: Rory Turnbull (U Hawai'i) on the word prosody of San Jerónimo Acazulco Otomí
- February 12: Justin McIntosh (UCSD) on grammatical tone in Teotepec Eastern Chatino
- January 22: Austin German (UCSD): "Eye gaze as a pointing device in Zinacantec Family Homesign"
Fall 2017
Monday 11/13 @ 1pm: Overview of summer fieldwork projects!