InField 2008
About
Original Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20080523201332/http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/
Workshops: June 23-July 3, 2008
Field Training: July 7–August 1, 2008
InField is an opportunity for linguists, graduate students in linguistics, and native speakers of minority languages to receive training in a range of skills needed to document, maintain, and/or revitalize minority languages. InField is divided into two parts: a two-week session of workshops on a range of topics related to language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization, followed by a four-week session of Field Training, an intensive course similar to a doctoral course on field methods, where students utilize the skills taught in the workshops.
InField 2008 was held on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus from June 23rd to August 1st, 2008.
Photos
More Photos available on Flickr
Organizers
Director
Carol Genetti, University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Director
Rebekka Siemens, University of California, Santa Barbara
Organizing Committee
Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas
Margaret Florey, Monash University
Spike Gildea, University of Oregon
Matthew Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Susan Penfield, University of Arizona
Kenneth Rehg, University of Hawaii
Keren Rice, University of Toronto
Instructors
Madeleine Adkins, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony Aristar, LINGUIST List, E-MELD
Helen Aristar-Dry, LINGUIST List, E-MELD
Andrea Berez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Albert Bickford, SIL International
Tucker Childs, Portland State University
Lise Dobrin, University of Virginia
John Foreman, Utica College
Jeff Good, University at Buffalo
Te Taka Keegan, University of Waikato
Taziff Koroma, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone
Jung- Eun Janie Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
Knut Olawsky, Aboriginal Language Centre, Australia
Tsuyoshi Ono, University of Alberta
Tyler Peterson, University of British Columbia
Victoria Rau, Providence University
Patricia Shaw, University of British Columbia
Kristine Stenzel, Museu Nacional /Federal of Rio de Janeiro
Alice Taff, University of Alaska, Southeast
External Consultants
Peter Austin, Endangered Language Documentation Program, SOAS
Jost Gippert, DoBES, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nicholas Thieberger, Research Network for Linguistic Diversity
Partnerships and Sponsors
U.S. National Science Foundation
U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities: Documenting Endangered Languages Program
University of California, Santa Barbara:
The Office of the Chancellor
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
The Department of Linguistics
Graduate Division
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
Ramsey Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies
Department of Linguistics at North Texas
Research Foundation of State Universtiy of New York
SIL International and the Linguistics Survey of Nepal
Institute of International Education
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia
Workshops
June 23 – July 3, 2008
Workshop Schedule [PDF]
The workshop portion of the institute will offer 10 days of workshops designed to provide participants with a range of skills that will support efforts in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization.
The workshops will run from Monday, June 23rd through Thursday, July 3rd, 2008. (Move out Friday July 4th.)
The precise scheduling of the workshops has not been finalized. The list below presents each workshop, its instructor or instructors, and the number of hours currently allotted.
For suggested groupings of workshops, depending on your needs, see the tracks.
Workshop Tracks
The function of these tracks is to serve as guidelines, or suggested groupings of workshops, one for language activists, one for linguistics students taking Field Training, and one for other linguists. We recognize that each individual's needs and experiences are unique and hence deviations from these tracks will sometimes be appropriate. Advising will be available to those wondering whether particular workshops are likely to meet their needs.
Tracks
Track A: For language activists
Steps in language documentation (5 hours)
Models of language documentation and revitalization (10 hours)
Audio recording (7 hours)
Language activism (7 hours)
Introduction to linguistics for language activists (10 hours)
Web and WIKIs for language documentation (7 hours)
Language resources and the community (7 hours)
Grant writing (5 hours)
Other workshops as desired (6 hours)
Total 60 hours
Track B : For students taking Field Training
Steps in language documentation (4 hours)
Models of language documentation and revitalization (10 hours)
Audio recording (5 hours)
Data management and archiving (6 hours)
Principles of database design (8 hours)
Toolbox (6 hours)
Field phonetics (4 hours)
Life in the field (2 hours)
Intellectual property rights (3 hours)
Problematizing the field experience (6 hours)
Other workshops as desired (6 hours)
Total 60 hours
Track C : For linguists not taking Field Training
Steps in language documentation (4 hours)
Models of language documentation and revitalization (10 hours)
Audio recording (5 hours)
Data management and archiving(6 hours)
Principles of database design (8 hours)
Toolbox (6 hours)
Life in the field (2 hours)
Problematizing the field experience (6 hours)
Total 60 hours
Practica
July 7 - August 1, 2008
Instructors
Patricia Shaw, Professor of Linguistics
University of British Columbia
Language of the course: Kwak'wala
Tucker Childs, Professor of Linguistics
Portland State University
Language of the course: Mende
Carol Genetti, Professor of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Language of the course: Ekegusii
Course information
The course in Field Training will be a four-week course based on the idea of a traditional doctoral course in field methods. It will differ from field methods in being intensive, with multiple linguistic consultants per language, and will directly build off the technological skills taught in the workshops.
We will limit each section of Field Training to ten students. We anticipate offering three sections of Field Training simultaneously depending on student demand, with each section working on a different language.
Prerequisites
Participants in the Field Training course should have completed, at a minimum, one university-level course in phonetics/phonology and one university-level course in morphology/syntax, or the equivalent. It is expected that most participants will have had training beyond this level. Applicants who are actively involved in fieldwork and documentation or can demonstrate a clear intention to undertake linguistic fieldwork or documentation will be given priority.
Students enrolled in Field Training will be required to attend the InField workshops as well, as the course will draw directly on the workshop curriculum.
Assessment
Students enrolled in Field Training will receive a certificate confirming their completion of the course and a statement about the equivalency of credit to a regular graduate course in a U.S. university. Students additionally wishing for a formal assessment of their work, with equivalents to letter grades, may request this of their instructor.
Getting Involved
There are several ways that you can be involved in InField.
As a participant: Attend just the workshops or the workshops and field training. Housing will be available in the residence halls of the UC Santa Barbara campus. Details on fee structure, academic credit, and how to apply are being settled over the summer of 2007 and will be announced in the fall. Check back for more information!
Applications for participants will be accepted beginning in late fall, 2007.
As an instructor: If you are an active practitioner in language documentation, language maintenance, or language revitalization, and would like to be involved as an instructor of a workshop, contact Carol Genetti as soon as possible. If you have an idea for a workshop that is not currently on our list, please submit a proposal for a workshop to the Organizing Committee.
As a sponsor: If you are concerned about the status of minority languages in the world today and would like to sponsor a participant at InField, please go to our supporting InField page.
