4th World Congress of African Linguistics

第四届世界非洲语言学大会

• 批准号: 0236519
• 负责人: Akinbiyi Akinlabi
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-15 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 4th; World; Congress; African; Linguistics

The National Science Foundation will support the Fourth World Congress in African Linguistics, to be held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick on June 17-23, 2003. This meeting aims to bring scholars based in Africa in direct intellectual contact with scholars doing research on African languages in North America, Europe, and other regions. To accomplish this, the conference will sponsor about 20 participants from Africa who would otherwise find it financially impossible to come. Some of these will be established senior figures who can serve as role models; others will be promising junior researchers chosen by anonymous abstracts for their cutting-edge work. In all, meeting organizers expect about 300 participants and close to 150 presentations. These will cover every facet of linguistics and present data from all the major groups of African languages. The meeting will also include symposia designed to encourage research and documentation of the many endangered languages of Africa, and workshops that address major analytical problems that arise in the study of African languages. This will be the first time that the World Congress of African Linguistics has come to North America. The proceedings of the Congress will be published by Rudiger Kopp Verlag of Koln, giving a permanent record of the results.Approximately one third of the languages spoken in the world today are African languages (an estimated 2035), and African languages have had a large impact on the development of linguistic theory. But less than 1% of these languages have been thoroughly documented. The difficulty is that most of these languages can only be studied adequately by people who are physically present in Africa, and these scholars tend to become isolated from the centers of theoretical and analytical innovation. This meeting will be a step toward improving this situation by creating contacts between Africans and non-Africans that can lead to productive long term collaborations that fertilize both communities. It will also bring a taste of the excitement of working on African languages to North America, encouraging more scholars to take up this important area.

美国国家科学基金会将支持第四届非洲语言学世界大会，该大会将于2003年6月17日至23日在新布伦瑞克的罗格斯大学举行。这次会议的目的是让非洲的学者与北美、欧洲和其他地区从事非洲语言研究的学者进行直接的学术接触。为了实现这一目标，会议将赞助大约20名来自非洲的与会者，否则他们将无法在经济上参加会议。其中一些人将成为可以作为榜样的资深人士；其他人将是由匿名摘要选出的有前途的初级研究人员，因为他们的前沿工作。会议组织者预计总共约有300名与会者，近150场演讲。这些将涵盖语言学的各个方面，并提供来自所有主要非洲语言群体的数据。会议还将包括旨在鼓励研究和记录非洲许多濒危语言的专题讨论会，以及讨论非洲语言研究中出现的主要分析问题的讲习班。这将是世界非洲语言学大会第一次来到北美。大会的会议记录将由科隆的Rudiger Kopp Verlag出版，作为会议结果的永久记录。今天世界上大约三分之一的语言是非洲语言（估计2035年），非洲语言对语言学理论的发展产生了很大的影响。但是这些语言中只有不到1%被完整地记录下来。困难在于，这些语言中的大多数只能由身在非洲的人来充分研究，而这些学者往往与理论和分析创新的中心隔绝开来。这次会议将通过在非洲人和非非洲人之间建立联系，从而实现富有成效的长期合作，使双方都能受益，从而朝着改善这种状况迈出一步。它也将给北美带来研究非洲语言的兴奋感，鼓励更多的学者从事这一重要领域。