LDLT4 conference
The Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory biennial conference aims to bring together researchers working on linguistic theory and language documentation and description, with a particular focus...
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LDD 11 now available at discount price
The latest issue of Language Documentation and Description, Volume 11, is now available for order from the SOAS online store at 25% off until the end of March. All other back issues of LDD are also...
View ArticleEndangered Languages Week 2013
Endangered Languages Week 2013 will be held at SOAS, University of London, from 20th to 28th May and will include a variety of workshops, talks, films, demonstrations, a debate, and more. Events...
View ArticleMay madness?
The month of May 2013 has been one of the busiest in the history of ELAR. We processed some large and complex collections, such as Megan Biesele’s Ju|’hoan (ktz) Audio and Video Material 1970 to...
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ELAR as a platform for communications
ELAR has a richly articulated approach to managing access to deposits through a system we call “protocol”. Each deposit item is assigned an access value chosen by depositors from the following options:...
View ArticleFreiburg workshop on language documentation
A workshop entitled Applying Documentary Linguistics will take place in Freiburg, Germany, on 22nd and 23rd November 2013, with SOAS staff among the invited presenters. The workshop aims to highlight...
View ArticleSongs in Endangered Languages Archives
Back in 2005 Sydney University musicologist Linda Barwick pointed out in a paper published in Language Documentation and Description Volume 3 that linguists often record songs as part of their...
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Plants, animals, words: a multidisciplinary workshop
With the aim of promoting interdisciplinary research, the Linguistics Department at SOAS, University of London, is hosting a three-day workshop on 19-21 September 2013 designed to encourage...
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Archiving unanalysed texts can be a good thing
Professor Paul Newman, in his rather provocatively named seminar presented last month at SOAS (The Law of Unintended Consequences: How the Endangered Languages Movement Undermines Field Linguistics as...
View ArticleResponse to Paul Newman, by Doug Whalen
The following is a guest blog post by Doug Whalen, President of the Endangered Language Fund (ELF). This is a response to an enjoyable and provocative presentation at SOAS on the unintended...
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