Multilingualism, Contact, and Documenting Endangered Languages

Join us in kicking off the UN Year of Indigenous Languages at the 2019 LSA Annual Meeting.

• Date: Sunday, January 6th, 2019
• Time: 1:00-6:00pm
• Location: Flatiron room, Sheraton New York Times Square hotel
• Organizers: Lenore Grenoble and Jack Martin
• Attendance: Free and open to all, no registration required!

The workshop is to be held in conjunction with the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, funded by a grant from NSF DEL #1748376 and endorsed by the LSA’s Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation (CELP). It is aimed at advancing the field of language documentation by focusing on documenting multilingualism and language contact. The workshop will consider multilingualism in endangered language ecologies, describe the current state of knowledge in this area, and examine tools and methodologies for documenting and studying language contact in progress.

The workshop is organized by Lenore Grenoble and Jack Martin and features the following lineup of invited speakers:

• Erin Debenport (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Pierpaolo di Carlo (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
• Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
• Kristine Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
• Paul Kroskrity (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Isabelle Léglise (CNRS, SeDyL Research Center (Paris, France))
• Pedro Mateo Pedro (LSC-Field Station Guatemala, University of Maryland)
• Wilson de Lima Silva (University of Arizona)
• Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
• Kristine Stenzel (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
• Nick Williams (University of Colorado)