Program

1:00 - Introduction

Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)

1:10 - Session 1: Conceptual and theoretical issues

Isabelle Léglise (CNRS, SeDyL Research Center (Paris, France))

• Documenting multilingual language practices and the erasure of language boundaries

Wilson de Lima Silva (University of Arizona) & Umusĩ Frank J. Carrasquilha Matos (Federal University of Amazonas)

• Characterizing small-scale multilingualism in the Vaupés

Erin Debenport (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Language Ideologies, Multilingualism, and Diaspora in Collaborative Pueblo Documentation Projects

Paul Kroskrity (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Indigenous Ideologies of Multilingualism: Their Persistence and Transformation Within Language Ideological Assemblages

Discussant: Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)

2:50 - Questions & discussion

3:20 - Break

3:40 - Session 2: Tools and methodologies

Pierpaolo Di Carlo (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

• How to document multilingualism? Towards a coherent methodology

Kristine Stenzel (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) & Nick Williams (University of Colorado)

• Documenting multilingualism in everyday interaction

Pedro Mateo Pedro (LSC-Field Station Guatemala, University of Maryland)

• Mayan languages in contact: opportunities and challenges for language documentation

Kristine Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

• A micro-typology of contact effects and language viability in four Tibeto-Burman languages

Discussant: Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

5:20 - Questions & discussion

5:50 - Wrap-up

Jack Martin (William & Mary)