Department of Linguistics and Philology: Events
Workshop on Language Documentation and Language Description
Uppsala University
The Main University Building
30 September - 1 October 2008
Program
| 30 September, Room: 9 | |
| 9.45-10.00 | Opening: Anette Månsson, Pro Dean, Faculty of Languages |
| Chairperson: Östen Dahl | |
| 10.00-11.00 | Don Stilo: Some key isoglosses delineating the Araxes-Iran linguistic area and defining its subareas |
| 11.00-11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.15-11.45 | Michael Riesler & Jacquelijn Ringersma: Annotation, archiving and presentation of Kildin Saami lexical data with LEXUS |
| 11.45-12.15 | Anju Saxena, Lars Borin, Ljuba Vaselinova & Santosh Negi: GIS supported language documentation of the Himalayas |
| 12.15-13.15 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Karsten Legère | |
| 13.15-13.45 | Florian Siegl: Lessons from the documentation of Forest Enets |
| 13.45-14.15 | William B. McGregor: Documentary linguistics meets the history of linguistics: on the need for metadocumentary linguistics |
| 14.15-14.45 | Bettina Zeisler: What is it like to speak Ladakhi? - And does it matter for mainstream linguistics? |
| 14.45-15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.00-16.00 | Michael Noonan: Describe everything! |
| 16.00-16.30 | Jens Allwood & Rusandré Hendrikse: Word-Based Search Procedures in Isolating and Agglutinating Language Corpora |
| 16.30-17.00 | Harald Hammarström: The status of the least documented language families in the world |
| 1 October 2008. Room: 10 | |
| Chairperson: William McGregor | |
| 9.45-11.00 | See SCL conference program |
| 11.00-11.30 | Andrea Berez & Nick Thieberger: The importance of technological standards and training in language documentation |
| 11.30-12.00 | Dorothee Beermann Hellan & Pavel Mihaylov: TypeCraft: Language annotation for human beings |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.00 | Daniel Paul: Using fieldworks language explorer |
| 14.00-14.30 | Anastasia Karlsson, David House, Jan-Olof Svantesson & Damrong Tayanin: Investigating intonation in Kammu: Report from data collection in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam |
| 14.30-15.00 | Emil Perder: Argument marking in Dameli |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee |
| Chairperson: Lars Borin | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Christina Thornell: Morphology of plant names in the Bantu language Mpiemo |
| 16.00-16.30 | Indira Junghare: Syntactic convergence: Marathi and Dravidian |
| 18.00- | Reception: University Vice-Chancellor welcomes conference participants |