The call for nominations for the next DELAMAN Award is now open at http://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/ and the link to the nomination form can be found there. Please note that the name of the award has changed slightly (from the Franz Boas Award to the DELAMAN Award) and so has the definition of "early-career documenter".
2019 Mary R. Haas Book Award
2019 SSILA Victor Golla Prize
2019 Ken Hale Prize
SSILA is happy to announce the 2019 Ken Hale Prize was awarded to Daryl Baldwin and the Myaamia Center at Miami University of Ohio. The Ken Hale prize is presented in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, maintenance, promotion, and revitalization of Indigenous languages in the Americas.
2019 SSILA Archiving Award
Funding: Kinkade Language & Culture Fund (KLF) / Jacobs Research Fund (JRF)
The Kinkade Language and Culture Fund (KLF) and the Jacobs Research Funds (JRF) provide support for projects involving fieldwork with living peoples of North, Central and South America which result in publication or other dissemination of information about the fieldwork. Priority is given to research on endangered cultures and languages, and to research on the Pacific Northwest. Projects focusing on archival research have low priority, but we welcome proposals to digitize, transcribe and translate old materials that might otherwise be lost or become inaccessible. Relevance of the project to contemporary theoretical issues in anthropology and linguistics is also a criterion used in evaluating proposals.
Extended Deadline: Call for Proposals to Host CoLang 2022
Greetings from Susan Gehr and Jean-Luc Pierite, the co-conveners for CoLang 2019-2020 Advisory Circle. You are receiving this email if you have participated in InField 2008, 2010 and/or CoLang 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 as either a student or facilitator/instructor.
On behalf of the Advisory Circle, we are formally soliciting expressions of interest for hosting the 2022 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang). These should take the form of a two--to-three page proposal that minimally
Support: Alberta Language Technology Lab
The AlbertaLanguage Technology Lab (ALTLab) at the Department of Linguistics, Universityof Alberta is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) orMA (2 years) level in its graduate program, to start September 2020 under theresearch project: 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages,funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) PartnershipGrant in 2019 – 2026, see: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c.
CFP: 9th International Conference on Meaning & Knowledge Representation
Support: Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019, offers funded MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested to learn and conduct research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.
Extended Deadline: Call for Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series
The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.
Call for FEL Grant Applications
The Foundation for Endangered Languages has just opened its 2020 grant round for projects that will support, enable or assist the use of one or more endangered languages. See complete details about this funding opportunity here.
CFP: Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.
CFP: 10th Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment
Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts
A paper based on the results from the Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts has now been published. You may find it here as an open access paper, and also attached. The paper was published in 2019 during the International Year of Indigenous Languages. I want to acknowledge all of your contributions without which we could not have made the observations we have shared in the paper. We hope that the paper will be a meaningful contributions towards advancing language revitalization efforts worldwide. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and the world.